Where have all the Selectrics gone?

[Chuck Guzis]

On 3/25/2006 at 4:07 PM shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com wrote:

>Did any micro hobbyists actually succesfully use surplus core? I remember
>it somewhat cheap (but not ridiculously cheap)
>in the Meshna catalog etc. but never saw it being used. It is not
>a trivial matter to time and calibrate all the drive and sense lines
>especially when it's some random core plane and the first you ever
>saw.

There was an article way back in one of the hobbyist mags (Microsystems,
Kilobaud???) about a guy who did adapt a core module to his S-100 box.
Note that it was a "module"--essentially a box with the core and all of the
drivers, sense amps, latches and rewrite circuitry inside.  Mostly a job of
interfacing and supplying power.

Cheers,
Chuck