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BUYERS GUIDE TO CONQUERING

THE UNIV ;SE:
VIDEO GAMES FROM
BOTH SIDES OF 's
© 1982
WALT DISNEY
PRODUCTIONS
THE SCREEN
AUDIO.... COMRUTING....MUSIC.... RADIO .... ROBOTICS..

PSIYSYNIN
T20 + 20 - Designed by Texas Engineers, this 20

watt amplifier gives Hi Fi performance at low cost.
Many up -dated features and the ideal beginners kit.
Complete kit £29.50 plus VAT
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(30 watt version Complete kit £34.50 plus VAT)
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37 EA/ T 2000
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LINSLEY HOOD 75 DE LUXE - 75watt amplifier

with superb performance (less than .01%
distortion). Easy construction with virtually no
wiring. Complete kit £75.00 plus VAT.
TRANSCENDENT SOUNDS byPOWfRTRAN

For over 2000 years man has entertained himself and his friends TRANSCENDENT POLYSYNTH -A four octave polyphonic synthesiser with
with music played upon instruments he has fashioned with his outstanding design characteristics and versatility and performance to match.
Complete kit £275.00 plus VAT (single voice)
own hands. From the earliest pipes of hollow reed in the cradles of Extra voice (up to three more) £42.00 plus VAT
civilisation, the brazen trumpets of ancient Rome, to the subtle
strings of renaissance Europe. Pleasure in the making-Pleasure EXPANDER -A new matching 4 voice expander to team up with your
in the playing and Pleasure in the listening. polysynth for even a greater range and capability Complete kit£249.00 plus VAT
Now - in the 1980's its the turn of the electronics age, the age of
Powertran.
TRANSCENDENT DPX - Offers a five octave keyboard with power to match.
Two audio outputs (can be used simultaneously) to give harpsichord and
In our twelve years of research and development we have piano/honkytonk or reed with strings/brass and both are fully polyphonic.Other
features include switchable touch sensitivity and a chorus ensemble unit with
introduced probably the most comprehensive and sophisticated strong/mild effect switching. An advanced design made simple with our clearly
range of synthesisers and supporting equipment ever offered to laid out instruction manual. Complete kit £295.00 plus VAT
the music making, home -constructor,
Each kit is a perfect example of how craftsman-made components, TRANSCENDENT 2000 - Although only a 3 octave keyboard the '2000'
features the same design ingenuity, careful engineering and quality components
ingenious design technology, originality of concept-and rigid -
of its larger brethren. The kit is well within the scope of the first time builder
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quality and price control-combine together in kits that are both buy it, build it play it! You will know you have made the right choice.
fascinating and satisfying to construct. Our clear step by step Complete kit £165.00 plus VAT
instruction manuals ensure that the kits are well within the
1024 COMPOSER - Come right up to the minute with this new design. It will
capability of the first time builder as well as the dedicated
enthusiast.
control your synthesiser with a sequence of up to 1024 notes -or an equal
selection of shorter sequences. The Composer is mains powered wito
automatically charged battery to preserve your programme after switch -off.
Once you've made your Transcendent Synthesiser you will be Complete kit £85.00 plus VAT
able to make the music of all the ages - from the earliest sounds of
the simple pipe, through the most complex harmonies, to the
most a r`= ;=:n tonalities of Stockhausen .... or Steel Eye Span!
DEMONSTRATION TAPE
kits (30 minutes)
- Demonstration tape now available£2.00
of all three
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THE UNIVERSE:
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VIDEO GAMES FROM
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BOTH SIDES
THE SCREEN DIGEST 11 DESIGNING MICRO SYSTEMS 31
In News at 11 this month we have items Now we get to the man -machine inter-
to amaze you and amuse you, items to face, which sounds very deep but just
thrill you and chill you - oh, enough means VDUs, printers and joysticks.
of the hype, just get wise and read it (or
vice versa). CONQUERING THE UNIVERSE. . .52
TRON 16 Kerpow! Pee000mm! Vr000sh! Your
This will probably be the smash hit of intrepid star warrior cum hack has been
the Christmas movie glut, and deserved- boldly splitting infinitives which no man
ly so, too. A film by computers and has split before in an attempt to review
about computers, we look at what was the state of the videogame market.
done, how it was done, and the ideas TECH TIPS 69.
and thoughts of the man who did it. This month our regular readers' design
page includes a RAM -to -ROM converter
Dave Bradshaw: Editor for micros and an improved version of
Peter Green : Assistant Editor our loudspeaker protector.
Rory Holmes:
Project Editors
Phil Walker : CONFIGURATIONS 77
:Gary Price: Advertisement In which we take a look at the grand-
Manager daddy of the IC family, the op -amp, and
Ron Harris B.Sc: Managing Editor discuss some of the fundamentals about
T.J. Connell : Managing Director its operation.
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TRANSISTORS F224B 29 MPSU52 65 ZTX304 17 2N3819 22 2SC2091 %
WATFORD ELECTRONICS AC125

AC126/7
AC128
AC141/2
35
35
30
C212
C212L
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F245
F256A
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F257/8
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45
MPSU56
MPSU56
MPU131
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ZTX314
ZTX326
ZTX341
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ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS: (Values in uF) 500v:.10uF 52p; 4778p; 63V:0.47, 1.0, 1.5, 2.2, 3.3, 4.7 8p; ASZ21 125 CY58/59 35 FY90 2N1671B 160 2N4898 135 40360 60
80 TIP33A e5
1010p; 15, 2212p; 3315p; 4712p; 68 20p; 100 19p; 220 26p; 100070p; 2200 99p; 50V: 68 20p; 10017p;.220 8C107 10 CY70/71 16 RY39 40 2N2160 295 2N4901 175 40361/2 70
TIP33C 78
24p; 40V: 6.8 15p; 22 9p; 33 12p; 330, 470 32p; 1000 48p; 2200 90p; 25V: 1.5, 4.7, 10, 22, 47 8p; 100 11p; BC10713 12 CY72 20 8X20 20 TIP34A 74 2N4921 55 40407/8 75
150 12p; 220 15p; 330 22p; 470 25p; 680, 1000 34p; 1500 42p; 2200 50p; 2200 50p; 3300 76p; 4700 92p; BC108 CY78 40411 285
10 24 SX26/29 34 TIP34C 88 2N2218A 25 2144922 70
16V: BC1088 D112 125 2N2219A 2145135/6 20 40412 90
12 SX78 45 TIP35A 110 28
47, 68, 100 9p; 125 12p; 330 16p; 470 20p; 680 34p; 1000 27p; 1500 31p; 2200 36p; 4700 79p. 8C109 2N2220A 28 2N5138 40467A 130
10 D121 95 SY26 30 TIP35C 128 18
BC1098 12 D124 115 SV95A 25 TiP36A 130 2N2221A 26 2145172 18 40468 85
TAG-END CAPACITORS: 64V: 2200 139p; 3300 198p; 4700 245p; 50V: 2200 110p; 3300 154p; 40V: 4700 D131/32 48 40594 105
160p; 25V:2200 90p; 3300 96p; 4000,4700 98p; 10,000 320p; 15,000 345p; 16V: 22,000 350p BC109C 12 U105 170 TIP36C 140 2N2222A 25 2N5179 45
BC114/5 22 D133 70 U205 190 TIP41A 50 2142297 25 2N5180 45 40603 110
BC117/8 20 D135 45 0206 200 TIP41B 52 2142303 46 2N5190/1 75 40673 75
POLYESTER CAPACITORS: Axial Lead Type
400V: 1nF, 1n5, 2n2, 3n3, 4n7, 6n8 11p; 10n, 15n, 18n, 22n 12p; 33n, 47n, 68n SIEMENS pcb BC119 38 D136/37 40 U208 200 TIP42A 65 2142368 25 2N5194 % 40871/2 90
18p; 150n 20p; 220n 30p; 330n 42p; 470n 52p; 680n 1 uF 68p; 2u2 62p. Type Miniature BC137/9 40 D138/39 40 UY69C 225 TIP42B 58 2N2369A 18 2N5305/8 30
160V: lOnF, 12n, 39n, 100n 11p; 150n, 220n 17p; 330n, 470n 30p; 680n 38p; l uF poly Capacitors BC140 30 D140 40 421 250 TIP120 70 2142476 50 2N5457/8 30
42p; 1u5 45p; 2u2 48p; 4u7 58p. 250V BC142/3 30 D144/45 198 MD8001 250 TIP121/2 73 2142483/4 V 2145459 30
1000V: 1nF 17p; 10nF 30p; 15n 40p; 22n 36p; 33n 42p; 47n, 100n 42p. 1nF, 1n5, 2n2, BC147 9 D158 55 MJ490 ' 90 TIP141/2 105 2142646 46 2N5485 36
3n3, 4n7, 6n8, 13C1478 10 0205/6 110 MJ491 175 TIP147 120 214846 80 2N5777 45
POLYESTER RADIAL LEAD CAPACITORS: 250V FEED-THROUGH 10n,15n 7p BC148 9 D222 85 MJ2955 70 TIP2955 60 2142904/5 26 2N5879 190
10n, 15n, 22n, 27n Sp; 33n, 47n, 68n, 100n 7p; 150n, 220n CAPACITORS 18n, 22n, 27n, BC1488 10 D245 45 MJE170 150 TIP3055 60 2142906/7 26 2N6027
10p; 330n, 470n 13p; 680n 19p; lu 23p: 1u5 40p; 2u2 46p. 1000pF/450V 8p 33n, 39n, 47n 8p BC149 9 D378 70 MJE180 150 TIS43 32 2N2907Á 26 2SA671 250
39n, 56n 12p BC149C 10 D434 55 MJE340 54 TIS44/5 45 2N2926G 10 25A715 60
TANTALUM BEAD CAPACITORS POTENTIOMETERS: Rotary, Carbon, 82n, 100n 11p BC153/4 27 D517 75 MJE370 100 TIS46 46 2N3011 28 2SC495 70
35V: 0.1uF, 0-22, 0-33 15p; 0-47, 0-68, Track 0.25W Log & Lin values. 100V 8C157/8 10 D695A 125 MJE371 100 TIS48 50 2143053 26 2SC496 70
1-0, 1.5 16p; 2.2, 3-3 18p: 4.7, 6.8 22p; 100n, 120n 10p BC159 11 D696A 125 MJE520 95 TIS59/74 50 2N30ß4 56 2SC1061 250 RF
5000, 1K2 & 2102 (Linear only) Single
10 28p; 16V: 2.2, 3.3 16p; 4.7, 6.8, 10 Gang. 30p 150n, 180n 12p BC160 45 DY56 180 MJE521 95 TIS88A 50 2613055 48 2SC1096 a6 CHOKES
18p; 15, 36p; 22 30p; 33, 47 40p; 100 5K11 -2M0 Single Gang Log & Lin 30p 220n, 270n 15p BC167A 10 MO 160 MJE2955 99 TIS90/91 30 2N3108 45 2SC1162 30
Miniature
75p; 10V: 15, 22, 26p; 33, 47 35p; 100 5K0-2MO Single Gang D/P Switch 78p 330n,390n 2Op BC168C 10 F115 35 MJE3055 70 UC734 65 2143252 46 2SC1173 125
55p; 6V: 100 42p. 5K0 -2M11 Double Gang 89p 470n, 560n 26p BC169C 10 F154/8 25 MPF102 40 VK101 80 2N3302 30 2SC1306 100 PCB type
680n 30p BC170 15 F167 29 MPF103 30 VN1OKM 55 2N3441/2 140 2SC1307 150 1uH, 2u2,
MYLAR FILM CAPACITORS SLIDER POTENTIOMETERS loF34p 2u2 50p BC171/2 11 F173 V MPF104 30 VN46AF 78 2N3614/5 199 2SC1449 85 4u7, 10u, 22u,
100V: 1nF, 2, 4, 4nF, 10 6p; 150F, 22n, 0-25W log and linear values 60mm BC173 11 F177 25 MPF105 30 VN66AF 80 2N3663 15 2SC1678 140 33u, 47u,
30n, 40n, 47n 7p; 56n, 100n, 200n 9p; 5KO-500K0 single gang 70p BC177/8 16 F178 30 MPF106 40 VN88AF 94 2N3702/3 10 2SC1679 190 100u, 220u,
50V: 470nF 12p. 10K2 -500K2 dual gang 110p BC179 20 F179 35 MPSA05 25 VN89AF 96 2143704/5 10 2SC1923 50 330u, 470u
Self Stick Graduated Bezel 40p ACCESS BC181 20 F180/2 38 MPSA08 25 ZTX107/8 11 2N3706/7 10 2SC1945 225 30p
CERAMIC CAPACITORS 50V: Orders BC182/3 MPSA12 1mH, 1mß,
Range: 0-5pF to lOnF 4p. 15nF; 22nF;
10 F184/5 38 32 ZTX109 12 2143708/9 10 2SC1963 90
PRESET POTENTIOMETERS Just phone your BC184 10 F194/5 12 MPSA55 30 ZTX212 26 2N3710/11 10 2SC1957 90 2m2, 4m7,
33nF; 47nF 5p. 100nF/30V 70. 0.1W 500 5M11 Miniature orders through. BC182L MPSA56 lOwS 35p
200nF/6V8p.
10 F196/7 12 30 ZTX300 13 2N3713 140 2SC1969 140
Vertical & Horizontal 7p We do the rest. BC183L 10 F198/9 18 MPSU02 58 ZTX30 16 2N3771 179 2SC2028 86 22m, 33m,
0-25W 1000 3-3M0 horiz. larger 10p 0923 50234 BC184L 10 F200 80 MPSU05 53 ZTX302 16 2N3772 195 2SC2029 210 43m 60p
POLYSTYRENE CAPACITORS:
0-25W 2000 4-7M11 vert 10p BC186/7 26 F224A 25 MPSUO6 55 ZTX303 25 2N3773 210 2SC2078 170 100m 75p
10pF to 1nF8p; 1.5nF to12nF10p
COMPUTER 8226 250 280 SIO-1 850 LF347 150 MSM5526 820. 'fDA2030 295 74177 45, 5133 LS124
SILVER MICA (Values in pF) RAM 8228 220 280A DIO 980 LF351 48
7444 90
b-s
60 90
2, 3-3, 4.7, 6.8, 8.2, 10, 12, 15, 18, ICs NE515 275 TDB0701 420 7445 74178 80' 5138 180 LS125 24
FOR 8243 270 LF353 95 NE529 225 TL170 50 7446 60 74179 80 S157 250 LS126 25
22, 27, 33, 39, 47, 50, 56, 68, 75, 82, 1702
85, 100, 120, 150, 180pF 15p each
350 8250 850 LINEAR ICS LF355 85 NE531 140 TL061CP 40 7447 40 74180 40 6158 210 LS132 35
BBC 1802CP 650 8251A 250 555CMOS 80 LF356 95 NE534 150 TL062CP 60 7448 45 74181 115 S188 210 LS133 30
200, 220, 250, 270, 300, 330, 360, 2114L -300n 90 8253 400
MICRO 702 75 LF357 110 NE543K 225 TL064CN 98 7450 16 74182 60 5189 158 LS136 24
390,470,800,800,820 21p each 2114L -200n SS 8255
1000, 1200, 1800, 2200 30p each
225 709C8pin 36 LF398 475 NE544 210 TLO71CP 24 7451 16 74184 90 S194 320 LS138 25
4816AP 2147 426 8256AC £35 710 48
3300, 4700pF 60p each LM10 325 NE555 16 TL072CP 45 7453 16 74185 95 S195 795 LS139 32
2532-450n 350 8257-5 400 741 8 pin 14 LM301A0
10Ons 24 NE556 45 TL074CN 100 7454 16 74186 470 6201 320 LS145 70
2564 £12 8259 395 747C 14 pin 65
MINIATURE TRIMMERS Capacitors. LM307 46 NE560 325 TL081CP 24 7460 16 74188 250 5225 510 LS147 100
2708 225 8271 f36 748C8pin 36
2-6pF, 2-10pF 22p; 2-25pF, 5-60pF 30p; LM308T 95 NE561 398 TL082CP 45' 7470 35 74190 48 6241 390 LS148 70
225p 2716-5V 215 8279 365 753 8 pin 185 LM311
10-88pF 36p. 2732-450n 350 70 14056213 410 TL083CP 75 7472 24 74191 46 S251 70 LS151 40
8284 350 810 159 LM318N 150 NE564 420 TL084CN 90 7473 26 74192 46 S257 260 LS153 40
RESISTORS Carbon Film Hi -Stab. 5%, 2764 999 8288 £10 9400CJ 350 LM319 215 NE565A 120 TL091CP 55 7474 20 74193 45 S262 850 LS155^ 35
3242 590 8P8304BN 250 AY -1-1320
miniature 4816-100nS 225
225 LM324A 30 NE566 155 UA2240 120 7475 25 74194 40 S287 300 LS156 36
RANGE Val 1-S9 100+ 4027 190
BT26A 99 AY -1-5050 99 LM334Z 90 NE567V 140 0A78540 230 7476 25 74195 40 5288 210 LS157 V
}W 8T27 150 AY -1-5051 160 LM335Z 128 NE570 410 UAA170 170 7480 74196 46 S289 LS158 30
202-4M7 E24 2p 1p 4116-150n 85 46 195
}W 2O2 -4M7 012 2p 1p 4116-200n 80
8T28A 120 AY -1-6720 210 LM339 47 NE571 400 UAA180 170 7481 120 74197 40 S301 350 LS160 32
8T31 350 AY -3-1270 730 LM348 64 NE5534A 150 UAA1003-3 935 7462 74198 80 6412 380 LS161 35
1W 202-4M7 612 5p 4p 4118-250 325 65
2% Metal Film E24 6p 4p
8795 90 AV -3-1350 350 LM349 115 0M335 750 ULN2003 85 7483 36 74199 84 5470 325 L5162 35
4164-200n 500 8T97N 90 AY -3-8910 438 60
1% Metal Film E24 Sp 6p LM358 RC4136D 69 ULN2004 90 7484 70 74221 54 S471 6220 LS163 35
4334-3 = CMOS Booklet for LM377 175 RC4558 45 ULN2283 100 7485 60 74246 120 5472 1150 LS164 40
100+ price applies to Resistors of each 2114-3 325 9364AP 560 AV -3-8910 150 LM379 480 74247 LS165
S566B 225 UPC575 350 7486 20 120 S475 825 50
type not mixed. 4816-100nS 225 9602 220 AY -3-8912 625 LM380 75 SA83209 425 UPC1025H 375 7489 170 74248 120 S571 620 LS166 85
4864-364K 500 AM26LS31C AV -5-1230 450
RESISTORS Network S.I.L. LM381N 145 SAB3210 325 7490 20 74249 120 LS168 84
5101-450 220 125 AY -5-1317A 630
7 Commoned: (8 pins) 1002, 6800, 1K 2k2, 4K7, LM382 115 SAB3271 465 UPC1156H 290 7491 35 74251 55 74LS LS170 75
10K, 47K 100K 25p
6116-150nS 390
6116L120 550
AM26LS32A 125
AY -3-1015 300
AY -5-1350 388
CA3011 130
LM384 140 SAB4209 595 UPC1366 195 7492 25 74259 150 LS00 il LS173 86
B Communed: (9 pins) 1500, 1800, 2700, 3300, 1K, LM386 90 SG3402 295 XR2206 300 7493 25 74265 55 LS01 11 LS174 50
6117-100n 490 AY -5-1350 388 CA3012 175
2k2, 4K7, 10K, 22K, 47K & 100K 26p. LM387 120 SL490 350 XR2207 375 7494 35 74273 150 LSO2 11 LS175 45
6502CPU 325 AY -5-2376 600 CA3014 275 LM389 95 74276
SN76003N 350 XR2211 575 7495 35 120 LSO3 12 LS181 90
6503 600 AY -5-2376 600 CA3018 86 LM393 100 SN76013 XR2216 675 .7496 35 74278 100 LS183 180
DIODES BRIDGE 6504 250 550 COM8017 275 CA3019 60 LM558 75
350
74279
L504 12
LS190 45
SN76018 148 XR2266 7497 50
Nat
AA119 15 '6505 600 360 90 LSO5 13
RECTI- COM8116 700 CA3020 210 LM725CN 325 SN76023N 350 ZN414 80 74100 80 74283 50 LS08 12 LS191 45
AA129 20 6520PIA 100 DM8131 275 CA3023 210 LM733 70 74284
AAY30 15 FIERS SN76023ND 240 ZN419E 190 74104 50 105 LS09 12 LS192 45
6521 100 DS3691N 320 CA3028A 95 LM1458 45
BA100 1A/50V 18 SN76033N. 350 ZN423E 135 74105 % 74285 165 LS10 13 LS193 45
15 6522V1A 300 DS88LS120N 275 CA3035 255 LM1871 325 74290
BAX13 1A/100V 20 SN76115N 215 ZN424E 130 74107 20 105 LS11 13 LS194 35
20 6530 £11 FD1771 f15 CA3036 VO LM2917
BY100 1A/400V 25
195 SN76131 125 ZN425E 346 74109 25 74293 80 LS12 13 LS195 36
24 635255101 570 FD1791 £Yl CA3043 275
BV126 12 1A/600V 34 75 SERIES 6545RTC 899
LM301 24 SN76227N 95 ZN426E 300 74110 35 74297 236 LS13 20 LS196 46
75107/8 95 FD1793 £23 CA3045 365 LM307 45 SN76477 420 ZN427E 600 74111 56 74298 100 LS14 26 LS197 45
BY127 12 2A/50V 30 6551ACIA 660 FD1795 £28 CA3046 70 75
2A/200V 40 75110 90 LM3302 SN76488 480 ZN428E 410 74112 170 74351 195 LS15 13 LS200 275
CR033 250 6592PC £20 FD1799 £28 CA3048 220 50
75114/5 150 LM3900 SN76660 120 ZN429E 210 74116 50 74365 30 L520 13 LS202 275
049 40 2A/400V 46 16800 225 FD1797 £29 CA3059 285 LM3909N 85 ryr
0447 12 2A/600V 65 75121/2 130
6802 SP8629 299 ZN459 570 74118 74366 30 LS21 13 LS221 55
250 HD26501 75 CA3075 213 LM3911 125
0A70 6A/100V 83 75150 125 TA7210 150 ZN1034E 200 74119 60 74367 30 LS22 13 LS240 65
12 6803 860 1M6402 380 CA3080E 70 LM3914 250
0479 6A/400V 95 75154 150 TA7204 205 ZN1040E 675 74120 60 74368 30 LS26 14 LS241 65
15
75182/3 '6804 160 INS8060N 1050 CA3081 190 LM3915 250 74390
0A81 20 6A/600V 125 99,
6805 670
TA7205 90 ZNA234E 850 74121 25 75 LS27 13 LS242 65
75188/9 55 INS8154N £9 CA3086 48 LM3916 250 TA7205A 225 74122 35 74393 90 LS28 14 LS243 65
0A85 1 10A/200V 215 6808 520 MC1488 CA3089E 215
0A90 10A/600V 298 75322 140
6809 630
55 LM13600 110 TA7222 150 TTL74 74123 35 74430 96 LS3:: 13 LS244 55
75324 360 MC1489 55 CA3090AQ 375 LS7220 - 280 TA7310 160 7400 11 74125 35 LS3, 13 LS245 70
0491 25A/200V 240 6810 115 MC14411 690 CA3123E 165
25A/600V 395 75361/3 150 M252AA 825 TAA621AX1 295 7401 11 74126 35 74C )S33 15 LS247 50
OA95 6820 100 MC14412 790 CA3130 90
I
75365 150 M253AA 1150 TAA661A 190 7402 11 74128 35 -537 15 LS248 55
04200 8Y164 56 6821 100 MC3446 250 CA3140 40 M51513L 230
0A202 VM18 OIL W 75450 86 TAA700 275 7403 12 74132 30 740244 195 LS38 15 LS249 55
68521 220 MC3447P 315 CA3160 95 M51515L 320
1N914 75451/2 52
6840 375 TAA900 395 7404 13 74136 28 740245 195 LS42 13 LS251 30
75454 a5 MK3886-2M £7 CA3161 160 M51516L 475 TAD100 159 7405 15 74141 55 740373 240 LS42 28 LS253 35
1N916 6843 £12 MM1702A 300 CA3162E 450
1144001/2 75491/2 as MB3712 220 TBA120S 70 7406 20 74142 175 740374 24.5 LS47 35 LS257 30
6845 685 MM5280D 695 CA3189 200 MB3756 440
1144003 ZENERS 6847 850 TBA5400 275 7407 20 74143 210 740922 420 LS48 45 LS258 35
MM5303 635 HA1336W 240 MC1204 250 TBA550Q 330 7408 14 74144 210 LS49 LS259 58
1N4004/5 Range: 2V7 to 6850 110 HAI 388
50
39V 400mal SCR MM5307 1275 2.55 MC1301 79 TBA641BX 7409 14 74145 50 LS51 14 LS260 22
1144006/7 6852 250 MM5387A 475 CL7106 750
MC1303 es or BX11 290 7410 14 74147 75
74L LS54 LS261 100
1N4148 8p each THYRISTORS 6854 599 CL7107 975 74L00 68 14
Range: 3V3 to
MM58174 770 MC1304P 280 T8A651 190 7411 16 74148 60 L555 14 LS266 20
1N5401 1 5A/40V 32 6875 500 MM74C922 420 C17611 99 74)04 85
1N5404 33V. 1.3W MC1310P 150 TBA800 80 7412 18 74150 50 LS63 120 LS273 54
1 £78 R0 -3-2513L 650 CL7660 190 74L30 50
1N5406 15p each MC1445 250 TBA810 95 7413 18 74151 40 LS73 18 LS275 125
1 5A 600V 48 74C922 420 RO -3-251311650 CL8038CC 300 74)47 380
1615408 8080A MC145106 695 TBA820 80 7414 24 74153 40
74L75 LS74 18 LS279 30
1 8A300V 60 250 SFF9634E 800 CL8211A 150 MC1458 35 TBA9200 200 7416 20 74154 55
145
LS280 90
1S44 8A600V 8085A 350 74L85 349 LS75 20
90 TMS2716-3V CM7205A 1150 MC1469 300 TBA950 300 7417 20 74155 40 L576 18 LS283 40
15921 12A100V 78 8088 £18 725 CM7207 475 74L121 165
6A/100V 40 8118-10 225 MC1494 694 TBA990Q 350 7420 15 74156 40 LS78 18 LS290 50
12A400V 95. TMS6011 365 CM7215 1050 74L123 325
6A/400V 50 TR IACS 12A800V 188 8123 125 CM7216AJ 1960
MC1495 350 TBA540 275 7421 20 74157 30 LS83 36 LS293 40
3A200V 54 TM59928 £30 MC1496L 70 TCA220 350 7422 20 74159 80 LS85 42 LS295 75
6A/800V 65 BT106 150 8155 350 ULN2003 90 CM72166 1950
3A400V 56 BT116
180 8156 350 UPD7002 440 CM7216C 1950
MC1596 225 TCA270Q 350 7423 20 74160 60 74S LS86 16 LS298 80
8A 100V 60 81LS95 80 MC1648 290 TCA280A 220 7425 18 74161 48 74500 LS90 28 LS299 150
NOISE C106D 38 Z80CPU 2.5 299 CM7217A 790 90 TCA940 175 7426 74162 40
8A400V 69
TIC44 81LS96 MC1709G 18 S02 LS91 60 LS300 175
24 SO
Z80ACPU 4M CM7224 785 TCA965 120
Diode 8A800V 115 TIC45
29 81LS97 80 300 CM7240 300
MC3302 g0
290
7427 15 74163 40 803 LS92 32 L5302 175
Z5J 195p 12A 100V 78 MC3340P 120 TDA1004 7428 26 74164 40 SO4 LS93 26 LS320 200
TIC47 35 81LS98 85 Z80 CTC 250 CM7555 % 310
12A400V 82 8202 £25 MC3360P 120 TDA1008 7430 14 74165 48 S05 LS95 40 LS323 195
2N5062 32 Z80A CTC 260 CM7556 150 TDA1010 198 7432 22 74166
12A800V 135 2N5064 8205 225 MC3401 65 48 008 LS96 95 LS324 168
VARI CAPS 16A 100V 103
38
8212 110
Z808 £11 LA3350 250 MC3403 75 TDA1022 499 7433 22 74167 150 S20 LS107 40 LS325 2%
BA102 2N4444 130 Z80 DART 495 LA4031P 340 150 TDA1024 115 7437 25 74170 125
50 16A400V 105 8214 425 MC3405 532 LS109 28 LS326 240
881058 40 16A800V 220 Z80A DART 550 LA4032 295 MC3423 180 TDA1034 350 7438 22 74172 250 S74 LS112 26 LS327 240
86106 8215 300 Z80 DMA 675 IA4400 440 325
40 25V 500V 220 8216 100 MC4016 00 TDA1490 7440 15 74173 60 S86 LS113 22 LS347 %
B61098 45 25A800V 295 DIAC 080 DART 698 LC7130 340 MFC6040 75 TDA2002 325 7441 55 74174 54 LS114 22 LS348 90
8224 110 S112
VAM2 165 T2800D 120, ST2 25 Z80 PIO 260 LC7120 300 MK50398 635 TDA2004 495 7442 32 74175 65 LS122 36 LS352 62
8225 S114
£11 280A PIO 275 LC7137 395 ML924 275 TDA2020 320 7443 90 74176 40 LS123 38 LS353 62
141 S132
4 ETI JANUARY 1983
SWITCHES OIL SWITCHES VEROBOARD 0.1ín
VO Board 180
IDC CONNECTORS -PANEL
TOGGLE: 2A 250V. )SPST) 4 way 70p; 6 way 85p;
clad plain
DIP Board 350
PC0 Plugs Female METERS RELAYS
SPST 33p 8 way 90p; 10 way 145p. Vero Strip 374
(SPOT) 4 way 190p. 21/2 a 31/4" 80p with latch Header FSD Miniature, enclosed,_ PCB mount.
DPDT
SUB -MIN Tnrt-r F
44p
ROTARY SWITCHES:
21R x 5" 91p
33/4 x 33/4" 91p
--
PROTO- DECo 10 way 90p
Pine
Stn
Pins
Angle
99p 86p
Plug
60 x46 x 35mm
0-50µA
Our RL6 series.
S.P.0-O.
SPOT on. of! 54p (Adjustable Stop type) 33/4 x 5" 106p 87p 0-100µA RL6-91 17011 coil, 7V5 to 12V DC;
pole/ 2 to 12 way; 2p/2 to 6 way; Verob)ock 405p 16 way 130p 150p 1109
210p
33/4 x 17" 360p 0-500µA 380V/6A AC; 1300VA/50W
S°DT c over 232p
B
1
60p
SPOT centre off 85p
SPOT based both
3 pole/2 to 4 way; 4p/2 to 3 way 45p 43/4 x 17" 470p
Pkt. of 100 pins
S -Dec
-
Eurobreadboard
5013,ß'Bimboard 1
52Op
20
26
way
way
145p
175p
166p
200p
125p
150p 0-1 mA
0-5mA
D.P.C,O.
4312 coil, 4V2 -7V DC; 250V AC; 5A;
ROTARY: Mains OP 250V 4Amp 575p 34 way 205p 236p 169p
sas 105p Spot face cutter 135p 0-10mA 1100VA/150W 218p
on/off 56p Pin insertion tool
Superstrip SS2 1350p 40 way 227p 250p 190p
0-50mA RL6-111 17011 coil, 8V -14V; 250V AC
DPOT 5 tags 75p 178p 50 way 236p 270p 200p
DPGT sen e off 138p
OPOT bases both
ROTARY: (Mak-a-switch)
Make a multiway switch. Shafting as- I VERO WIRING DALO ETCH 60 way - - 230p 0-100mA
0-500mA
5A. 220p
RL6-114174011 coil, 17V5 -29V 250V
5. 145p sembly has adjustable stop. Accom- PEN + sp000l 340p RESIST PEN 0 to 5A AC. 222p
JPD- 3 acs:: ans modates up to 6 wafers Spare spool 75p Plus spare tip 90p 0-2A
Combs Sp EURO CONNECTORS 0-25V
or _ (max. 6 pole/12 way + DP switch).
3
-oz e _
185p
way 205p Mechanism only 90p (FERRIC CHLORIDE ULTRASONIC
Female Socket
Stn. Angle
Male Plug
Strt. Angle
0-50V AC
0-300V AC
- AMPHENOL PLUGS
IEEE 24 Way 660
SLOE 250V: WAFERS: (make' before break) to fit lb bag Anhydrous
1
TRANSDUCER Pins Pins Pins Pins Centronics Parallel 36 Way solder 530
"A the above switch mechanism. 195p + 50p P&P 40KHz 325 pr 01941617 Centronic Parallel 36 way IOC 550
14p
}O"A c'off 15p
pole/12 way; 2 pole/6 way; 3 pole/4
1 31way 170p - 175p
496p each
way; 4 pole/3 way; 6-/2 way 85p 09141612
BUZZERS,
1393
Mains DP 4A Switch to fit COPPER CLAD BOARDS 2x324+8 205p 325P 220p 295p CRYSTALS miniature, solid-state
45p 6V; 9V &
Spacers 4p. Screen 6p Fibre Single- Double- 01541612 32.768KHz 100 70p
S.R.B.P.
PUSHBUTTON GA glass sided sided 9.5" x 8.5" 2x324+C 3303301541612 35oV 2449 330p 100KHz 235 PIEZOI TRANSDUCERS
ROCKER: 5A/250V SPST 28p 90p 110p 95p 3 x32 200KHz 266 P62720 55p
w m Button ROCKER: 10A/250V SPOT 38p 6" x 12" 150p 195p 4+8+C 360p 385p 260p 4np 455KH 370
0°C" a:ch ing 99p ROCKER: 10A/250V DPDTc/off 1MHz 275'
aching 1459 95p LOUDSPEAKERS
ROCKER: 10A/250V DPST with neon EDGE 1006M 275
SOOT moment 99p Miniature, 0.3W: 80
DP"JT moment 145p 859 DIL SOCKETS CONNECTORS 1.28MHz 392
THUMBWHEEL Mini front mounting .156 DIL PLUG (Header) 1.6MHz 395 tin, 31in,21in, Sin
V -- ',on Locking
=_s^ to Make
Decade Switch Module 220p
Low Wire
Prof Wrap 2x15 way -
.1
140p
2 x 18 way 180p 145p
Solder IDC
14pin 40p 99p
RIBBON CABLE
price per foot 1.8NHz
1.8432M
395
200
29ín 400, 640 or 800 80p
15p, B.C.D. Switch Module 275p Spin Sp 25p Grey Color
'_sit to Break 75p 2x22 way 199p 200p 16pin 49p 105p 2.0MHz 225 ASTEC UHF MODULATORS
25p1 Mounting Cheeks (per pair) 14pin
16pin
10p
10p
35p
42p 2x23 way 190p
2 x25 way226p 220p
- 24pin 88p 178p
40pin 250p 255p
10 way
16 way
12p 22p
18p 32p 24576M
3.278M
200
150
Standard 6MHz 2809
18pin 16p 52p 20 way 25p 40p Wideband 8MHz 425p
JUMPER LEADS (Ribbon Cable Assembly) 2 x28 way210p 3.5794M 98
PROJECTS
ETI Length 14 pin 16 pin 24 pin 40 pin
Single ended DIP (Header Plug) Jumper
20pin
22pin
20p
22p
bop
Gyp 2x30way245p
x 36 way295p
-- ZIF DIL
24 way
34
35p 50p
60
3.6864M
4.0MHz
300
150 'WEMON' New ' Version
We stock
most of
24 inches 146p 165p 240p
Double ended DIP (Header Plug) Jumper
310p
24pin
28pin
25p
28p
70p
80p
2
2x40 way 315p
2x43 way 395p
-- SOCKETS
24 pin 675p
40 way
50 way
55p 75p
S.5p 90p 4.032MHz
4.80MHz
290 WATFORD'S
the parts 6 inches
12 inches
185p
198p
205p
21
300p
31 4p
40pin 30p 99p
2x75wayMOp - 28 pin
40 pin
820
975p
64 way 85p nap 4.194304M
4.433619M
200
200
100
Ultimate Monitor IC
24 inches 210p 225p 3459 5409 ANTEX SOLDERING IRON; 5.0MHz 160 A 4K Monitor chip specially designed
36 inches SIL
230p 250p 3750
. 6ß6p C -15W 450p CX17W 475p 5.185MHz 300 to produce the best from your:
IDC Header Socket Jumper Leads 24" CCN -15W 495p CX25W 500p
SOCKET D CONNECTORS: Miniature 524288M 390 Superboard Series & II, Enhanced
20 pin 26 pin 34 pin 40 Pin Spare tips, assorted sizes S5p
0.1" pitch 9 wayl5way25way37way 6.0MHz 140
I
Superboard S UK101. As reviewed by

