Hello,

Thanks for the good tips,
do you think that the cassette will still have data on it, after 47 years ?

My first cassette player was a philips one,
maybe I can find it in a box in my mans cave ...

Marco

Hi,

I have some time, now that I'm fully retired ...
By cleaning up my mans-cave, I found one of my first purchased software's in 1978.
Yes, on an audio cassette, an Apple II game, called [breakout] ...

For me, (and many more I think) this was the best time of my life.

Greetings
marco

Thanks for the posts,


But, I need some help,

- For my robot arm, if segment2 (150.0 mm) and segment3 (120.0 mm) are in linear position,
the max. distance from the robot arm base, will be 150.0 mm + 120.0 mm = 270.0 mm

- If I want a resolution in the motion of the Zaxis rotation (top view)
that ...

Hi AndrewP and drogon,


Thanks for the info,
I gone look around, and then designing my new robot.
I have some time now, so, ...

I was thinking to write my one asm/basic compiler for the 6502/68HC11/68000
as these are the 3 CPU I worked the most with in the past.

If you have a Sin() table, and ...

Hello,


Now i'm retired, I want to continue to build my small autonomous robots.
In the robot club, all the users/builders are using very fast and complex microprocessors boards.

We are all older guys, and no new (younger) members are interested in building robot stuff.

So as one of these older ...

Hi,

Thanks every one for the posts and the info,
I gone open the PowerSupply case, and check all the capacitors first.
So, after that, I can see what happens inside when starting up.

In the time I used the apple II (1980...), we had have 220 VAC, today we have 240 VAC ...


- Q) I found an old ...

Hi,

Since May of 2024, I'm fully retired.
And today, with some good intentions for 2025.
So, time to clean up, and repair some old stuff I found in my [mans cave].

I started to clean my old Apple II, and my old Diskdrives.
Will see if this old computer will start up, without any problems ...

I ...

Hi everyone,

My name is marco and I'm from belgium (europe),

I started as a teenager (1974) with electronics (transistors logic), and the TTL 74xx series.
And later with my first computer an Apple // with 4K RAM and learned BASIC and Assembly language for the 6502 CPU.
Later the MC68000 and the ...