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Table of Contents

  1. Video Files
  2. Audio Files
  3. Photo Gallery
  4. Text Documents

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Interesting Videos Filmed In Our Workshop
MPEG Video Files

1. Smith Corona SD 650 Electronic Typewriter
Demonstration Mode

2. Panasonic KX-R320 Electronic Typewriter
Demonstration Mode

3. Brother GX-6500 Electronic Typewriter
Demonstration Mode

4. Gumball, fun interesting Game Program
for the Atari 800 Home Computer.

5. Kennedy Approach, Air Traffic Control
for the Atari 800 Home Computer.

6. Battle for Normandy, Game Simulation
for the Atari 800 Home Computer.



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Fun Sounds From Our Home Arcade
MP3 and WAV Audio Files

1. Atari VCS Pole Position Starting Music

2. Atari 400 Pole Position Starting Music

2. Atari VCS Ms. Pac-Man Starting Music

4. Atari 400 Ms. Pac-Man Starting Music

4. Atari 2600 Gyruss Starting Music

4. Atari 400 Gyruss Starting Music

4. Kennedy Approach, Atari game program
with early computer "speech synthesis".



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Nice Photo Gallery From Around Our Workshop
JPEG Photo Files

Vintage Remington 5 manual typewriter.

Facit 1820 typewriter with Facit 1187 calculator.

Facit TK mechanical calculator (assembled).

Facit TK mechanical calculator (inside).

Vintage Royal manual typewriter (Made in Canada).

Earlier model Underwood 5 manual typewriter.

Late model Underwood 5 (Classroom model).

Smith Corona Stirling portable manual typewriter.

Atari 830 acoustic coupler modem connected to telephone set.

5.25" Floppy Disk Drive with a little mouse nest inside.

Workshop cat Maggie, our head mouse catcher.

Soviet era NAND gate, replaces 74LS10 (Made in the USSR).

Commodore manual typewriter.
Before making nice computers they made nice typewriters.

Smith-Corona Clipper Seventy Deluxe portable typewriter.

Olivetti (Underwood) Lettera 31 typewriter portable typewriter.

Olympia De Luxe portable manual typewriter.

Very nice old Smith-Corona Coronamatic 2500 electric typewriter.

Royal Beta 9000D electronic typewriter with LCD display and RS-232 computer interface.

What this Smith Corona Coronet XT typewriter looked like when it first came into our shop.

Olivetti Lettera 30 typewriter that was given to us by one of the wife's coworkers at the library.



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Interesting and Fun Reading
PDF Document Files

Radio Electronics Magazine, June 1981.
Build your own acoustic coupler modem.

FILE: Radio Electronics June 1981.pdf
TYPE: PDF
SIZE: 32.5 MB

Radio Electronics Magazine, June 1983.
Handheld and video electronic games.

FILE: Radio_Electronics_June_1983.pdf
TYPE: PDF
SIZE: 40.5 MB

Radio Electronics Magazine, January 1991
Build your own shortwave radio.

FILE: Radio_Electronics_January_1991.pdf
TYPE: PDF
SIZE: 48.8 MB


Radio Electronics Magazine, May 1985.

TOPICS: Build a Power Meter, Logic Gates, Optocouplers, Build a Robot Arm

FILE: Radio_Electronics_May_1985.pdf
TYPE: PDF
SIZE: 38 MB

Radio Electronics Magazine, July 1983.

TOPICS: How to Interface Different Logic Families, Build a PC

FILE: Radio_Electronics_July_1985.pdf
TYPE: PDF
SIZE: 33.8 MB

Radio Electronics Magazine, February 1988

TOPICS: Make you own PC Boards, Future of Shortwave Radio, Programmable Logic

FILE: Radio_Electronics_February_1988.pdf
TYPE: PDF
SIZE: 35.8 MB


Radio Electronics Magazine, February 1980.

TOPICS: Build an Audio Power Meter, Build a Workbench Switching Power Supply

FILE: Radio_Electronics_February_1980.pdf
TYPE: PDF
SIZE: 30.8 MB

Radio Electronics Magazine, November 1985.

TOPICS: Build a Pulse Generator, EMI, Build a Video Titler, Digital IC's (Counters)

FILE: Radio_Electronics_November_1985.pdf
TYPE: PDF
SIZE: 42.9 MB

Radio Electronics Magazine, March 1984

TOPICS: Build a Video Test Generator, Build an Audio Generator, Design Power Supplies.

FILE: Radio_Electronics_March_1984.pdf
TYPE: PDF
SIZE: 35.8 MB


Compute Magazine, May 1980.
Report on Commodore CBM 8032.

FILE: Compute May 1980.pdf
TYPE: PDF
SIZE: 63.3 MB

Compute Magazine, January 1984.
Report on the IBM PCjr .

FILE: Compute Jan 1984.pdf
TYPE: PDF
SIZE: 127 MB

Compute Magazine, June 1982
Copy Atari graphics to your printer.

FILE: Compute Jun 1982.pdf
TYPE: PDF
SIZE: 107 MB


Antic Magazine, April 1985.

TOPICS: Computer Frontiers, Robots, Artificial Intelligence, New Atari Computers

FILE: Antic_April_1985.pdf
TYPE: PDF
SIZE: 107 MB

Antic Magazine, March 1985

TOPICS: Atari Writer, Parallel Bus, Typefaces, Colour Printers

FILE: Antic_Mar_1985.pdf
TYPE: PDF
SIZE: 91.3 MB

Antic Magazine, July 1987

TOPICS: 80 Column, 8-Bit, MIDI, Atari Writer Plus, ASCII Art, Dot Matrix

FILE: Antic_July_1987.pdf
TYPE: PDF
SIZE: 108 MB


Resistor Colour Codes Chart

TOPICS: Resistor Values, 4 and 5 Band Codes, Electronic Components

FILE: HERCULES WORKSHOP RESISTOR COLOUR CODES.PDF
TYPE: PDF
SIZE: 60.1 KB


SSI Fall 87 Winter 88 Catalog

TOPICS: Strategic Simulations Inc, SSI, Vintage, Old Strategy Games

FILE: SSI Fall 87 Winter 88 Catalog.pdf
TYPE: PDF
SIZE: 14.3 MB




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