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Old 07-02-2023, 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by dikman View Post
Is it worth persevering with such an old laptop? ..
Believe it or not, I have a purpose for this kind of machine.
I have a programmer and a >~10 of MC68HC705 OTP processors that I would like to use for various things in the future (yes I know.. I have a number of Arduino boards as well... but this one I used for my own stepper driver for EQ6).
And that programmer doesn't work on a machines faster than ~30MHz because the programming timing is not controlled by ACK signal but rather by the parallel port speed.

This particular laptop I bought on ebay long time ago to have a backup for Mel Bartel's system for my dob.. and it is OK otherwise (FDD also doesn't work but this can be fixed, I only need to replace rubber belt which turned into black paste..)..
Maybe I am sentimental, a bit too much
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