grande man
Bonafied Grande Nut
OK, well that makes it easy. Guess I'll buy a Digitrax.
Bob, you may become a geek, but I'm already one. A happy one at that.
OK, well that makes it easy. Guess I'll buy a Digitrax.
3. The Atlas Commander seems to have been a one shot deal - no real expansion and nothing further done with it.
Bob, you may become a geek, but I'm already one.
May become one? Just what makes you think I don't already qualify?
Yep! hand coding directly in the registers and writing to the memory. Hexadecimal, wasn't it Bob? Been a real long time, as I recall the processor was hand wired on a mother board (LSI's were the ones we had)Any of the youngsters around here care to venture guess how input and output was handled?
Punch card!?The first computer I programmed on didn't have a keyboard, a mouse or a screen. There was possibly a mouse in the computer room, but if so he was real and had nothing to do with the CPU. Any of the youngsters around here care to venture guess how input and output was handled?
Ah, was that an Altiar with the toggle switches?
Punch card!?
I have a friend here in San Diego, who worked temp work at a local health provider, who still uses punch card machines, and a few "newer" black screen, green text machines...
Well, yesterday a friend of mine and my son was invited to tour a Sacramento model train club. They had a Digitrax Chief system up and running. Man, I was impressed. They had 5 operators running trains on the layout at the same time. Diesel and steam. Dimming headlites, ditch lights blinking, sound, working signals and "gridlock".
They have the mainline track work complete, switches and signals. It was amaizing to see UP DD engine stall with double stacks on a 2 degree grade and request a SD40 helper to get it over the hill. Fun!!!
They also showed me the options that the Digitrax had and I was impressed. So I guess its time to save those nickels and dimes for the Digitrax basic system.