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Technical discussions about Freescale Microcontrollers: M68HC11. (Freescale Semiconductor is a Subsidiary of Motorola).
Re: Off Topic - Old Timers - Dianne Best - Feb 18 9:22:00 2006
What a bunch of old f##rts we are! LOL! ;-) I was born in 1949 but didn't come to computing until college (1969) when I got to play with a 360. It was the only course in my life that I ever Aced. I did 10 years R&D with the Motorola family in industrial applications (hardware & software) but have worked in other areas for the last 20 years. I miss uP-ing and do it at home now just for little things around the house. Doesn't everybody have uP-based gadgets around their home? LOL! Nigel - VE3ID ?? No kidding? I am VE4DI Dianne __________________________________________________ ">http://mail.yahoo.com
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Re: Off Topic - Old Timers - VE3ID - Feb 18 10:25:00 2006
Hmmm, would you be interested in joining the effort for a new repeater controller? I designed the present one in 1974, which is now at VE3RPT. It uses a 6809 to control a 16 by 16 crosspoint matrix, but the software wasn't finished until 1984 due to lack of a micro (and a programmer) with sufficient power! This time I am not designing the hardware until the programmer has the specs nailed down. Alex, VA3GPL is the only programmer on the project right now. We are planning to replace the logic in the CN tower repeater system first by building a complete clone with the new controller and wheeling it in as a whole unit, since access to the tower is difficult. The 1974 hardware was also used for the VE3SUE,SSS,TTT, systems in SW Ont. with a LSI-11 controller and different software. I am trying to get a new project going using the 68HC12, one per repeater, and linking via CAN. Sounds like it might be right up your alley. There is a lot of new stuff to do, digital modulation and VoIP being two. Let's take this off-list: you can join my yahoo group if you are not totally anti-yahoo! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TorontoRepeaterController/ 73, Nigel VE3ID Dianne Best wrote: > What a bunch of old f##rts we are! LOL! ;-) > > I was born in 1949 but didn't come to computing until > college (1969) when I got to play with a 360. It was > the only course in my life that I ever Aced. > > I did 10 years R&D with the Motorola family in > industrial applications (hardware & software) but have > worked in other areas for the last 20 years. I miss > uP-ing and do it at home now just for little things > around the house. Doesn't everybody have uP-based > gadgets around their home? LOL! > > Nigel - VE3ID ?? No kidding? I am VE4DI > > Dianne > > __________________________________________________ > ">http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > -- Nigel Johnson MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ http://nigel.homelinux.net You can reach me by voice on Skype: TILBURY2591 If time travel ever will be possible, it already is. Ask me again yesterday This e-mail is not and cannot, by its nature, be confidential. En route from me to you, it will pass across the public Internet, easily readable by any number of system administrators along the way. If you have received this message by mistake, it would be ridiculous for me to tell you not to read it or copy to anybody else, because, let’s face it, if it’s a message revealing confidential information or that could embarrass me intensely, that’s precisely what you’ll do. Who wouldn’t? Likewise, it is superfluous for me to claim copyright in the contents, because I own that anyway, even if you print out a hard copy or disseminate this message all over the known Universe. I don’t know why so many corporate mail servers feel impelled to attach a disclaimer to the bottom of every e-mail message saying otherwise. If you don’t either, why not e-mail your corporate lawyers and system administrators and ask them why they insist on contributing so much to the waste of bandwidth.