Single ended 160p 200p 2ßO9 3009 Spare Elements 2109 20 way Plugs 6.144MHz 150 Dr A. A. Berk in Practical Electronics,
Double ended 290p 3709 4ß0P 1í25p Iron stand with sponge 65p Solder lugs 80p 110p 160p 250p 6.5536MHz 225
lGSp June 1981.
Angle Pins 160p 2109 250p 355p 7.0MHz 150
TRANSFORMERS: W/Wrap Only £10
3-0-3V; 6-0-6V; 9-0-9V; t2 -0-12V; 15-0-15Vm
VOLTAGE REGULATORS PfNSSOLDERCON Pins 120p 130p 196p 295p
7.168MHz
7.68MHz
250
200
100A 1A TO220 Plastic Casing
@ -
pcb mounting. Miniature, Split Bobbin

98p
+ve -ve Ideal for making SIL
Sockets
Solder lugs 110p 1130p 210p 350p
8.0MHz 150 BBC MICRO
8.08333M 395
3VA: 2x6V-0.25A; 2x9V-0.15A; 2x12V-0.12A; 5V
12V
7805
7812
7905
7908
40p
40p
45p or DIL Sockets
100 pins 75p
Angled Pins 165p 215p 290p 440p
8.86723M 175 UPGRADE
2x15V-0.1A W/Wrap 9.00MHz 150 (Our BBC Micro Upgrade Kits will
15V 78157912 40p 500 pins 360p 420p
6VA: 2x6V-0.5A; 2x9V-0.3A; 2x12V-0.25A;
2x15V-0.2A 270p 18V 7818 7915 40p
45p5p Pins
Covers
150p 180p
95p 95p
240p
95p 110p
10.0MHz
10.24MHz
175
200
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Standard Split Bobbin type: 24V 7824 7918 40p 45p ALUM BOXES IDC 25 way plug 386p Skt 460p 16K Memory (8 x 4816AP) £18
10.7 150
6VA: 2x6V-0.5A; 2x9V-0.4A; 2x12V-0.3A;
7924 45p 3x2x1" 65p 12 ONHz 175
Printer User I/O Port Kit £8.20
2x15V-0.25A 100mA 1092 Plastic package 4x2}x2" 85p 12.528M 300 SK10 with 36" Cable f2
12VA: 2x4.5V-1.34; 2xSV-1A; 2x9V-0.6A; 5V 78L05 30p 79LO5 60p 4x21'x29 103p 25way 'D' CONNECTOR 14.31814M Complete Printer Cable 36" £12
2x12V-0.5A; 2x15V-0.4A; 2x20V-0.3A 6V 781.06
8V 78L08
30p
30p
-- 4x4 x2"
4x4x29"
1135p
120p
Jumper Lead Cable Assembly
18" long, Single end, Male 495p
16.0MHz
170
200 SK9 with 36" Cable f3
295p (35p pap) 18.0MHz 180 Disc Interface Kit
24VA: 2x6V-1.5A; 2x9V-1.2A; 2x12V-1A; 12V 78L12 30p 79L12 5 x4 x19" 99p 18" long, Single end, Female 525p
18.432M 150
£41
2x15V-0.BA; 2x20V-0.6A 15V 78L15 30p 79L15 p 5 x4 x29' 120p 36" long, Double Ended, M/M 1025p 20.0MHz Analogue I/O Kit £6.75
330p (60p p&p) 200
SOYA: 2x6V-4A; 2x9V-2.5A; 2x12V-2A; 2x15V- 5x29 x19" 90p 36" long, Double Ended, F/F 1050p
19.968MHz 150 Serial I/O Kit £7.50
LM300H 170p TAA550 5013 5x29x29" 130p 36" long, Double Ended, M/F 995p
1.5A; 2x20V-1.2A; 2x25V-1A; 2x30V-0.8A LM304H 170p TDA1412 150p 24.0MHz 170 Expansion Bus Kit £6.50
6 x4 x2" 120p
465p (60p PStp)
Specially wound for Multirail Computer PSUs
LM305H 78H05 +5V/5A 550p 6 x4 x3" 150p
24.930MHz 325 SK71 with Cable 36" f3
26.69M
50VA giving +5V/5A; +12V; +25V; -12V @
LM309K 135p 78H12 +12V/5A 7x5x3" 180p SPECIAL OFFER 27.648M
150
170
SK12 with Cable 36" £3.75
1A
LM317K 320p 580p 8x6x3' 210p
TEX EPROM ERASER 27.145M 190
Complete Upgrade Kit from
575p (60p Pat)) LM317KP 78HG +5V to +25V 10x4x3" 240p Model Ato Mod. B
100VA: 2x12V-4A; 2x15V-3A; x20V-2.5A; LM323K 4509 5A Only 38.66667M 175 £45
2x25V-2A; 2x30V-1.5A; 2x50V-1A 920p (75p
599p 10 x7 x3" 275p
48.0MHz 170 Complete range of Connectors rt
LM337 1 79HG +2.25V to 24V 12x5x3" 260p
p&p charge to be added over and above our nor- LM723 Var 36p 5A 6S5p 12 x8 x3" 295p.
£29.95 100.0MHz 295, Cables available. Send SAE for list
mal postal charge). 116.0MHz 250
CMOS 4075 13
4541 140
4000 10
4076 50
4543 8o
OPTO ELEC-
4001 10 4077 13 TRONICS
4544 150
4002
4006
12
50
4078
4081
15
13
4548 40 LEDs with Clips
TIL209 Red 10
COMPUTER CORNER NEC PC8023BE-C PRINTER
4549
4007 14 4082 13
4553
375
245 TIL211 Grn 14 MX8OFT/3 EPSON PRINTER 10" 0 Friction feed, 9 x 9 matrix Europe's most popular Printer
4008 32 4085 50
4554 190 711.212 Yel. 14 80 column, Speed 80CPS, Bidirectional, Centronics Interface 100CPS bi-directional, Logic seeking, 80 column,
4009 4086 60 TIL220 .2" Red 12 standard, Baud -rate 110-9600 (RS232, Hi -Res, Bit Image 7x9 Dot matrix head, true descenders on lower
24 4555 35
4089 125 .2' Green, Yellow or gtaphics, Subscript ft Superscript, Italics £t Underlining facility
4010 24
4093 20
4556 35 case, Superscript ft Subscript Er Underlining facility.
4011 10 4557 320 Amber 14 plus 500 sheets of paper FREE. Proportional spacing, Forward Ef reverse line feed,
4012 4094 70 0.2" Bi colour
16 4558 120
MX100 EPSON Printer. 136 Column, 15" carriage, plus all the
4013 20 4095 95 4559 395 Red/Green S5 Tractor or friction feed, Hi -res Er block graphics. Auto
4014 46 4096 70 4560 160 Green/Yellow 78 features of MX8OFT/3. Plus FREE 500 sheets of Paper. underling. Plus FREE 500 sheets of Paper.
4097 290 0.2" Tri colour Only £425 + carr.
4015
4016
40
20 4098 75
4561
4562
104
495 Red/Green/Yellow 85 SOFTY II. An intelligent Eprom Programmer and Emulator.
Price: Only £320 + £7 carr.
4017 4099 110 Hi-Brightness Red 59
32 4566 185 Accepts a 24 pin 5V Eprom. Has Memory Map TV Display. RS232
4018 45 4160 95
4668 Flashing red
4019 4161 99
250
0.2" red 55
and Centronics I/P 0 0/P. Copies, Emulates and programs.
25 4569 175
4020 42 4162 99
4572 30 Square LEDs, Red, RS 232 and centronics routines standard. PSU included. £169
4021 40 4183 99 Green, Yellow 30 TEX EPROM ERASER Erases up to 32 ICs in 15-30 minutes....£33
4580 480
4022
4023
40 4174
4175
99
105
4581 250 Rectangle
LEDs
Stackable TEX EPROM ERASER with a safety switch £35 DRAGON
13 4582 99 TEX EPROM ERASER plus our Solid State ELECTRONIC
4024 32 4194
4408
105
790
4583 99 Red, Green or Yell 18
TIMER £44 The Family Computer
4025 13 4584 48 Triangular LEDs
4026 80 4409 790 Red 18 ELECTRONIC TIMER, Solid state, 15-30 min. Connects directly This 6809E Microprocessor based Computer has 32K
4585 99
4027 20 4410 725 4597 330 Green or yellow 22 to above Erasers. Protects your expensive Chips from memory expandable to 64K. The other features are:
4411 675 Nine Colours
4028 39
4412 775
4599 290 LD271 Infra Red 46 overcooking. Our timer pays for itself in no time £15
4029 46 40085 90 SFH205 Detector 118 SPARE 'UV' Lamb bulb £8 5 Resolution Graphics from 16 x 32 to 256 x 192
4030 4415 480 TIL32 Infra Red
15
4419 280
40097 45 58
5V/5A Power Supply Ready -built 8- tested £25 Extended Microsoft Colour Basic
4031 125 '40098 193 TIL78 Detector ,` 60
4032 80 4422 770 TIL38 46 POWER SUPPLY. Regulated with Overload protection. Variable Advanced Graphic Commands
40100 215
Output, 5V to 15V at 4A. Professionally finished 5 Octave Sound through TV Speakers
4033
4034
125
140
4435
4440
850
999
40101
40102
130
140
TIL100
BARGRAPH. Red 10
so
MULTIRAIL POWER SUPPLY KIT.Especially designed for
£38
Full Editing -
Insert, Delete, Amend
Conventional Full QWERTY Keyboard
4035 45 4450 350 40103 175 segments Micros. Tested output: + 5V/5A; + 12V; + 25V; -12V of 1A £37
4036 275 4451 350 40104 95 ISOLATORS Simple Plug-in type connections for Joysticks
4037 115 4490 350 40105 110 IL74 55
. ABS CASE Attractive, Beige/ Brown for Superboard, UK101
4038 ILD74 NASCOM, or HOme brew (please state) £26 Cartridges B Cassette
110 4500 675 40106 46 99
4039 250 4501 28 40107 60 -11,074 185 Stack -Pak Unique stackable twin drawer racking system for Centronic Parallel Printer Port. '
4040 40 4502 80 40108 450 TIL111/2/4 90 storing cassettes. 5 Drawers (10 sections) including labels and 160 page 'BASIC' Manual
4041 40 4503 40 40109 100 TIL117 125 10 x C12 Computer grade cassettes 550p All you require is a colour TV or Monitor 8 mains
4042 40 4504 75 40110 300 4933 Photo supply and your DRAGON is Huffing Ef Puffing, Up Ft
4043 40 Darlington 135
C12 COMPUTER GRADE CASSETTES in library cases 40p
4505 185 40114 240 Running.
4044 40 4506 36 40161 194 7 Segment Displays 8.1" Fan Fold paper (1000 sheets) £7
4045 105 4507 35 40163 Sra TIL307 675 91" Fan Fold paper (1000 sheets) £7 Only £173 (£4 carr.)
4046 46 4508 130 40174 65 TIL312 .3" CA 105
4047 40 4510 46 40175 75 TIL313 .3" CC 105
4048 40 4511 45 40181 220 TIL321.5"CA 115
4049 25 4512 50 40182 90 TIL322.5" CC 115
4050 25 4513 199 40192 90 DL704 .3" CC 99
4051 45 4514 115 40193 68 DL707 .3" CA 99
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4053
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4057 1915 4520 50 40373 240 .3' ± Green CA
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4059 435 4521 110 40374 245 DVM176 1885 TEAC Twin FD -50A Cased with PSU £335
DRAGON, PET, RESEARCH MACH-
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4061 1195 4526 70 LCD 4 Digits 530 APPLE II Interface card for above £35 INE, SPECTRUM, SUPERBOARD,
4062 995 4527 65 LCD 6 Digits 625
4063 86 4528 70 OPTO SIEMENS FDD 100-5 Drive. Cased, head, motors, track zero VIDEO GENIE, ZX81, etc. Low Cost,
LS400C 256 micro switch f3 motor control PCB with read, write Ft control elec-
4066
4067
24
245
4529
4530
150
90 OCP71 120
NEONS
Rectangular, nut fixing tronics plus cable. For Apple Microcomputer £215 High Spec. As published in Practical
4068 14 4531 130 ORP12
ORP61
86
85
Red, Amber, Green 30p 5.25" Single Sided D/ D Verbatim Diskettes in Packs of 10 £18 Electronics starting from November
4069 16 4532 70 REFLECTIVE Optical
4070 13 4534 455 2N5777 45 Switch type TIL139 170p 8" Single Sided D/D Verbatim Diskettes in Pack of 10 £27 1982.
4071 13 4536 275 BPX25
BPW21 295
196 SLOTTED Optical Send SAE for details.
!4072 13 4538 90 Switch similar to RS
4073 15 4539 110
ePX65 270 Comp's 1136p
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50P. 3mm red 7 5mm red 7
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Clips to suit - 3p each. BC548 10 SF880' 23 TIP298 55 ZTX300 14 le 2N3702 6
15/16V - 30p; 22/16V - 27p; 33/ Rectangular TI L32 40 AC125 35 BC149 9 BC549 10 BFR81 20 TIP29C:.: ..37 ZTX301 16-2N3703 9
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Antex CS 17W Soldering iron 460
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BCY71
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Mullard miniature ceramic plate: TIL38 40 TIL100 90 AC176 25
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10 metres 22swg solder 100 AD162 40 BC177 18 801$6 30 8FY53 '32 TIP34A 60 2N698 40 2N3820 40
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128 52p .
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20 pin 13p 60p
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22 pin 168 Preset kit. Contains 5 of each value from 100 ohms to 1M (total' BC140 28 80328 14 8-BF24413 22 MPSA12 30 TIS91 30 2N2906A 25 40361 50
70p ..
24 18p lop 65 presets . 425 . . . . . . . 80141 39 80337 14 BF245 30 MPSA55 30 VN1OKM 45 2N2907 25 40362 50
80p
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40 pm 25p 98p 25 6BA '''h" bolts 50 68A washers 50 6BA nuts 8C143 25 .80477 30 BF 267 32 MPSU05 55 VN66AF 85 2N2926 9
Solrlercon pin 608' 100 25 6BA )1" bolts 25 4BA '/." bolts 50 6ßA washers BC147: 8 'B0478 30 BF258 25 MPSU06 55 VN88AF 95 2143053 23
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THE ETI ORGAN CRYOGENIC COMPUTERS
Here's a major project for all you budding musicians a two - - Do you get cold feet when you think about electronics? IBM's
manual and bass pedals organ. This design has a single main design engineers took it a stage further, and next month we'll
board that does all the usual organ stuff and also includes a be telling you what they're up to.
very realistic -sounding multi -voice rhythm module. Sounds
expensive, doesn't it? Wrong. The start-up kit to build one DESIGN COMPETITION
keyboard will cost less than £100, while a full kit (excluding There's one group of people who'll be camping outside the
cabinet) will be available for under £300. A fully -built version newsagents next month: the ones who entered our Design
will also be available, still at well under the price of organs competition. The next issue will reveal the name of the
with an equivalent performance. person who won the £100 prize for the best design based on
free PCB we gave away with the October issue. We've also
ZX81 ENHANCEMENT decided to publish one or two runners-up.
Here's a very cheap little project for anyone who owns a ZX81
and sometimes feels like breaking it by hitting it with the
cassette recorder. Yes, we've got details on how you can solve
all the legendary problems this computer has with SAVEing LOOK OUT FOR THE
programs, and very cheap it is too!
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complex than before, which will give you an indication of
pulse presence and polarity besides the usual high and low SALE 7th JANUARY
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8 ETI JANUARY 1983
11CRICKLEWOOD
Items not fully covered on this list include: OPTO 7 seg LEDs, LCDs bezelled LEDs, Lamps,
- STOCKING PARTS OTHER STORES CANNOT REACH!
Lampholders, FUSES: 20mm 1 inch, slow or quick blow. Fuseholders. CONNECTORS: DIL. DIN. * THE LAZY WAY Phone your order through on Access, Barclaycard, Visa or American Express
Phono, lmm, 2mm, 4mm. Bulgin USA. I.E.C. KNOBS: Plastic, Aluminium, Anodised, Collet, Pointer. for immediate service; no extra charge, no minimum order.
SWITCHES: Toggle, Biased, Rocker, Rotary, Slide, Oil, Push. METERS: LCD, Analogue. Test and * THE TRADITIONAL WAY Send cheque, PO or credit card number. Cash not encouraged but
Panel. TOOLS: Pliers, Cutters, Strippers, Trimmers, Cable Cutters. And much, much more. accepted (no coins please). All in stock items shipped same day.
AS in stuuc items )that's 95%) posted same day. OFFICIAL ORDERS FROM SCHOOLS. GOVT * THE IDEAL WAY Call in and collect. We are on the main Edgware Rd (A5) just 11 miles from
DEPTS ETC WELCOME. OVERSEAS ORDERS WELCOME ICWO + ADEQUATE POSTAGE). Staples Corner and approx 3 miles from Marble Arch.
QUANTITY DISCOUNTS BY NEGOTIATION. VAT Please add VAT at the current rate to all orders except books. VAT not chargeable abroad.
CRICKLEWOOD ELECTRONICS LTD., 40 CRICKLEWOOD BROADWAY, LONDON NW2 3ET. POST; PACKING & INSURANCE Standard small order charge is 70p (more for heavier goods).
TEL 01-4520151, Telex 914977 Export orders minimum E1.50.
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or extend the system without ma-
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PRB-1 Digital Logic Probe detects without having to unsolder pins once.
pulses as short as 10 nS, has a fre- or cut printed circuit traces, even Limited, St. Matthews Way,
St. Pancras Station (London) Leicester LE1 2AA. Tel: (0533)
quency response of better than when these nodes are being
50 MHz and an automatic pulse
and Preston Station are the first to 58128.
clamped by digital outputs. It can
stretching to 50 nS but is competi- source or sink sufficient current
tively priced at £33.24. It is com- to force saturated output tran-
patible with RTL, DTL, HTL, TTL,
MOS, CMOS and microprocessor
sistors in digital circuits into the
opposite logic state. OK Machine
3+ Digit 10,15 HOLYHEAD 10
'I Q:45
logic families and also features
120 k impedance, power lead
& Tool (UK) Ltd, Dutton Lane,
Eastleigh, Hants SO5 4AA. Tel: Panel Meter Idd.43
Bh'ROY
M
11,10 PERTH
NO/ESTER
14
reversal protection and over - 0703 610944. Anew 31 digit DPM recently 11. 26 SHRfWSBURY,
t1:35 LY.V RPOÓL
announced by Lascar Elec- 11.50 HOL HEAD
tronics can be operated by 5 V 12.Q5 GLAS,OW
DC, 110-120 V AC or 220-240 V
AC. The meter fits into a standard
DIN cut-out and will replace
many existing types, but offers
improved performance with very standard FSD of 200 mV, the
low cost. Standard features in- meter can be easily programmed
clude 0.43" (11 mm) high efficien- by the user to read many other
cy LED's, Auto -zero, Auto- engineering units, such as cur-
polarity, bandgap reference, rent, resistance, temperature,
polarised filter and program- etc. Lascar Electronics Limited,
mable decimal points. The meter Oakland House, Reeves Way,
is capable of single ended, ratio - South Woodham Ferrers,
metric or differential measure- Chelmsford, Essex CM3 5XQ. Tel:
ments. Although offered in a Chelmsford (0245) 329797.
High -Rise
RAM
High speed erasing, writing,
modifying and reading of
non-volatile data is made possible
for software engineers by the
MEMIC model T by Camel Pro-
ducts. Two kilobytes of fast ac-
cess, low power static CMOS
RAM is built into a 'Tower block'
unit needing no more real estate
than the 24 pin IC socket it plugs
into. Even when plugged into a
ROM socket, the flylead provided
allows write operations. Hi -K
Lo -K or 2K operation is switch
selectable. A power down switch
permits months of non -volatility
off NiCd batteries. At £29.95
(incl.) the ready to use unit comes
with clear and easy user notes.
Cambridge Microelectronics Ltd,
1 Milton Road, Cambridge CB4
1UY. Tel: 0223 314814.
Inside -Out TV
Philips' new CTX small -screen
colour TV, the 14" CT2006,
turns on itself to show what
makes this advanced receiver
tick: a single board with a third
less parts than previous sets.
ETI JANUARY 1983 11
BK ELECTRONICS
MULLARD SPEAKER KITS
Purposefully designed 49 watt R.M.S. and 30 Prompt Deliveries
watt R.M.S. 8 ohm speaker systems recently
developed by MULLARD'S specialist teem in VAT inclusive
Belgium. Kits comprise Millard woofer (8" or
51 with foam surround and aluminium voice coil. prices
Millard 3' high power domed tweeter. B.K.E.
built and tested crossover based on Millard Audio Equipment
circuit, combining low loss components, glass
fibre board and recessed loudspeaker terminals. Test Equipment
SUPERB SOUNDS AT LOW COST. Kits supplied 1000 MONO DISCO MIXER
in polystyrene packs complete with instructions. by
8" 40W system -recommended cabinet size 240 A superb fully built and tested mixer/pre-amp with integral power supply. 4
Inputs 2 turntables (ceramic cartridge(. Aux. for tape deck etc., plus Mic. with
x 216 x 445mm Thandar
Price £14.90 each + 12.00 P 8 P. override switch, all with individual level controls. Two sets of active tone controls
(bass and treble) for Mic. and main inputs. Master volume control. Monitor output
5" 30W system -
recommended cabinet size
with select switch and volume control. and
160 x 175 x 295mm
Price £13.90 each + £1.50 P 8 P. Outputs Main 750 mV Monitor 500 mW into 8 ohms. Supply 220/240V AC50/60Hz. Leader
Size 223" x 44" x 24" price 1219.99 + 12.50 P8P
Designer approved gat pack cabinet kits,
including grill fabric. Can be finished with iron on
veneer or self adhesive vinyl etc.
1K.WATT SLIDE DIMMER KEYBOARDS
8' system cabinet kit 18.00 each + £2.50 P 8 P. Controls loads up to 1 KW
5" system cabinet kit £7.00 each + £2.00 P 8 P. Compact size Ilir111iMì#1MI61k o > ;
. "x 16
x 2414" z 16.1611111111R.0111M16
1111111N#N11iFf[i11
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Easy snap infixing through

panel/cabinet cut out
STEREO CASSETTE TAPE DECK MODULE. Insulated plastic case MEMBRANE KEYBOARDS
Comprising of a top panel and tape mechanism coupled to manufactured from a tough poly -
Fuli wave control using 8amp carbonate film mounted on 1mm
a record/play back printed board assembly. Supplied as
one complete unit for horizontal installation into cabinet or Iliac ' glass fibre printed dread board
console of own choice. These units are brand new, ready Conforms to BS800 assembly incorporating silver plated
built and tested. contacts.
Suitable for both resistance IS way numeric keyboard
Features: Three digit tape counter. Autostop. Six piano
type keys, record, rewind, test forward, play, stop and and inductive loads Standard keyboard providing 0-9
eject. Automatic record level control. Main inputs plus Innumerable applications in and A -F functions.
secondary inputs for stereo microphones, Input industry, the home, and discos/ Size: 100mm x 160mm x 2mm. Price: £67983.1. 35p psp
Sensitivity: 100mV to 2V. Input Impedance: 88K. theatres etc. Alpha Numeric Keyboard Full size 55
Output level: 400reV to both left and right hand key non encoded keyboard with the
channels. Output Impedance: 10K. Signal to noise Price: £11.70 each+50p P&P commonly required functions in a
ratio: 45d8. Wow and flutter: 0.1%. Power Supply (Any quantity) Owerty array. Matrix output via a 16 pin
requirements: 18v DC at 300mA. Connections: The OIL socket.
left and right hand stereo inputs and outputs are via
Size: 350mm x 100mm x 2mm. Price: £13.90 + 60p p&p
individual screened leads, all terminated with phono plugs
(phono sockets provided(. Dimensions: Top panel 5}in BSR P256 TURNTABLE .
x Min. Clearance required under top panel 24in. P256 turntable chassis S shaped tone arm
Supplied complete with circuit diagram and connecting Belt driven Aluminium platter
diagram. Attractive black and silver finish. Precision calibrated counter balance Anti-
Price £26.70 + £2.60 postage and packing.
Supplementary pans for 18V D.C. power supply skate (bias device) Damped cueing lever
(transformer, bridge rectifier and smoothing capacitor) 240 volt AC operation (Hz) Cut-out
£3.60. template supplied Completely manual arm.
This deck has a completely manual arm and is
6 piano type keys designed primarily for disco and studio use
where all the advantages of a manual arm are
NEW RANGE QUALITY POWER LOUD. required.
SPEAKERS (15", 12" and 8"). These Price: £28.50 + £2.50 P&P
loudspeakers are ideal for both hi-fi and
disco applications. Both the 12" and 15"
units have heavy duty die-cast chassis POWER AMPLIFIER MODULES
and aluminium centre domes. All three WATT R.M.S. AND 300 WATT R.M.S.
100
units have white speaker cones and are MODULES
fitted with attractive cast aluminium Power Amplifier Modules with integral toroidal
transformer power supply, and heat sink. Supplied
(ground finish) fixing escutcheons. as one complete built and tested unit. Can be freed
Specification and Price: -- In minutes. An LED Vu meter is available as an
optional extra.
15" 100 watt R.M.S. Impedance 8ohm SPECIFICATION:
59 oz. magnet, 2" aluminium voice coil. Max Output Power: 110 watts R.M.S. (OMP 100)
Resonant Frequency 20Hz. Frequency 310 watts R.M.S. (OMP 300)
Response to 2.5KHz. Sensitivity 97dB. Loada: Open and short circuit proof. 4-16 ohms.
Price £32 each £3.00 Packing and Car-
Frequency Response: 2011z
Sensitivity for Max. Output:
-25KHz í3d8.
riage each, 500mV at 10K IOMP 1001 1V at 10K IOMP 3001
T.H.D.: Less than 0.1%
12" 100 watt R.M.S. Impedance ohm, 50 oz. magnet. 2'. aluminium voice coil.
8 Supply: 240V 50Hz
Resonant Frequency 25Hz. Frequency Response to 4KHz. Sensitivity 95dB. Price Sizes: OMP 100 380 x 115 x 72mm
OMP 300 460 x 153 x 66mm
}23.70 each. £3.00 Packing and Carriage each. Prices: OMP 100 £31.60 each + £2.00 P&P
OMP 300 £89.00 each + £3.00 P&P
8" 50 watt R.M.S. Impedance 8 ohms, 20 oz. 1 h" aluminium voice coil, Resonant Vu Meter £8.50 each + 50p P8P
Frequency 40Hz, Frequency Response to 6KHz, Sensitivity 92dB. Also available with
black cone fitted with black metal protective grill. Price: White cone £8.90 each. Black
conelgriil £9.50 each. P & P £1.25 each. Matching 3 -way loudspeakers
PIE2O ELECTRIC TWEETERS - MOTOROLA 'and crossover
Join the Piezo revolution. The low dynamic mass (no voice coil) of a Build a quality 60watt RMS system 8ohms
Piezo tweeter produces an improved transient-response with a lower Build a quality 60 watt R.M.S. system.
distortion level than ordinary dynamic tweeters. As a crossover is not
required these units can be added to existing speaker systems of up *10" Woofer 35Hz-4.5KHz
to 100 watts (more if 2 put in series). FREE EXPLANATORY LEAFLETS * 3" Tweeter 2.5KHz-19KHz
SUPPLIED WITH EACH TWEETER.
* 5" Mid Range 600Hz-8KHz
TYPE 'A' (KSN2036A) 3" round with protective
wire mesh, ideal for bookshelf and medium
* Recommended
-way crossover 6dB/oct 1.3 and 6KHz
3
Cab -size 26" x 13" x 13"
sized Hi-fi speakers. Price £3.45 each.
Fitted with attractive cast aluminium fixing es
TYPE 'B' (KSN1005A) 3 super horn. For cutcheons aril mesh protective grills which are
general purpose speakers, disco and P.A. removable enabling a unique choice of cabinet
systems etc. Price £4.35 each. styling. Can be mounted directly on to baffle
TYPE TYPE'B
A' TYPE 'C' (KSN6016A) 2" 5" wide dispersion with or without conventional speaker fabrics.
horn. For quality Hi-fi systems and quality All three units have aluminium centre domes
discos etc. Price £5.45 each. and rolled foam surround. Crossover com-
bines spring -loaded loudspeaker terminals and
TYPE 'D' (KSN1025A)2" = 6" wide dispersion
recessed mounting panel
horn. Upper frequency response retained Price £22.00 per kit + £2.50 postage and pack -
extending down to mid range 12KHz1. Suitable mg. Ava:able separately, prices on. request.
TYPE 'C' for high quality Hi-fi systems and quality
discos. Price £6.90 each. 12" 80 watt R.M.S. loudspeaker.
TYPE 'E' (KSN1038A)3N" horn tweeter with A superb general purpose twin cone loud-
TYPE 'D' attractive silver finish trim. Suitable for Hi-fi speaker. 50 oz. magnet. 2.. aluminium
monitor systems etc. Price £4.35 each. voice coil. Rolled surround. Resonant fre-
quency 25Hz. Frequency response to
TYPE 'F' (KSN1057A) Cased version of type 13KHz. Sensitivity 95dB. Impedance 8ohm.
'E. 'Free standing satellite tweeter. Perfect Attractive blue cone with aluminium
add on tweeter for conventional loudspeaker centre dome.
.,-y in
systems. Price £10.75 each. Price £17.99 each + £3.00 P&P.
P8P 20p ea. (or SAE for Piezo leaflets).
TYPE È' TYPE 'F" B.K. ELECTRONICS

37 Whitehouse Meadows, Eastwood, Leigh -on -Sea, Essex SS9 5TY 1-4111
* SAE for current lists. *
Official orders welcome. All prices include VAT. *
Mail order only. All items packed (where
applicable) in special energy absorbing PU foam. Callers welcome by prior appointment, please phone 0702-527572.
* *
12 ETI JANUARY 1983
NEWS:NEWS:NEWS:NEWS:NEWS:NEWS:NEWS
Compact sound reproduction of excep-

tional quality, combining good
Design dent to have an understanding of
the relationship between the
Speakers with bass response with low distortion

and smooth upper frequencies. Teaching Aid computer and control applica-
tions. The AID -1 is complete with
for
They are designed for use with Ilhe Research Machine 380Z electric motor, sensors
Sealed Mylar amplifiers of 8 -ohm to 200 -ohm
output impedance, and have an
can now be interfaced to the E
& L Instruments AID -1, Analogue
temperature, position, light
meter digital inputs/outputs with
Diaphragm impedance tolerance of ± 20%.
Their sensitivity at 1.5mm is
Interface Designer. Developed by
Imperial College of Science and
LED indications.. Other interfaces
are also available for TRS-80 and
New from G. English Elec- 108dß/mW at 1 kHz, and claim- Technology with supporting AIM 65. E & L Instruments Ltd,
tronics is a series of dynamic ed frequency response is 20 Hz to educational text written by Ed- Whitegate Industrial Estate,
mylar audio speakers designed 20 kHz. The rated and maximum ward James, the system provides Whitegate Road, Wrexham,
for use in all types of portable in- inputs of the DSH Series are an introduction to AID and D/A Clwyd LL13 BUG. Tel: 0978
dustrial and domestic receiving or 30 mW and 100 mW, conversion, and enables the stu- 263030.
reproduction equipment. In- respectively.
troduced as the DSH Series, these An important feature of these
highly compact dynamic mylar miniature speakers is that they
speakers are claimed to provide may be supplied with special
terminations to meet individual
application requirements. This
means that they can be incor-
porated, without modification,
into an extremely wide range of
equipment, typically portable
transceivers, headphones,
domestic and office audio
reproduction systems, etc. Their
dimensions vary according to
their rated output, from 27.1mm
dia. x 14.3mm up to 45.0mm
dia. x 8.2mm. G. English Elec-
tronics Ltd, 34 Bowater Road,
Woolwich, London SE18 5TS. Tel:
01 855 0991.
Shorts
CUB miniature .counters are
experienced engineers, and Texas
say that it covers the basic steps in
fora video signal!) called the
DAC-10; and 16 and 32K PROMs
keeping a low profile of late after
all the 'hype' several years ago.
now available with a new range the software development pro- and SPROMs in 24 -pin 0.3" Minim Audio, of Lent Rise,
of converter modules that allow cess. It costs £12.90 (plus £1.50 packages. Burham, Slough SL1 7NY, are
count inputs to be taken from p&p) and is available from Texas Ground Control (they really are hoping to their bit to bring it back
solenoids, contactors, logic Instrument Ltd, PO Box 50, called that, we have the letter- to the public eye with their AD2
sources, and sensors with triac Market Harborough, Leicester- head to prove it), of Alfreda Ave, surround sound decoder module.
outputs. The modules are pro- shire. Hullbridge, Essex SS5 6LT, are The module costs £49.95, and
tected against dirt, oil, water and Zilog are at it again, this time producing a RAM pack for the will, when mounted in a 'host°
most chemicals by PVC encap- with a new data book describing ZX81 that, they claim, eliminates amplifier, decode UHJ-encoded
sulation. Eurovector Ltd, Wessex their full range of microprocessor the disconnection problems that recordings as well as enhancing
House, Silchester Road, Bas- products. Available from Zilog can occur with other RAM packs. normal stereo recordings.
ingstoke RG26 6PX. Tel: 07356 distributors, it costs £3, which They claim that you can pick up The BBC has published its plans
3693. looks like a bargain for 643 pages your ZX81 and shake it without a for direct broadcasting by
Motorola have announced of information. Zilog (UK) Ltd, crash occurring. The basic unit satellite in a booklet called (wait
several new products including: a
plastic-packaged (T0220) 40 A
(RMS) thyristor with 400 A surge
Zilog House, Moorbridge Road,
Maidenhead, Berks SL6'8PL.
A little more expensive than the
costs £19.95, or £24.95 with an
added keyboard sounder (prices
include VAT and p&p).
Satellite -
for it) 'Direct Broadcasting by
the BBC's Plans'. A
limited supply of these will be
capability; 'medium' current (up Zilog book is a new publication *Looking for a 2A or 6A high - available on a first -come first-
to 100 A!) power darlington tran- front Granada Publishing Ltd, PO efficiency diode with a recovery served basis from the Engineering
sistors capable of switching Box 9, St Albans AL2 2NF, called time of 25 (or 30) nS? Then con- Information Department BBC,
25k VA, the MJ10040 series; and, the Microprocessor Data Book, tact Power Technology Ltd, Broadcasting House, London
in the next few months, a series of by S A Money. It doesn't sound Boulton Road,' Reading, Berks W1A 1AA (large A4 size stamped
gate arrays in ECL, ALS and
CMOS. Motorola Ltd, York
House, Empire Way, Middlesex
that thick at 288 pages, but
believe us, when it landed on our
desk it nearly carried on going -
RG2 'OLT, because they've just
started selling some devices made
by Varo Semiconductor that may
Connectors' Corner -
addressed envelope required).
we seem
to have more new connectors this
HA9 OPR. it's in a large format, so it is fill the bill. month than anything else. Semi-
Ross Electronics have launched heavily laden with facts. If we We don't know what has gone conductor Specialists (UK), of
a range of micro speakers and ever manage to plough through it wrong this month, as we have Carroll House, 159 High Street,
all, we will give you a more con- heard of only one new multi - Yiewsley, West Drayton, Middle-
booster amplifiers for personal
stereos. Ross Electronics, 49/53
Pancras Road, London NW1
sidered opinion on all 1.4kg of it!
Bradford & Ilkley Community
meter being launched -must be
the time of year. This one is from
sex UB7 7BX have introduced the
'400' range of dual -beam
2QB. College, Great Horton Road, Keighley Instruments Ltd, 1 (thought they were 'scopes) DIP
Texas Instruments claim to be Bradford, West Yorkshire will be Boulton Road, Reading, Berks sockets; BF{ Electronics Ltd, 516
producing the first single -chip running a course to prepare for RG2 ONL (must be next door to Walton road, West Molesley, Sur-
dual peripheral drivers with the morse examination in the Power Technology), and it's call- rey KT8 OQF have a new snap -in
single -saturating transistors Radio Amateurs 'A' Licence. The ed the 132. It's unusual in that it's connector range called the Series
capable of outputting up to one year course will commence a hand-held instrument with true 600 that's already in use in the
500 mA. Designated the SN75407 on 12th January, with classes on RMS AC ranges and a tempera- French telephone industry; BICC-
(NAND inputs) and the SN75408 Wednesday evenings from 1900 ture range (somebody at Keithley Vero Connectors, Parr St, St
(NOR inputs), the 100 -off price to 2100 hrs. (Note: if other col- must have been reading Tim Orr's Helens, Merseyside have in-
will be around 55p. Texas In- leges are running similar courses, series on measurement tech- troduced the M50 series fixed-
struments Ltd, Manton Lane, we and our colleagues on 'Ham niques pitch (1.27mm) flat-cable con-
Bedford MK41 7PA. Radio Today' would be most in- A four -wheeled motor-driven necting system with a wide range
of different connectors; and final-
Also available from Texas is a terested to hear about them with chassis that might form the basis
new handbook covering informa- a view to publishing details.) of a small robot (the chassis ly, Davico Industrial Ltd, Charles
tion and instruction on micro- New products from Raytheon measures approx 10" x 6" x 3") is Street, West Bromwich, West
processor systems, called Semiconductor, Howard Chase, available for less than £40 from Midlands have issued what they
(original title!) 'Software Pipps Industrial Area, Basildon, DR) Electronics, PO Box 394, claim is the definitive catalogue
Development'. The book is aimed Essex SS14 3DD: a 10 -bit 85 nano- London SE6 1TR (catalogue 60p). of electrical terminals, connectors
at both software learners and second D to A (that's fast enough Ambisonics is not dead, but are and cable ties. ET'
ETI JANUARY 1983 13
CASIO MAGIC FOR 198i
ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES - OLE!
TE-2500 i
TR -6000 DICTIONARY
TRANSLATOR £39.95
CALCULATOR
6,000 words Dictionary mode
and phrases 1,711 words in both
English and Spanish.
£29.95
5-language
translation mode
36 basic sentences for PB -100. LEARN AS YOU GO FOR £69.95
daily conversation in Everyone can join the new world of computers
English, Japanese, Spanish, with this easy -to -understand teaching system.
French and German. LEARN with the beginners manual "An easy-to -
follow introduction to the Personal Computer".
Backward/forward search buttons with rapid FOLLOW the step by step examples and USE the programs
search. supplied, or develop your own for business or home,
including exciting games. QWERTY keyboard. Upper/lower
case dot matrix display. Up to 544 program steps/94
This English-Spanish/Spanish-English translator is World time mode Displays all 24 time zones.
memories, expandable to 1,568 steps/222 memories, all
a must for next year's holiday and, naturally, the Daily alarm, hourly chimes, calendar, stopwatch. protected. A truly pocketable 9.8 x 165 x 71mm. Weight
alpha-numeric keyboard doubles as a calculator to Surely this amazing piece of science fact must 116g. 360 hours battery life.
help you work out your pesetas. be the most versatile watch ever created OR -1 1K RAM expansion module. £11.95. FA-3 cassette
interface £22.95.
BEST SELLING WATCHES SOUNDS SENSATIONAL

with alarm, hourly chimes and stopwatch
Free vouchers, supplied on request with your order,
may be exchanged for accessories or goods.
TS -1000
£24.95
We believe we are the ONLY authorised Casio dealer DIGITAL SYNTHESISER
currently advertising in ET!. Our prices are the lowest we are CT -1000P
allowed to charge. Although grey imports are NOT
AX -250 guaranteed by Casio, we will nevertheless BEAT any lower
price AND give you a VALID Casio guarantee. Our
PRICEBEATING PRICEBEATERS from last month's ETI are as follows:
£21.50 Watches
CS -821 £24.95. CA -851 £24.95. AX-250 £21.50
WS -70 £18.95. A-656 £8.50. F-85 £7.25
Calculators
FX-702P Computer £69.95. FX-602P Program £62.50
FP -10 Printer £39. FA -Z Interface £18.50
TS -1000 World's first thermometer watch with high FX-100 College £13.50. FX-7 £9.95 £325
and low temperature thermo alarms, daily alarm, MG -777 £13.50. MG -880 £10.25. MG -888 £10.25 PLUS £45 VOUCHER
stopwatch and world time mode. 100 metre water
10 preset voices and 1,000 switchable sounds, with a
resistant resin case. IF YOU SEE A BETTER OFFER protected memory for your 10 favourites. 5 -octave split
TS -2000 Non W/R metal version 129.95 WE WILL BEAT IT! keyboard; programmable arpeggio/real time sequencer;
AX -250 10 alternative displays. Over 60 functions. 4f x 36 x 14f inches. 22.5lbs.
transposition.
100 metre water resistant PORTABLE COMPUTERS

with countdown alarm timer for dinghy racing etc.
BAR-CODE PROGRAMMABLE
TEACHING KEYBOARDS
W-300 FX-801 P
Resin ONLY £349
£17.95 THE FUTURE
IS HERE TODAY
W-450 High speed computer with

