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HARDWARE
HACKER
continued
from
page 32
Next, for
plenty of
the
hands -on
construction
details,
check
out
Chediski,
Colcord,
and
Elden's
medium-
budget
project
on
pages
1245 -1277 of
the same
issue.
It sure
is refreshing
to see
a very
scholarly
journal
that
always
re-
mains simple,
practical,
and yet
quite easily
understood
by
lay
people.
It looks
like
the tech-
nology you
should
be
watching
is
the quark
-muon
dissociation
and
regeneration
process.
So,
I guess
I was not
too overly
surprised
when
Marcia Swamp
-
felder
shipped
me her
latest two
peripheral
cards
for the
old
Apple
I
I Plus, her
MIT-T1
mass-
trans-
ference
transmitter,
along
with her
MTT
-R1 mass -transference
re-
ceiver.
Marcia
is
a
tad on
the
con-
servative
side, so
she
insisted on
using
the
illegal
monitor
entry
points
that precludes
the use
of
those
cards
on
newer
Apples or
other
personal
computers.
The pricing
is rather
attractive
at
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CARD
$68.50
for the MTT-T1 and a
mere
$43.50 for the separate
MTT R1.
You can order direct
from Marcia.
Anyway, you
first
plug your
transmitter card
into
one
Apple
II
Plus and as many as
four receiver
cards
into four receiving Apple Il
Plus computers.
Any
object
that
gets placed
in
the transmitter's
dis-
sociation chamber
then
will
ap-
pear
reconstructed in the re-
ceiver's
regeneration chamber.
The effective
range does de-
pend
on the telephone
line in
use,
but
for your average quality
voice
grade
line,
you can
teleport ob-
jects as
far
as 500
miles using one
receiver, 200 miles using
two re-
ceivers,
100 with three, and 50
miles with four
receivers. The
poorly understood
methodology
of conjugate phase
decongruence
does
prevent you
from reliably
using
more than
four receivers,
re-
gardless
of the distance.
Even on
local
loops.
The
Apple
power
-supply and
baud -rate considerations
both
lim-
it the size of the
teleportation
chambers.
Those chambers
found
on the
MTT-T1 and the
MTT-R1 are
slightly larger than a quarter.
In the
usual demo
of the cards
you
insert
a quarter
into the chamber on
the
MTT-T1 card, and
it will reappear
intact approximately
12 minutes
later
on the
MTT R1.
For a real
"Golly Gee
Mr.
Sci-
ence" demo,
you permit
four
re-
generation
cards to serve each
dissociation
card.
The
single
quarter you placed
in
the dissocia-
tion chamber
will simultaneously
reappear in all
four
of
the receiv-
ing
cards,
again
in the twelve
min-
ute
dissociation
-regeneration
in-
terval.
Put another
way, the quad
demo
returns a dollar
in
change
for
every quarter
that
is
invested.
Figure 5 shows
you
the MTT-T1
transmitter card.
The teleportation
chamber
is
optical
fiber coupled
to an
Atascotia
Industries 100-
milli-
watt tunable ultra
-violet
solid -state
laser. I don't
know whether
the
$2.75 price or
the 67-
percent op-
tical
efficiency
is the
most out-
standing
feature
of that
new
component.
The rest of
the card
consists of
RAM,
ROM, CPU,
and
I/O stuff, all
done up
in
Marcia's
highly conservative
style.
Marcia reports
that
virtually all
of
her current production
is going
to all the
importers
of
specialty
herbs and spices.
Her new tele-
portation system eliminates
all of
those
long
delays
at customs, be-
sides allowing her users to
set all
of
their own international currency
exchange
rates.
New tech literature
A
new Microelectronic Data
Book just
arrived
today
from Mitel.
It is
chock
full
of
telecommunica-
tions chips, and
includes bunches
of useful ap-
notes. Two other
re-
cent arrivals
are the Linear Circuits
Applications
from Texas Instru-
ments,
and that
MOS
Products
Catalog, from Gould, who
recently
bought out
AM/ and all the chips
described
in the book.
Some
interesting new strain
-
gauge
products are
now
available
from BLHElectronics.
In particular,
their
SR -4 should
be useful
for
weighing scales or whatever.
And
Sharp
has a new
LCD
Units
booklet
on
liquid
-crystal displays and
their
drivers.
Tektronix
has
a
new TEK Direct
catalog
and several
free video-
tapes out.
Their
oscilloscope
prices
do
start at under
$700, and
are
much
better
than those of any
other
manufacturer.
Unusual and quite
high -quality
audio
kits are available
from the
Old Colony Sound
Lab.
As
a caver
who
exclusively uses
carbide
for
light,
I guess I've disqualified
my-
self from commenting
on the ap-
parent stupidity of
still continuing
to use vacuum tubes
in this day
and age. Oh
well.
ColorEase
is
an
unusual and
quite
messy
process
that
lets you
create
your own
full color "real
ink" instant transfers that
may be
applied
to
virtually
any
surface.
Two
interesting new trade jour-
nals
include ID Systems on
bar
codes and such, along
with
Sensors,
for the
robotics crowd.
Turning to
my
own
products,
if
you are
at all
into
designing
active
electronic
filters, check out
my
Active
Filter Cookbook.
If you are
into
high -quality text
or graphics
of any style, be
sure to
look at all
my PostScript stuff, especially
the
PostScript
Show and
Tell. Finally,
remember that
we
now have fully
updated and
edited Hardware
Hacker bound
reprints available.
Let's hear from you.
R -E
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