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Re: Off Topic - Old Timers - Tom Sefranek - Feb 18 10:38:00 2006
Hey! You guys are telling my story! Born 1949...Ham etc. I did 20 years R&D at M.I.T. I have 2 old 6809 repeater controllers I built, with all kinds of bells and lights. VE3ID wrote: >Hmmm, would you be interested in joining the effort for a new repeater >controller? I designed the present one in 1974, which is now at VE3RPT. >It uses a 6809 to control a 16 by 16 crosspoint matrix, but the software >wasn't finished until 1984 due to lack of a micro (and a programmer) >with sufficient power! This time I am not designing the hardware until >the programmer has the specs nailed down. Alex, VA3GPL is the only >programmer on the project right now. We are planning to replace the >logic in the CN tower repeater system first by building a complete clone >with the new controller and wheeling it in as a whole unit, since access >to the tower is difficult. > >The 1974 hardware was also used for the VE3SUE,SSS,TTT, systems in SW >Ont. with a LSI-11 controller and different software. > >I am trying to get a new project going using the 68HC12, one per >repeater, and linking via CAN. Sounds like it might be right up your >alley. There is a lot of new stuff to do, digital modulation and VoIP >being two. > >Let's take this off-list: you can join my yahoo group if you are not >totally anti-yahoo! > >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TorontoRepeaterController/ > > >73, >Nigel >VE3ID > > >Dianne Best wrote: > > >>What a bunch of old f##rts we are! LOL! ;-) >> >>I was born in 1949 but didn't come to computing until >>college (1969) when I got to play with a 360. It was >>the only course in my life that I ever Aced. >> >>I did 10 years R&D with the Motorola family in >>industrial applications (hardware & software) but have >>worked in other areas for the last 20 years. I miss >>uP-ing and do it at home now just for little things >>around the house. Doesn't everybody have uP-based >>gadgets around their home? LOL! >> >>Nigel - VE3ID ?? No kidding? I am VE4DI >> >>Dianne >> >>__________________________________________________ >>">http://mail.yahoo.com >> >> >> >>Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- * | __O Thomas C. Sefranek WA1RHP@WA1R... |_-\<,_ Amateur Radio Operator: WA1RHP (*)/ (*) Bicycle mobile on 145.41, 448.625 MHz http://hamradio.cmcorp.com/inventory/Inventory.html http://www.harvardrepeater.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Re: Off Topic - Old Timers - VE3ID - Feb 18 15:41:00 2006
So join the group on yahoo and let's build a killer controller! Once we get a system going with individual controllers linked together, we can start using digital modulation on one of the connected groups and make a gateway into the future! right now the suggested chip is a 9S12C128, with DTMF decoder and SD card external 73 ve3id Tom Sefranek wrote: > Hey! > > You guys are telling my story! > Born 1949...Ham etc. > > > I did 20 years R&D at M.I.T. > > I have 2 old 6809 repeater controllers I built, with all kinds of bells > and lights. > > VE3ID wrote: > > >> Hmmm, would you be interested in joining the effort for a new repeater >> controller? I designed the present one in 1974, which is now at VE3RPT. >> It uses a 6809 to control a 16 by 16 crosspoint matrix, but the software >> wasn't finished until 1984 due to lack of a micro (and a programmer) >> with sufficient power! This time I am not designing the hardware until >> the programmer has the specs nailed down. Alex, VA3GPL is the only >> programmer on the project right now. We are planning to replace the >> logic in the CN tower repeater system first by building a complete clone >> with the new controller and wheeling it in as a whole unit, since access >> to the tower is difficult. >> >> The 1974 hardware was also used for the VE3SUE,SSS,TTT, systems in SW >> Ont. with a LSI-11 controller and different software. >> >> I am trying to get a new project going using the 68HC12, one per >> repeater, and linking via CAN. Sounds like it might be right up your >> alley. There is a lot of new stuff to do, digital modulation and VoIP >> being two. >> >> Let's take this off-list: you can join my yahoo group if you are not >> totally anti-yahoo! >> >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TorontoRepeaterController/ >> >> >> 73, >> Nigel >> VE3ID >> >> >> Dianne Best wrote: >> >> >> >>> What a bunch of old f##rts we are! LOL! ;-) >>> >>> I was born in 1949 but didn't come to computing until >>> college (1969) when I got to play with a 360. It was >>> the only course in my life that I ever Aced. >>> >>> I did 10 years R&D with the Motorola family in >>> industrial applications (hardware & software) but have >>> worked in other areas for the last 20 years. I miss >>> uP-ing and do it at home now just for little things >>> around the house. Doesn't everybody have uP-based >>> gadgets around their home? LOL! >>> >>> Nigel - VE3ID ?? No kidding? I am VE4DI >>> >>> Dianne >>> >>> __________________________________________________ >>> ">http://mail.yahoo.com >>> >>> >>> >>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > -- Nigel Johnson MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ http://nigel.homelinux.net You can reach me by voice on Skype: TILBURY2591 If time travel ever will be possible, it already is. Ask me again yesterday This e-mail is not and cannot, by its nature, be confidential. En route from me to you, it will pass across the public Internet, easily readable by any number of system administrators along the way. If you have received this message by mistake, it would be ridiculous for me to tell you not to read it or copy to anybody else, because, let’s face it, if it’s a message revealing confidential information or that could embarrass me intensely, that’s precisely what you’ll do. Who wouldn’t? Likewise, it is superfluous for me to claim copyright in the contents, because I own that anyway, even if you print out a hard copy or disseminate this message all over the known Universe. I don’t know why so many corporate mail servers feel impelled to attach a disclaimer to the bottom of every e-mail message saying otherwise. If you don’t either, why not e-mail your corporate lawyers and system administrators and ask them why they insist on contributing so much to the waste of bandwidth.
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