Re: Now somebody tell me that Robin Chapman isn't a troll again?!
From: David Kastrup (dak_at_gnu.org)
Date: 07/12/04
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Date: 12 Jul 2004 20:26:16 +0200
richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
> In article <x5acy5fe6y.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>, David Kastrup
> <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> >Its "essential 60 keys" are more than the 57 of the Nascom II. And
> >its space bar is quite smaller than the impressive Nascom II one
>
> True. I suppose you could map those unnecessary keys on each side
> of the space bar to space.
Oh, I'll keep the cursor keys there, thank you.
> >See <URL:http://www.retrobeep.com/computers/general/nascomII.htm> (the
> >casing of the keyboard is not original, though).
>
> I built a Nascom (I think from the date it must have been a Nascom
> 1, but I don't remember for sure). The soldering was very tedious,
> and I had an anxious time worrying that I might damage all those
> expensive components.
I did the fatal mistake of using sockets for every one of them. The
cheap sockets, not the gold-plated ones. They are all pitch-black by
now (and have been so for years). I suspect this is part of the
reason (apart from the magic of my presence of course) that it took at
most one day until the computer steadfastly refused to do any work
whenever I lent it out to somebody else.
> We put floppy disks drives on it and ran CP/M and a (Microsoft, I
> think!) Fortran compiler.
It is not unconceivable that your BIOS was written by me.
-- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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