All S/S integral micro -cassette data
control and hard copy printer
02.95 monitoring.
5 octave, split keyboard. 20 preset sounds with variable

Two of our most popular watches and rightly so. vibrato and sustain. Fingered or auto chords wits bam and
Everything you need, in an area smaller than this page. This arpeggio. 16 rhythm accompaniments with fill -io. Two
One lithium battery lasts 5-7 years. truly portable SYSTEM needs no peripherals on lengths of sound effects. 5 x 37f x 12f inches. Weight 27.6lbs.
wire. Batteries last 250 hours (only display) or 5,000 lines
Latest Models (display and printing). Typewriter style QWERTY keyboard,
plus all the advanced functions of the FX-702P.
CS -821
Calculator
£24.95 PORTABLE MINI KEYBOARDS
Battery or mains. Mains adaptor optional extra.
GG -9
Golf Watch
£17.95
FX-700P
£79.95
Truly pocket
size
CS-821 A really beautiful ultra -slim (6.6mm) £199
calculator watch. One battery lasts 15 months. BASIC programming. QWERTY keyboard. Up to 1,568 PLUS £30 VOUCHER
GG -9 Golf stroke counter. 9 hole golf game. program steps, up to 222 memories, up to 10 program
areas, all protected.
A portable mini keyboard version of the CT -701. 4 octave
We stock over 30 Casio watches, (not split) keyboard. 10 rhythm accompaniments. Without
including game, joggers, divers and Upper/lower case dot matrix display. Powerful editing the two sound effects, it is otherwise ve'y similar to the CT -
701. Battery or mains powered, v.ith optional mains
ladies models functions. 25 scientific functions. Subroutines. 8 levels.
FOR/NEXT loops, 4 levels. 9.8 x 165 x 71mm. Weight adaptor. 2-,' x 25 x 7f inches. Weight fibs.
See our catalogue in last month's ETI, or 118g. 300 hour battery life approx. MT -60. 25 voices, 8 rhythms, Easy -Play auto chords, bass
send for further copies FA -3 cassette interface £22.95. FP -12 printer £49.95. and arpeggio. With M0 voucher ... £149
CHRISTMAS DELIVERY: Orders received by the 18th December will normally be delivered in time for Christmas, subject to availability.
Price includes VAT and P&P

Send cheques, P.O. or phone your , Dept. ETI, 34 Burleigh Stre et,
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ETI JANUARY 1983 15

TRON
One of the most imaginative and innovative
films for some time has just been released,
and it uses computers in a way never
seen before. Peter Green has seen the film;
now read the article.
All photographs 1982 Walt Disney Productions
Far above the infinite Sea of Simulation which boot. Flynn used to be the top programmer at ENCOM, a
resembles shifting, multicoloured graph paper, a communications conglomerate, until he wrote five crack
jewelled ship flies on butterfly wings down a channel videogames. An unscrupulous colleague, Dillinger (David
of pure light. Its path takes it over gridded fields populated Warner), steals the games from the company computer,
by strange spiderlike creatures and through vast canyons presents them as his own, and on the strength of their
with faceted, metallic cliffs that pulse with an eerie, success gets promoted to Managing Director; Flynn gets
sombre light. the elbow.
A group of crouching warriors are surrounded by A trifle miffed at this, Flynn spends his evenings on a
skeletal 'blueprints' which solidify into futuristic home computer terminal upstairs from the arcade, trying
lightcycles and speed forwards toward each other, trailing to break into the ENCOM computer and gather evidence
impenetrable coloured walls in, their wake. The cycles of Dillinger's dirty work. Unfortunately for Flynn the
snap into right-angled turns, courting collision and slowly whole system is now being run by the artificial intelligence
covering the playing area with a complex maze of walls. of Dillinger's Master Control Program (MCP), which
Suddenly a warrior miscalculates a turn: he is destroyed in monitors the intrusion and shuts down all access by group
an explosion of light and his wall disappears with him. seven users (Flynn's security rating). This has the added
A huge battleship thunders across the landscape, the bonus to the MCP of preventing Alan Bradley (Bruce
ultimate weapon of the tyranny that has taken over this Boxleitner) from completing work on TRON, an
world. Slowly, along a plane that sweeps over the craft independent security program that would monitor the
from front to rear, it fades into a transparent, skeletal ENCOM computer and reveal the embarrassing fact that,
outline that continues on its journey towards a distant no longer under Dillinger's control, it is tapping into the
citadel as if nothing had happened. computers of other companies, not to mention the
This is the world of Tron. It is like no film you have Pentagon andthe Kremlin (most readers will have spotted
seen before. And it was made ás no film has been before that TRON is the BASIC command for TRace ON). Other
- or will be again. ENCOM employees to have their work halted are Gibbs
and his assistant Lora (Cindy Morgan), who've been
Game For A Death working on a project to disassemble objects with a laser,
Most of the standard subject matter for science fiction store the information in a computer, then reassemble it
has been done to death - albeit in a pretty spectacular
manner, given the skills of the modern special effects
("Beam me up, Scotty").
Alan and Lora guess that Flynn's been meddling, pay
team. Tron is fresh and different because its director has him a visit, get the whole story and decide to help him.
combined two modern phenomena that have become big That night they break into ENCOM; Flynn will forge a new
business: the use of high -res computer graphics for leisure, security access so that Alan can complete his work on
in the guise of video games, and the use of high -res TRON. But Flynn is using Lora's terminal, right next to the
computer graphics as a tool for industry. One forms the experimental laser; the MCP fights back by disassembling
backdrop to the plot for the film, the other the means of its Flynn and sucking him inside the computer. Flynn wakes
making. Most of the film takes place in an imaginary world up in an alternative universe where the inhabitants are
inside the computer, and all the major actors have two 'Programs', electronic alter -egos of the 'Users' who wrote
roles, one on either side of the video screen. them. The cruel tyrant ruling this world is the MCP, aided
r
Tron starts in the real world, where Flynn (Jeff Bridges, by his henchman Sark (Warner again), who flies around in
playing the sort of laconic rogue first warmed to in
I
his giant carrier putting down rebellion. Any program
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot) is running a seedy videogame that's useful is absorbed by the MCP; the rest are trained as
arcade, and beating everyone else's maximum score to gladiators and fight on the Game Grid, +;here videogames
become a life -and -death reality. Flynn is sentenced to fight
until he dies, and finds he needs all his skills to stay alive
against the complex games that he himself has written.
....-. . ,ïs r c`=,earze

Here Flynn meets Tron (Boxleitner), mightiest of the
warrior programs and still fighting for the Users against the
MCP. Tron is adept in the use of his 'identity disc', which
it. doubles as an information store, and a personal weapon à
la Frisbee. Tron and Flynn manage to escape from the
Game Grid on their lightcycles and being a long journey to
sabotage the MCP. Separated from Flynn by Sark's tanks,
Tron meets Yori (Morgan again), a simulations program,
who helps him steal her Solar Sailer project. Meanwhile
The computer -generated face of the computer. Flynn has stolen a Recognizer, a vehicle used by Sark's
16 ETI JANUARY 1983
FEATURE
guards. Tron manages to contact Alan Bradley via an

input output tower and his identity disc is coded with the
information required to destroy the MCP. Eventually the
trio meet up again on the home ground of the MCP and
prepare for the final battle that will decide all their fates.
The Pong Plot

As you can see, the plot is innovative to say the least.
So are the techniques used to film it. And the whole thing
is the result of the drive and vision of the director, Steven Tron approaches the platform of the I/O tower.
Lisberger. spoke to him during his recent visit to London
I spheres and remove cylindrical cores to give the tyre
to promote the film and though we started talking about shapes, then add a smaller central sphere for the hubcap.
Tron, he ended up leaping from subject to subject like a MAGI were responsible for the lightcycles, tanks,
gazelle. For example, if you're planning to play Zaxxon, Recognizers and so on. The company uses a Perkin Elmer
the new arcade game that's been appearing in pubs over System 3240 computer for the graphics calculations, using
here, be gentle with it - apparently the joystick is badly
designed and machines are breaking down regularly in the
two megabytes of MOS memory and two 80 megabyte
disc drives. The pictures are actually generated on a
USA. monitor by a second computer, a Celco DFR 4000. As
Lisberger first conceived Tron in 1977 while he was MAGI are located in New York, all their work for the film
directing a couple of animated TV specials called was sent down the telephone lines via modem to the
Animalympics: the inspiration was the lowly Pong, father Disney Studios in California, where the animators studied
of arcade games as we know them today. Originally the the results on their monitors and called back with any
film was to have been animated entirely by computer, and corrections needed.
as Lisberger began checking into the techniques he met III uses a completely different system, in which the
many people in the industry who gave him ideas for the blueprints for the required object are digitized on a 40" by
plot. The theme of the parent company ripping off the 60" Taylos graphics tablet and fed into a custom-built one-
inventions of its employees was one, inspired by stories off computer they call the Foonley F-1. The computer uses
from people it had actually happened to. the digital information to define the points of the surface,
By 1980 Lisberger and his producer, Don Kushner, which is then coloured and shaded. This method is better
had honed the script into its final form and were hawking for complex, irregular shapes because it doesn't rely on
it around the major studies. The screenplay now regular -shaped, geometric building blocks. Hence III are
contained extensive scenes using live actors and responsible for the 'human' face of the MCP as it
conventional animation, all of which had to be carefully communicates with Sark, and also the delicate Solar
combined with the computer -generated footage. Within a Sailer.
week of being offered the project, Walt Disney Eventually, when the scenes have been
Productions had, in keeping with their tradition of choreographed to the satisfaction of the animators (and
gambling on the success of some pioneering technique, using computers means that changes to the action can be
expressed an interest and put up $50,000 for test footage. made in only20-30 mintues), the images are transferred to
movie film by photographing them frame by frame from
Lisberger And Chips the screen of a high resolution cathode ray tube. The
The computer -generated sequences in Tron occupy resulting quality is superb: each frame can contain up to
about 20 minutes of the-75 spent in the fantasy world
primarily they are scenes involving the lightcycles, the
- two million pixels and the resolution of some of the images
is 2000 lines, higher than that of the film stock being used.
tanks and Recognizers, the Solar Sailer, Sark's carrier and So don't try looking for the little squares, because you
the face of the MCP. Three main companies were involved won't see them.
in the work: Digital Effects Inc, who did the opening shot
of a man forming out of energy and Flynn's 'pet', Bit; the Seeing Things In Black And White
Mathematical Applications Group Inc, or MAGI; and Equal care and quality went into the filming of the live
Information International Inc, known as Triple -I or III for action scenes, and equally innovative techniques were
used. All the denizens of the computer world wear
short. MAGI and Ill use completely different approaches
to computer image generation and worked on separate costumes with constantly flickering bands (:)flight - none
areas of the film. of which existed in reality. The actors' costumes were
white with black patterns and were filmed on black-and -
The MAGI Synthavision system (you -may have seen it
used in the film Demon Seed on TV recently) is unique in white film against black backdrops. The film was 70mm
- and provided big negatives for
-
that it uses subroutine programs; a selection of aboút 50 rare in itself these days
solid geometric shapes are stored in the computer as the post -production work. In fact both MAGI and Ill had to
building blocks. To generate the required images, the change their equipment to VistaVision. Once the actors
basic shapes may be added or subtracted from one had been filmed, the special effects team made a series of
another until the correct result is obtained. For example, 'mattes' and 'reveals' for each frame of film. These are
to make the lightcycle you might start with a pair of masks and countermasks that allow various sections of
each negative to be lit separately from below by coloured
lights and rephotographed on colour stock to give the
finished film frame. Most frames had to be rephoto-
graphed at least 12 to 15 times (and some as many as 45
times) to produce the required effects using eye reveals,
face reveals, costume reveals and so on. The live action
was then combined with backgrounds which had been
either computer -generated or drawn by conventional
animators. Of the 1100 special effects shots in Tron, over
The spacious control room of Sark's battlecruiser: 700 involve composite shots with actors.
ETI JANUARY 1983 17
FEATURE: TRON
technology is here to stay, and the kids who are playing

these games, now will grow up into adults who are familiar
with it. This has got to be helpful to their development".
But he's less happy about the way the big money-spinning
games like Space Invaders and Pacman are licenced by
the Japanese, who rake in the millions of dollars of profit
each year. "It doesn't say much for American enterprise"
he comments sadly. His opinion of Atari suing left, right
and centre over Pacman copyright infringement is that it's
a load of b*II***t, and he feels they're really just testing
out laws which are too vague. "l think the tendency in
future will be towards more lenient copyright laws, but big
companies like Atari will probably still try to bring lawsuits
against smaller companies just to be a nuisance. it's scary
that the threat is more powerful than the law itself."
Raiders Of The Lost Arcade

L -driver
Flynn crashes his Recognizer into a bridge
remarkable piece of special effects work.
- a
I wish I'd said that; but it's what Tron was dubbed in
the USA when it was released. Oddly enough, when first I
saw the film the only two actors I'd heard of were Bridges
This may seem like a stupendous amount of effort but and Warner: since then Bruce Boxleitner and Cindy
the quality of the result is worth it. Normally a film shot Morgan have appeared on the ITV network in a series
using the conventional 'blue screen' matting techniques called Bring 'Em Back Alive, which is a thinly-disguised
gives spaceships and actors with a noticeable line round rip-off of Raiders, even down to the theme tune
what's more, one of the characters is called Flynn! The
- and
them. This is the system where the actors or spacecraft are
filmed against a bright blue background, which can then incestuous plagiarism of the US film and TV industry never
be photographically 'removed' and replaced with a ceases to amaze me .. .
different background, such as a star field or planet. Even I also spotted a few cinematic references in Tron,
Star Wars, which used a greatly improved version of this although Lisberger is as much a film buff as he is a videq
technique, had scenes in which it was possible to 'see the buff and these are obviously a homage to some great
join'. Since Tron doesn't have any mattes in the classics. The most blatent one is Alan Bradley's poster
conventional sense, there are no matte lines. reading "GORT KLAATU BARADA NIKTO", the famous
Conventional matting will also give errors in perspective, line from The Day The Earth Stood Still. Flynn's journey
since it's almost impossible to merge film of models shot at across the electronic landscape when he is atomized by
different locations and different times and get things dead the MCP echoes Bowman's journey over the weird planet
right. Tron uses no models: everything exists only in the at the end of 2001, and surely the scene when the Solar
computer's memory and the perspective is always perfect. Sailer escapes from its hanger, pursued by Sark's giant
One particular scene demonstrates this well. warship and watched by the helpless guards on the
Recognizers are composed of various elemental blocks ground is straight out of Star Wars? Perhaps I'm wrong, but
and Flynn has stolen a wrecked one by using his User in any case Tron has sufficient action and witty dialogue of
powers to hold it together. But his steering's not too good its own. For example, when Dillinger reminds the MCP
and the machine hits a bridge, sending the component that he programmed it, it replies "I've gotten 2,415 times
blocks twisting and tumbling in all directions. Flynn exerts smarter since then": though did cringe a bit when Sark
I
his will and draws them together from their random orders the destruction of an electronic barrier with the
trajectories, spinning and rotating back into place with words "Bring up the logic probe!"
perfect precision. This scene alone would have taken a Tron is already showing in London and will be on
team of conventional animators years to perfect. general release by Christmas. It cost $22 million to make
and has already grossed $30 million in the USA, salvaging
The Digital Editor the reputation of Disney which suffered badly from the
Even the level of technology used in Tron is only the appalling Black Hole: a film which Lisberger admits might
make people wary of Tron. Other problems he was
beginning. The next step is to scan the live action footage
and digitize it so that it, too, may be completely worried about were Britain's poor cinema audiences
-
"Your TV is too good" and the imminent release of ET.
-
manipulated within the computer. The live action can be
coloured, distorted, combined with other objects, again However, there are queues outside the cinema down the
without matte lines. In effect the computer will become a road from us and Tron is already the top film after being
digital film printer and the optical printer will become out for a fortnight, so Lisberger's fears are probably
obsolete. According to Lisberger, this sort of equipment unfounded.
will arrive in a couple of years
perhaps?
- just in time for Tron If, Strangely enough, ET is the sort of film that Disney
themselves might once have made, although Lisberger
Looking even further ahead, Iasked how soon he isn't too impressed with it. "Tron bias a moral, that we
thought it would be before computer graphics could have to watch out for big business and guard against its
simulate real scenes, such as the Star Trek episode "Court excesses. don't know what sort of message you could
I
Martial" in which a disgruntled crewman fakes the take home from ET, except maybe be kind to your pet".
computer log tape to incriminate Kirk. "I've seen sample I'll buy that; and I'll also buy a ticket to see Tron, despite
reels where objects are indistinguishable from photos, but sitting through two press showings already. It's brilliant,
to simulate people will take a long time
he estimates.
- 10-15 years," and thoroughly recommend it. It establishes computers
I
as a powerful new tool for the cinema industry, and

After Tron, our discussion turned to the videogames Lisberger as a major young talent to join the ranks of
that the film is based on. Lisberger is a videogame buff and Spielberg, Lucas et al.
feels that they are a Good Thing for society. "This END OF LINE. Eli
18 ETI JANUARY 1983
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Warbling Door Buzzer
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1.1 The use of H-PAK powerfets, resulting in improved thermal efficiency and
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Touch Switch
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Sound Activated Switch 2.) Low COB drivers now in power transistor packages, maintaining the superb HF
Radio Receivers
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The introduction shows all the different components power by increasing output stage efficiency.
and explains how to use the breadboard. The Verobloc 4.1 Bridge mode input pin allowing instant bridging between any two amplifiers
layout 's shown for every project together with the without the need for extra circuitry.
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The complete kit is contained in an attractive plastic
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Neat board 115 x 62mm with Class B output. PFA200 180W into 8(1
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makes it impractical to test the PCB as a working second number, then right again to a third PFA/H V A very special module aimed at digital audio and wide dynamic range pro-
number. Only when this has been completed in
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Instead we have tested the sound chip, and sell close. These can be used to operate a relay or will peak for musically significant periods of time at up to SdBs above this. The
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HY30 15 4-8 0.015% <0.006% X 18 76 x 68 x 40 240 £8.40 MOS 128 60 4-8 <0.005% <0.006% t 45 120x 78 x 40 - _--
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Module Module Functions Current Price inc.
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HY6 Mono pre amp Mic/Mag. Cartridge/Tuner/Tape/ 10mA £7.60 Mounts anywhere in car.
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ETI JANUARY 1983 21

PROGRAMMABLE
STAGE LIGHTING
Tis the season to bejolly, and put on pantos. And make yourself
a nervous wreck trying to control the stage lighting. This
programmable lighting control unit should solve your problems.
Design by David Colven and Ian Cleverley.
your lighting of Christmas pro -
Is The unit will control up to 16 levels and fade each channel up
ductions a pain? Is your director light channels of up to 2 kilowatts and down at 32 different speeds.
always shouting at you in the maximum each. It can pre-set each Up to 99 different scene changes
lighting gantry about a missing spot, channel to one of 16 different light can be programmed into the unit as
wrong light level or jerky fades? Do
you need three hands with six fingers TRI -STATE KEYBOARD KEYBOARD
each during complex scene changes? BUFFER BUFFER
Worry no more, here is a circuit that

does it all for you.
Over many years of school
productions the authors have come MEMORY DISPLAY
to the conclusion that a system

capable of remembering scene
changes and fading stage lights at
SCENE
pre-set rates would be a great boon. MULTIPLEX
SWITCH
NUMBER
SWITCH
The 'computer' we developed even
(eventually) met the exacting
standards of our stage director.
HOW IT WORKS
KEYPAD AND BUFFER
- AUTOFADE
UNIT
1111111111111+ AUTOFADE
UNIT
AUTOFADE
UNIT REIM
The various output lines are normally

MANUAL
CONTROL -0
-10 PULSE
MANUAL
CONTROL --30 PULSE
MANUAL
CONTROL -
PULSE
held low by resistors R1-4. When any
numbered key is pressed the strobe line
BLACKOUT
SPEED UP --1 GENERATOR
BLACKOUT
SPEED UP
O GENERATOR BLACKOUT
SPEED UP
.
1
GENERATOR
(KS) is taken high by one of the diodes

D1-8, which triggers monostable IC1a
via Q1. The monostable is necessary to
debounce the keyboard. At the same TRIAC UNIT TRIAC UNIT TRIAL UNIT
time the other diodes in the keypad,
D9-20, encode the numbered key into
parallel binary on lines KDO-2. This
parallel data is presented to the inputs of Fig. 1 Block diagram of the stage lighting unit. Up to 16 auto-fade/pulse
the dual two-bit latches IC6-9. Each generator/triac units may be controlled.
successive key-press/monostable pulse
clocks on IC2, a 4017 decade counter +5V
whose outputs go high in turn and
provide the latching pulse to the PB1I0 P62I1 P63I2 P6413 PB5I14 P66I5 P67I6 PB8I7 PB9IiE
required latches. The latching pulses are
fed to 106-9 via AND gates IC3a-d, 4a,
whose other inputs are taken from the D1 02 E13 D4 r., 5
OE
output of IC1a via R5,C3. These 2 ;r2.7D8
components delay the latching pulse
Ilk" MIL" MEL

KS
until IC2's outputs have had a chance to D9
D15
settle, avoiding any problems due to 12
KDO
double latching. One point to note is
D16
that the first digit of the light number is
temporarily stored in IC8 by the first KD1
key -press before being transferred into D20
IC6 by the second key-press.
The data must be input in a fixed KD2
order and the contents of the buffer are R4 NOTE:
decoded and displayed on seven - 470R D1-20 ARE 1N4148
segment common anode displays by 0V
IC10-13.
Fig. 2 Circuit diagram of the keypad unit.
22 ETI JANUARY 1983
PROJECT
described, but this can easily be that the expense of a micro- Module Mode
extended by using extra memories computer dedicated for some weeks A modular design has been
and addressing circuitry to meet any to this single purpose could not be used for ease of construction and
requirements without theoretical justified; in any case, we had these modules are housed in two
limit. Eight different light levels have enough hardware problems without units. The main control console
been found to be quite sufficient for adding software ones as well. contains the memory section,
stage use, and fade times of up to
All the lighting changes are separate auto -fade units for each
about one minute are possible. stored in RAM (a 6116 2K x 8 low light channel, the phase switching
Longer fade times can be accom-
power memory) and are stored in pulse generators and the power
p;shed by programming in multiple octal. This cuts down on the supply. The front panel controls
scene changes. Individual blackout,
master blackout, manual operation
complexity and expense of the include a calculator -sized keypad
circuit and makes the most efficient for programming the information
and fade speed-up controls are
use of the store. It is worth it even if and a pair of rotary switches for
ati ai lable.
it means spending some time .selecting the scene number: the
teaching your director or lighting manual override controls, blackout
man about number bases! and speed-up switches are also
The Light Fantastic One final virtue of this unit is located on this unit.
The light control circuits that by using external control If a touch of luxury is desired,
themselves are designed in such a voltages, one can produce many there's no reason why the keypad
way as to be easily driven from a special effects and you could easily and scene select switches shouldn't
microcomputer with two eight -bit have a 32 kW, 16 -channel sound -to - be mounted separately in a small
user output ports. We felt, however, light unit! hand-held unit so that the lights can
TO MEMORY
s!
!
DISP 1
+5V R7-36
180R
CC
KDO 00 6 i +5Vq116
+SVR
KD1 6 15
01 VCC
7 IC6 o
KD2
13
E0-1
+5V 0 E2 3
IC10 DISP 2
GND
12
R3 R4
10k 10
6
+5V +5V Q 7777
VCC 5 116
15
1RC 2
QO A
1 5
IC1a +C2 D1 Q1
33u C
R1 Q2
4 IC7 Q2 IC11 DISP 3
KS
E0-1
GND 10
8 13 E2 3
E> GND I^6
12 /7777-
77777 /7777
NOTE:
ICHS 74LS123
IC2 IS 4017 +5V +5V
IC3,4 ARE 74LS08
'
5 116
ICE IS 74LSO4
IC6-9 ARE 74LS75
IC10-13 ARE 74LS47
R5
2
DO w O 16
100R 15
01 IS BC108 D1 Q B
DISPLAYS ARE
COMMON ANODE L C3 7
ICE
9 IC12 --VW.- DISP 4
100n
3
+5V E0 2
6
1
C
4
VCC
16 14
2
IC3a }- E2 3
GND
12 77777
D
7>m
-
77777
15 IC3b) +5V 0 +5V9 +5V Q

RESET
5
CC Q
0 IC3c
IC2 4 15
C5a O
R6 C
IC3d IC9 IC13 DISP 5
390R
13E01
5
IC4a ¡' E2-3
GND
-
6
D
GND INH
rj7172
8 113
TO MEMORY
Fig. 3 Circuit diagram of the keyboard buffer and data display circuitry.
ETI JANUARY 1983 23
Once the data has been latched into the
HOW IT WORKS -
after programming is carried out by ICs
MAIN MEMORY
fader unit as long as SW1 is not earthed.
buffers it is transferred into the main 14-19. A standard clock oscillator form- Therefore it is necessary to hold this
memory by pressing the ENTER (E) key ed by IC5b,c and their associated com- switch depressed for at least 16 clock
on the keypad. This provides the E and E ponents has its output squared up by cycles to effect a transfer of all the data
signals (the latter being generated by IC5d. The signal clocks a J -K flip-flop, for one scene change.
IC5a). Several things now happen at IC20a, and the Q and Q outputs of the The higher address lines for the
once. IC2 is reset to '0' and the output of flip-flop are NANDed with the signal to memory, A4-10, are selected by two
1C14 is set to the contents of the first give alternate clock pulses at PC and DC, rotary switches, SW2 and SW3. One
buffer, IC6, which contains the light provided SW1 (the scene change switch)
number. This forms the four least signifi-
cant bits of the address for IC22, the
is switched to the clock. If SW1 is earth-
ed then DC remains high. The signal PC
the tens -
switch represents the units and the other
the scene number may be set
from 0 to 99. The number set is encoded
memory IC. The seven most significant clocks the counter IC14 and causes the to binary by the diode matrix and the ap-
address bits are set by the scene address lower four address lines (AO -A3) to rip- propriate bit pairs are summed by ad-
switches. The monostable 1C1 b provides ple through a 16 -byte block. These ad- ders IC25,26.
a write pulse to the memory and the dress lines are also decoded by IC19 (a
eight data bits from the buffer are 4 -to -16 line decoder) to give a low The circuitry around Q2 is an auto
transferred into 1C22 via the tri -state voltage on the appropriate output. If battery back-up. When the console PSU
bidirectional buffers IC23,24. SW1 is in the depressed position then is supplying power, Q2 is held on by
When the enter key is released, the the DC signal is clocking and the output R40,41,ZD1, and the chip select pin of
tri -state buffers are set to output data of the NOR gate selected by IC19 will go the memory is held low, enabling the
from the memory to the data bus for the high, ie one of the latch enables LEO-15 memory. When the console is switched
auto -fade units, and the memory is set will go high. This causes the data on the off, Q2 turns off, the CS pin goes high
to read. Nothing else is affected. data bus to be latched into the cor- and the memory goes to standby mode.
The multiplexing of the data to the responding auto -fade unit. B1 supplies the very small quiescent cur-
individual auto-fade units during the Data is thus alternately fetched from rent required by the RAM (via D21), thus
'replaying' of the scene information the memory and sent to the appropriate allowing the RAM to retain the data.
+5V
6
6 11
LA3
5 12
LA2 t:
13
LA1 >
3 IC14 14
LAO >
9
E > NOTE: IC20 IS 74LS109
IC1 IS "74LS123 IC21 IS 74LSOO
ICE IS 74LSO4 I022 IS 6116
IC14 IS 74LS163 IC23,24 ARE 81 LS97
IC15-18 ARE 74LS02 02 IS BC108
IC19 IS 74LS154 D21,22 ARE 1N4148
+5V D21
24
VC C
0
LEO 24
+5V 0 VCC
IC15b4ff 022
LE1 R40 R42
1k0 1k0 Al
18
=
LE2 ZD1 CS A2
2V7
B1
LE3 3V6 -4V5 Q2
LE4
R41
1k5
t A4
LE5 OVO
12
GND IC22
A5 -4A5
20 R39
ES-20 - A A6
9j A7
LE6 22k OE
A7
21 RC 2A
LE7
IC19 C5
1u0
-T IC1b A8
23
A8
8 22 2 21
LEB C 2Q WE
9 23
LE9 A
C3
0 100n
LE10 DO D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7
t 13
R37 R38
LE11 560R 566R
LE12
IC18b 13
IC5d
DO
217 . 2.17 .
11
LE13
r C4
CLK
4 D1
D2
LE14 16 V IC21 03
Q
+5V0
3 IC20a
LE15 ONO EO El K
12 18 19 R O D
IC2ib
S
SW1
GND
77777
D0 D1 02 D3 04 D6 D6 07
TO AUTO FADE UNIT
and
Fig. 4 Circuit diagram of the main memory section. This has an auto de-select
battery back-up system so that data is retained without mains power.
24 ETI JANUARY 1983
PROJECT: Stage Lighting
NOTE:
IC25,26 ARE 40086
D23-63 ARE 1N4148
> A4
+5V
6
0 A5
D23-37
A6
3
D38-63 /7g
12
íC25
S2 A7
TO MEMORY
13 e A8
63
15 63
GND CI CO
819 114
/7777 +5V
16
A9
4 B1
2 B2
- A10
º-
/7777 15 63
IC26
7 AO
5 A1
A2
100 SW3 090 41- A3 GND CI

1
00 8 19
+5V 0 /7777 77777
Fig. 5 Circuit diagram of the scene number selector.
be programmed from the displayed on seven segment is activated by a single switch,

auditorium with the stage in full displays. The channel number to be which is held depressed for 16
view. The advantage of this arrange- programmed takes the first two cycles of the master clock.
ment is that setting -up can be done keystrokes (any initial zeroes The two 10 -pole rotary switches
from any part of the theatre without required must be entered) and which comprise the scene number
having to lug round the main requires four bits (00 to 17 octal). switch are encoded to binary by
console and all its power cables, The next keystroke enters the light diodes; the units and tens are then
but the hand unit will require a level (0 to 7) and the next two the summed to give a seven -bit parallel
sizeable length of multiway cable fade rate (00 to 37 octal). The light address, the most significant bits of
and with the prices these days we number will be used as part of a the address.
doubt whether anyone's budget will memory address and the other eight We've used a 6116 CMOS
stretch that far. bits are the data to be stored. memory IC so that the lighting
The second unit contains the information may be retained even
triac power circuits and can be The Main Memory when the console is powered down.
permanently wall mounted with a When the enter key is pressed When this occurs the 6116 is forced
suitable single-phase mains supply the data held in the buffer is placed into its quiescent mode and is
(up to 140 A may be drawn!). The in the main RAM and the buffer is supplied by its own private battery.
pulses from the console are fed to reset. The eight data bits are stored The chip is automatically enabled as
opto -isolators in this unit and in a memory location which soon as the console is turned on
control the various lights. depends on the light number and again.
the scene number: the latter is set
The Keypad And Memory using a pair of rotary switches. The Auto -fade Circuits
Buffer memory is structured in 16 byte Any number of auto -fade
This has eight numbered keys blocks, each block representing one circuits up to a maximum of 16 may
(0-7) plus a data entry key. A three - stage lighting change. The data for be connected to the memory
bit parallel code is produced along each light channel is stored in module. The data for each channel
with a strobe signal. The data from numerical order and is recalle.d in for the current scene is held in an
the keyboard is held in a temporary order before being latched into the eight -bit latch/buffer. Three of the
buffer store whose contents are autofade units. This transfer of data data bits are converted to a voltage
ETI JANUARY 1983 25
1 C6
0 +5V
WV'
R63
100k
-
R61 PR1 +5V R70
3305 10k R64 R65 R66 R67 R68 R69 470R
l77T7100n 3
IC27a IC27b + 6 10M 4M7 2M2 1M2 560k 270k
7 CONTROL
o
IC29
IC30
b
i o VOLTAGE
TO PULSE
6 9 10 -r- 19 2 GENERATOR
6 12
IC27c IC27d IC28a IC28b IC28c
R62 PR2 PR3 PR4
4k7 10k 10k 10k
13
3
15
T0-e--0
o
113
2 11
12
10 9 To---
6
8 +5V
D64 D65 66 D70) PR5

