KIM BUS -- coincidence?

[John Lawson]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:

>
> What's all that discrete crap in the lower-left corner? Cassette?
> Sheesh I never realized at the time how badly laid out the board
> was :-) All that wasted real estate! Why no blank/prototype DIPs
> in the upper right?


  Fucking digital elitist!!  Analog-shunning technocrat!!!

   If you weren't so busy turning your binary nose up at us lowly 
'voltmeter is a *useful tool*' types, you be able to guess that all "that 
analog crap" is the cassette and TTY interface circuitry.

   Since it deals with (gasp!) audio signals, there are a few (shudder!) 
capacitors and resistors and diode - thingies in there.

   But not to worry!  If it breaks, you can come out here to the Linear 
Slums and some one-eyed toothless RMS Geek will slink out with one of 
those "soldering irons" and get you back on the air, von Neumann!!!

   Then you'll get the (manual-typed) Invoice... he he he!!!

Cheers

Nick Tesla


PS:  ;} !