--- Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote:
  At 10:36 AM 8/19/02 -0700, you wrote:
--- Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote:
     I was in a surplus store today and...
... did find a 6 inch high stack of manuals for the RCA Cosmac VIP
 :-) :-) :-) :-) 
Did you get them?  
    You bet! 
Good for you.
   If so, what part numbers?
  
http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dllViewSellersOtherItems&userid=r…
  No one seemed interested so I put them on E-bay.  If
you're interested in
 the VIP or ELFs then take a good look at them, there's LOTS of good info
 in them. 
Looks like I have originals for all of the photocopied data sheets
and RCA manuals you have (and possibly one or two you don't), but I
do not have any issues of VIPER.
     I have a VIP too (altough Mike has it at the
moment). I bought at a
 hamfest earlier this year. I bought the manuals from the same people
 except they were at their store. 99% chance that these manuals went with
 that same VIP. 
I got my VIP about 16 years ago for $35 at Dayton (same year I got
an ASR-33 w/110 baud data set for $20).  What manuals I have, came
 from the local RCA distributor for cover price ($5) or
free. 
Somewhere, I have a cassette of CHIP-8 and most of the CHIP-8 games
 from the VIP manuals - I typed it all in and saved it
to tape myself. 
One of my ultra-low priority projects is to locate the tape, slurp
it into a modern machine and cut MP3s of the programs and see if I
can use my Rio PMP300 (or portable CDDA/MP3 player) as a load device.
-ethan
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