1st stage loader for IMSAI - need ascii to binary conversion

[woodelf]

John Floren wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>>  BTW, if you've got tone detectors (presumably one tuned to the '1' tone,
>>  the other to the '0' tone), why do you need a miocrocontroller to turn
>>  the output into a bitstrea?. A few logic gates is a lot simpler.

> Well, microcontrollers are the cool new thing, right? I see in the
> robotics club often that the response to just about any problem is,
> "Oh, ok, we'll just drop in a microcontroller"

"No, Nargato ,( an artificial human ) is way different in specs compared to four PC's."
The Day of Sagittarius from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Even from the point of si-fi you don't throw in a micro chip.

> John