D67 D68 D69 D71 470k
R70 571 R72 R73 R74
>>>R74
10k 10k 10k 10k 10k
/0--0 +5V
SW4
+5V SPEED
OVERRIDE
16 I15 10 16 I15 10
5
12 12
IC31 IC32
13 1 113
/7777
NOTE:
7 IC27,28 ARE 40166
IC29,30 ARE 741
1C8, IC31,32 ARE. 74 LS75
064.71 ARE 1N4148
Z100n
A A
DO 01 D2 D3 LE D4 D5 D6 07,
FROM MEMORY
Fig. 6 Circuit diagram for one of the auto-fade units.
The data buffer/latch in each of the

HOW IT WORKS
1
-
summarises the conversion in order of
AUTO-FADE UNIT
a data input of 00000 octal. As the stored
possible 16 auto -fade units consists of increasing brightness. number increases in magnitude, various
two four -bit D -type bistables, and their The analogue voltage generated is resistors will be shorted by the ap-
contents control the light channel fed to a voltage comparator, IC29. The propriate analogue switches and the
behaviour. Three of the bits from IC31 output of this comparator is integrated ramp rate will increase, until for 11111
(those output on pins 16,15 and 10) are by 1C30 and the resulting ramp voltage is octal all the switches are closed, all the
used as inputs to a digital -to -analogue compared with the analogue voltage at resistors are shorted and the maximum
converter, which gives a voltage level the DAC. The output of the integrator ramp rate is achieved.
that controls the final brightness of the will ramp up or down until it reaches a PR5 gives a reference voltage for the
channel. With phase -switching control set multiple of the input voltage and integrator so that it will ramp up and
this voltage has to increase rapidly at then it will hunt imperceptibly until the down at the same rate. This voltage will
low lighting levels, then more slowly and input voltage is changed again. be approximately 3V7 as the output
finally rapidly again. The currents from Five more analogue switches from the voltage comparator will be
PR1-4 are fed into a low value resistor (lC27c,d, IC28a,b,c) are used to control either about 5 V or about 2V3.
R62. To accomplish the high brightness the ramp rate of the integrator depen- If a high voltage is applied to the
boost, two analogue switches, IC27a,b, ding on the data stored in the other five diodes D67-71, the data in the buffer
are used to deliver extra current into this bits of the buffer/latch. The slowest rate will be overridden, all the analogue swit-
part of the circuit when the data reads is produced when all the resistors ches in the chain will close, and the
110 or 111 (ie light levels 6 and 7). Table R64-69 are in series: this corresponds to ramp rate will increase to maximum.
which is integrated by a second blackout control or from an external Power Supplies

circuit. The integrator ramps up or sound -to-light or flasher circuit. These may seem to be a bit
down until it reaches a level set by Each pulse generator has its own over -designed but this is necessary.
the input voltage, at a rate pedestal zener diode to eliminate The first of them supplies the +5 V
controlled by the other five bits interaction between channels, and for the main logic and memory
stored in the buffer. the pulse generators are connected boards and the autofaders: two
The actual work of regulating to the power -controlling triacs by independent 5 V rails are generated
the power of the lights is done by opto -isolators. in order to prevent stray pulses on
the switching pulse generator: this the auto -fade supply doing horrible
works by sending mains - things to the memory.
synchronised pulses to the triac Triac Control Circuit The second PSU provides the
power unit. The phase control is As mentioned above, opto - supply rail for the pulse generator
accomplished by a standard 'ramp isolators are used for safety (the circuits, together with a totally
and pedestal' U)T circuit. The ramp prototype has suffered a few unsmoothed output of about
rate is set by the voltage from the disasters which would have melted 33-36 V which is fed to the zeners
auto -fade circuit and the sooner it down the whole of the control unit in each pulse generator to produce
reaches the pedestal trigger voltage if these hadn't been fitted). They the pedestal voltage (which drops to
the earlier in the mains half cycle also allow the control unit to be 0 V twice each mains cycle). The
the triac is triggered and the earthed while the triac trigger pulse input buffer amplifier transistor can
brighter the lamp will be. is referenced to the neutral line. suffer from thermal drift despite the
Instead of using the auto -fade The opto -isolator transistor resistor values around it being
output voltage, the control for the drives a transistor switch and chosen to minimise the problem:
pulse generator can come from a amplifier that pulses the gate of the this results in all the light levels
manually operated potentiometer, a triac negative via a resistor. increasing gradually after switch -on.
26 ETI JANUARY 1983

PROJECT: Stage Lighting
+12V 0
FROM PSU2
R82 (_11 1
R80 ZD2
330R 12V
NOTE:
IC33 IS CNY17
03,6,7 ARE BC108
04 IS BC214 L RV1
OS IS TIS43 10k
SCR1 IS TIC246D
072-74 ARE 1N4148
202 IS 12V 400mw PRO R75
ZENER 10k 100k L1 - \C12
- 47n
D72 FS1
CONTROL
SW5
R79
47k
C9
100n
LP1
10A
VOLTAGE
D73
MASTER R81
BLACKOUT 100R
5W6
CHANNEL
BLACKOUT
OV O FROM
PSU3
Fig. 7 Each auto -fade unit requires one of these pulse generator and triac circuits. To correct this tendency, should it
be present, the output voltage of
TABLE 1
the second PSU is made variable so
that compensation may be made for
LEVEL CODE CURRENT SOURCES TYPICAL VOLTAGE any residual drift.
0 000 PR1 1V75 The third PSU is located in the
1 001 PR1,PR2 2V5 triac power control unit and does
2 010 PR1,PR3 2V75
011 PR1,PR2,PR3
not require regulation. It is capable
3 2V85
4 100 PR1,PR4 3 V
of driving all the triac channels and
5 101 PR1,PR2,PR4 3V15 has its positive rail connected to the
6 110 PR1,PR3,PR4,R61 4V neutral line as a reference for the
7 111 PR1,PR2,PR3,PR4,R61 4V25 triac gate.
Next month we give the
constructional details of the Stage
FS1
1A 51.1 TO
Light Dimmer.
HOW IT WORKS
PULSE GENERATOR
-
I
IC34 O AUTOFADE
UNITS
1C13
4700u
+400u C15 C16 The input voltage to the pulse generator,
t00n 100n either from the auto -fade unit or the
manual control pot, is amplified and
T 0 0V buffered by Q3. Q4 ads as a constant
current source which charges up
capacitor C9 at a rate that depends on
FS2 the input voltage: PR9 and R79 set the
1A
5V TO LOGIC minimum charge rate. The voltage on
0 AND MEMORY the emitter of the unijunction transistor
I C20
100n
Q5 will rise as Cl charges until it reaches
the trigger voltage. The UJT then con-
ducts, discharging C9 through R81 and
T the LED in IC33, the opto -isolator. This
sends a trigger pulse to the triac. As C9 is
discharged at the end of each half -cycle
(when the bl/b2 voltage falls), this pulse
is synchronised with the mains zero -
(
UNSMOOTHED
crossing point. The delay is set by the
VOLTAGE rate at which C9 charges and hence the
TO PULSE power level supplied to the lamp is
GENERATOR varied.
5-12V TO The manual control RV1, working
PULSE through D73, will override the auto-fade
GENERATOR
unit if the pot voltage is increased above
the auto -fade voltage, allowing special
effects. SW5 switches between auto and
manual modes and SW6 can black out
the channel by pulling the base of Q3 to
earth. All the channels can be blacked
0V out if the master blackout line is taken
FS5 low.
tA When the opto-isolator is fired Q6 is
switched off because its base is pulled
FS6 negative. This allows Q7 to turn on, giv-
250mA ing a negative voltage pulse via R85 to
VE
the triac gate which turns on the triac (if
it isn't already on). The delta capacitor
network C10-12 together with L1 help to
minimise mains -borne interference
caused by switching transients. A 10 A
+VE (NEUTRAL) fuse affords some protection for the
triac in the event of a fault occurring.
Fig. 9 Circuit diagram for the power supplies required by this project.
ETI
ETI JANUARY 1983 27
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This Z80 micro controlled clock/calender JUMPER
ISpeedtled, Typal
receives coded time data from NPL Rugby. LEADS 36 way Solder Type Plug CABLE (Grey)
No of Reeder Rem- Edge
(centronix type) 550p ill way
The clock never needs to be reset. The ways Pug tads' Conn.
24" R4hbon Cable with headers 60p
36 way Solder Socket 14 way BOp
facilities include 8 independent alarms and for 10 90p 90p 200p I end
14 pin
145p
16 pin
165p
240p
24 pin
380p
40 pin
(centronix type) 550p 16 way 90p
each alarm there is a choice of melody or 20 145p 125p 240p 2 ends 21ap 230p
345p 540p 36 way IDC Plug
20 way 105p
140p
alternatively these can be used for electrical 26 175p 150p 300p
24" Ribbon Cable with sockets
Icentronixtypel 500p
26 way
34 way 220p
switching. A separate timer allows recording 34 20Dp 16ap 38Dp end
20 pin
160p
26 pin
210p
34 pin
270p
40 pin
300p
24 way Solder Plug 40 way 265p
of up to 240 lap times without interrupting
1
49 220p 190p 550p 2 ends 290p 385p 490p 540p (IEEE type) 500p 50 way 330p
the count. Expansion facilities provided. 24" Ribbon Cable with D. Conn. 24 way Solder Socket 500p 64 way 370p
50 235p 200p 600p
25 way Mak 500p Female 550p 24 way IDC Plug 485p
See July/August ETI for details. Complete Kit
£120 + £2.00 p&p RS232 CONNS 125 way D)
24" Single end Male £5.50 EURO EDGE
24" Single end Female £6.00 CONNECTORS
MICROTIMER D -CONNECTORS 24" Female -Female £11.00 CONNECTORS
0.1" 0.155"
6502 Based Programmeable clock timer with 9 way 15 way 25 way 37 way 24" Male -Male £10.00 (Indirect Edge Conn)
2 x16 way 140p
* 224 switching times/week cycle MALE 24" Male -Female £11.50 DIN STD
4161721 way
Pug
170p
Skt
1713p
2 x 22 way 200p 170p
* 24 hour 7 day timer Sokkr
Angled
90p
160p
130p
230p .
16ap
265p
250p
425p DIL HEADERS 41617 31 way 180p 180p 2
2
x 23 way
25 way
21ap
225p 220p
+ 4 independent switch outputs directly interfacing to FEMALE
41612 2 x 32 way 250p 320p x
43 way
x 260p -
Sodden 1DC Angkd2 x32 way 325p 375p 1
thyristor/triacs
* 6 digit 7 seg. displays to indicate real time, ON/OFF and Reset
times
Solder
Angled
Hood
110p
175p
95p
160p
240p
95p
210p
310p
95p
350p
500p
125p
14 pin
16 pin
iá
50p
1á0v
110p
41612 3 x 32 way
Angled 3 x 32.
x32 way IOC
way
275p
a'c
-
-
380p
400p
525p
2 x
2 x
43 way
50 way
1x71 way
395p
-
700p
-
-
* Output to drive day of week switch and status LEDS. 24 per 100p 150p
2
dot 2 x 32 way spec",

5100 Conn. - 600p
40 pin 200p 225p
Full details on request. Price for kit £57.00
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The complete micro processor development system for Engineers and Hobbyists. You can OFFER
This is not a logic analyser or develop programs, debug, verify and commit to EPROMS or use in host computer by using
2114L 80p
2716 (+5v) 250p
an oscilliscope. It tests a softy as a romulator. Powerful editing facilities permd bytes, blocks of bytes changed, deleted 2532 350p
or inserted and memory contents can be observed on ordinary TV. Accepts most 5v
+ Eproms. 4116-2 80p
microsystem and gives a 450p
Softy II complete with PSU, TV Lead and Romulator lead £169 4164-2
printed reprint on RAM, 6116P-3 350p
ROM and 1 /0 - it will print
BOOKS (No VAT p&p £1)
memory map, search for
CMOS Cook Book £7.75
code, check dateline shorts CRT Controller H/Book £5.95
and operates peripherals UV ERASERS TRAINER KITS £11.50
Programming the Z80
UVIB up to 6 Eproms £47.50 6502 Junior Computer £85.00
Microdoctor Z80 Microcomp. handbook £6.95
6802NancompI £80.00
complete with PSU, UVIT with Timer £60.00 Programming the 6502 £10.25
Y;IG £80.00
UV140 up to 14 Eproms £61.50 Nancomp II 6502 Assy. Lang. £12.10
Printer, probe cable
UV141 with Timer 1802 Micro Trainer £64 6502 Applications £10.20
and two configuration £78.00
E80 Manta £115 6502 Software Design £9.05
boards. £295. (Carr £2/eraser)
6502 Games £10.52
All erasers are fitted with Z80 Menta £115
Large selection of databooks, inter-
mains switches and safety (fully built and documented) facing books, books on BBC, etc in
PLEASE SEND SAE FOR PRICE LIST interlocks Full details on request stock. As for our list.
28 ETI JANUARY 1983

7448247 SOp 40244 160p
74 SERIES 174196 40p 7448248 56p 40245 180p LINEAR ICs COMPUTER COMPONENTS MODULATORS
74197 40p 45p
74LS249 4018 LM358P 6755 £18 6MHz UHF 375p
74798 80p 70p
748 11p i 74'99 80Óp
7445251
7440253
96p 4019
4020
25p
48p
ADC0808 990p
AN103 200p
1M377 1 7Óp RC41 6 CPUs 9902 £3
27321350ns1
750p
75491/2
8726 120p 8MHz UHF 460p
11p 7422- LM380 75p RC4151 200p TMS4500 f14 TMS2716 750p 8T28 120p
11p 7445257 Sop 4021 40p AY -1-0212 700p LM381AN 180p S566B 225p 1802CE . 650p TMS9928 f30
7425'
12p
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: 74259 100 741_0258 4022 45p15 AY1-1313 668p LM382 120p SAA1900 £18 26504 £12
080910 250p
8795/96
8T97/98
90p
90p
11031=111
14 74LS259 4023 p AY1-1320 2229 LM386 SAD1024A 280p 32.76 KHz 100p
;4`65 Z80AP10 CRT 811595/96 90p
169
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' .. :3 120p
74448261
20p
198p
4024
4025
32p
13p
AY1-5050
AY3-1270
99p
825p
LM387 1b 6502A
6800
500p
225p
Z80CTC 250p CONTROLLER 81LS97/98 90p 1001-1K1 260p
18p 74276 LM389 SFF9634 8g00Op Z8OACTC 280p 220p 200HKz 280p
15 9602
1
20p 4026 AY3-1350 400p LM391 54490 350p 6802 2500 CRT6545 900p Freq in MHz
74279 1000 Z80ADART 700p 9637AP 160p
149 7448273 ß0p 4027 2017 AY38910 440p LM392N CR75027 £18 p
SN76131 125p £10 ZN425E-8 350p 1.
14p 744.9275 4028 40p AY38912 625p 4114393 100p 5476477 450p
6688 Ó9 6f1p Z80ADMA CRT5037 £78 1.ÓO8 275p
+` SHOP
760 74LS279 4029 AY5-3600 600p LM394CH 6809E £12 280510/1/2 £9 ZN426E-8 350p
14p SN76488 450p EF9365/6 f45 ZN427E-8 600p 1.5 450p
169 topp 7445280 í00p 4030 45p
15p AY-4007D LM709 350p HAM-, MC6845 650p 1.8432 210p
40p 4031 SN87489 400p Z4428E-8 500p
149 750 7445283 LM710 50p SN76495 8039 MC6847 660p 2.00 225p
45p 125p
800 CAA3028A600P 400p 80804 2800
7448290 4032 LM711 SN76660 120p
2101-4A 400p SFF96364 f8 DISC CONTROL 2.45760 2100
16p 1Óp 7448293 40p 4033 1 121p LM725 300p SP8515 80854 3506 2102.31 1200 TMS9918 £60 2.5 250p
18p 7410295 90p 4035 45p CA3019 80p 754 1058060 £11 21070 500p TMS9927 E18
ICs
1509 LM733 TA7120 150p 2.662 250p
189 30p 74LS297 9000 4036 275p CA3046 70p LM741 78p TA7130 TMS9980 £20 2111A 300p TMS9928 £20 3.276 150p
4037 110p CA3048 220p 150p TMS9995 £12 F01771 £20
30p 74LS298 90p LM747 70p TA7204 200p
2112-A 300p TMS9929 f20 901791 s22 3.5795 100p
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7445299 180p 4038 110p CA3059 285p 1M748 28 £24 2114-2L 100p 3.686 300p
4039 290p CA3060 350p TA7205 90p Z80 F01793
7415323 LM1014 135Úp TA7222 2147
30p30p
4040 40p CA3080E 72p 150p Z80Á 320p FD1795
209 75p 7415324 150p LM1801 300p TA7370 4027-3 300p 4,194 200p
1500 FD1797 828
741.8348 90p 4041
4042
40p
40p
CA3086
CA3089E
48p
LM 1830
200p
250p TeA641AX1 2808
8088
£12
£18
4044-45 450p UNIME133 8271 £36 4.43 110p
181p 7415352 60p 1M1871 450p 300p 411615 AD558CJ 775p £15 4.608 250p
4043 46p CA3090A0 WD1691
SEP 7448353 LM1872 450p TBA641 BX1 4116-20 ß0p 405614 £14 550P 4.915
18p 4044 SUPPORT 450p
WD2143
74LS SERIES 741_0356 250p LM1886 4000 AM25S10 350p 5.0
'4p 7415363 140p 4045 105p CA3130E 375p
90p 1M1889 350p TBA80G 80p
DEVICES 4164-2 400p AM25LS2521 P2 6.0
4046 50p CA3130T 110p LM2917 200p TBA810 4616AP2-3 270p CHAR 511Eß
0 7445364 140p 100p 3242 800p AM261.S31 125p GENERATORS 6.144 150p
22p 7445365 4047 45p CA3140T 90p LM3302 450p 5101 300p 7.0 150p
,....22p 74L51 11P11p 27p
4048 50p TBA820 80p 6545 AM26LS32 125p
7415366 CA3140E 50p LM3900 20 280p 5516 9509 COM8116 800p R032513UC 750p 7.168
'4L502 27p 5Ópp TBA920
p
22p 11p 200p
4049 CA3160E 100p LM3909 85p 6522 3109 6116-3 420p 07002 480p 8.00 175p
741503 1212p 7448367 27p 4050 24p CA3161E 150p LM3911 RO-3-2513LC 700p
7415 7440368 27p 7TC9109 ODp 6522A 550p 6116LP-3 750P DAC80D £28 SN74S262AN £10 8.86 175p
15p 4051 45p CA3162E 450p LM3914 200p TCA210
950
6532 550p 10-00 175p

74S0045 12p 7445374 55p 350p 6514-45 200p
4052 ß0p CA3189E 300p LM3915 200p TCA220 350; 6551 6504 120p 460p MC66760
750p 10.5 250p
741506 12 7415375 45p 6810 DM8131
P8304 3
3Op 4053 90p CA3240E 110p LM3916 400p DM86564 £12
70p 744007 12p 7415377 4054 90p
n5P TCA270 350p 6821 100p 7489 210p 0S3691 10.7
CA3280G 200p LM13600 1109 TCA940 144
70p 741508 7415378 600pp 4055 90p 07002 480p M51513L 175p 68821 220p 74S189 225p DS8830 12.00 150p
SOp 741509 7445390 45p 4056 DAC14068
230p TCA965 120p 6829 £12.50 745201 350p DS8931 140p
KEYBOARD
14.318
250p
36p
741510
1744511
12p
1312p
7448393
7440395
45p
90p
4059 4p
50p
M51516L
200p MB3712
500P TDA1004A f3 6840
200P TDA1008 320p 681340
3
6075p0p
74S289
93415
175p
600p
DS8832
DS8833
250p
225p
ENCODER
14.756
15.00 200p
4060 55p HA1366 195p MB3730 110p 150p AV5-2376 700p 16.00 200p
46p 744012 7440399 1600 400p TDA1010 200p 6850 93425 6009 DS8836
4063 9Op HA1388 270p MC1310P 15°P 680 220p DS8638 225p 74C922 420p 18.00 200p
15p 741013 15p 74LS445 100p 4066 27p ICL7106 700p MC1413 TDA1022 5009
15p 744514 7440467 90p 4067 225p TDA1024 124
6852 250p ROMs!PROMs 1913201 450p 74C923N 500p 18.432
ICL7811 95p MC1445 6854 MC1488 55p 19.968 150p
15p 744015 'I2p 741S490 200p 4068 ICL7660 200p MC1458 36p TDA1170 304 745188 325p BAUD RATE
7440540 7888A MC1489 55p 20.00 2009
15p 741520 90p GENERATORS
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1212p 4069 ICL8038 300p MC1493 TDA2003 325p 745287 350p 26.690 1500
15p 741S541 809
.
t00p 6875 570p MC3418 950p
744S21 4070 144pp ICM721568 f16 MC14954 350p £3 745288 225p
30p 741022- 12p 7415610 £19 4071
8154 950p MC3446 300p MC14411 675p 27.145 17p
ICM7217 750p MC1496 709 T042006TDA2002V 350p 5155 3509 743387 MC3480 38.6667
25p 741526 7415624 90p 4072 140 1CM7555 80p MC3340P TDA2020
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COM8116 700p
120p 320p 8156 350p 745471 65ßp MC3486 Óp 750p 48.0 175p
25p 74LS27 13p 7445629 909 4073 ICL7611 90p MC3401 47020
18P 741S28 7448640 1000 4075 í4p 50p 11064 1014 8205 224 745473 MC3487 300p 55.5 400p
LC7120 300p MC3403 75p TL071/81 25p 8212 11Op 745474 6ß0p MC4024 325p 116 300p
7475 22p 741530 12p 7415641 100p 4076 48p LC7130 325p MFIO U ARTs
7475 250p TL072/82 45p 8216 100p 745570 MC4044 325p 145.80 250P
25p 741 592 7415643 100p 4077 1ßp
'48G 48P 744533 14p
LF347 150p MK50380 635p 74074 104 8224 190p 745571 6550p MC14411 675p AY-3-1015P 15.068 £2-
7415644 100p 4078 LF351 48p ML920 800p T 1 75p 8226 250p 745573 MC14412 750p 124.00 £2.
7481 1209 74LS37 4081 14p LF353 95p MN57160
9509
74L8645 100p 620p TL084 90p 8228 220p 75107 AV-5-1013P304 DIL SWITCHES
7482 65P 74156 15p 4082 Sop LF356P 95p MN6221A 1304 TL094 200p
7483A 38P 741S40 12p 74L8668 120p
4086 55p LF357 110p NE531
8243 280p 75110/12 1600 304
7484 65P 7415669 120p 140p TL170 50p 8250 850p EPROMs 75114/15 180p COM8017 3Óp 4 way 709
741042
7448670 140p 4089 12p 4E13331 150p NE544. 150p TL430C 70p 8251 254 75121/22 140p way 85P
74844 60p 74LS47 36p 4093 1M6402 450p 6
7415878 550p LM10C 325p NE555 16p UA1003-3 8253 390p 25161+5v1250p 75150P 120p 8 way 90p
7485 45p 4094 TR1602 300p
7486 7415682 LM301A 25p 45p 935 8255 250p 2532 370p 75154 1400 10 way 145p
8p 74LS61 4095 NE556
7489 7415684 Ó0p 1M310 120p
NE564 420p UA2240 750p 8256 £36 2564 012 75182 90p ZIF SKTs
110P 741054 14p 4096 75p LM311 70p UAA170 2705 250p
74904 20p 74LS55 14p 7445687 400p 4097 290p NE565 124 1709 8257 4009 75324 375p REAL TIME CLOCK
7491 LM318 150p 154 ULN2003A 75p 8259 400p 27161+5v1250p 75361 150p (TEXTTOOL)
215p NE566
35P 744063 120 74458.5 40p 90p
4098 LM319 ULN2004 75p 8271 27321360os1 E8
7492A ZSp NE567 140p £36 75363 150p 24 pin 600p
7493A 24p
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18p 7445147 100p 4099 100p
575p
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MM58174 700p
4500 UW2802 204 8284 350p 500p 85p
MSM5832 700p
7494 35p
74LS75 18p 4501 28p NE571 400p 75451/2 40 pinpin ß£1Ó
MK3805 £IBA
74944 35p LM335Z 140p
48592 609 ULN2804 150p 8288 011 .2764 E11 75453/4 72p
74L576 4502 60p 50p NE5534P
7496 40p
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74S02 309 LM339
744083 36p 4503 45p 65p 1109
7497 LM348 UPC592H 20Op LOW PROFILE SOCKETS BY TI WIRE WRAP SOCKETS BY TI
00P 74LS85 74504 30p 4504 75p NE5534417 124
74100
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74107
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74LS50 74508 4506 14 pin 10p 20 pin 18p 28 pin 26p 14 pin 35p 20 pin 60p 28 pin 80p
74109 ZSp
68p 74510 4507 35p FIXED PLASTIC X02207 375p
40pin 100p
74110 30p
40p0p
XR2211 575p 16pin 11p 22pin 22p 40pin 30p 16pin 40p 22pin 65p
74111
74LS92741091
32p 74511 4508 1300 1A +ve -ve XR2216 675p
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74LS93 74520 ae 4510 5V 7806 40p 7905 45p XR2240 120p BD235 85p MPSA93 40p 2N2219A 26p 2SC2335 200p 04400V 200p
74LS95 40p 74522 50p 4511 45p 2N2222A 25p 2SC2512 204 25Á400V 400p
74116 50p 74LS96 6V 7806 40p 7906 45p 24414 BOp BD241 60p MPSUO6 63p
74S30 40p 4512 2N2369A 17p 34128
74118 SSP 8V 7808 40p 7908 45p ZN419C 180p BD242 60p MPSU07 60p
74119 6p 7445107 20p 74532 70p 4514 12200
12V 7812 40p 7912 45p 214423E 80379 60p MPSU45 90p 242484 25p 3N140 120p
7440109 27p 4515 110p 1369
74120 60p 74S37 60p 15V 7815 40p 7915 45p ZN424E 130p B0380 60p NESU65 7ßp 2N2646 409 34141 1100 LONERS .
74121. 7415112 74574 75p 4516 40p 7918 45p BD677 40p TIP29A 35p 2N2904/5 25p 34201 110p
18V 7818 ZN425E 350p
74122 7440113 20p 4518 40p 2N2906A 25p 3N204 200p 2.7V-33V
74585 450p 24V 7824 40p 7924 45p ZN426E 300p BF244B 35p TìP29C 40p
7440114 22p 4520 50p
74123 36p
00p 7415122 289 74S86 909 4521
5V 100mA 78405 34 79L05 60p 2141.27E 590p BF256B 50p TIP30A 35p 2N2907A 25p 40290 255050 400mW 9p
15p
74125 6V 100mA 78106 30p B9257/8 32p TIP30C 40p 242926 9p 40361/2 p 1W
7415123 745112 4522 120p ZN428E 470p
25p
74126 30p 8V100mA78408 30p 2410346 6E337 30p T1P31A 40p 2N3053 40408
7415124 9Op 745113 900 4526 60p 2N3054 55p 40409 100p
74128 36p 12V100mA781_12 30p 79412 60p 2410406 670p 13E1339 25p TIP31C 45p
74132 30p 7415125 745114 90p 4527 60p 2N3055 35p 40410 TRIACS
745124 15V 100mA 78415 30p 79115 60p ZNA134 230p BFR40/1 25p TIP32A 40p
74136 28p 7415126 300p 4528 BFR79 2N3442 140p 40594 1200 PLASTIC
ZNA234 850p 25p TIP32C 40p
74141 55p 7415132 745132 160p 4532 lop OTHER REGULATORS BFR80/1 25p TIP33A 70p 243553 240p 40595 120p
74142 175, 7415133 30p 745133 60p 4534 4002p BFR96 180p 80p 243584 250p 40673 75p 3A 400V
LM309K 1A 5V 140p 78HGKC 600p TIP33C
200p 7440136 25p 745138 120p 4536
74143
20gp 7440138 27p 4538 LM317KTO3 325p78H05KC5514 BFX29 40p TIP34A 94 2N3643/4 48p 40871/2 100p 6A 400V 70p
74144 745139 120p BFX30 27p TIP34C 120p 2N3702/3 10p 6A 500V 88p
74145 7440139 745157 250p 4539 LM317T 200p 78GUIC 200p TRANSISTORS 2143704/5 10p 8A 400V 75p
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225p 79GUIC 225p BFX84/5 40p TIP35A 120p
74147 p 7440145 70p 74S158 195p 4543 5p 1M3377 243706/7 10p 8A 500V
450p 79HGKC 700p A0161/2 45p BFX86/7 27p 11P35C 140p DIODES
74148 68p 7410147 120p 4553 2745p 4M323K 3A 5V 2143708/9 10p 12A 400V 85p
745163 300p BC107/8 13p BFX88 27p TIP364 140p
74150 50p 74L0148
745174 4555 35p 4M723150mAAdj ICL7660 2009 BC109C 14p BFX89 108p 1I936C 150p 2N3773 200p 87127 12p 12A500V 1
74151A 36p 7440151 40p 4556 35p 30p LM305AH254 243819 20p 16A400V 110p
745175 320p 600p BC117 200 BFY51/2 24p TIP41A 50p BYX36300 20p
74153 36p 7440163 4557 300p 11.494 300p 78H12 BFY56 33p TIP41C 55p 263820 40p 0447 16A 500V 130p
745194 BC147/8
74154 50p 7440154 86p 4560 78540 225p SG3524 300p BC149 BFY90 80p TIP42A 64 2N3823 30p 0A90/91 9p T2800D 130p
74155 3e 7415155 30p 745195 50000 4566 160p 78P05 900p
100pp
263866 90p
745225 510p BC157/8 1 BRY39 45p TIP42C 65p 0A95 9p
74156 40p 74L5156 4568 11p BSX19/20 24p 160p 243902 700p 04200
74S241 300p BC159 711754
74157 30p 7440157 4569 1100 OPTO ELECTRONICS 12p BU104 226p TIP120 75p 2N3904 15p
04202 10p THYRISTORS
7440158 30p 745244 3009 BC169C
74159 75p 4572 sop BU105 1909 TIP121 75p 263906 18p
40p TIL78 55p BC172 12p 114941
74160 40p 7440160 745251 250p 4583 SOp 2N5777
BU108 250p TIP122 80p 264037 66p A 400V 100p
40p 74LS161 36p OCP71 180p 1-IL31A 155p BC177/8 17p 14916 7p
74161 745257 250p 4584 .40p BC179 189 BU109 225p 1I9142 120p 2N4123/4 27P 144148 8A 600V 140p
74162 40p 7419162 745258 250p 4585 ORP12 120p 11132 264125/6 270 160p
40p
90p ORP60 BC162/3 109 BU126 150p TIP147 120p 144001/2 5p 12A400V
74163 7445163 38P 74S260 70p 40014 120p TIL81 90p BU180A 120p 78p 2N4401/3 25p 180p
75p BC184 11p 1192955 144003/4 6p 16A100V
74164 45p 7440164 745261 300p 40085 ORP61 120p TIL100 2N4427 90p 180p
8C187 309 BU205 2009 1194055 70p 144005 6p 16A400V
74165 45p 7440165 50p 40097 45p 244871 50p
745262 850p OPTO ISOLATORS BC212/3 11p BU208 200p TIS93 30p 144006/7 7p C1060 45p
74166 48p 7440166 40102 140p 2145087 27p 38p
74S373 400p BC214 12p BU406 145p ZTX108 12p 145404/5 140 MCR10136
74167 150p 7415168 85p 40103 170p 1L074 1300 111111 7Ó 245089 27p 27p
745374 400p SC237 15p BUX80 600p ZTX300 13p 1N5404/7 19p 71144
74170 120p 7440169 85p 40105 1109 MCT26 100p TIL112 8UY69C 350p 45p 245172 27p 130p
74172 250p 745387 250p BC327 ZTX452 15920 9P 2N3525
7440170 70p 40106 MCS2400 190p TIL113 70p E310 50p ZTX500 15p 2N5191 90p
264444 180p
74173 50P 745471 BC337 16p
7440173 55P 40109 1020p íL074 2409 111116 70p ZTX502 16p 265245 40p
265060 30p
74174 745474 ÓÓp BC338 MJ802 400p
55P 7445174 40110 275p MOC3020 150p 25p 225p 21X504 18p 245401 60p 1145064
74175 748571 BC461 MJ2501 35111
SOP 7415175 40p 40163 ZTX552 55p 245459 30p
74176 40P 745573 900p BC477/8 30p MJ2955 90p 265460 BRIDGE
7415181 40174 LEDS BC516/7 40p MJ3001 225p ZTX652 60p 60p
74177 4000 CMOS 40175 TIL220 Red 10p 2N5485 36p RECTIFIERS
P 7415183 1220p 75p BC547B MJ4502 400p ZTX752 70p PCB MOUNTING
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30 Eli JANUARY 1983
FEATURE
DESIGNING MICRO
SYSTEMS PART 6
The previous article explained how the computer handles input
and output of data but how many of us read and write in
binary? This month Owen Bishop explains the operation of more
user-friendly interfaces.
number of electronic circuits produce their
Quite a OUTPUT
ENABLE
output in analogue form, and it is beyond the
ability of a computer to read such data unless it is
first converted to digital form. Examples of devices O DO
with analogue outputs are electronic thermometers,
pressure transducers, audio amplifiers (for speech
0
D
recognition etc) and indeed any device which produces O D2
an output voltage varying over a predefined range. Even a O 03 TO

simple carbon pot can be included in this list. The Games DATA
BUS
Controller of the Apple II, for example, uses a 150k VREF O D4
potentiometer (there is also a push-button connected to a RESISTOR O D5

