this past weekend my mom and dad gave me an ultimatum… i had to get all my old “crap” that was still at their house moved to mine. it was nice having that storage available, but i do have plenty of space at my home now. so anyway… i loaded up my car with and odd assortment of “crap” - that’s what my mom called it. let’s see… a commodore vic-20 (my first computer) with tape drive, a trs-80 color computer 2 with floppy disk drive (and 300 baud modem, speech synthesis card, edtasm cartidge), teac reel-to-reel tape deck (used before i could afford a digital delay), a 1976 kim-1 board computer from mos technologies (6502 processor just like the vic-20!), a beta vcr and an assortment of books, including the 68000 docs from my digital lab in college and those “semiconductor reference guide”s from radio shack (1986, ‘87 and ‘88 versions). ah, those good ol’ days! i just can part with the stuff! i still regret pitching the original ibm pc my dad snagged from work when they upgraded - including a dual 10 meg external removable winchester hard drive.

so this got me thinking back to my hardware hacking days. bread boards all over. soldering irons. trips to radio shack for caps and resistors. phase locked loops. fun stuff. if i get some time (ha!) i should do a hardware project of some sort!

i wonder if my collection of radio-electronics mags is still somewhere in the house?!?!