[vcf-midatlantic] Heathkit 3400's

[william degnan]

On Nov 26, 2015 2:15 PM, "Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic" <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
>
> On 11/23/2015 09:31 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> >>> I remember ~10 or so people got nice cheap mostly working Heathkit
3400's
> >>> at VCF 10 last year.
> >>>
> >>> Anyone do anything with theirs?
> >>>
> >>> Someone today sent me a question through my web site about terminal
> >>> settings for the 3400 monitor program, I pulled my 3400 system out and
> >>> fired it up to test and confirm mine is 2400 7/n/2
> >>>
> >>> Was it Andy Welburn who asked you? Or someone else?
> >> Andy has been working in the past few weeks restoring and
fixing/repairing
> >> an ETA-4000 (the rs232/BASIC/monitor add-on module for an et-4000)
which
> >> was missing among other things both of the code ROMs and even the
address
> >> decoder prom! He was able to figure out the prom contents based on the
> >> eta-4000 manual and schematics, but still could use a dump from an
actual
> >> ETA-4000 to ensure that his guessed dump is correct.
> >
> > Yup.  We had a few back and forth messages.  I offered to dump RAM but I
> > guess he got what he needed elsewhere.
> >
> > Anyone else?  I exhibited mine at VCF 2014
>
>   I have a couple of ET-3400s, but I've never been able to get my hands
> on one of those wonderful expansion units.
>
>              -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA

Anyone use the cassette for storage and retrieve their program
successfully?  I saved a Tiny BASIC program to tape and that's as far as I
took it.  Andy Welburn was asking me about my success with tape storage,
but I did not have much to add other than what the manual says.

Bill Degnan
twitter: billdeg
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