CHAIN AND
memory -mapped latch, but this is a digital input). The DECODER
O D6
position, or setting, of the potentiometer is the analogue
quantity to be measured. The computer has a quadruple O D7
timer IC and, when the Games Controller is plugged in to VC
TRI -STATE
OUTPUT
the computer board, the pot becomes part of the RC COMPARATOR
BUFFERS
circuit of the timer. When the MPU is to read the setting of AMPLIFIER
the Controller, it first triggers the timer (the trigger input is CONTROL CLOCK
memory -mapped) then measures the length of pulse VIN
LOGIC
produced. It does this by reading the memory -mapped

output over and over again, counting how many times it Fig. 2 Simplifed block diagram of an A -to -D converter such as
reads 'high' until it eventually reads a 'low'. The number the ADC0801 VREF is an on -chip or external reference voltage.
of 'high' reads is approximately proportional to the Vc is the output voltage from the resistor chain, which is
angular setting of the control knob. The analogue -to- compared with VIN, the analogue voltage which is to be
digital conversion is crude and far from linear, but converted.
certainly good enough for its intended application.
THRESHOLD/ Internal logic controls CMOS analogue switches
DISCHARGE
INPUT +5V which switch resistors into or out of the chain, so
I
producing a voltage (Ve) which can range from 0 V to 5 V
TRIGGER
TIMER in 256 steps. At each stage a comparator matches the
ADDRESS
DECODER
TRIGGER output of the chain against the analogue voltage (VIN). The
CT GAMES largest resistor is switched in and out first, to determine if
OUTPUT CONTROL
the input is less than or greater than 2V5. Then the next
ov largest resistor is switched in and out to narrow the
possible range to within 1V25. At each stage the chain
output and analogue input are matched more and more
OUTPUT closely. After eight attempts the closest match will have
ADDRESS q / BUFFER
DECODER been found. The logic signals which have produced the
hatch are then used to set the eight output buffers to one
of the 256 possible combinations which can be read as a
byte (0 to 255) by the computer. This IC converts the
TO MPU
( DATA BUS I voltage with true linearity, with an accuracy of half a step
Fig, Analogue -to-digital conversion for in 256 steps and takes only a few hundred microseconds
1 a games controller.
to do so. If we want greater accuracy, there are similar A-
to -D ICs with a 12 -bit output. Note that it is the converter
A -to -D Conversion which does the'work: the MPU only has to read the result.
Many computers have on -board A-to -D !Cs such as We do not need to write software to instruct the MPU to
the National Semiconductor ADC0801 (Fig. 2). This measure pulse lengths as with the Games Controller. This
converts any input voltage in the range 0 V to 5 V to digital saves time and simplifies programming.
output in the range 0 to 255 (00 to FF in hex). The heart of Most A -to -D ICs have ways of altering the span of the
the IC is a chain of resistors in series, with 5 V across the input range, so that voltages from, say, 0 V to 2 V produce
ends of the chain. the full-scale output range, 0 to 255. In addition you can
ETI JANUARY 1983 31
COMPARATOR
R -2R
VOUT LADDER
VOUT
R O (ANALOG
OUTPUT)
EXTERNAL
AMPLIFIER
2R 2R 2R 2R 2R 2R 2R 2
SWO SW1 SW2 SW3 _SW4 SW5 ,SW6 ,SW7
O VREF
VREF
0
Simplified block diagram of a simple A -to -D converter,
OV
Fig. 3
the 507C. VREF is an on -chip or external reference voltage. VIN
is the analogue voltage to the converted; VOUT is the square > DO
wave output. 2 D10
-L
'1 -m D20
áro nozF
adjust the offset so that, for example, you obtain a reading D40
of 0 when the input is 10 V and reading of 255 when the QÓ
h
D50
D60
output is 12 V. 2 D70
As might be expected, a A -to -D IC is a sophisticated
circuit and is correspondingly expensive. If an application
requires several analogue inputs and high conversion time
is not of paramount importance, the inexpensive 507C IC
SELECT
COUNTER
0
(ACTIVE
HIGH)
- COUNTER SELECT
CONTROL
provides linear conversion in 1 mS with seven -bit

resolution. This has a resistor ladder (Fig. 3), and the
counter supplies current to each resistor in binary CLOCK
8 BIT BINARY
COUNTER
sequence. The op -amp adds the currents and the result is
that the output ramps down a voltage from 0.75 x supply
voltage to 0.25 x supply. If the enable input is high, the RESET
comparator gives a high output whenever the ramp Fig. 5 Block diagram of the ZN425E D -to -A converter. VREF is
voltage exceeds the analogue input voltage: thus the an on -chip or external reference voltage. The amplifier is not
length of time the output is low is a measure of the on the chip but is an external op -amp (eg 741).
analogue voltage (Fig. 4). The MPU can find this time by
using a program like that described for the Games Screens And Printers
Controller. The way most owners receive information from their
micros is through the screen. This may be a domestic TV
set or a monitor unit specially designed for the purpose.
Those whose main interest lies in arcade games,
adventures, and the like usually need no more than the
screen, but anyone with an interest in programming soon
finds that the screen alone is not enough. There is the
tedium of copying long listings of favourite programs from
the screen, and the frustration of being able to see only a
f-. 0V
few lines of program at any one time. Sooner or later, the

Fig. 4 The input and output voltages of the 507C A-to -D serious programmer adds a printer to the system. This
converter. The computer measures t, which is proportional to month we shall deal with both these ways of receiving
VIN. information from the micro.
The fact that the technology of high-speed (for the
... And The Converse Conversion time) printing was already available in the form of teletype
machines, lead to the early mainframe computers having a
If a peripheral needs an analogue signal to control it
(eg controlling the speed of a motor), we need circuits printer but usually no screen. We are reminded of this
which can convert the digital output of the computer into early use of teletypes by some of the curious control codes
its analogue equivalent. which abound in the ASCII character set (see last month's
The ZN425 D -to -A converter makes use of an R -2R article). The screen of the early mainframe computers, if
ladder (Fig. 5). The switches are under the logical control any, was often a CRT in which the X and Y deflection
of the eight -bit input. As the count increases, the output plates were under the direct control of the computer. It
voltage increases in proportion (see panel). To drive a low was a kind of high-grade oscilloscope, with the computer
impedance device the output must be buffered by an using the electron beam to 'draw' an image on the screen.
operational amplifier. This was suitable for displaying charts and graphs, but not
This IC may also be used for A -to-D conversion, using much use for text.
its binary counter. The counter is clocked by an external With a modern computer, the electron beam scans a
pulse generator, and as it counts the pulses, switches rectangular area on the end of the CRT, in the same way as
controlling the R-2R ladder are closed and opened in a a TV set. The field (or raster) consists of a large number of
binary sequence. The output is a staircase ramp of 256 horizontal lines (the number varies according to the
steps. An external amplifier compares the output from the system) placed close together (Fig. 6). Each line is scanned
ladder with the analogue voltage which is to be converted. in turn, from the top to the bottom of the screen. Most TV
When the ramp output equals the analogue voltage, the systems have an interlaced raster in which the beam first
output from the amplifier inhibits the clock. At this point scans alternate lines down the screen and then returns to
the logic output which controls the switches can be read scan the ones between the first set. As the beam scans, its
as an eight -bit equivalent of the analogue input. intensity (and hence the brightness of the glow produced
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FEATURE: Micros
HOW THE R -2R LADDER WORKS

Assume all switches are set to 0 V. The three left-hand resistors V1 = 3V/8
are equal to 2R and 2R in parallel, and so can be replaced by a
single R resistor. Thus the four resistors shown are equivalent to Now we can calculate Vo:
2R switched to 0 V. We can carry this reasoning all along the lad-
der, until we reach a switch that is not set to O V. Vo = 2V1/3 = V/4
2R This corresponds to what is expected since 64/256 = 1/4.

OV O-/VVV
V1 VO
EQUIVALENT R EQUIVALENT 2R
TO > TO
OV
CODE = 0100 0000 = 64
VO = V/4
OV 0V OV
If all except SW7 are set to 0 V, and SW7 is set to V (the

reference voltage), we can consider all resistors to the left as
equivalent to a single 2R resistor, switched to 0 V. We have a
potential -divider, and Vo = V/2. This corresponds to the ex- V OV
pected output, since 128/256 = 1/2.
Here both 5W6 and SW7 are switched to V.
to = (V - V1)/3R but 11 and 12 are as above.
=2R 12 = 10 + 11, so
OV
CODE= 1000 0000 = 128
VO=V/2
Vi/2R = (V - V1)/2R + (V - V1)/3R,
HIGH which simplifies to V1 = 5V/8.

2R
Now Vo = V1 + (V - V1)/3 = 5V/8 + V/8 = 3V/4.
IMPEDANCE
INPUT
This is what we expect, since 192/256 = 3/4.
V1 vo
SW7
CODE = 1100 0000 = 192

OV
If all except SW6 are set to 0 V and SW6 is set to V, we can
VO=?4V
consider all resistors to the left to be replaced by a single 2R
resistor, switched to 0 V.
I,, = V/3R; 11 = (V - Vi)/2R; 12 = V1/2R
By Kirchoff's Law (sum of currents entering a point must equal

sum of currents leaving a point):
10=11- 12, so
This kind of reasoning can be repeated all along the chain. get-
V1/3R = (V - V1)/2R - V1/2R, giving ting more and more complicated, but with the same kind of result.
If all the switches are set to V, the maximum Vo is obtained, ie
2V1 = 3V - 3V1 - 3V1 255/256V.
on the screen) is modulated. If the beam is strongly As Fig. 7 shows, it is possible to build up well-defined
modulated, so that it produces either bright light or none, alphabetic characters from a 7x5 matrix of dots. Numeric
we can use it to produce a textual display of good contrast. characters, punctuation marks and various other symbols
Fig. 7 shows how a line of text can be built up from dots of can also built up in this way. We will now look in more
light in seven successive scans. These are followed by a detail at what the computer has to do in order to produce
number of lines in which the beam is blanked (off) to such a display. Visual displays are a field in which
provide spacing between rows of text. This process is microcomputer designers have felt themselves free to use
repeated all the way down the screen. their inventiveness. Consequently, there are almost as
many ways of producing the display as there are makes of
microcomputer. Our discussion will therefore deal only
with the main principles which are common to most
7 LINES DEEP 7i micros.
1 DOT SPACE
l
5 DOTS WIDE 5 DOTS WIDE DOTS WIDE
15
A SINGLE
MODULATED LINE 1
2
3
SUCCESSIVE 4
SCANS
5
FACE OF CRT 6
7
DIRECTION OF SCAN
DOT OF LIGHT
Fig. 6 How text is displayed on a TV screen. Fig. 7 Enlarged view of the first few letters shown in Fig. 6.
33
ETI JANUARY 1983
The Writing's On The Screen .. . Channel 36) with the video signal imposed on to it. When
the TV receives this signal it demodulates it, recovering the
Figure 8 shows the signai which is fed to the grid of the
CRT to modulate the beam to produce scan 5 of Fig. 7. original video signal that it then uses to produce the
The length of a single dot -producing pulse, is of the order display. The additional processes of modulation and
of 15 uS. This waveform is produced by a circuit like that demodulation inevitably lead to distortion; consequently,
shown as a block diagram in Fig. 9. Most micros have what the resolution obtainable on a TV is inferior to that
is termed a memory -mapped display. A certain block of
obtained on a proper monitor screen. A TV is acceptable
memory addresses is set aside for holding the text. when there are 40 or fewer characters per line, but when
Normally it requires one byte of data for each character. there are 60 characters or more the use of a monitor is
For example, if the screen has 16 lines, with 64 characters much to be preferred.
per line, the memory area must consist of 1024 bytes, or 1
kilobyte. Whenever text is to be displayed, the CPU stores Graphics Galore
the ASCII codes corresponding to each character in the The variety in methods of producing textual displays is
appropriate memory cell. exceeded by the variety of techniques used for producing
___WHITE graphics. A few micros (eg ZX81 and PET) use the
-
LEVEL
character generator to produce geometrical shapes and
other designs and symbols. These can be combined on the
BLA
LEVELCK
screen to produce designs of almost infinite complexity.
This technique exploits one of the useful features of
character generators: they can be programmed to produce
LINE
TIME
T any or all of the possible patterns on a 5 x 7 (or larger)
SYNCHRONISING
PULSE matrix. For example, we can have them programmed for
Fig. 8 The signal required to produce the fifth scan of Fig. 7. different styles of letter or for special letters for different
languages. There 235 permutations of dots, far more than
The video RAM, as this section of memory is usually can be accommodated within a single IC, so the snag of
called, is read in sequence by the video circuitry. this method is that the user is limited to the range of
Although video RAM can be addressed by the MPU like symbols selected by the manufacturer. If you are writing
any other part of RAM, in some micros it has its own programs for playing Bridge or Blackjack, the hearts and
control signals and its own data bus to connect it with the clubs symbols will be useful but, if your interests lie in cash
video circuit. For most of the time it operates account programs, they are a waste of space on the chip.
independently of the microprocessor. The ASCII code for BETWEEN
LETTER
each character in turn is transferred to the data latch. It is
.. ::'.
SPACE
held there while the next code is being fetched. The (a) (b)
Mt* I,* ..
output from the latch goes to a character generator IC. 2
2:: ..:>::,:...
..:. MifflitZefflei<:.;
1 BM.:.
This is a special kind of ROM (see Designing Micro
3::
4.
5) effle...03£'
..:; lfflel.
Systems, ETI October 1982) which converts an ASCII code
into the corresponding pattern of dots. It has inputs from
the latch to tell it which character is to be generated, and
4 8
16 32
;:'
9:
9:
:..
;...
efflg-:.
gege....
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iten
from the synchronising circuit to tell it which one of the BINARY
VALUES OF
CODE=
1+32+128 = 161
CODE=
2+8+16+128
seven lines of dots is to be generated. It has five outputs EACH PIXEL = 154 BETWEEN LINE SPACE
that indicate which dots are to be displayed as white and

which will be black. Fig. 10 Graphics blocks, as used in the TRS-80 Model I. (a)
Each pixel has the binary value shown. (b) and (c) The sum
of, values of 'on' blocks plus 128 gives the code. (d) How a
block is displayed by scanning (letter A for comparison of
sizes). The blocks are displayed on a 6 x 12 matrix, leaving
no space between adjacent blocks.
Many computers use graphics blocks (Fig. 10) as a

means of constructing displays. A block may consist of six
VIDEO
MIXER BUFFER sub -blocks (or pixels, which is the name used for picture
TO elements). Designing displays by this method involves
MONITOR
CIRCUITS interpreting your picture six blocks at a time and
programming the computer with the corresponding code.
The codes are stored in video RAM, as with text. Separate
Fig. 9 Block diagram of thle circuit for displaying text. circuits are used in place of the character generator to
convert the code to the corresponding set of video signals
The output from the, character generator is converted and feed them to the shift register. If the designs required
from parallel to serial form by the shift register. This are regular (such as decorative borders), programming is
produces a train of pulses, some high, some low, like simple but it becomes very time-consuming if you want to
those shown in Fig. 8. These are fed to a video mixer draw complicated pictures.
circuit where line synchronising pulses and frame A third approach to graphics is to deal with each pixel
synchronising pulses are added. The combined video separately, and allocate one bit in video RAM to each
signal is then passed through a buffer circuit to the pixel. If the value of the bit is '0', the corresponding pixel is
monitor. 'off' (black screen). If it is '1', the pixel is 'on' (white
Such a signal is not suitable for sending to a domestic screen). A medium -resolution graphics display, for
TV set. The TV is expecting a UHF carrier signal from an. example MODE 5 on the BBC Microcomputer, has 256
aerial, modulated by the video signal. So, if a TV is being lines, each with 160 pixels. This gives a total of 40960
used, the signal from the video mixer must first go to a pixels. Allotting one bit per pixel, the video RAM must
modulator. This produces a UHF carrier signal (usually on provide 5 kilobytes. If the display is to be in colour, an
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ETI JANUARY 1983
FEATURE: Micros
additional 5K bytes are required to indicate colour treatment. It is easy to write routines for drawing lines,
information for four colours, or an additional 15K for 16 circles, or triangles, and for filling in areas with solid
colours. With the high -resolution display on the BBC colour. The high-level language may include commands
Microcomputer (MODE 0) there are 640 pixels per line, such as DRAW, PLOT, and CIRCLE, which perform these
requiring 20K, but allowing for only two colours. It can be functions automatically, leaving the user to supply only
seen that high resolution graphics, and particularly high - the parameters. Graphs, bar charts, clock faces and all
resolution colour graphics, require a very extensive video kinds of designs which are composed of reasonably simple
RAM. The cost of RAM has fallen in recent years, making it geometrical shapes can be programmed in a few lines.
feasible to provide micros with good high -resolution
colour graphics at relatively low cost. But, unless special Getting Into Print
'paging' address circuitry is introduced, a micro with a Controlling a printer is very different from controlling
16 -bit address bus is limited to 64K of memory, into which a monitor or TV. When controlling a monitor, the
ROM, program RAM and the video RAM must be fitted. computer is responsible for all the timing and signal
Consequently, an increase in the size of the video RAM generation. The monitor merely transfers this signal to the
means a decrease in the address space left for program screen as a raster of lines, varying in brightness along their
RAM. If video RAM is physically a section of RAM itself, length. Once the data has been transmitted, there are no
instead of being a separate entity as in some micros (see further problems for the computer, for the monitor is able
above), this section of RAM can be used for video when a to work fast. The signals it receives are almost immediately
program is to have plenty of graphics in colour, but can be translated into a pattern on the screen.
turned over to program or data storage when graphics are A printer takes a much larger share of the work on
not required. This is the system generally adopted in itself. The computer simply tells the printer which letter is
micros with high resolution graphics. to be printed next. Then the printer works out how and
where to print the letter, or when to feed the paper on to
A Colourful PAL print the next line. It can even organise itself to save time
In the PAL system of colour television, used in most by printing alternate lines from right to left! In order to do
European countries, colour transformation is transmitted this the printer needs an elaborate logic circuit. This may
by modulating the luminance (brightness signal) with a often include a microprocessor specially devoted to
very high frequency chrominance (colour) signal. The way managing its activities. If the printer is of the dot-matrix
in which the chrominance signal is derived and type, it also needs a character generator to tell it which
subsequently decoded in the TV set is too complex to go combinations of printing, needles to fire at the ribbon (Fig.
into here. The final result is that three separate signals are 11).
derived to control the red, green and blue guns of the (a) Ibl
colour tube.
The output from a computer to an RGB colour
monitor consists of four signals, on separate lines. The
'sync' signal provides the pulses needed for synchronising
scanning with the reading of video RAM. The other three
signals (R, G and B) control the three electron guns of the
colour tube. Whenever there is a pulse on R, a red dot is
produced on the screen. Whenever there is a pulse on G, Fig. 11 Dot-matrix printers use a matrix of printing needles.
we obtain a green dot. In either case only one kind of If a needle is fired it hits the ribbon and makes a dot on the
phosphor (red or green) is made to glow. If there are paper. In (a) a capital G is produced on a 5 x 7 matrix. In (b)
pulses on R and G at the same time, both electron guns are a lower-case g is produced with a tail beneath it using a 5 x 9
activated. A red dot and a green dot are produced in the matrix. In general, printers with few rows are not able to
same region of the screen. From the normal viewing offer descenders like this.
distance it appears that there is a yellow dot on the screen.
All colours are produced by mixing red, green and blue in The main disadvantage of a printer compared with a
various combinations and proportions. screen is that it deals with data much more slowly. There is
The availability of separate signals for the red, green a physical limit on how rapidly we can accelerate and then
and blue guns means that excellent colour rendering with decelerate the appreciable mass of the print head (be it a
full saturation may be readily obtained on an RBG matrix of needles or a daisywheel) and the rollers or
m nitor. For those who wish to use a domestic colour TV, sprockets which feed the paper to it. By contrast, the beam
micros with colour graphics usually have a TV output. In
the video mixer circuit the RGB signals are combined with
the luminance signal before modulation and the
DO' SL
D7'
composite signal is sent to the TV set. As with
monochrome TVs, losses of signal quality occurring during 62,
demodulation and decoding mean that resolution and 03'

colour rendering is not as good as with a monitor. CPU PRINTER
D4'
High resolution colour graphics can give an intricate
picture but, with so many pixels to be individually dealt D5'
with, one might think that programming would be too D6'
laborious for the average user. In fact, high resolution
graphics may be easier to handle than the graphics blocks D7'
or generated characters described earlier. Since there is

only one shape (a dot) instead of dozens or hundreds, we DATAI STROBE
avoid the need to specify which shape is to be displayed.
BUSY
Since each pixel can be specified solely by its X and Y
coordinates of the screen, the basis of pixel graphics is OUT OF PAPER
mathematical and it lends itself readily to mathematical Fig. 12 Parallel data transfer between computer and printer.
ETI JANUARY 1983 35
of electrons in a CRT is virtually massless and can be signalling this fact to the computer. The level on, this line is
directed and modulated almost instantly. usually controlled by a micro -switch connected to a lever
There are two main ways in which a computer and which is in contact with the paper. An OUT OF PAPER
printer may be connected. The parallel transfer of data is signal causes the computer to send no more data until the
illustrated in Fig. 12. An example of this 'system is the normal level is restored.
Centronics interface, originally devised by manufacturers
of Centronics printers but now adopted by many other Are You Being Serialed?
manufacturers. The first point to note is that there is two- The alternative way of sending data to a printer is to
way communication, in contrast with the one-way transmit a series of pulses along a single line. This has
communication between computer and monitor. This is a obvious advantages in that only a single data line is
consequence of the relatively slow speed of a printer. A required instead of eight. The most frequently used system
computer can instruct a printer far faster than the printer of serial data transfer is known as the RS232C standard.
can print. Rather than have the computer waste its The standard specifies voltage levels and rates of data
valuable time waiting for the printer to operate letter by transfer and the system to be used for coding the data. The
letter, we let the computer send a long string of commands standard also covers the types of connector to be used so
to the printer in rapid succession. Since there are eight that any pair of devices employing RS232C may be
data lines, the computer can send a byte at a time. This is coupled together and expected to communicate reliably.
normally the ASCII code for the letter required. The printer In Fig. 12 the pulses drawn above the parallel data
can also interpret ASCII control characters for operations lines indicate that the computer is sending 0100 0001 (or
such as line feed (LF) and carriage return (CR). Whenever 65 decimal, the ASCII code for 'A'). In Fig. 13 the same
the computer is outputting data it makes the ASCII code is being sent serially along one data line.
DATA STROBE line low. this has the same function as the Sending eight bits one after another is obviously slower
WR control line used internally, and is derived almost than sending them in parallel, a byte at a time, as in Fig.
directly from it. Similarly, the data lines are separated from 12, but since printers are relatively slow this is not a great
the data bus of the computer only by latches, which hold disadvantage.
the data long enough for the printer to be able to receive There are various ICs available for converting parallel
it. In some micros a general-purpose I/O device is used for
data to serial data. A simple parallel-in -serial-out (PISO)
this purpose (see Designing Micro Systems, ETI December shift register such as the 74LS166 will do the job, but ICs
1982). specially designed for computers do it better. A universal
The I/O device or the buffers leading to the printer asynchronous receiver transmitter (UART) is an example
data lines need only one decoding circuit to enable them. of such an IC. This provides two-way communication,
Thus a printer needs to have only one address in RAM
being able to receive parallel data from the CPU and
allocated to it. In comparison with the video screen, the transmit it as serial data, and to receive serial data from a
printer makes minimal demands! peripheral and pass it to the CPU as parallel data. The
Printer Buffer latter function is not required for use with a printer, but
When data is received by the printer it is stored in a would be used, for example, when two computers are
small RAM, called the holder buffer. This holds the codes required to communicate with each other. Not only does
for about 80 characters (maybe more), which is enough to the UART convert from parallel to serial (or the other way
print one line of text. It stores codes as they come in, then about) but it takes the parallel data, makes it into a train of
reads out codes previously stored and prints the eight pulses, and adds a 'start' pulse and a 'stop' pulse to
characters they represent. When the computer sends a the beginning and end of the train.
long string of codes the buffer is likely to become full. Also
the printer has occasionally to stop printing to move on Correcting The Errors
the paper to the next line. Again, codes will accumulate in Since it requires only one data line, serial data
the buffer. At this stage the printer puts a signal on the transmission is suited for long distance. Parallel data
BUSY line. The effect of this is to interrupt the computer transmission is rarely used under such circumstances. The
and make it stop sending any more data. When the printer longer the line, the greater the chance of stray
has printed all that it has stored and its buffer is empty, the electromagnetic interference finding its way on to the line
BUSY signal is taken off the line and the computer is free and into the data receiving circuit. This is why the train of
to send the next batch of data. On some interfaces there is pulses often includes an extra pulse known as the parity
also an acknowledge line (ACK), a handshaking line by bit. The idea of this is to allow the receiving device to
which the printer informs the computer that it has done check that no spurious pulse has been added as a result of
whatever it was told to do and is awaiting fresh interference during transmission. The parity bit is
instructions. There may be an OUT OF PAPER line for calculated by the UART before the data is transmitted, and
STOP START is added to the end of the train of data pulses, then
BIT
ASCII CODE
BIT
ly
followed by the stop bit or bits. The value to be given to
the parity bit is found by counting how many 1s are
DATA present in the data. If the number is even, the parity bit is
made 1, so the total number of is becomes odd. If the
number of 1s in the data is already odd, the parity bit is
made 0, so retaining the odd number of 1s. At the
BUSY
receiving end the UART simply has to count the number of
1s in the train. If it is odd, all is well and it then sends on
CPU PRINTER
PRINTER READY the train (minus the parity bit) to be decoded. If the
DATA SET READY number of 1s is even, a transmission error has occurred
and the device or its operator can be alerted. This system
is not absolutely error -proof for two errors could occur
which would be self -cancelling. However, if the average
rate of error is, say 1 in 100,000 bits on any occasion, the
Fig. 13 Serial transfer of data between computer and printer. chance of two errors occurring on that occasion is 1 in
36 ETI JANUARY 1983
FEATURE: Micros
10,000,000,000 bits, which can be fairly safely DATA
(ASCII CODE)
disregarded.
MSB LSB
The system described above is known as odd parity. It
is also possible to work with even parity, in which the
t
'HOLDING'
0r 1 l O l 0 i 1 l O t 0i Oi o i oi 1 i
START
O r
'HOLDING'
STOP
BIT
parity bit makes up the 1 s to an even number. Most UARTs
can be programmed to deal with either type of parity.
'EVEN'
It's Your Timing That's Crucial PARITY
Fiuure 10 shows the train of pulses required to Fig. 14 The waveform of a serial signal (see text). There may
transmit the ASCII code for 'A serially. It includes an even be one or two 'stop' bits. The holding period between suc-
parity bit. The soïtage level specified for signalling 0 is cessive signals may be any length, which is why the system is
-3 V or more, while the level for 1. is any voltage lower called asynchronous.
than -3V. The interval between successive groups of
pulses can be as long as necessary. The receiver waits until frequency is divided by internal counter circuits to
a start bit arrives and then decodes the nine or so bits produce a range of output frequencies at standard baud
bleb fo tow. There is no interval between successive rates. A UART may be connected to one or other of these
pulses. The sequence of five Os, for example, is received as outputs, depending on which baud rate is to be used. An
one high pulse. It follows that the transmitter and interface usually has the facility for switching the UART to
receiver must both have a method of timing the duration any one of the generator outputs, so that the rates on
of puises. Both circuits have oscillators or clocks built in to transmitter and receiver may be matched.
them to fix the rate at which they work. When two devices Since this is an asynchronous system, matching of
are coupled both clocks must operate at the same timing does not have to be of high precision. Timing at the
frequency. To assist standardisation, a number of receiver begins when a start bit is received. The clock at
frequencies have been selected for use with RS232C the receiver has to remain in phase with the transmitting
interfaces. clock only for the. duration of 10 to 11 pulses. The
The rate of transmission of data is expressed in baud. receiving clock probably runs slightly slower or faster than
This unit, named after a French engineer, J. M. E. Baudot, the transmitting clock, but this does not matter. It can get
is equal to the number of bits transmitted per second. only a fraction of a pulse out of phase in such a short time,
Standard rates are 110, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, and this is not enough to cause errors in decoding. When
9600 and 19200 baud, though the higher ones are not the next train of pulses arrives, timing begins all over again
included in the. RS232C standard. To simplify circuit from the arrival of the start pulse. Any discrepancies of
design there are baud rate generator ICs. These are driven timing which might have accumulated between trains are
by a high frequency crystal oscillator circuit; the high eliminated. ETI
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The Jupiter Ace uses FORTH
The Jupiter Ace personal computer runs in FORTH, an easily
understood language, typically four times as compact and ten
times as fast as BASIC. Before the Ace all personal computers
used BASIC and FORTH was only available to a privileged few.
The Jupiter Ace also features a full-size moving -key keyboard,
high -resolution graphics, sound, floating point arithmetic, a fast
and reliable cassette interface and 3K of RAM.
Available soon
Plug -on parallel printer interface.
£20.00 this will connect your Jupiter Ace to
For around
anything from high-speed dot matrix to letter-quality daisy
wheel printers.
Plug -on 16K Memory Expansion
For around £30.00 you will increase the memory of your Jupiter
Ace to 19K giving you instant access to enormous amounts of
information.
Software
A catalogue will be sent with every machines, and includes, initially,
programs for education and entertainment.
Technical Information
Hardware
inclusive Z80A running at 3.25 MHz.
8K bytes ROM
3K bytes RAM
price Keyboard 40 Moving -key keyboard with auto repeat on every key and
Caps Lock.
For £89.95 you receive Screen Memory mapped 32 i olumn x 24 line flicker -free display with
your Jupiter Ace, a mains upper and lower case ascii character set.
adaptor, all the leads Graphics Chunky graphics (64 x 46 pixels) may be plotted, unplotted
needed to connect to most or over-plotted (XOR operation). Also, the entire character set (128
cassette recorders and T.V.s characters and their video inverses) may be redefined allowing intricate
(colour or black and white), a shapes to be drawn with a resolution equivalent to 256 x 192 pixels.
software catalogue and a Sound Internal loudspeaker may be programmed to operate over the
manual. entire audio spectrum.
The manual is a complete Cassette Programs and data in the compact dictionary format may be
introduction to the world of saved, verified, loaded and merged. Blocks of memory can be saved,
verified, loaded and relocated. All tape files are named. Running at 1500
personal computing and a baud, the Ace will connect to most portable tape recorders.
course in FORTH programming
Expansion Port Contains D.C. power rails and full Z80 Address, data
on the Ace. and control signals. May be used to connect extra memory and other
Even if you are a complete peripherals. IN and OUT words allow port-based peripherals to be
newcomer to computers, the addressed.
manual will guide you step by step Data Structures Integer, Floating point and String data may be held
from first principles to confident as constants, variables or arrays with multiple dimensions and mixed
programming. data types. There are no restrictions on names.
The price includes postage, packing Control Structures IF-ELSE-THEN, DO-LOOP DO-+LOOP,
BEGIN-WHILE-REPEAT, BEGIN-UNTIL, all may be mixed and nested
and V.A.T.
to any depth.
The Jupiter Ace is backed by a full 12
month warranty. The Jupiter Ace closely follows the FORTH 79 standard with extensions
for floating point sound and cassette. It has a unique and remarkaole
The Jupiter Ace is available only by mail order. editor that allows you to list and alter words that have been previc..sly
compiled into the dictionary. This avoids the need to store screens o`
Please allow up to 28 days for delivery. source, allowing the dictionary itself to be saved on cassette.
Send cheque or postal order with the form to:- Comprehensive error checking removes the worry of accidertaiy
JUPITER CANTAB, 20 FOXHOLLOW crashing your programs.
BAR HILL, CAMBRIDGE CB3 8EP
Designed by
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JUPITER ACE MICROCOMPUTER(S) @ £89.95.

7 Jupiter Cantab
Computer Designers
Steven Vickers and Richard
Altwasser played a major
role in creating the
ZX Spectrum and then
Name. Mr/Mrs/Miss I 1 1 1 1 I 1 I I 1 I I I 1 1 1 1 I II formed Jupiter Cantab to
develop advanced ideas in
Address III I I I 1 I I I I I 1 1 I 1 1 I I I 1 1 I 1 1 1
personal computing. The
Ace is the result, another
all -British computer to lead
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ETI
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(and take along the wife and kids)
Have you ever fancied spending the day playing with an Atari, or
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Well, these plus a complete cross-section of the hard and software
available to the home user, will be on display at the London Computer
Show.
The emphasis is on the lower end of the price bracket, with
computers from £50-£300.
You will be able to chat to the manufacturers and play with the
computer before you buy.
So bring along the wife and kids (who'll probably be more of an
expert on what you're buying than you).
And if you're a party of 20 or more, there's a 25% discount.
Friday 7th January '83

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Saturday 8th January '83
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Sunday 9th January '83
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after 3rd Dec.
The radio market has Or one that still calls your
become more complex. Things gear a wireless.
have become more confused. Rather a magazine that
Wires get crossed as new simply clarifies the vast range of
equipment floods onto the electronic gadgetry available.
market. Lists new equipment,
At the end of the day, analyses its performance.
even the most avid enthusiast Thorough reviews, special
spends more time trying to find features, news items and
out about new equipment than constructional projects.
on the airwaves using it. In a clear and concise way
As for the novice? that will give everyone a perfect
They stand little chance of 5+9.
picking anything up at all. Ham Radio Today.
So we've decided to clear Tomorrow ... tune in and
things up. find out, 73.
On December 3rd our new
magazine Ham Radio Today
begins.
Not a magazine you need
a degree in electronics to
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Published by
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CORTEX PA RT 3
TO DISC DRIVES
SOLDER TAG UNDER
MOUNTING PILLAR
0V. 12V.. +5V SOLDER TAG

BETWEEN
TRANSISTOR
AND BUSH
9V AC
9V AC
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42 ET! JANUARY 1983
PROJECT
PARTS LIST
POWER SUPPLY D1-4,9,10 1N5402 Capacitors
Resistors (all /4W, 5%) D5-8 1N4002 C1,2,5 220n 35 V tantalum
R1,2 10R ZD1 BCW70 5V6 C3,4 4u7 16 V tantalum
C6 4n7 ceramic
Capacitors Miscellaneous C7 33p ceramic
C1,7,11,15 100n polyester PCB (see Buylines); one off three way
C2-4 4700u 16 V axial connector; two off five way connectors; Semiconductors
electrolytic transformer (13.5-0-13.5 Vat 3 A, 9 V IC1 74LS123
C5,6,9,10, at 4 A; fuseholder clips; four off TV5 IC2 74LS08
13,14,18,19 1u0 35 V tantalum heatsinks. IC3 74LS157
C8,12 2200u 25 V axial IC4 2376
electrolytic Q1 BC182L
C16,17 4700u 25 V axial
electrolytic KEYBOARD Miscellaneous
Resistors (all ''/4W, 5%) PCB (see Buylines); 67 off momentary
Semiconductors R1,2,6,8 4k7 push -to -make switches; one off latching
IC1 7805 R3 18k push -to -make switch; set of 67 double
IC2,4 7812 R4 12k shot moulded key tops; IC sockets;
IC3 7912 R5 680k switch mounting bracket; mounting
Q1,2 TIP2955 R7 100k pillars etc.
The CAPS LOCK switch is pins are soldered in squarely, fit the The board has provision for a
physically different from sockets on to them during soldering. Eurocard connector for expansion
the rest and is wired in The power supply is all on the back purposes and there is a cut-out in
with wire links. Press this switch panel and the power transistors use the side of the computer through
into its bracket together with the Q this as a heatsink, being fitted to it which the connector passes; for
and W switches before fitting to the with mica insulating washers. external expansion the board fits at
board. It is most important that the As well as holding the input and the far right hand side. However, if
switches fit squarely on the board. output sockets, the rear panel has the add-on units are to be fitted
The best way to be sure of this is to provision for a cooling fan and one internally then the position to the
solder only one pin of each switch should be fitted when disc drives left is used.
and then holding the board, press in are used.
turn each of the switches while The disc drives pass through the
BUYLINES
reheating the soldered joint. If any front panel and are screwed onto a Powertran are supplying complete kits
are misaligned this will correctly mounting plate. Plates on the sides of parts and component packs for the
position them. The key tops can Cortex. A complete 64K Cortex kit will
of the drives press against the panel, cost £295 plus VAT, carriage free. A
now be pressed on and the thereby making a rigid sub -assembly ready-built 64K Cortex will cost £395
remaining pins soldered. which fits into the cover of the plus VAT, carriage free. Prices for add-
The power supply is on a single - ons (eg floppy discs, RS232C interface,
computer. The standard kit has a memory expansion etc) and for compo-
sided PCB with six wire links and it panel with no cut-outs for disc nent packs (eg PCB, semiconductors etc)
is best to fit these before any drives and a new panel is provided can be found in Powertran's brochure.
components. Connections to and with the drives when purchased. Powertran Cybernetics, Portway In-
from this board are made via There are two positions in dustrial Estate, Andover, Hants SP10
2NM. Telephone 0264 64455.
connectors and to ensure that their which the main board can be fitted.
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FUEL GAUGE
Moving coil meters? How passé. If Ford is
prepared to spend millions of pounds on
computer -aided design and robot
assembly, the least you can do is fit your
car with an electronic fuel gauge. Design
by A. M. Smithers.
The standard petrol gauge, as Construction HOW IT WORKS ffl11.111111.1111111111,
A current source for the fuel gauge

fitted to most cars, is of a The circuit is relatively simple sender unit is provided by R2. A voltage
primitive 'hot-wire' design, the and may be constructed on proportional to the resistance of the
gauge responding to the heating Veroboard or the PCB design as sender is therefore developed between
effect of the current through it, illustrated. IC sockets are the input and ground. In a typical
vehicle this voltage will vary from 2 V
which in turn varies with the recommended, particularly to when full to around 9V when empty.
resistance of the fuel gauge sender novice constructors, as LM3914s do This variable input is inverted around a
unit located in the fuel tank. The not come cheap and removing an reference voltage derived from R4 and
chief disadvantage of such a gauge 18 -pin IC is no easy task in any R5 by a unity gain inverter consisting of
IC1, R3 and R6. Cl is deliberately larger
is the inaccuracy of reading. case. The LEDs may be soldered than is normal for frequency
Running out of petrol is directly to the board as shown or compensation to slow down the
advantageous only in certain may be mounted remotely, for response of the circuit, thus providing a
circumstances and even then it instance on the car dashboard with far more static display, free from
annoying flicker. A variable potential
would be nice to know exactly flying lead connections to the PCB. divider formed by R7 and PR1 sets the
when it was going to occur! If mounting the LEDs on the board FSD of the LM3914 bargraph display
A far more elegant, and indeed, specified, please note that 0.125" driver.
much prettier solution would be a LEDs must be used as 0.2" types PR2 serves two purposes: the setting
of this pot adjusts the zero level of the
bargraph type display which could will not fit! voltmeter, while the value sets the LED
be accurately calibrated. With the R2, the 1008 2W resistor is not current. A value of 2k2 was chosen to
help of the LM3914 bargraph of a critical value and to save costs, given an LED current of around 7 mA ac-
display driver this can easily be on the prototype this component cording to the formula:
effected. The standard sender unit was made up of 4x470R 4W 'LED - 1.2 (10 + R)
in the tank is retained, but the resistors in parallel. Any similar where R is the value of PR2 in kilohms. A
petrol gauge is disconnected at the combination resulting in a power current of 6 mA per LED with all LEDS il-
instrument panel and the sender handling of 1W5 or more may be luminated corresponds to a maximum
dissipation in IC2 of around 600mW
unit is, instead, connected to the used. which is inside the rated maximum of
input. R2 provides the current Provision is made on the PCB 660 mW.
source for the sender unit for converting the circuit to dot - The components ZD1, R1 and Q1
previously obtained from the gauge mode display. Although this form a simple stabilised power supply of
around 10 V. This value allows for a
itself. Please note that considerable modification would not be weak battery while still maintaining
adjustment is provided on the advantageous for a fuel gauge, the accuracy.
circuit resulting in the value of R2 project can of course be used for
+12V
and, indeed, the resistance of the O FROM
IGNITION
sender unit being not at all critical. 01
The voltage developed across
the sender unit of the car in which R1 IC2
the prototype was fitted varied from 1k0 22u
around 10V when empty to around 18
2V when full. A 741 operational R2

