[vcf-midatlantic] June 11/12 Workshop - Who's Going? Whatcha working on?

[Brian L. Stuart]

On Tue, 5/24/16, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> ​oh hey, I almost forgot, I still have the ​SVI-2000 robot arm if you want
> something else for the HOPE exhibit or the NYC MakerFaire.
> http://www.theoldrobots.com/images58/Robotarm-w1.JPG

Now there's a blast from the past.  Over 20 years ago there was a variant
on that unit that had an RS-232 interface in the base.  I got a loaner for a
summer course I was doing.  We drove it with a network of Sun workstations
and had it playing Connect-4.  Here's a little SIGCSE paper on the project:

http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/robotics/p41-stuart.pdf

BLS