17
amplifier is used to invert this signal 100R R4
10k
by comparing it with a 5V reference (SEETEXT)
2W
provided by R4 and R5. The output

of the op -amp varies from about
OV5 when the tank is empty to INPUT R3
10k
R6 _L.,100n 14
FROM 10k
IC2
about 8V when it is full. This output FUEL O
SENDER IC 6 T
is now of the correct sense to be UNIT 1
4 12
fed to a standard LM3914 expanded
scale voltmeter. The potential
divider formed by R7 and PR1 R5 R7
10k 10 IR,
10k
provides a full scale adjustment NOTE:
which may be calibrated against a IC1 IS 741
IC2 IS LM3914 PR1
DOTS 7 BAR
PR2
brimming full petrol tank. Similarly O1 IS BFY51 10k 2k2
ZD1 IS 10V 400mW ZENER
PR2 provides a zero adjustment for LEDI -10 ARE 0.125" SET
FSD
SET
ZERO
RED LEDS 2 8
calibration against an empty tank.
OOV
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ETI JANUARY 1983
PROJECT
any purpose requiring a monitor INPUT FROM
with a response that is inversely +12V FROM
IGNITION
FUEL
SENDER
proportional to a linear input. SWITCH SWITCH
Testing And Calibration

After assembly of all
components, connect the unit to a
12 V supply and short the input
terminal temporarily to 0 V. It
should be now possible by
adjustment of PRl to obtain a full
10 LED display with adjustment to
at least half FSD. With the input
shorted to +10V PR2 should adjust
for no LEDs illuminated, again with
considerable adjustment both ways.
If the unit fails to function check for
solder shorts, misfitted components,
broken PCB tracks and faulty
components - in that order.
To calibrate the unit it is
obviously necessary to have access
to the car with fuel tank full and
empty; we recommend that the
following procedure is adopted. Run
the car until the tank is nearing
empty. Drain the tank into a
suitable container by disconnecting
the fuel line at the pump and refill
the tank with about 2-3 pints of, fuel
to allow a certain safety margin
even when the gauge registers
empty. Connect the unit temporarily
to the car and after allowing the
tank contents to settle, accurately
measure the voltage at the input
and record this value. Replace the
tank contents, drive to a garage and
fill the tank completely with fuel. OV (CHASSIS)
Again accurately measure the Fig. 2 (Above) Component overlay.
voltage at the input. This is slightly altered from the PARTS LIST
prototype shown. Resistors (all ¡W, 5% except where
Remove the unit to the test
Fig. 3 (Below) Connection details for stated)
bench, apply power and connect a the unit. R1 1ko
low value potentiometer between +12v FROM R2 100R 2 W (see text)
the input and ground. Now using IGNITION
R3-7 10k
the recorded values, the unit may
Potentiometers
be calibrated on the bench by PR1 10k miniature horizontal
applying the correct voltages by preset
adjustment of the potentiometer. PR2 2k2 miniature horizontal
This method of calibration is preset
necessary because the two Capacitors
adjustments are highly interactive BREAK Cl 100n polyester or
and calibration would otherwise CONNECTION
polycarbonate
entail filling and draining the fuel C2 22u 16 V tantalum
tank several times, which would be Semiconductors
time-consuming and possibly IC1 741
expensive. When calibration is IC2 LM3914
complete, seal the presets with wax TO FUEL
Q1 BFY51 or similar
CONNECT
SENDER UNIT ZD1 10 V 400 mW zener
or nail varnish and finally install the TO CHASSIS
LEDI -10 0.125" red LEDs
unit in the car. Take care not to illuminated. As the maximum
allow the track around the edge of allowable dissipation of the device Miscellaneous
the PCB touch the chassis when is 660 mW, on no account should PCB (see Buylines); hardware for
mounting the unit - this is the
+10V rail and blown fuses will
the value of PR2 be reduced.
A design point is that the
mounting
result. display is of 10 LEDs and most BUYLINES

The display brightness is set by modern cars have tank capacities of No problems with any of the com-
the value of PR2. This value is around 10 gallons. Thus an ponents here; everything should be sold
approximate direct readout of by everybody, and most of it could be
chosen to give a current of about found in your junk box. The PCB can be
6 mA per LED which corresponds to 'gallons remaining' is obtained and obtained using the PCB Service order
a dissipation of around 600 mW in a fair estimation of fuel form on page 91.
the LM3914 when all LEDs are consumption may be made. ETI
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they've sold over 500,000 so far, to. make Your ZX Spectrum comes with a mains
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ideal low-cost introduction to computing. and TVs (colour or black and white). plus flashing and brightness -intensity
Now there's the ZX Spectrum! With Employing Sinclair BASIC (now used control.
up to 48K of RAM. A full-size moving -key in over 500,000 computers worldwide) Sound - BEEP command with variable
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Whether you're a beginner or a competent
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The ZX Spectrum incorporates all into the colourful world of ZX Spectrum High -resolution -256 dots
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new 16K BASIC ROM dramatically There's no need to stop there. The individually addressable for true high -
increases your computing power. ZX Printer -available now- is fully resolution graphics.
You have access to a range of 8 compatible with the ZX Spectrum. And ASCII character set -with upper -and
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border, together with a sound generator massive amounts of extra on-line storage,
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Yet the price of the Spectrum 16K
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for an upgrade. The cost? Around £60.
um The ZX Printer -
available now
Designed exclusively for use with the
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characters and high-resolution graphics.
A special feature is COPYwhich
The ZX Microdrive-
coming soon
The new Microdrives, designed
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change the face of personal computing.
Each Microdrive is capable of holding
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screen without the need for further second, with average access time of 3.5
instructions. Printing speed is 50 charac- seconds. And you'll be able to connect up
ters per second, with 32 characters to 8 ZX Microdrives to your ZX Spectrum.
per line and 9 lines per vertical inch. All the BASIC commands required for
The ZX Printer connects to the rear of the Microdrives are included on the
your ZX Spectrum. A roll of paper (65ft Spectrum.
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BUYER'S GUIDE TO
CONQUERING
THE UNIVERSE
Only a few shopping days to Christmas, and we're full of
goodwill to all men and xenophobia towards aliens. Peter Green
has been killing as many as possible (aliens, that is), and this is
how he got on.
No doubt you all think it's a pretty cushy job, playing they've had them for a certain length of time you can blast
video games day after day and getting paid for it them with a 30 kW X-ray laser .. .
too. That's because you're not sitting here trying to Eventually managed to get a reasonable selection
I
type this article with the twin ailments of Intellivision together, though, and play -testing began. It became
Thumb and Atari Cramp. The former is caused by apparent that there are three broad categories of game:
excessive pressure on the direction disc through sheer ones where you have to kill an infinite series of strange
panic when you're trapped by a falling boulder in things and get the highest number of points, those where
Astrosmash. The second is the result of trying to keep a you have to kill a finite number of strange things in the
firm grip on the joystick while throwing the USS Enterprise fastest possible time, and those that simulate some real
all over the known universe. human activity. The success or failure of any of these types
Which brings me to my first complaint. Oh great video depends mostly on how well the designer has struck the
game companies, when are you going to produce a balance between challenge and skill level. If a game is so
decent hand controller? The offerings of the two giants easy you can master it after playing it once, it's a bad
leave a lot to be desired. The Atari controller needs a lot of game; so, too, is one that kills you off within 30 seconds no
force on the joystick if you're to be certain you've closed matter how much you practise. The ideal game is fairly
the switches, and as a result the left hand which is gripping easy at the lower levels but increases in difficulty at just the
the controller base starts to go numb quite quickly: right pace to keep step with your increasing familiarity
especially when you have to tighten your hold because with it. It should be possible to play it again and again and
you're starting to sweat and lose your grip. On the always find that extra challenge that brings you back for
Intellivision the flat direction disc is, think, a lot easier to
I more: unfortunately few games can achieve this.
use (although there are many in the office who'd dispute One of the best guides to the success of the game, I
that), but still find that in the excitement of a game I'm

I found, was the number of people that started looking over
pressing too hard, which quickly makes the end of the my shoulder while was playing, and how many of them
I
thumb sore. suppose the real answer is to cultivate a

I fought to take my place when went to the loo! There are
I
calm attitude during play, but this is almost impossible a lot of dedicated garners in our office and the highest
(maybe we should produce a book on Zen and the Art of scores that we give are not necessarily mine (in fact they're
Videogames!). rarely mine!).
By far the worst problem with the Intellivision is the
fire buttons on the sides of the Controller. These need a Star Raiders (Atari 400)
ridiculous amount of pressure to push them in, which isn't This is one of the best Star Trek simulations you can
so bad when they have to be momentarily pressed; but in buy. The TV shows the view through the viewscreen of the
one game which required continuous pressure for rapid Enterprise, with stars drifting past very realistically, and an
firing, ended up dead because my hand simply couldn't
I array of readouts at the bottom giving co-ordinates, energy
grip the controller any longer. So loosen your springs, left, number of kills and so on. The joystick is used to steer
gentlemen! the ship and aim and fire the photon torpedoes, while the
The next problem was actually getting hold of keyboard gives functions such as forward and aft view,
anything to review! At this time of year it seems everyone shields on/off, long range scan, galactic chart, attack
has the same idea, and time after time was told by the PR
I computer on and hyperspace controls. Basically the idea
companies that they had nothing for me because is to protect your starbases by locating your enemy (and
everything was out on loan and none of the journalists there's a lot of them) on the galactic chart, travelling to
would return it. This explains the lack of reviews for the their location by hyperspace (a spectacular effect as you
Atari VCS in particular, and as for the Philips G7000
never managed to lay my hands on one.
- I storm through the starfield) and kill all the aliens you find
there. Simple, huh? Until you discover that the controls
Maybe should propose a new video game in which a
I work as they would in real life so that when the joystick is
screenful of journalists acquire video games and when pushed forward the ship's bow drops and the view
52 ETI JANUARY 1983
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through the screen rolls up. Ditto left and right
movements. This topsy-turvy system takes a bit of getting Space invaders (Various)
Here have to admit that I've never been able to
used to, and the only course is to stick at it until your brain
-
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finally clicks. Once you get the knack of steering you still understand the runaway success of this game it bores
have to cope with the fact that your photon torpedoes me rigid. Anyway, what can say? Everyone's seen this
I
move with true perspective and dwindle in size, so aiming and knows that there's a screenful of aliens who fly in
is an acquired art too. Mastering all this is quite satisfying, gradually descending rows while you try to stop them
but once you've beaten the basic game and try to move up doing same by shooting upwards with your laser.
you find that the difficulty leaps enormously: your shields Whoopee. Since can't get up the enthusiasm to practise
I
are no longer impervious, you quickly take a lot of damage this one my score is derisory, but my brother-in-law's sister
and die fairly rapidly. This assumes you actually found any is so good she can get the score on a VCS up to all nines
aliens in the first piace, because on the higher levels you and then clock it round to zeroes. It's safe to say that if you
have to steer through hyperspace and this is damned can manage that you're not doing too badly.
difficult. No-one in the office has beaten this game on
anything other than novice level, and our highest rating so
far is Lieutenant Class 4.
Defender (BBC Model B)

Possibly the best simulation of an arcade game on a
micro that we've seen yet. Full colour, excellent high -
Missile Command (Atari 400) resolution graphics, all the sound effects you could ask for
Another cracker for the 400, this is the one where a and a fast, challenging game. Acornsoft have definitely
central missile base is trying to defend the cities on either come up with the goods on this one. The game follows the
side by shooting down the aircraft, satellites and nuclear standard Defender format: your spaceship is flying over
warheads which are doing their best to decimate the the surface of a planet populated by little men who are
landscape. The catch is that you have to position your prone to being kidnapped by alien landers. Yòur task is to
prevent this antisocial behaviour by lasering the alien ships
target cursor just the right distance in front of the enemy
because they only detonate if they fly into the explosion of
your missile and it takes a finite time for your missile to
before, during but not after - because if they complete
their task by reaching the top of the screen, they turn into
reach its target. And don't miss - most of the warheads
are Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles, so if you
very fast mutants which plough straight into you. Extra
points are awarded if you can rescue a human in mid-air,
don't knock them out fast you suddenly find they split into and even more if you land him safely. Once you've
half -a -dozen or so. Bonus points are awarded each time cleared the first wave things turn progressively nastier,
you clear the screen for cities saved and missiles not used, with bombers, pods, swarmers and other whatsits all after
and the amount you score increases as the game your blood: This is when you really need your smart
progresses, but after a certain point the nasty smart bombs bombs, which instantly detonate everything on screen:
appear. These don't fly blindly into your fireballs, but will very useful in a tight corner. There are seven control keys
always dodge them if possible. This means you either have for various functions so just getting yourself co-ordinated
to lay a pattern of charges around them, or get good takes a while, but it's worth persevering. started out by
I
enough to hit them spot on. Tricky. Our maximum is getting maximum scores of 450 (by ramming three
74,420, and we can recommend this as a good game. landers!) but after a couple of hours was soon getting
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respectable totals. Current office maximum resides with a

colleague on Personal Computing Today, who racked up
54,350.
ETI JANUARY 1983 53
The Empire Strikes Back (Atari VCS) across the TV at you. Possibly a good game for the kids but
This is one of the new releases for Christmas from it won't keep you engrossed for long. Our maximum score
Parker and quite good it is too. The game recreates the on the normal game with maximum difficult setting was
battle from the film of the same name, 'in which Luke 116,923. If you're interested, Yar's Revenge is the second
Skywalker and his pals take on the Imperial Walkers in game from the right on the top row at the end of Atari's TV
their snowspeeders on the ice planet Hoth. You are the ad.
pilot of a snowspeeder trying to prevent a line of walkers
from reaching the right-hand side of your TV. The action Starstrike (Intellivision)
actually takes place over an area eight screens wide, and a
small radar view at the bottom of the screen tells you
Now you've all seen this one - it's in the Mattel TV
adverts. It doesn't take too much intelligence to figure out
exactly where you are in the larger scheme of things. that this is meant to be as close to the Death Star canyon
Walkers are tough critters - you have to hit them 48 times
in the body to destroy them, whereas they can take you
sequence from Star Wars as Mattel can get without
breaching the copyright laws. Your ship is flying above a
out with five shots or fewer. This would make the game trench (actually your ship stays stationery and the trench
almost impossible but for two things. The first is that for rotates beneath you). You can manoeuvre about but you
every two minutes you can keep the snowspeeder alive, have to be careful not to hit any part of the enemy space
you get 20 seconds of the Force being with you, which station or the game's over. You can judge your position
makes you invincible; as soon as this happens you can just and height by the shadow under your caraft. The score
sit there blasting away and ignoring enemy missiles. The starts at 8000: it decreases steadily as time goes on and
second thing is the occasional appearance of very small increases every time you shoot down the enemy ships
'bomb hatches' on the body of the walker; if you can get a which fly down the trench at you. The object of the game
laser bolt into one it destroys the walker immediately. The is to successfully bomb the five red targets that appear
bad news is that if you play the harder games, these bomb over the horizon and pass beneath your ship (if you
hatches will often launch homing smart bombs which haven't got out of position by chasing aliens). Get killed or
chase you for a considerable time (of course there's bonus fail to hit all five targets before your score reaches zero and
points in it if you can shoot them down). There's an
infinite sequence of walkers, and they get faster and more
it's bye-bye Earth - the red thingies take off and decimate
the of home planet. The idea isn't bad, but the balance of
accurate as time goes on, so this game ends when your last the game could do with a bit of work: it's too easy to beat
snowspeeder has been destroyed, the object being to on the lowest level and too fast to beat at the higher ones.
score as highly as possible. On game 13, the hardest (smart
bombs and solid walkers that destroy you if you fly into
Our maximum - 6462 on level 1. There's a good video
game lurking in the Death Star sequence, but this isn't it.
them), the current maximum is 5,562.
Yar's Revenge (Atari VCS)

Now most of the time you can play a video game and
when .someone asks what you're doing, you can give a
coherent answer. But when you reply that you're a Yar
who's trying to kill the deadly Qotile with your Zorlon
cannon, you tend to get forehead -tapping and pitying
looks. Well, ignore the infantile plot and concentrate on
the game: which isn't one of the most gripping we've
played. You're a sort of intelligent space -going housefly
(stop laughing at the back there) and your enemy, the
Qotile, is hiding behind a shield. Your job is to break
through the shield, either by shooting out cells from a
distance or getting in close and eating them. Eating a cell
or touching the Qotile loads your Zorlon cannon, which is
the only thing which will destroy the Qotile (tough things,
Qotiles). Shoot through the gap in the shield and pow! Exit
one Qotile and enter another. To give some added spice
the Qotile periodically turns into a spinner and fires itself
Astrosmash (Intellivision)
Superficially this seems almost identical to Space
Invaders, and yet found it a lot more to my liking. You
I
have a laser base at the bottom of the screen which you

can move right and left, and which fires upwards at all
sorts of space debris which is dropping out of the skies
towards you. Every time you hit an object, it explodes (and
if you're lucky it detonates another piece which was flying
too close): every time an object hits the ground, you lose
points. Now and again large or small white 'spinners' start
falling - you must hit these or you lose a base when they
land. As your score goes up you can score points faster,
but the action speeds up and you then get guided missiles
which home in on your laser and attack UFOs which fly
across the screen lobbing huge bombs at you. The main
trick with this game is to get a good rapid -firing technique
established, but as pointed out earlier, the stiffness of the
54 ETI JANUARY 1983
FEATURE: Video Games
Mattel push -buttons gets you cramped very quickly. At

least Mattel have had the decency to provide a pause
facility on this game, so you can loosen up your fingers
before carrying on. As is usual in games of this type, the
various scoring levels are indicated by the background
changing colour and some of them make the targets a bit
harder to see; I'm not sure if this is deliberate obstruction
or not! Not a bad game at all, and worth trying to beat our
maximum of 23,190.
Skiing (Intellivision)
Not a bad little simulation, this, though if were
I
programming it think I'd alter the rates of acceleration

I
and deceleration which seemed a bit exaggerated to me.

There's a choice of two courses, downhill or slalom, 15
degrees of mountain slope, and up to six different skiers so
you can make it a team event with your friends. The
difference between the two courses is that the downhill
course is designed for speed, with a fair distance between
gates (and mounds of snow to jump over), while the Dungeons And Dragons (Intellivision)
slalom requires some precision skiing with tight turns This is great! I've always been a fantasy lover and this
(which were a bit beyond my abilities!). The game is is a really different type of computer game. Set off across
improved immensely by the excellent detail of the skiers the mountainous terrain towards Cloud Mountain, with
the ominous snoring of the fearsome Winged Dragons in
(Mattel have always been best at this aspect of graphics)
and by the sound effects, which include realistic thumps the background as they wait for their next meal
Plan your route carefully, as some mountains are
-
you.
as you collide with the trees and a cheering crowd as you
pass the finish line. Unfortunately didn't seem to be able
I impassable while the rest have caves containing arrows,
to complete the course in less than a minute (best time was tools, and fierce monsters to guard them. The caves and
64.6 seconds, making me a hot-dogger), but I'll keep tunnels only light up as you pass along them so you have
trying. Now where's that wax ...? to become adept at tracking your prey. Some monsters.
leave visual clues to their presence (though what thought
I
SNAFU (Intellivision) were dragon droppings turned out to be something else)

Peculiar name for a game (especially if you know what and some can be heard as you approach. it's up to you to
it stands for - and we can't print it here), but quite good
fun to play. There are four snakes on the screen, two
learn the various signs and strengths of the foe, because
the manual won't help you: in fact it was a long time
controlled by the computer and two which can be steered before realised what made the spiders dangerous. If you
I
using the hand controllers. There are various types of can keep at least one of your three men alive to the end,
game based on two basic ideas: trap games and bite you get to find the two halves of the Crown of Kings,
games. In the former the trail grows continuously so that a although when you do the finale is something of an
complex maze develops on the screen, and the object is to anticlimax. There are four skill levels, sightseer, weekend
force your opponents to trap themselves and crash into a adventurer, seasoned adventurer and hero, and finally I
wall. The other type involves snakes of a finite length, the managed to reach hero, despite the incredible speed of
trick being to run your head over your opponent's tail and the baddies and the paucity of arrows on this level. Who is
gradually eat him away. Some permutations allow the this Conan chap anyway? One of Mattel's better games.
possibility of diagonal movement, some have obstacles
which must be avoided. Once the number of snakes on
the screen has been reduced to two, the computer takes it
upon itself to play one of two rather catchy little tunes, just
to make things a bit more entertaining. There's no score of
ours to beat, since all the games involve you against an
opponent. A good game when you're fed up with killing
aliens.
Utopia (Intellivision)
Now here's an unusual one: this is a sort of graphics -
based version of Kingdoms, where you rule an island
community and score points by maximising the well-being
of your people. Tyrants need not apply. You can play
against an opponent, who takes the other island, or simply
try to beat your previous best score. As head of the
Treasury you can decide whether to buy fishing boats or
PT vessels, crops, houses, schools, factories, forts, or
hospitals: you decide whether to co-operate with your
neighbour or wage war on him. Natural hazards include
storms and hurricanes: unnatural hazards include pirate
ships who sink your fishing vessels. The game consists of a
Tron - Deadly Discs (Intellivision)
Mattel have managed to tie up the licence for the
number of rounds from 30 seconds to 2 minutes, after home video game market from Disney (there are also Tron
which you are told how many points you scored, how arcade games on the way), and this first cartridge is based
much your population has increased (or decreased), and on the Frisbee fights from the film (see the review on page
the amount of gold in the treasury. I liked it. 16). You take the part of Tron, facing three opponents on
ETI JANUARY 1983 55
the Game Grid in a duel using identity discs. You can
move about, throw your disc in any of eight directions
(judging the lead on Your moving target if you don't want
to miss), or block your opponents' disc when they aim at
you. The bad guys enter the arena through doors which
you can jam open - get two opposite each other and you
can teleport through from side to side, giving strategical
superiority as well as allowing you to recover one hit
(three hits and you're dead). Should you clear the screen,
however, one of Sark's Recognizers appears to repair the
jammed doors. Knock out its robot eye, a devilishly tricky
manoeuvre, and you get 10 times warrior value bonus
points. Watch out after 10,000 points, though: your r
scoring rate has increased considerably but your

:
opponents are faster and more accurate at aiming.

Sometimes you'll get dark blue Leaders, who can carry
homing discs or discs that count as two blows; the purple
Bulldog warriors are slower but need two hits to kill them. B-17 Bomber (Intellivoice)
After you reach a million points (and by now I've played The first of the games for the Intellivision that requires
enough to believe it's possible), the computer switches the use of the add-on Intellivoice module. You are flying a
tactics and sends on orange guards with paralyzer sticks, bombing mission over Europe during the Second World
which need four blows to kill them and can end the game War, and throughout the flight you're getting a series of
simply by touching you. My new ambition is to get up to comments and warnings in a (pretty appalling!) Texan
this stage of play: I've already racked up 242,500, and a drawl. "Bandits at six o'clock", it announces, and you
curse on the homing disc that got me just short of reaching switch to the view from that gunnery position to shoot
the quarter million! The only way to score highly, by the down der Luftwaffe. Sometimes this doesn't work,
way, is to learn to use the hand controller by feel alone. If because there's a line of bullet holes across the canopy
you keep looking down to see which button to push, you and your gunner is dead! Once you've reached your
aren't going to last very long. This gets my vote as favourite target, you can sight through the bomb doors and release
game of the article. your thousand -pounders ("Bawmbs awaay ...") and
hopefuly hit something ("That was awn tarrgit ..."). The
cockpit displays leave a lot to be desired, considering the
sort of quality you can get out of an Intellivision: just a
green horizon wobbling about as you try to dodge the flak.
Not a bad game, but think I'd want to see some better
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software than this before went out and bought an

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Intellivoice.
Preppie (Atari 400)

And this gets my vote as the best -written piece of 'non -
alien' games software yet published. The game is based on
the arcade game of Frogger, and the playing area is a golf
course. Preppie is the American for caddie, and the poor
soul has to retrieve a series of lost golf balls in a fixed time Cloudburst (VIC 20 cartridge)
limit. The problem is that he has to traverse a fairway being We've included this one for people who aren't Dery
criss-crossed with lawnmowers, golf carts, and on the good at Space Invaders etc. Basically it's just s'rreer
harder levels, bulldozers (don't ask me what they're doing carnage, with enemy practically throwing themselves onto
on a golf course), then leap from log to log, barge and your laser bolts. At some unspecified future time, the
alligator to cross a river. All the time you're playing, the Earth's atmosphere has become so polluted that mutant
computer is seranading you with a selection of catchy creatures have spawned in the acid clouds and are
tunes in three-part harmony, and the graphics are quite dropping down amidst acid rain to ravage the planet. Your
superb. We particularly liked the bit where the caddie gets laser gun can fire up, or to the left and right to slaughter
flattened out after hitting a lawnmower - sadists that we any creatures making their way across the surface after
landing. The screen colours are restful tints of pink, red
are. There are 10 difficulty levels, and no-one here has yet
succeeded in surviving level 6 (it's the killer frog on the and blue, to counterpoint the machine-gun speed of your
towpath that causes the problems). Our high score is laser fire and the ferocity with which the mutants hurl
14,730. Very highly recommended, despite its rather themselves at you. In between games the VIC plays you a
frightening price tag of £23 (this is a tape, not a cartridge). snatch of rather incongruous 12 -bar boogie. The easiest
56 ETI JANUARY 1983
FEATURE: Video Games
level is damn fast, and anyone who claims he can survive to practise landing without going through the rest of the
longer than 10 seconds on level 9 is a liar. game. Our highest score is zero, since no -one's been able
to land yet; but one of us did manage to do a barrel roll
Jumbo Pilot/Sub Commander (Atari 400) successfully!
Here are two especially for those of you with very Sub Commander is a simulation of World War Two
poor reflexes. You require the reaction time of a corpse to submarine combat against shipping convoys in the
play these because they are 'real-time simulations' ie Mediterranean. You have all mod cons like sonar,
pretty slow. in Jumbo you have to take off, fly across periscope, hydrophones and torpedoes, plus a satellite
country and land. It takes 11 minutes or so just to taxi into reconnaissance of the Med (in WW II? Oh well ...). You
position and lift off, and you can then spend anything up stalk the ships, aim through the periscope and hopefully
to two hours watching the dials in the cockpit do very torpedo them before they blow you out of the water with
little, until you attempt to land and plough into the tarmac. depth charges. Rather more action in this game, but still a
Then all you can do is start again. Frustrating, huh? The bit slower than my tastes run to. Highest score so far is
least the author could have done was to include an option 10,420.
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PROJECT
ZX ANALOGUE -
TO-DIGITAL
CONVERTER
Expand the consciousness of, your computer and let it
sample the delights of the real world with this low-cost ADC.
Design by Rory Holmes.
How about a fast, eight - analysers!), VU meters for recording the latest analogue data is always
channel, eight -bit analogue - work, process control programs, available and may be read from a
to -digital converter, all in one central heating control, small memory -mapped region of the
small box that plugs neatly onto the potentiometer -type joystick inputs computer's address space (eight
back of your Sinclair computer and (up to four sets of two axes), consecutive bytes).
costs about £15? A rhetorical weather station computers, The chip will convert each
question, really, because that's what waveform analysis by computer, channel in 50 microseconds and
we're presenting in this article. The aircraft simulations and so on. You performs a complete conversion
applications for this project are might even be able to make good update of all eight channels in 400
numerous since A -to -D converters Uncle Clive's boast that the ZX81 microseconds. The analogue input
allow your computer access to the could control a power station! voltage range is 0-10 V and these
'real world': and the real world, as limits will correspond to 00 and FF
the data acquisition experts call it, is The ADC IC Hex respectively.
anything which varies smoothly and Our analogue -to-digital The unit plugs into your
continuously, such as temperature, converter is based around the new computer via a double -sided edge
sound level, voltage, position, speed 7581 IC, a complete data connector, and, if you want, you
and so on. Eight channels of acquisition system on a chip with can include a switch to enable the
analogue input data, each with a some very handy features. The best unit to switch between the ZX81
resolution of one part in 256, will of these features concerns the way and the Spectrum port
open up a whole new field of in which data is made available to configurations. The eight analogue
applications for your computer and the host computer: by using a 'dual inputs enter the unit via a 15 -way
programs. For example, some of the port RAM' and internal scanning 'D' type connector. The system
things you might consider include logic the conversion process is derives its low-current 5 V supply
real-time graphs for multi -variable made completely transparent to the directly from the expansion bus, so
displays, eight -channel spectrum user. Basically this means that the it will start functioning as soon as
analysers (or even Spectrum microprocessor need do nothing: the computer is switched on,
The ADC plugs on like a commercial unit. Here you see the protruding edge socket.
Eli JANUARY 1983
61
SK1 28 10
VDD VRE
+5V o ALE
2
DO o o 10V REF
o AIN 0
D1 o 2
Dl AIN O 2 AIN 1
02 o D2 AIN 1 7 4
o
2
o AIN 2
D3 o 23
D3 AIN 2
AIN 3
D4 o D4 IC3 AIN 3 3
o NOTE:
2 5 AIN 4
D5 o 2
D5 AIN 4 o AIN 5
IC1 IS 74LS27
IC2 IS 74LSOO
D6 o AIN 5
2 1C3 IS 7581
D7 o AIN 6 3 o AIN 6
IC4 IS 40106 OR 74C14
19 7 D15 ARE 1N4148
A2 o A2 AIN 7 12 o AIN
ZD1 IS 10V 400mW ZENER
Al o Al STATUS
15 9
o STATUS
AO o AO
DIG ANA CLK 13
o OV
CS GND GND BOFS O OV
13 14 11 o OV
SK2
+5V
+5V
1)14
R1
\
R3
IORQ o 6 SPECTRUM 470R _
+5V
22k
A5 o IC1a
SW1a 4
6
RD o IC2a IC2b
l g 4
Ì 5
~-
IC4b IC4e
SW1b
ROMCS O
ZX81
12 R2 IC4d IC4P
MREQ o IC1b 680
%
O
13
5 6 13 12
A75 o 9
8
1048
_ C2
-33n 33r}
I/ T ,. T,.
10
A14 o IC1c IC2d
10
A13 O{ 12
13
IC2c t}
11
CI
68p T - D2
03 D4
10u4,
1!
0V o 1
Fig. 1 Circuit diagram.

HOW IT WORKS
Figure 1 shows the complete circuit of conversion. Each input, including the NOR gate 1Cla will go high. This output
the eight-channel analogue-to-digital reference input, has an impedance of is inverted by IC2a, which in turn takes
converter. There are four separate parts about 20k. A status output is also the chip select pin of the converter (pin
to this circuit: the main converter device available which allows an external 13) to logic low. As the chip select goes
IC3, the master clock oscillator (a single device to identify which channel is being low the data from IC3's internal memory
CMOS gate), a negative voltage updated at a given moment: it provides á (addressed by the three lower address
reference generator, and the address signal, synchronised to the master clock, bits AO, Al and A2) is made available to
decoder. The 7581(IC3) is a complete which follows the scanning logic and the data bus for the read operation.
eight-bit, eight-channel data acquisition pulses low for channel 0. The status Thus any of the eight-bit data words may
system, designed for direct interface to signals as related to the master clock are be read at any time.
microprocessor buses. The 7581 ac- shown in Fig. 5. The rest of the gates in the decoder
cepts eight analogue inputs and sequen- The reference voltage generator that section are effectively ignored, and as
tially converts each input into an eight - provides -10 V for IC3 is based on the far as the Spectrum is concerned the
bit binary word using the successive ap- voltage multiplier principle and allows a A13, A14 and A15 inputs are connected
proximation technique. Results from the single 5 V supply to power the entire to the wrong bus pins anyway.
conversions are stored in an internal unit. The voltage tripler is constructed
eight -bit eight -word 'dual port RAM'. using CMOS Schmitt trigger inverters, When plugged into a ZX81, however,
The dual port RAM allows a and a capacitor -diode multiplier chain with the selector switch in its other posi-
microprocessor to access the analogue formed by C2-4 and D2-5. The inverters tion, these other gates become usefully
data independently of the internal up- are connected as a self -oscillating ring active. With IC2c wired as an inverter,
dates; all the data acquisition is running at several kilohertz to provide address bits A14 and A15 must be high
therefore transparent to the program- the AC square wave to the voltage and A13 low in order to take the output
mer. The analogue data appears to be multiplier. The tripler should give 15 V of 1C1c to logic high: this means the se-
at the negative side of the smoothing cond 8K address block is being selected.
permanently available in eight suc-
cessive 'read only' RAM locations
cannot write to these addresses.
you - capacitor C5 but due to diode and im-
pedance losses this is reduced to about
The output of ICtc is inverted by IC2d
and fed to one input of 1C1b, a NOR
12 V. The zener diode ZD1 is then used gate. The other two inputs of this to
The converter requires a master clock
for its scanning logic and this is provided to clamp this voltage to the 10 V monitor logic low states on the
in our circuit by lC4a, a Schmitt inverter reference level. (memory request) and RD bus lines.
gate wired as a 1.6 MHz oscillator. Con- The address decoding is performed Thus the output of IC1b will only go high
version of a single channel takes 80 using the same system we designed for when the ZX81 is performing a memory
clock periods, with a complete scan the Message Panel Interface (why re- read operation at a location between
through all eight channels taking 640 invent the wheel?). IC1 and IC2 perform 8192 and 16383. The output of IC1b is
clock periods. At 1.6 MHz this cor- the address decoding and the slide fed to the chip select pin of 1C3 via the
responds to 50 uS and 400 uS switch SW1 selects either memory- selecter switch and inverter as before.
respectively. mapped decoding for the ZX81, via IC2b inverts and buffers the enable
The converter is wired in our circuit IC1b, or 1/0 -mapped decoding for the signal to drive the ROMCS line (linked
for simple unipolar conversion using a ZX Spectrum via IC1 a. When the via SW1b): consequently this line will go
-10 V reference supply In this case the decoder is switched for the Spectrum the high through diode D1 whenever the in-
eight -bit word covers an1analogue range states of the bus lines IORQ (I/O re- terface is addressed and switch off the
of 0-10 V as illustrated in the transfer quest), A5 (address bit 5), and RD (the 8K ROM in the ZX81.
characteristic diagram of Fig. 2. The ac- read signal) are continuously monitored
tual analogue input circuitry is shown in for logic lows. If they all go low together, The 15 mA or so supply current for
Fig. 4. An R -2R resistor ladder forms a then the Spectrum is performing an IN the TTL and CMOS is taken directly from
multiplying DAC to perform the A -to -D addr, X command, and the output of the 5 V supply rail on the ZX bus.
ETI JANUARY 1983

62
PROJECT: ADC
OUTPUT CODE
updating the analogue data at the either on the ZX81 or the Spectrum.
11111111
FULL SCALE
TRANSITION y chosen memory locations ready for A standard 15 -way 'D' type socket
11111110
PEEKing or machine code access. allows access to the eight analogue
There's no reason why this inputs and a few other internal
11111101-
device couldn't be used with any connections. This is a right-angled
other computer. All you have to do PCB -mounting type which is
is find a handy unused hole in your soldered directly to the track side of
system's address space and design the PCB to reduce interwiring. Since
00000011
suitable circuitry to decode the the wire -wrap edge connector
chosen range of addresses. This socket is also soldered to the PCB,
00000010 circuitry will replace the section of the only part external to the PCB is
00000001 our circuit involving IC1 and 2. the selector switch, which is
"==7*. optional. If you anticipate using
00000000
0 0.4 0.8 1.2 9,92 9.96 10
Construction only one computer then wire links
INPUT VOLTAGE VOLTS
(REFERRED TO ANALOGUE GROUND) The entire eight channel can be used to replace the switch
NOTE APPROXIMATE BIT WEIGHTS
converter is built into a plastic contacts at the appropriate overlay
ARE SHOWN FOR ILLUSTRATION Verocase to form a very neat and points.
BIT WEIGHT FOR -10V REFERENCE IS 39.1mV solid unit which plugs directly into The PCB should be assembled
Fig. 2 Transfer characteristic diagram. the Sinclair expansion connector, first, following the overlay diagram
VDD VREF BOFS
of Fig. 6. Don't forget the six wire
o links and take care over the
orientation of all the diodes and ICs.
The 23 -way edge connector must be
mounted the right way round and
with the polarizing key at position
three. The edge socket must have
4
ANALOGUE long wire -wrapping pins so that
INPUTS
3 when mounted it will protrude
through the front of the box as
illustrated by our prototype (see the
photograph). The socket is mounted
from the component side, and the
pins should protrude about 2 mm
ANALOGUE through the track side for
DATA BUS THREE
STATE
8x8
DATA
GROUND subsequent mounting of an optional
OUTPUTS
DRIVERS MEMORY 11 edge connector plug (to allow other
DB7-DBO (20-27)
ZX add-ons to be plugged in).
Ensure that the socket is square and
SUCCESSIVE parallel to the PCB before soldering
APPROXIMATION
REGISTER the pins. A 43 -way edge connector
could also be used, provided it is
A
sawn off at either end to leave the
INTERFACE AND
polarizing key at position three.
CONTROL LOGIC ADDRESS LATCHES The 'D' type socket should be
left until last, when its right-angled
pins can be inserted from the track
CS DIGITAL CLK STATUS ALE AO Al A2
side of the board and pushed home
GROUND
as far as possible. The soldering of
Fig. 3 Internal block diagram of the 7581. this component is difficult but not
ANALOGUE
INPUTS (a) FOR CHANNELS 1 TO 7
0 7 BOFS 80 CLOCK PERIODS
STATUS
VREF
CLOCK CLOCK{
LI-
8 8 -_.
PERIODS PERIODS t
START NEXT
CONVERSION
WITH MSB TRIAL
CURRENT
PREVIOUS CHANNEL UPDATENNEL
DATA UPDATE COMPLETE COMPLETE
SUMMING MULTIPLEXER ADDRESS
POINT DECREMENTED
( b) FOR CHANNEL 0
STATUS
MSB LSB
DB7 DB6 DBB IDBO COMPARATOR S CLOCKPERIODS
I
SUCCESSIVE
1 - 64 CLOCK PERIODS
APPROXIMATION START CHANNEL

REGISTER 0 TRIAL
CHANNE 1 UPDATE CHANNEL 0 UPDATE
CONTROL COMPLETE
LOGIC MULTIPLEXER
ANALOGUE ADDRESS RESET TO
GROUND CHANNEL 7
Fig. 4 The analogue input circuitry of the 7581. Fig. 5 Status signals.
ETI JANUARY 1983
63
NOTE:
a=ANODE
k k = CATHODE
The socket is raised off the PCB like this.
Fig. 6 Component overlay. Rubber feet help secure the PCB.
PARTS LIST away slightly. At this stage, a slot BUYLINES

Resistors (all ;W 5%) should be cut in the appropriate The 7581 analogue -to-digital converter
R1 470R position to take the connector chip can be obtained from Technomatic
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22k the other semiconductors and the 'D'
R3
fitted into the lid. It should sink type connector: check their advert for
Capacitors down until the tops of the ICs touch prices and ordering details. The special
Cl 68p ceramic the inside of the lid. The edge wire -wrap 23 -way edge connector for'.
C2-4 33n ceramic connector should now be almost use with ZX computers can be obtained
C5 10u 16 V tantalum from Timedata, 57 Swallowdale,
clear of the slot and the diodes and Basildon, Essex: alternatively you could
Semiconductors capacitors should just clear the get hold of a 40 -way version and cut it to
IC1 74LS27 filed -down case pillar. size as described in the main text. The
IC2 74LS00 By mating up the two case PCB Service advert is on page 91 for
7581 those unable to etch their own boards.
IC3
401066 or 74C14
halves, you can find the position for The joystick units mentioned in the text
IC4
D1-5 1N4148 an appropriate slot to be cut in the are available from Remcon Ltd, 1
ZD1 10 V 400 mW zener base of the case to clear the 'D' Church Road, Bexley Heath, Kent
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Miscellaneous fitted this should be glued, using
SW1 DPDT miniature slide
switch cyanoacrylate or epoxy glue, to the 01
AINE
Ski 23 -way double -sided edge side of the base section as shown in 90 ev
connector our internal photographs: the switch AIN 7
02
15 -way right-angled PCB-
SK2
mounting 'D' type contacts will just clear the PCB. On 100 Alti 6
03
cannon socket our prototype we fixed three large AIN E
110 A{N4
PCB (see Buylines); case, Vero order stick -on rubber feet into the base of 04
AIN 3
code 65-2514F. the Verobox; these support the PCB 120 A, N 2
at the correct height, and when the Aug 1

05
impossible, providing a small case halves are screwed together, 130 CV
06
soldering bit is used. they will hold the PCB firmly in 0V
140 N:
The PCB should be filed to the place. STATUS 07
shape shown in the overlay The diagram of Fig. 7 shows the 150 NC
diagram, since it has to fit into the pinout connection for the 'D' type -10V REF 08
lid section of the case: the two socket; it's a good idea to draw this
corner pillars which take the main along with the corresponding Fig. 7 Pinout for the 'D' type
case bolts will also need to be filed address locations onto an adhesive connector we used.
ETI JANUARY 1983
64
PROJECT: ADC
TABLE 1
ADDRESS LOCATIONS
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CHANNEL
8
7
ZX81
8199
8198
SPECTRUM
65503
9V PP3
-BATTERY
4k7 TO ANY
t-OANALOGUE
INPUT j
65502
6 8197 65501
5 8196 65500
4 oV
8195 65499
3 8194 65498 Fig. 8 How to connect pots for testing
2 8193 65497 and when using the unit as a joystick
1 8192 65496 port.
label, which can then be stuck onto for the full 10 V input it will contain
the back of the box. There are two 255 or FF in Hex. The number (in
unconnected pins on the socket eight -bit binary) will vary
which could be connected (using proportionately for all the voltages
insulated wire links) to any other in between. A small program to
two signals, say +5 V and the continuously print out the value of
master clock. all eight memory locations would
Having completed the assembly, help in the testing procedure.
the A -to -D converter may be After you are satisfied that the unit
plugged into a Sinclair computer is working the programming options
and tested. One of the analogue are practically limitless; eight real
inputs may be wired up to the time voltage inputs continously
simple pot circuit shown in Fig. 8 available to either BASIC or
and the corresponding address machine code programs! Dedicated
location can be looked at via the games players who want to use the
computer. Table 1 shows the unit to interface joysticks to the
address locations for each input; the computer will find a suitable source
command PEEK addr is used for the of two -axis joysticks fitted with 4k7
ZX81 and the command IN addr for Using the case specified will tax your
pots listed in Buylines. Figure 8 construction skills but it is possible to
the Spectrum. For a 0 V input the shows how they should be wired get everything in!
memory byte will contain 0 while up.
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74LS SERIES
74LS148 75p
74LS151 40p
TL 4000 CMOS TRANSISTORS
74LS153 40p 4 SERIES 4000 top 4046 50p

electronics and quartz technology plus clear instruction 4001 10p 4047 45p 42p
- 74LS154 80p
74LS00 11p AD161
74LS01 11p 741S155: 309 4002 12p 4048 50p AD162 42p
manual make it fun to build and fun to own equally 74LS02 11p 74LS156 36p
7400 lip 4006 4049 24p 8C107
74LS03 12p 74LS157 25p
7401 lip 4007 14p 4040 24p BC1088 12p
suitable for beginner or expert. 74LS05 12p. 74LS158 30p
7402
7403
lip
12p
4008 36p
24p
4051 45p BC109
4009 4052 50p
Speechtime also makes a great gift to build for someone 74LS06
74LS07
12p
12p
74LS160 36p
74LS161 36p
7404 12p 4010 24p 4068 14p
BC109C
BC177
12p
16p
7408 14p 4011 lip
else. Look at these 'plus' features: 74LS08
74LS09
12p
12p
74LS162 36p
74LS163 36p
7409 15p 4012 16p
4069
4070
14p
14p
8C178
BC179
16p
201,
7410 14p 4013 20p 14p
74LS10 12p 74LS164 40p 4071 BC182L
Accurate to a minute a year Adjustable voice pitch 74LS11 13p 74LS165 50p
7411 20p
20p
4014 48p 4072 14p BC83L
- 74LS12 12p 74LS166 60p

77413412 4015 40p 4073 14p BC184L 10p
20p
Pocket size approx. Sin. x 21/2in. x lin. 74L313
74LS14
15p
25p
74LS168 85p
74LS169 85p
7414 20p
16p
4016
4017
20p
32p
4075
4076
14p 8C212L
BC213L
10p
74LS15 12p 74LS170 70p 7420 4018 4077 BC214L 10p

Grained stainless -steel case 74LS20 12p 74LS173 55p 7427 22p 4019 2p 4078 15p BC547 129
7428 25p 4020 48p 4081 14p
SPECIAL 74LS21 12p 74LS174 40p 7430 15p BC548 12p
Useful in the home or office CHRISTMAS 74LS22
74LS26
12p
12p
74LS175 40p
74LS181 90p
7447 35p
4021
4022 445p
4082
4086
15p BC549C
BC556
14p
15p
OFFER
13p 7448 409 4023 13p 4089 125p
74LS27 74LS183 120p 7450 16p BC557 15p
£14.95
74LS28 14p 74LS190 36p 4024 32p 4093 24p BC558 15p
7474 20p 4025 13p
Silicon Speech Systems incl of VAT
and P/P
74LS30
74LS32
74LS33
12p
13p
14p
74LS191 36p
74LS192 36p
74LS193 36p
7475
7476
7485
25p
30p
60p
4026
4027
4028
80p
20p
4094
4095
4096
90p
75p
2p
BC559
BFY50
BFY51
15p
239
(A Powertran Subsidiary) 74LS37

74LS38
14p
15p
74LS194 35p
74LS195 35p
7490 25p 4029 45p
4501
4502 50p
BFY52
TIP29A
73P
32p
7491 35p 4030 15p 4503 45p
74LS40 12p 74LS196 45p 7492 25p TIP30A 35p
74LS42 30p 74LS197 45p 4037 110p 4504 TIP31A
PORTWAY INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, ANDOVER, HANTS., SP10 3NM 74LS47 36p 74LS221 50p
7493 25p 4038 110p 4506 3p TIP32A 38p
1
7494 35p 4040 40p 4507 ä5p
74LS48 45p 74LS240 55p 35p TIP33A
7495 409
EASY ORDERING BY TELEPHONE 74LS51 14p 74LS241 55p 4041 4510 45p
- 40p TIP34A 74p

7496
RING ANDOVER (0264)64455
AND GIVE YOUR ACCESS OR
1r 74LS54
74LS55
74LS63
14p
14p
120p
74LS242 55p
74LS243 55p
74LS244 55p
74107
74121
74122
22p
27p
40p
4042
4043
4044
4045
40p
40p
40p
105p
4511
4512
4518
45p
88p
Op
TIP41A
TIP42A
TIS43
55p
74LS73 18p 74LS245 70p 4520 50p 202646 45p

74123 40p
BARCLAYCARD NUMBER 74LS74 16p 74L5247 50p
74160 50p 202904 29p
74LS75 18p 74LS248 55p 74161 98p 202905 26p
74LS76 17p 74LS249 55p LINEAR IC's 202906 28p
74162 48p
74LS83 36p 74LS251 35p 202907 25p
74LS85 48p 74LS253 35p
74163 48p LM319 -215p 203053
74LS86 16p 74LS257 30p
74164 48p 741 14p LM324 30p 2N3055 45p
22p 74165 48p 748 36p LM334Z 90p
74LS90 74LS258 35p 74166 48p LM335Z 140p
2N3702
74L591 66p 74LS259 55p CA3019 80p 2N3703 10ep
METERTECH MODEL 3T 74LS92

74LS95
32p
40p
74LS260 20p
74LS261 138p
74190
74191
50p
50p
CA3046
CA3048 220p
70p LM339
LM348
50p
65p
203704
203705 >0p
74192 50p CA3059 285p NE531 140p
74LS96 50p 74LS266 209 74193 50p NE544 150p
2N3706
74LS107 20p 74LS273 60p CA3060 250p 2N3707 10p
31 DIGIT LCD 74LS109 27p 74LS275 225p 74119594
74
45p
46p
CA3080E 72p
CA3086 48p
NE555
NE556
18p
46p 2N3708
74L5112 20p 74LS279 Sop 2N3709 109
20p 74196 46p CA31305 90p NE564 420p 2N3819 2$
74LS113 74LS280 100p 74197 46pp NE565 120p
CA3130T110p
MULTIMETER 74LS114
74LS122
22p
28p
74LS263 40p
74LS363 140p
74365
74366 40p
CA3140T 90p NE566
NE567
155p
140p
2N3903
2N3904
159
15P
74LS123 34p 74LS364 140p CA3140E 50p 2N3905 15P
90p 74367 40p CA3160E 100p NE570 410p
74LS124 74LS365 27p 74368 50p NE571 400p 2N3906 15p
74LS125 24p 74L5366 27p CA3161E 150p 2N5457
* 12.5mm DISPLAY
74LS126 25p 74LS367 27p
74390 99p CA3162E 450p NE592 60p 205458 30P
* 10M0 INPUT IMPEDANCE 74LS132 34p 74LS368 27p
74393 99p
120p
CA3189E 300p NE5534P 110p 205459 30p
* AUTOMATIC ZERO ADJUSTMENT 30p
74490 CA3240E 110p NE5534AP
74LS133 74LS374 55p 120p
* AUTOMATIC POLARITY SWITCHING 74LS136 25p 74LS375 45p CA3280G 200p
LM301A 25p TBA810 95p
* OVER RANGE INDICATION 74LS138
74LS139
27p
27p
74LS377 60p
LM310 1209 TBA820 80p
* FUSE CIRCUIT PROTECTION 74LS378 60p ZN423 135p
70p LM311 70p
74LS145 74LS390 45p
* BATTERY LOW INDICATION 74LS147 120p 74LS393 45p LM318 150p ZN425E 350p
* hFE MEASUREMENT FACILITY
* DIODE CONTINUITY CHECK
LEDS inoled. clip
* ACCESSORIES INCLUDED VOLTAGE REGULATORS
(PLASTIC) 10220
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2N577 45p ORP60 120p 3mm
"
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TEST LEADS, BATTERIES & 7805 40p 7905 45p OCP71 180p ORP61 120p Red 1lp 129
5V 1A 14p
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7815 414 7915 45p 7 Segment Displays Yellow 14p 14p
* SIZE 180 x 90 x 35mm 15V 1A
7818 40p 7918 45p DL704 115p TIL321 99p
* WEIGHT 300g 18V 1A
24V 1A 7824 40p 7924 45p DL707 115p TIL322 99p
* SAMPLING TIME 0.25 sec
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1N4001
1N4004
5p
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DIODES
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AC VOLTAGE (2 ranges) 1.2% accuracy 100mV to 1000V 1N4007 7p 4770^Y. 9p
MYLAR FILM CAPACITORS (Radial Lead) 100V
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POTENTIOMETERS: 14 pin. 109 25p
Optional accessories. Carbon track, 0.25W log & linear
SWITCHES
Slide 1A
16 pin 10p 1. _h 30p
5K -2M single gang 30p
Deluxe protective case £6.90 including VAT p&p 5K -2M single gang DIP switch 74 DPDT 14p
5K -2M dual gang stereo 88p DPDT c/ off 159 VEROBOARDS
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Sub-min Toggle 2j x 31" 730 52p
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0.25W 100R-1 Meg lop DPDT 75p 30 x 5' 95p 79p
DPDT c/off Bop 3¡ x 17" 325p 211p
62 CURTIS ROAD, WHITTON, RESISTORS 5% Carbon Film Push Button 44 x 18' 425p -
E12 values. Pkt of 100 pins 50p
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TOSHIBA DOUBLE SIDED/DOUBLE DRAOON 32 CASIO CALCULATORS 1ICORDLESS PHONES
DENSITY 51/4" DISK DRIVES ' Not licensible in UK
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This is a long range (2-5 miles) cordless exten-
sion phone with intercom facility between port-
able hand set and the base station. You can
FX-702P the casio pocket computer/calcu- receive all incoming call and dial out to anywhere
lator, basic programmer, 55 scientific func- in the world from the hand set from any location
NEW BRITISH COMPUTER tions, up to 1,680 program steps.
Special Price within 5 mile radius of your home or office. The
32K Bytes of RAM (expandable to £65 + VAT = £74.75
These are high quality, very reliable FX-602P programmable calculator, 50 maximum range is achieved by using roof top
industry standard disk drives. These 64K). 16K Byte MICROSOFT scientific function and 512 programme steps. optional antenna (not included)
can be used as single sided/single den- COLOUR BASIC. High res. colour Price £56 + VAT = £84.40 LONG RANGE EXTENSION PHONE
sity or double sided/double density graphic and very good sound FA -2 cassette interface for FX-702 and FX £249 + VAT = £286.35
features. It has full size professional 602 Price £16 + VAT = £18.40 OPTIONAL ROOFTOP ANTENNA
depending on the host computer disk FP -10 Mini printer for FZ -702 and FX-602 £45 + VAT = £51.75
interface. Compatible with most micro- keyboard and comes complete with Price £37 + VAT = £42.55
power supply and a. built-in FX-100 College Scientific Calculator MEDIUM RANGE TELEPHONE
computers e.g. VIDEO GENIE, ATOM, Similar specifications to the above model but with
TRS 80, BBC COMPUTER, SUPER centronic parallel printer interface. Price £12 + VAT = £13.80
operational range of 1/2 to 21/2 miles (with roof top
EX -7 School Scientific Calculator
BRAIN, NASCOM etc. If used as double It has a cassette interface and a slot antenna).
Price £8 + VAT = £9.20
sided/double density then the storage for games cartridges. A floppy disk MG -880 Musical Calculator with game. MEDIUM RANGE EXTENSION PHONE
capacity is 3.5 MAGABITS/DRIVE (un- interface and DOS will be available Price £9 + VAT = £10.35 £179 + VAT = £205.85
shortly. MG -888 Calculator with 3 games. OPTIONAL ROOFTOP ANTENNA
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can daisy chain up to 4 drives. 90 day Dragon 32 £165 + VAT = £189.75 MG -777 Calculator with clock and 3 games
warranty. Joysticks (per pr).. £16 + VAT = £18.40 Price £12 + VAT = £13.80 SHORT RANGE TELEPHONE
30 CPS Printer £179 + VAT = £205.85 A short rangé cordless telephone for use within
One Disc Drive only £169 + VAT = £194.35 the house or from the garden. Receive and make
Two Disk Drives Printer Cable £12 + VAT = £13.80
£329 + VAT
Single boxed with power supply
= £378.35
Cassette Lead £2.60 + VAT = £2.99
CASIO CALC / CLOCK / GAME calls from the hand set. Range approx. 600 feet.
Basic Calcula- Short Range Telephone... £69 + VAT = £79.35
£199 + VAT = £228.85 Cassette Recorder tor with alarm
Dual Boxed with Power Supply £17.90 + VAT = £20.59 clock and a 40 MILE RANGE CAR TELEPHONE
£369 + VAT = £424.35 Colour Monitor realistic boxing This mobile telephone fits into your car and en-
2 Drive Cable £15 +VAT = £17.25 £199 + VAT = £228.85 game on a ables you to receive and make calls to anywhere
large display. in the world from within 40 mile radius of your
BBC AND ATOM COMPATIBLE DRAGON SOFTWARE home or office (use rooftop antenna).
DISK SUB -SYSTEM WITH The following software is available Car Telephone £1195 + VAT = £1374.25
BUILT IN DISK CONTROLLER on cassette: Price £13.86 + VAT = £15.95
CARD Personal Finance Dragon CASIO AK -250
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supply and a BBC and ATOM compat- Computavoice Graphic Animator VC9300 Microprocessor Controlled VHS graph with lap time, optional
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Escape Mansion Adventure frame features.
strong case. The disk controller card Price £339 + VAT = £389.85
3 optional melodies or ordi-
can read and write to single or double VC9700 Microprocessor Controlled VHS nary bleeper. Calendar dis-
sided diskettes in single or double ALL CASSETTES video recorder with full remote control, 5 play, lithium battery. Stainless
steel bracelet.
density (FM or MFM) format. event/14 day timer, video search and still
Single Drive System (400 KByte storage capacity) £6 + VAT = £6.90 each frame features.
Price £459 + VAT = £527.85
Price... £19 + VAT = £21.85
.£289 + VAT = £332.35
Dual Drive System (800 KByte storage capacity)
£459 + VAT = £527.85 CASIO W-35
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SEIKOSHA OP SERIES CASIO AG-21 Price £15 + VAT = £17.25
GuPHIC PRINTERS
This is a four digit boys watch
with FISHING GAME and I CASIO 0W-1000
hourly time signal. It comes in
a chrome colour case and This is a waterproof divers watch,
up to 200 metres depth. It has
simulated leather strap. Nor- alarm, chronograph and count-
MX80 T-3 mal display is hours, minutes
down timer. A two line liquid crys-
and game demonstration dis- tal display shows hours, minutes,
-80 column, 80 CPS, super and sub- play. The melody is "SUR LE seconds, month, date. day of the
scripts, auto underlining, tractor feed, 32 GP -100 30 CPS, 80 column, Hi -Res PONT D' AVINGNON". week and 12/24 hour option.
print fonts, Bi-directional printing, logic graphic line repeat function, adjustable up Price.. £8.65 + VAT = £9.95 Comes in Chrome colour and
to 10" paper width, tractor feed, 5 x 7 dot with a stainless steel bracelet.
seeking, 9 x 9 matrix, high res. graphics,
matrix. Price... £29 + VAT = £33.35
centronic parallel interface. GP -100A centronic parallel interface CASIO LB -315
Price Only £299 + VAT = £343.85 £179 + VAT = £205.85
GP-100VC Vic 20 interface FM -WIRELESS INTERCOM
MX80 F/T-3 £199 + VAT = £288.85 Touch sensitive TALK.
As above but with tractor or friction GP-250X New 50 CPS, 80 column, trac- This is an attractive 5 function CALL and LOCK controls.
tor feed, true descenders, 64 user defined ladies watch with 7 year non Just plug into mains, no in-
paper feed. stallation needed. 3 speech
characters, double height and/or double stop lithium battery. it comes
Price £325 + VAT = £373.75 width characters, 5 x 8 dot metric, parallel in chrome colour with adjust-.
channels (150, 200 and 250
KHz) on each unit. Phase
MX100-3 and serial (RS232) interface. able stainless steel bracelet. locked loop FM circuitry
GP -250X £219 + VAT = £251.85 Price.. £7.20 + VAT = £8.28 give noise free operation,
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Price BM12A 15MHZ monitor£69 + VAT = £79.35
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SM 12H 18MHZ monitor £89 + VAT = £102.35
COLOUR MONITORS 14" colour ladies watch. Approximately 5 SILENT ALARM/POCKET PAGER
OKI MICROLINE PRINTERS monitors, RGB or composite and sync mm thick. Comes in chrome
input. colour and with a stainless steel
MICROLINE 80: Features 80 columns, 80 SCM14N Normal -res. 400 dots adjustable bracelet.
£228.85
CPS, friction and pin teed. Unidirectional block
SCM14M Medium -res. 600 dots 4389.85 Price £8.65 + VAT = £9.95
graphics, Centronics parallel interface. SCMI4H High -res. 800 dots
Price £573.85
£219 + VAT = £251.85
MICROLINE 82A: Features 80 columns, 80 10 x 50
CPS, friction and pin teed, bidirectional print- RECHARGEABLE Magnification
mg, parallel and serial (1200 bauds) interface. high quality
Price £319 + VAT = £366.85 BATTERIES binoculars
This is an individually coded 4 WATTS Radio trans-
mitter and pocket pager receiver. The alarm system
Code Type Capacity Price
.NEC, 8023 PRINTER
100 CPS, 80 columns, bi-directional friction
5401
5101
C1200
AAA
AA
C
200 mAH
500 mAH
1200 mAH
£1.15 +VAT - f1.32
f0.75 + VAT = f0.86
£1.90 + VAT = £2.19
at a very
reasonable
has connectors for door contacts and vibration
sensors. 2 vibration sensors are included. It has a
range of 2 miles. Ideal for protection of vehicle or pro-
f2.09 + VAT = f2.40
price
and tractor feed, high res.. and block graphics, D1200 D 1200 mAH perty. Power requirements for transmitter is 12V dc.
proportional spacing and Centronic parallel RX22 PP3 110 nAH
BC2204 Universal charger for
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FEATU RE
Modified
TECH TIPS
RAM To ROM from losing its contents as soon as the
power is turned off, but can prevent
Loudspeaker
Protection Module
A. Caulderhead, 62 Hayfield
Terrace, Denny, Stirlingshire
Converter loss of data due to the odd bug in a
user's program.
Although the basic idea was just
Having built the Audiophile 4000
A. Whitaker, Grimsby system and installed the speaker pro-
to protect the language loaded off
tector as published in ETI July 1980,
How many times have you ex- tape, special areas of memory can be
my main misgiving with this arrange-
perimented with machine -code on protected by using address decoding ment was that had to open up the
or simply interrupting the WRITE line
I
an MZ-80 computer or similar system power amp case to check or change

where the monitor is loaded off tape going to individual RAM chips. Using
the battery; it also meant that the
into RAM, and crashed it by acciden- one of these methods, OUT
amplifier was connected to the
tally re -writing the monitor? Faced statements could be used before
speakers via two relays.
with the same problem on a running a program to disable most of have since built the System A
the RAM, leaving only workspace
I
Z80-based system am planning to

I
amplifier and installed this modified
build, devised a method of turning
I and/or the screen (video) RAM to be version of the protection circuit. This
RAM into ROM under software con- corrupted by the user's program.
trol. The idea is really very simple
after the monitor or desired language
- uses the two spare inverters in the
4049B and gives a 2-4 second switch -
ADDRESS DECODING on delay. The output of IC1f is at
has been loaded from tape into the FOR PORT
logic 1 until C4 charges up, holding
computer, an OUT instruction is used ICie's output low. Q1 is therefore
to program the inputs of a bank of OR turned off for this period and the
ESS
gates. Whether the OR gates are in- loudspeakers are not connected. Q2
side a chip or made from two diodes is biased on and LED1 lights up to
and a resistor, by considering one in- Z80 CPU indicate that the speakers are
put as an enable, we see that if the WR
disconnected. Note that in this case,
enable goes high (logic 1) the output the speakers, must be wired through
:zc DÄT'ÄBÜS{::i:l
must also go high, irrespective of the I/O REQ BUFFER
the normally -open contacts on the
data on the other input. This can be relay rather than the normally -closed
used to disable the WRITE line going WR contacts as in the original design: this
to a RAM board. When the enable in- PORT
gives the added advantage that the
put is low (logic 0) the OR gate acts as circuit fails safe.
a buffer and lets the data on the other DO D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7
The whole lot is powered from the
input through, so the WRITE line is D WR
System A preamp supply, which is
unaffected. By disabling the WRITE regulated to 5 V to power IC1.
pin on a RAM chip, the RAM is turn-
ed into a Read Only Memory
viously this will not stop your RAM
-
ob-
WR TO RAM CHIP(S)
PS. If any readers from my neck
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A they can drop a line to the above
address.
OUT IN
NOTE: IC2 0 +21V
IC1 IS 40496
IC2 1S 78L05 R6 COM
01 IS BD139 EM6
02 IS BC337 OR SIMILAR /7777 C5
-`-
4 5
D1-4,8 ARE 1N4002 OR SIMILAR 220n
D5-7 ARE 154148 OR SIMILAR C4
470r IC1 RLA 24V
D7 PCB 08
R4 MOUNTING
3
1M0
D2 R3 IC1c IC1d IC1e

220k D5 R7
FROM 10k
AMPLIFIER Q2
5
4 D6
IC1a IC1b' C3 01
D4
O 10u 220n
0 OV
O- /7777
TO LOUD-
SPEAKER
LA1
O
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PROJECT
WAVEFORM
MULTIPLIER
A single VCO on a synth is, to be honest, pretty boring.
Generate rich multiple oscillator sounds by hooking it up to one
of our multiplier boards. Design by David Ward -Hunt.
Many synthesisers, both mono
and polyphonic, utilise two
or more VCOs, slightly
detuned, to generate a rich ,,... .,. . .
chorusing sound. Chorus or phasing

treatment of a single VCO can go
WAVEFORM MULTIPLIER
fuil tifCC3 INPUTS
some way towards livening up the
sound, but these tend to suffer from off
a rather repetitive sweep and on half
some units a considerable amount MODULATION
of background noise during periods
of silence - not to mention aliasing
when used with high frequency
high harmonic content waveforms
which any decent synthesiser is
capable of producing.
The beauty of using two or
more slightly detuned oscillators is
that in addition to producing a full The picture shows how the prototype was mounted in a Teko Alba A23 case, but
chorusing sound, the problems of, this is not essential and most people will build the boards into their synth.
background noise and bandwidth
are eliminated. However, multiple sounds to experiment with. The chord. The output from the
VCOs don't come cheap! An circuit has been used successfully to multiplier(s) is then fed back to the
alternative method of achieving a treat the VCO sawtooth outputs synthesiser and treated by the VCF
'multiple oscillator sound' is to from a number of synthesisers and VCA in the normal way.
generate additional waveforms from including the Transcendent,
the existing VCO output. If each of Digisound '80 and PE Minisonic; it Construction
these 'new' waveforms is out of has also been used with a Korg The project consists of two
phase with the original and with Sigma and Roland SH02 (see the PCBs. The first holds the modulation
each other, then a fuller sound will interfacing notes below). The one oscillators for phase modulating the
be heard. However, the richness of disadvantage of the circuit (there multiplier; the second PCB holds
the sound from multiple oscillators has to be one, doesn't there?) is that the multipliers and associated
comes not from the fact that they for setting -up purposes, constructors circuitry. The reason for splitting the
are out of phase with each other, will need access to a scope or a project into two PCBs is that one
but from the fact that the phase second VCO with which to adjust
difference is continually changing
the ear perceives phase change
- the circuit to produce the correct
modulation PCB is sufficient to drive
up to four multiplier PCBs. (In fact
waveforms. there is no reason why it wouldn't
rather than phase difference.
Therefore it is necessary not only to drive more; however, we believe
Using The Multiplier that if you intend to use more than
have additional out-of-phase The multiplier board is fed with four multiplier boards, the small
waveforms, but their phase the output from your existing VCO. additional expense of another
differences should be continually With a sawtooth waveform fed to modulator is well worth it for
moving with respect to each other the circuit, the output is a series of adding an even richer sound.)
and the original. six sawtooth waveforms each All the components are
individually phase modulated and mounted on the two PCBs with the
A Passing Phase mixed with the original sawtooth exception of two diodes which are
The circuit described here does from the VCO. One multiplier PCB mounted on a switch (thereby
just that. It will accept sawtooth, (generating six 'new' waveforms) is saving two wires from the PCB to
triangle or sine wave inputs, though used with each VCO. If you do the switch). The only external
with the latter two the output will have two or more VCOs each connections required are the VCO
bear little resemblance to the feeding a separate multiplier board input and the output from the unit
original waveform due to the circuit the effect is outstanding, especially plus the power supply connections
action: however, they are still useful when the VCOs are tuned to form a (see below) which ideally should
ETI JANUARY 1983 71
come from the same power supply PARTS LIST
as the VCO being input to the unit.
Interwiring between the PCBs MODULATION BOARD
INPUT
FROM 6 WAVEFORM
MULTIPLIERS
0/P
should be clear from the diagram, Resistors (all '-,W, 5%)
VCO R1-3 1M8
as should the wiring up of the R4-6 2M2
switch with its associated zener Capacitors
diodes. The switch is a DPDT with CI -8 100n polyester
SW1
MODULATION centre off and it is essential (for
DEPTH 6 MODULATION Semiconductors
CONTROL OSCILLATORS setting -up purposes if nothing else) IC1 LM324
SWITCH
to have this 'off' position (see IC2 LM1458
Buylines). ZD1,2 6V2 400 mW zener
Fig. Block diagram of the ETI
1
A note is in order here about
Waveform Multiplier. Should you the component numbering. In order Miscellaneous
require an even richer sound, there's SW1 DPDT with centre off (see
no reason why more than six to make the numbering clearer and Buylines)
multipliers shouldn't be used. logically the same for each of the PCB (see Buylines)
six multipliers on the PCB, each
MULTIPLIER BOARD
resistor or preset is designated by a
I I I
INPUT TO I
Resistors (all '-,W, 5%)
COMPARATOR
FROM SYNTH VCO
two -figure number. The first figure R1-3,
RISING indicates which of the six multipliers 11,12,13,14,
15,16,21,22,
I
MODULATION
it is associated with, and the second
1
VOLTAGE VIA R12

etc to 66 100k (39 in total)
COMPARATOR is the 'relative number' of the
OUTPUT IC2a PIN 7 R4 18k
component. For example, R11 is
'Rl' on the first multiplier, R21 is Potentiometers
'R1' on the second multiplier, R35 is PR11-61 100k miniature horizontal
IC2b OUTPUT WITH
preset (six in total)
PR12 CORRECTLY
ADJUSTED
'R5' on the third multiplier and so PR12-62 220k miniature horizontal
I
I
on. preset (six in total)

With regard to the modulation
I I
IC2b OUTPUT
A* Capacitors
PRIOR TO
PCB, though all the capacitors are
I I I
ADJUSTMENT OF
Vil C1,2 47u 16 V PCB electrolytic
PR12
VARIABLE
of the same value, take care not to C3-6 100n polyester
(NOTE JUMPS MAY
mix up the resistors associated with
I
BE POSITIVE OR I AMPLITUDE
NEGATIVE -GOING
DEPENDENT ON the two oscillators, as each Semiconductors
PR12 INITIAL
oscillator should have all three of its IC1 LM1458
SETTING)
IC2-4 LM324
resistors the same value. If not, the
Fig. 2 The waveforms associated with D1-6 1N4148
various sections of the circuit. This modulation output waveform will
indicates the operation of the unit and take on a pulse form at the output Miscellaneous
associated with the first op -amp in PCB (see Buylines); case to suit (Teko
will also guide those people who are Alba A23); sockets to suit.
setting up the unit with an each oscillator.
oscilloscope.
NOTE:
IC1 IS LM324
IC2 IS LM1458
TO R52 TO R42 TO R62 TO R32 TO R22 TO R12
ON MULTIPLIER BOARD ON MULTIPLIER BOARD
PR11 COMPONENTS WITHIN THESE -I

-VE 100k +VE DOTTED LINES ARE REPEATED
0
FOR EACH OF THE SIX
V MULTIPLIERS
+VE O
OV O
u n 100C3 10 On
C5
O OV
TO
MULTIPLIER
PCB
INPUT FROM
IC1d OUTPUT
(MODULATION)
R15
100k
3
2
u11
C4
100n 100n
C6u
T
-VEO O VE
R4
10k
ZD1 SYNTHESISER
VCO INPUT
L! °
p
I O+VE
O
C7 NOTE:
IC1 IS L '45=
TO IC2 IS Li'324
00 MODULATION D1-5 ARE 1 ti414E
PCB
ZD2 C8
100n
O VE
64'SW 1
NOTE
ZD1,2 ARE 6V2 ZENERS
SW1 IS DPDT WITH CENTRE OFF
Fig. 3 Complete circuit diagram of the Waveform Multiplier.

72 ETI JANUARY 1983
PROJECT : Chorus
REAR VIEW OF
SWITCH, SW1
VCOIN VCO UT
Fig. 4 Component overlays for the modulator board (top) and the multiplier board
(bottom), and the interwiring required. Several multiplier boards may be driven
from one modulator board.
HOW IT WORKS Setting Up
The modulation oscillators are based on R12. With a positive-going sawtooth, the As stated earlier in the article,
a standard three phase oscillator; two of point at which the comparator goes high setting up requires access to an
these are used. Each of the three is determined by the sum of the fixed oscilloscope; you should have two
integrators in the loop outputs a voltage from PR11 and the modulating
waveform that is one-third of a cycle voltage via R12. As shown in the
VCOs and some method of listening
behind the others. The speed of the two waveform diagram, with a rising to their output, but hopefully these
oscillators is set at about 0.6 Hz and modulation voltage the width of the requirements will not be a problem
0.4 Hz respectively. This modulation pulse at the comparator's output in- for most constructors.
rate was found to give the best creases. However, the comparator will,
simulation of a number of oscillators of course, always reset at the same mo-
Once all the components have
running in free phase over a wide ment as the VCO sawtooth. Thus the been installed, ensure that the ICs,
keyboard span. comparator's reset is synchronised with diodes and the two polarised
It should be noted that the output of the original sawtooth, whereas its capacitors are correctly orientated.
these oscillators is, in fact, a trapezoid positive-going excursion can be voltage -
shape waveform and it might be thought controlled to any point within one cycle
All the ICs should be facing the
that some filtering would be required to of the input waveform. same way and the diodes mounted
produce a waveform more akin to a sine The output of the comparator is rec- on the PCB should have their band
wave. This was tried in the development tified by D1 and summed with the in- pointing towards pin 1/pin 14 of the
stage, but in practice the trapezoid verted sawtooth from IC1a via R11.
waveform gave a better randomness to ICs. Turn all the presets to their
These voltages (actually currents) result
the overall output, whereas with a sine in a new sawtooth whose reset point is mid -position.
wave modulation a more definite sweep determined by the positive -going edge of The setting up procedure is
could be detected on long sustained the comparator. Thus, as shown in the reasonably straightforward, though
notes. waveform diagram, this new sawtooth is
Referring now to the multiplier cir- phase -shifted from the original and the
repetitive, since each of the six
cuit, the output from the synthesiser amount of phase shift is dependent on multipliers has two presets which
VCO is taken to IC1a configured as an the comparator pulse width. The output need to be adjusted; however, your
inverter/buffer; the VCO waveform also of the summing amplifier IC2b is taken efforts will be rewarded!
goes to one input of the comparator via R15 and mixed with the other
IC2a. The other input of the comparator multiplier outputs plus the original
Constructors with access to a scope
is fed with a voltage set up on PR11 sawtooth (via R3), where IC1b acts.as will find it easier to use the scope to
together with the modulation voltage via the mixing amplifier. see the various waveforms
mentioned in the text. Those of you
ETI JANUARY 1983 73
PROJECT : Chorus
waveform. However, if you are
unsure of what a VCO sounds like
when it is being frequency -
modulated by a slow running
sawtooth, listen to this effect on its
own before trying to set up PR12.,
Again this adjustment is carried out
on each of the six multipliers.
With all the multipliers now set
up, speed up the VCO connected to
the circuit, attach a lead to the
output and you should see/hear a
multiple sawtooth waveform. Now
switch the modulators on (either
setting of SW1) and you should hear
a 'phasing' sound as the modulation
builds up. Finally, check that the
two 'on' positions of SW1 give
different depths of modulation.
If, when the modulation switch
is set to 'full' you find you can hear
a distinct pause or break in one of
A view inside the prototype showing how it is configured to provide four the new waveforms, this indicates
independent channels driven by one modulator board. Miniature jack sockets are an incorrect setting of the preset
used for input and output (see also the lead photograph). associated with the comparator. To
without a scope will be using your those unfamiliar with this sound, determine which one needs a finer
ears rather than your eyes, so make adjust PR11 for the 'loudest' sound. adjustment, check each of the six
sure you have some means of When the duty cycle is less than multipliers by attaching an audio
listening handy. Either an amplifier about 30% or more than about 70% lead or probe to point B and adjust
and speakers, or headphones of a 'thin' spiky sound predominates, PR11, 21, 31 etc as appropriate, so
reasonable quality will do, but so set PR11 midway between these that even with full modulation
remember we are listening to a
'raw' signal so don't stick it straight
two - an accurate 50% is not
important.) Repeat this step on each
depth the comparator (and thus the
sawtooth) remain within the range
into your favourite hi-fi amp! of the five other multipliers. of one full cycle of the original
The first step is to power up the With the comparators now set sawtooth.
circuit and apply a VCO sawtooth up, we need to adjust the presets
waveform running at about 500 Hz Interfacing Notes
-
(for ease of listening so with a
scope it doesn't matter). Ensure that
on the comparator outputs so as to
give a smooth sawtooth waveform. The original circuit was
PR12 is the preset associated with developed for a Digisound 80
the modulation switch is in the off this adjustment. Attach your lead to modular synthesiser; this has ±15 V
position. Attach a lead to the output the output of IC2b (junction of pin supplies and a positive -going 0-10 V
of IC1 b (junction of pin 7 and R2).
This should be outputting the VCO
and R15 - point B on the overlay).
Until PR12 is correctly adjusted the
1
VCO output. However, the circuit is

fairly tolerant of a wide range of
sawtooth (inverted). Next move the sawtooth will contain a jump in it as conditions and can be adapted to
scope probe or audio lead to the shown in the waveform diagram. almost any synth with possibly some
junction of D1 and PR12 (marked A Using a scope, all you need to do is small additional components. The
on the component overlay). This is turn PR12 until this jump is most likely problem concerns the
the comparator output from which smoothed out. Without a scope you ratio of the VCO output amplitude
we want to get an approximate will need two VCOs in order to when compared with the voltage
square wave output. At first you accomplish this adjustment. supply rails. The minimum and
may hear no sound at all, but as First, slow down the VCO maximum supply voltages to the
PR11 is rotated you should hear a which is connected to the circuit, to circuit described are ±5V to
square wave break in with the pulse its lowest setting (somewhere ±16 V. Bearing in mind these two
width varying as you turn the around one cycle per second is limits, the waveform to be treated
preset. Adjust PR11 for an fine). Now attach a lead from the should be equal to or greater than
approximate 50% duty cycle. (For aforementioned junction of pin 1 one-third the sum of the voltage
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FEATURE
CONFIGURATIONS
And so to op -amps, the most venerable members of the linear
IC family. Ian Sinclair traces their ancestors, descendents and
lifestyle.
Before the reason for the name becomes shrouded in importance they once had, and the operational amplifiers
the mists of history, perhaps it's just as well to look at which were once made using valves, and then transistors,
the origins. Operational amplifiers were designed for are now made as ICs. The requirements are still pretty
analogue computers, which are machines used for solving much the same, because our definition of an operational
mathematical equations. They do so, not by using binary amplifier nowadays is as a high gain DC -coupled amplifier
arithmetic as digital computers do, but by connecting up a whose behaviour can easily be controlled by using
network of components which represents either a negative feedback. Since the behaviour (gain, bandwidth,
mathematical relation or an equation. In the case of a shape of gain -bandwidth curve) is so easily modified by
mathematical relation (eg, y=x) the circuit will have an the use of negative feedback, the operational amplifier is
input, x, and an output, y, that will vary according to the the nearest thing we have to an all-purpose amplifier, and
relationset up and according to the value of x. Equations that's why operational amplifiers were among the first
can be either ordinary (eg, x2+4x+3=0) or differential linear ICs that were produced.
(eg, d2yfdx2+x=0); the circuit will be connected in a loop,
and in the case of the ordinary equation it will give an +VE SUPPLY
output that represents the solution (or one of the solutions)
to the equation. The solution to a differential equation is OUT -OF -PHASE
itself a mathematical relation (in the case of the example INPUT
(INVERTING INPUT)
given above, y=Asinx+Bcosx), so the circuit will have an OUTPUT
input and an output (the coefficients of the equation, A IN -PHASE INPUT
and B, will be determined by the initial values of the circuit (NON-INVERTING)
voltages, but that takes us a bit beyond the present scope MAXIMUM RATINGS
OS
of this article). POSITIVE SUPPLY = +18V
-VE SUPPLY
An essential part of representing a mathematical NEGATIVE SUPPLY = -18V 0/S
DIFFERENTIAL INPUT = ±30V
operation in electrical terms is an amplifier with very high COMMON -MADE INPUT = ±15V
TYPICAL CHARACTERISTICS
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To start with, consider the typical specification of one
known as operational amplifiers. of the- best-known op -amps, the 741. This is illustrated in
Fig. 2, to show how close we can get to the ideal
specification. One point of importance is the bandwidth. If
you use a 741 at its full gain, you must expect the
-
+11 bandwidth to be very severely limited
IN
DIFFERENTIATING less than 100 Hz
CIRCUIT at maximum gain. Some care has to be taken if 741s are
used in audio circuits, because in some feedback circuits
that include filtering the chip may be working at a very
high gain at the ends of the bandwidth, even though its
midband gain is low.
Offset Problems
IN OUT
Getting down to configurations, the main point about
INTEGRATING
o
CIRCUIT
o op-amp circuits is how to bias them. Very few applications
call for the 741 to be operated as a differential DC
amplifier at full gain, but for these applications a balanced
Fig. 1 The operations of differentiation and integration power supply is needed. Additionally, some form of input
performed on a square wave. offset balancing will be needed. This is necessary because
there are bound to be some very small mis -matches
between the resistors and transistors that make up the two
The Perfect Specimen input circuits (see later). The gain of the op -amp is so high
The specification for a perfect operational amplifier that any imbalance will be amplified up, so that with both
was that it should have infinitely high gain, infinitely high inputs tied to zero, the output of the op -amp will not be
input resistance, zero output resistance, and as much
bandwidth as was needed -
it was particularly important
to have the gain maintained right down to DC. Analogue
zero by quite a margin.
Manufacturers usually specify typical and maximum
input offset voltage and input offset current. These are the
computers are still produced, though they don't have the differences between the input voltages and the input
ETI JANUARY 1983
77
+24V
currents (with both inputs very close to zero volts) needed
to obtain an output voltage of zero. With the 741 and +VE
many other op -amps there are offset trim connections that

allow you to trim out the voltage offset: A circuit for the
741 is shown in Fig. 3. However, the input currents will IN 2k2
still be slightly different, and there may be the odd circuit OUT TO'PIN 3
+12V
12V
GAIN =-
R2
R1
ALTERNATIVE BIAS
INPUT RESISTANCE = R1
OV
Fig. 5 A single -ended power supply version of the Fig. 4

circuit.
-12v which is as good as earthed as far as signals are concerned.

This makes the input resistance of the circuit equal to the
Fig. 3 Using the offset adjustment to balance out the internal
currents. value of R1, and it limits the application of the circuit to
some extent, because if the input resistance is to be
reasonably high, then the feedback resistor R2 will have to
for which this will need to be taken into account. be of an unreasonably high value to achieve a modest
The offset adjustment will have to be repeated at gain. If the feedback resistor has too high a value (in the
intervals, because the settings drift. The effect of megohm region), then the bias currents at the input of the
temperature and time conspire to make the output voltage chip, typically 200 nA, will cause voltage drops which we
change (drift) away from zero, so that an op -amp at full can't ignore without making our calculations go
gain is a rather unstable device which needs frequent considerably astray. The input resistance of the op -amp
checking. Fortunately, we seldom need to make use of the itself is large, but the use of negative feedback to the same
full gain of the op -amp, and most of the circuit input as the signal makes the input resistance low because
configurations make use of feedback bias circuits. of the 'virtual -earth' effect.
Figure 4 shows one of the most common bias
methods. The circuit uses a balanced power supply, and +12V
bias is obtained by connecting a resistor between the R2

output and the out -of-phase or inverting input (marked as GAIN R2'+R1
-). The in -phase or non -inverting input (+) is connected R1
to earth, so that the output voltage will be almost zero, just INPUT. RESISTANCE = R3
enough to apply the correct offset voltage (which is usually

less than a millivolt) to the inverting input. The gain of this OUT
circuit depends on the resistance of the signal source. If IN
we represent this as a resistor in series with the input, R1,
then the gain is simply -R2/R1 (the - sign indicates that
the signal is inverted). DV
+12V
-12V
R2
Fig. 6 Using signal input to the in -phase, or non -inverting

input of the 741.
R1
IN
R3 IS USED TO EQUALISE RESISTANCE

OUT Improved Impedances
-
AT THE INPUTS ITS VALUE SHOULD Another configuration of the op -amp is illustrated in
EQUAL THAT OF R1
Fig. 6. This time the input is taken to the non -inverting
input, and the inverting input is used only for the
feedback. In this balanced version of the circuit, the input
-12v
resistance can be higher, because the resistance R3 does
Fig. 4 The feedback bias system in a circuit which uses the not control the gain of the amplifier, and the source
out -of-phase, or inverting input for signals. resistance is of no interest unless it is unusually high. The
gain is given by (R2+R1)/R1.
This circuit is DC -coupled throughout, but if we do It's quite straightforward to combine the biasing
not need DC gain, then a single -ended supply version can arrangements of Fig. 5 with the non -inverting circuit of Fig.
be constructed, as indicated in Fig. 5. Capacitor coupling 6. However, a word of caution: all those resistors and ail
must then be used to avoid shorting out the bias voltage, those capacitors combine to form low-pass filters, and at
choosing capacitors with low leakage, and the supply frequencies around their cut-offs, these will all produce
voltage must be adequate
across the chip is 3 V.
-
the quoted minimum voltage considerable phase -shifts; and this may lead to what
you've designed as an arnpìifer actually turning out to be
When this configuration is used, the inverting input an oscillator!
voltage remains practically constant when a signal` is
applied. When a balanced power supply is used, in fact, Stewing About
the inverting input is virtually at earth voltage, and this The 741 type of operational amplifier has a lot a
'virtual earth' effect means that signals applied to the input merits, but it is a design which is now showing its age.
terminal (one end of R1) are flowing through R1 to a point Much more recent designs have, in particular, wider
78 ETI JANUARY 1983
FEATURE: Configurations
bandwidths, and are impressively better in one respect -
slew rate. The slew rate of an operational amplifier is the
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PROJECT
PROGRAMMABLE
POWER SUPPLY
We hear a lot these days about computing power but here it is,
literally. With this PSU plugged into a suitable port on your
micro you can control your voltage and current bit by bit.
There's manual control, too. Design by Phil Walker.
versatile piece of equipment
Tihis
s basically a programmable
power supply. It allows you to
set the output voltage and/or
current to very close limits by lo
means of your computer keyboard ro®
without actually touching the unit
itself. Even more useful, in some AMPS
VOLTS
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cases, is that a sequence of voltage - -- RANGE
and/or current levels can be £OMTROL-.

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programmed in advance. The unit
has a range of 0-25V5 in 100 mV
steps and 25 mA to 1A6 in 25 mA POWERSUpPtY
steps. PROGRAMMABLE
The prime controlling element
in the power supply section is an
LM317 integrated voltage regulator
device. In this project it is used as a The handsome face of the ETI Programmable power supp y.
high -gain self-protecting power
transistor. In order to get the rated most convenient. 1C8, Q3, D4 and are fitted and wired as far as
output from the device under all D5 are mounted on the heatsink possible before the chassis is finally
operating conditions, two power and wired through a grommet in the fitted. Make sure, however, that you
rails are used. The lower one, 17 V, rear panel. It makes things easier leave enough room to insert the
is used while the required output is here if some PTFE insulators are chassis afterwards. Note that R4, 25,
less than 12 V, the higher supply used to hold the diodes and 27 to 31 are mounted on their
rail of 34 V is used when the connecting wires. Use insulating associated front panel components,
required output is greater than 12 mica washers with heatsink though we did find room on the
V. The purpose of this configuration compound under IC8 and Q3 to PCB for R4 after the prototype was
is to keep the dissipation in the conduct the heat away while completed, and it is shown thus on
LM317 as low as possible. This is preventing unwanted short circuits. the overlay.
necessary because the LM317 will Together with the heatsink, the The transformer, main
not allow the full 1A6 output to mains switch, fuse, mains cable and capacitors, bridge rectifier and PCB
flow if there is more than about 17 control input socket are all mounted together with D6 and R26 are
V across it. on the rear panel. mounted on the chassis supplied
The reduced power dissipation It will help considerably if the with the case. Some solder tags and
in this circuit arrangement allows us front and rear panel components tagstrip will be useful for mounting
to have a constant current output the smaller components and
characteristic over the whole range
BUYLINES connecting to the capacitors. The
instead of a 'foldback' limiting Not too much in the way of unusual large capacitors used in the
circuit. components for this project: the ZN428 prototype were mounted
and D -range connector may be hard to horizontally using two clips each.
track down but Technomatic can supply
Construction both parts. The case we used is available
The project was constructed in from Newrad Instrument Cases Ltd, Tip- Setting Up
the specified Newrad case, but it's a toe Road, Wootton, New Milton, Hants Having constructed the project
BH25 5S1, telephone New Milton and checked for wiring errors very
fairly tight fit and it may well be 615774; the PCB can be obtained, as
easier to use the next size up usual, from our PCB Service as advertis- carefully, put RV1 and RV2 to
(52/38) to allow more elbow room. ed on page 91. The optional DM minimum, close SW3 and set SW2
Construction of the PCB is module, the DPM05, is stocked by to local. Switch on and check that
Lascar Electronics, Oakland House, the voltages on Cl, C2 and C7 are
straightforward so long as polarity of Reeves Way, South Woodham Ferrers,
components is observed where Chelmsford, Essex CM3 5XQ, telephone +34, +17, and -34(± 5Vorso).
relevant. We used PCB plugs and 0245 329797. If not, check the wiring again. Now
sockets for the digital input as this is make sure that the +5V and -5 V
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PROJECT : PSU
TOOpM
PARTS LIST
DATA Resistors (all '-,W, 5% except where
"
> > TO RV1
SELIECS m> AND RV2 stated)
2lw á .3 fìá R1 100R 1 W
SK2 R2,9,21,25 1k0
CURRENT
R3 390R
CONTROL R4 4k7
TO SW2a
..:- OV
417V.
R5,6
R7
47R
180R 2W5
:;--i- 3sV%
R8,23
R10,11,13,
3k3
15,17,19 10k
VOLTAGE
CONTROL R12,14,16 100k
TO SW2b
R18 82k
R20 330R
P%1 R22 470R
R24 120R
0V .- R26 1R0 2W5
VIL CONTROL FROM SW2a at
é1N T1
y,,;::-: R27* 10k 1%
VOSCONTROL FROM SPI2b-aa-...-As R28* 100k
TO OV OUTPUT, 526, R29 82k 1%
ILON DVM, D6ANODE
R30 820k 1%
ICS COMMON R31 8M2 5% or better
*R27 and R28 may be replaced with a
single 9k1 1% resistor
Fig. 4 Component overlay. Note some components are mounted off -board.
Potentiometers
RV1,2 10k linear
PR1 22k miniature horizontal
preset
PR2 2k2 miniature horizontal
preset
PR3 47k miniature horizontal
preset
Capacitors
C1,2 10,000u 25 V can
electrolytic
C3 luO 35 V tantalum
C4 100n ceramic
C5-7 220u 63 V axial
electrolytic
C8 100p ceramic
Semiconductors
IC1 781.05
1C2, 3 ZN428
1C4 741S139
IC5,6 TL081
A side view showing the construction of the PCB. 1C7 79L05
1C8 LM317K
rails are correct on the PCB. If not, check that the outputs from IC2 and Q1 BC212L
check component polarities and 3 are at 0 V (IC2 will be 30 mV or Q2 BC182L
Q3 TIP140
placement. Rotate SW4 through all so positive). Set SW2 to `remote' D1-3 1N4148
its positions and check that it reads and readjust PR2 if necessary. D4-6 1N5401
at or somewhere near zero in all Set all the data inputs to +5 V ZD1 12 V 1W3 zener
positions. With SW4 in the 10 V and latch in this new information ZD2 30 V 1W3 zener
ZD3 5V6 400 mW zener
range (or a 10 V meter connected at using AO and EN2 as in the previous LEDI panel-mounting red LED
the output) adjust PR2 for 0 V paragraph. Readjust PR3 and (with BR1 200 V, 2 A potted bridge
output. Connect a voltmeter to RV2 care) PR1. The unit should now be rectifier
wiper and adjust RV2 until it reads ready for use. Note, when doing the BR2 200 V, 1 A potted bridge
rectifier
2V55 with respect to the 0 V rail. above procedures it may be
Adjust PR3 until the output reaches advisable to provide pull-up resistors Miscellaneous
25V5 (SW4 in 100 V position). on unconnected inputs. SW1 two -pole mains -rated on -
Now connect the voltmeter to The AO line selects the voltage off rocker switch
SW2 two -pole miniature
RV1 wiper and adjust RV1 until it D -to -A converter when low and the changeover toggle switch
reads 2V55. Turn RV2 to minimum current D -to -A converter when high. SW3 two-pole on -off toggle
and connect an ammeter to the EN1 could be the select line while switch (5 A @ 30 V)
output terminals. Advance RV2 a EN2 would be the R/W on SW4 three-pole four-way rotar
switch
little and a current of between 1 6502 -type systems, or WR on the FS1 20 mm 1 A fuse
and 2 amps should flow. Adjust PR1 Z80 etc. For most applications it is T1 0-12, 0-12 V, 50 VA mains
until this current is 1A6. advisable that there should be some transformer
If all these steps have been means of isolation between the LP1 mains neon indicator
PCB (see Buylines); DPM05 LCD DVM
accomplished without smoke, the control processor and this unit to module (see Buylines); PCB plugs and
supply should be operational. The prevent earth loops and other sockets if required (one off 10 -war and
only thing left to check is the digital undesirable effects; this may well be two off three-way); 15 way D-range con-
control section. Connect all the data in the form of opto -isolators. Pads nector (see Buylines); three off screw
terminals; three knobs; can capacitor
inputs on SK1 to 0 V and connect are provided to allow the EN1 link clips; tag strip; transistor mounting kits
EN1 to 0 V using the link indicated to be repositioned to use the other and heatsink compound for LM317 and
beside IC4 in Fig. 4. Now, with AO section of ClI and gain extra TIP140; heatsink (2.0° C/W); cable and
at 0 V take EN2 low momentarily. decoding capability, should this be hardware; case, Newrad type 52/37 (see
Buylines).
Repeat this with AO high. Now necessary. ETI
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1
IT'S
SO
Constructor Series Speakers
T.V. SOUND
TUNERBUILT AND TESTED
EASY In the cut-throat world of

consumer electronics, one
Have fun, save
of the questions designers
money, building apparently ponder over
a Kef design is Will anyone notice if
with a we save money by chopp-
Wilmslow Audio ing this out?" In the
domestic TV set, one of the
CS Total kit. first casualties seems to be
No electronic or
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knowledge and all this is really quite sad, as the
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compact and independent TV tuner that connects direct to your Hi-Fi is a must for quality
the end result is reproduction.
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quality design ' also be used in conjunction with your video recorder. Dimensions: 115/4"x 8'4"x 3%"
that you'll be proud of. E.T.I. kit version of above without chassis, case and hardware. £12.95 plus £1.50 p&p.
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l.nJJI " n :O 0625 529599 printed quality circuit board and all electronic parts. ie. semiconductors,
The firm for Speakers resistors, capacitors, hardware, top cover, printed scale and mains transformer.
L You only supply solder & hook-up wire. Featured in April P.E. reprint 50p. Free with kit.
35/39 Church Street, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 1AS

- STEREO TUNER KIT
Catalogue £1.50 post free
Lightning service on telephoned credit card orders! 'J P.E.
This easy to build
is
3 band stereo AM/FM tuner kit
designed in conjunction with Ptactical Electronics
(July '811. For ease of construction and alignment
it incorporates three Mullard modules and ah I.C.
IF System.
FEATURES: VHF, MW, LW Bands, interstation
muting and AFC on VHF. Tuning meter. Two back
printed PCB's. Ready made chassis and scale. Aerial:
AM - ferrite rod, FM -75 or 300 ohms. Stabilised power
supply with 'C' ehre mains transformer. All components
supplied are to P.E. strict specification. Front scale size 10%="x 2%" approx. Complete t^:kn.
diagram and instructions. Self assembly simulated wood cabinet sleeve
to suit tuner only. Finish size: 11Y4"x 8'4"x 3'r.
£17.95 Plus £2.50 p&p. £3.50 Plus £1.50 p&p.
\
r- 125W HIGH POWER
AMP MODULES
Make the most of The power amp kit
power applications -
is amodule for high
disco units, guitar arnplif- i
iers, public address systems and even high
your pocket computer power domestic systems. The unit is protected

against short circuiting of the load and is safe
in an open circuit condition. A large safety SPECIFICATIONS:
margin exists by use of generously rated com- Max. output power (RMS): 125 W. Ccu-a- ng
new software for SHARP PC1500 ponents, result, a high powered rugged unit. voltage (DC): 50 - 80 max. Loads: 4 z -m.
The PC board is back printed, etched and Frequency response measured A 100
I World Exclusive! NEW Business Programs 1
ready to drill for ease of construction and the 25Hz - 20KHz. Sensitivity for 100.2.:
aluminium chassis is preformed and ready to @ 47K. Typical T.H.D. @ 50 watts. 4 c^
from GEMINI Silicon Notebook £19.95-1 use. Supplied with all parts, circuit diagrams 0.1%. Dimensions: 205x90 and 190x3--.
s.
I Executive SuiteQprograms) £29.95 I and instructions.

KIT
I new books for DRAGON 32 I ACCESSORIES: Suitable mains power supply
£10.50 £14.25
kit with transformer: £8.50 + £2.00 p&p.
£6.95 +£1.15:x,
1 101 program tips & tricks Suitable LS coupling electrolytic. £1 +25p p&p +£1.15 p&p
155 programs home/school/office £6.95

BSR RECORD DECK SPEAKER BARGAINS
I
Icolor computer graphics £7.95 I
Manual single play record 2 WAY 10 WATT

I Add _ £1.50)
50p per book post & packing (max. .
deck with auto return
and cueing lever. Fitted
SPEAKER KIT
Ideal Gift 8" bass/mid range and 3'.:"
New Idea with stereo ceramic cart-
tweeter. Complete with so -e rs.
ridge 2 speeds with 45rpm
I At last - no more tape -loading problems! spindle adaptor ideally
wire, crossover components
and cabinet. Ali wood pre-
\ SHARP C E152 cassette tape recorder suited for home or disco. -
i
cut no cutting required.
£12.95 + £1.75 p&p.
\ purpose built for computers only £39.93
13"x 11" app. Finish - chipboard coeerec
wood simulate. size 14'.:' x
SPECIAL OFFER! Replacement Stereo cass- 8%"x 4". PAIR for ONLY
ette tape heeds -
£1.80 each. Mono: £1.50
each. Erase: £0.70 each. Add 50p p&p to order
£12.50 plus £1.75 p&o.
Send cash, cheque, Access or Visa Card No. Ask for our All mail to: ALL CALLERS TO: 323 EDG'GARE ROAD,
New FREE pocket brochure. Trade enquiries welcome anytime. 21 E HIGH STREET, ACTON, W3 6NG.
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(5 minutes walk from Edgy, or
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Now open 6 days a week
30/10/62 and subject to change without notice.
FREEPOST, 28 Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 6LZ or telephone
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Please allow 7 working days from receipt of order
061-798-7613 (24 hr. service). See full list on Prestel 258-2022. for despatch. RTVC Limited reserve the right to up-
We specialise in pockets! date their products without notice. All enquiries send
S.A.E. Telephone or mail orders by ACCESS welcome.
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"Step-by-step assembly
® are
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illustrated
htting instruction
uitincluded
Highest
quality
are
CO rnPonents
used throughout.
VOYAGER Car Drive Computer
A most sophisticated accessory. a Utilises a single chip mask
programmed microprocessor incorporating a unique programme
designed by EDA Sparkrite Ltd. Affords 12 functions centred
on Fuel, Speed, Distance and Time. e Visual and Audible alarms.
warning of Excess Speed, Frost/Ice, Lights -left -on. Facility to
operate LOG and TRIP functions independently or synchronously
.1 I Large 10mm high 400ft-L fluorescent display with auto
intensity. Unique speed and fuel transducers giving a
programmed accuracy of + or -1%. Large LOG & TRIP
.i .1. _:
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memories. 2,000 miles. 180 gallons. 100 hours. Full Imperial

1 l 17' and Metric calibrations. Over 300 components to assemble
A real challenge for the electronics enthusiast!
AT-80
Electronic Car Security System
Arms doors, boot, bonnet and has security loop to protect
fog/spot lamps, radio/tape, CB equipment
Programmable personal code entry system
Armed and disarmed from outside vehicle using a special
magnetic key fob against a windscreen sensor pad adhered to
the inside of the screen Fits all 12V neg earth vehicles
Over 250 components to assemble
8X1000 TX1002
Electronic Ignition Electronic Ignition
Inductive Discharge
Extended coil energy Contactless or contact triggered
storage circuit Extended coil energy storage circuit
Contact breaker driven e Inductive Discharge Three position
Three position changeover switch changeover switch Distributor
Over 65 components to assemble triggerhead adaptors included Die cast
Patented clip -to -coil fitting weatherproof case Clip -to -coil or remote
Fits all 12v neg. earth vehicles mounting facility Fits majority of 4 Et 6 cyl.
12V. neg. earth vehicles a Over 145
components to assemble.
TX2002
Electronic Ignition
SX2000 The ultimate system Switchable
Electronic Ignition contactless. Three position switch with
Auxiliary back-up inductive circuit.
The brandleading system Reactive Discharge. Combined capacitive
on the market today and inductive. Extended coil energy storage
Unique Reactive Discharge circuit. Magnetic contactless distributor trigger -
Combined Inductive and head. e Distributor triggerhead adaptors included.
Capacitive Discharge Can also be triggered by existing contact breakers.
Contact breaker driven Die cast waterproof case with clip -to -coil fitting Fits
Three position changeover switch majority of 4 and 6 cylinder 12v neg. earth vehicles.
Over 130 components to assemble e Over 150 components to assemble
Patented clip -to-coil fitting
Fits all 12v neg. earth vehicles All SPARKRITE products and designs are fully covered by one or more World Patents.
MAGIDICE
Electronic Dice
Not an auto item but great fun
SPECIAL OFFER for the family

Total random selection
Triggered by waving of hand
over dice
"FREE" MAGIDICE KIT WITH Bleeps and flashes during a 4 second
tumble sequence
Throw displayed for 10 seconds
ALL ORDERS OVER £45.00 Auto display of last throw second in 5
1
Muting and Off switch on base

Hours of continuous use from PP7 battery
Over100 components to assemble
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1ze ELECTRONIC IGNITION
K1TS OR READY BUILT
IS YOUR CAR
AS GOOD AS
IT COULD BE?
* Isit EASY TO START in the cold and the damp? Total Energy
Discharge will give the most powerful spark and maintain full The basic function of a spark ignition system is often lost
output even with a near flat battery. among claims for longer "burn times" and other marketing
* Is it ECONOMICAL or does it "go off" between services as

the ignition performance deteriorates? Total Energy Discharge
fantasies. It is only necessary to consider that, even in a small
engine, the burning fuel releases over 5000 times the energy of
the spark, to realise that the spark is only a trigger for the
gives much more output and maintains it from service to combustion. Once the fuel is ignited the spark is insignificant
service. and has no effect on the rate of combustion. The essential
* Has it PEAK PERFORMANCE or is it flat at high and low revs.
where the ignition output is marginal? Total Energy Discharge
function of the spark is to start that combustion as quickly as
possible and that requires a high power spark.
gives a more powerful spark from idle to the engines max. The traditional capacitive discharge system has this high power
(even with 8 cylinders). spark but, due to it's very short spark duration and
* Is the PERFORMANCE SMOOTH.The more powerful spark

of Total Energy Discharge eliminates the 'near misfires'whilst
consequential low spark energy, is incompatible with the weak
air/fuel mixtures used in modern cars. Because of this most
manufacturers have abandoned capacitive discharge in
an electronic filter smooths out the effects of contact bounce favour of the cheaper inductive system with it's low power but
etc.
* Do the PLUGS and POINTS always need changing to bring
the engine back to its best. Total Energy Discharge eliminates
very long duration spark which guarantees that sooner or later
the fuel will ignite. However, a spark lasting 2000uS at 2000
rev/min. spans 24 degrees and 'later' could mean the actual
contact arcing and erosion by removing the heavy electrical fuel ignition point is retarded by this amount.
load. The timing stays "spot on" and the contact condition The solution is a very high power, medium duration, spark
doesn't affect the performance either. Larger plug gaps can be generated by the TOTAL ENERGY DISCHARGE system. This
used, even wet or badly fouled plugs can be fired with this gives ignition of the weakest mixtures with the minimum of
system. timing delay and variation for a smooth efficient engine.
Most NEW CARS already have ELECTRONIC IGNITION.
Update YOUR CAR with the most powerful system on the
* SUPER POWER DISCHARGE CIRCUIT A brand new
technique prevents energy being reflected back to the storage
market - 3'% times more spark power than inductive systems - capacitor, giving 3'/z times the spark energy and 3 times the
3% times the spark power of ordinary capacitive systems, 3 spark duration of ordinary C.D. systems, generating a spark
times the spark duration. powerful enough to cause rapid ignition of even the weakest
fuel mixtures without the ignition delay associated with lower
Total Energy Discharge also features:
power 'long burn' inductive systems.
EASY FITTING, STANDARD/ELECTRONIC CHANGEOVER
SWITCH, LED STATIC TIMING LIGHT, LOW RADIO
INTERFERENCE, CORRECT SPARK POLARITY and
* HIGH EFFICIENCY INVERTER A high power, regulated
inverter provides a 370 volt energy source - powerful enough to
DESIGNED IN RELIABILITY. store twice the energy of other designs and regulated to
* IN KIT FORM it provides a top performance system at less than
half the price of competing ready built units. The kit includes: *
provide sufficient output even with a battery down to 4 volts.
PRECISION SPARK TIMING CIRCUIT This circuit removes
pre -drilled fibreglass PCB, pre -wound and varnished ferrite all unwanted signals caused by contact volt drop, contact
transformer, high quality 21.1F discharge capacitor, case, easy shuffle, contact bounce, and external transients which, in
to follow instructions, solder and everything needed to build many designs, can cause timing errors or damaging un -timed
and fit to your car. All you need is a soldering iron and a few sparks. Only at the correct and precise contact opening is a
basic tools. spark produced. Contact wear is almost eliminated by reducing
FITS ALL NEGATIVE EARTH VEHICLES the contact breaker current to a low level - just sufficient to
6 or 12 volt, with or without ballast. keep the contacts clean.
OPERATES ALL VOLTAGE IMPULSE TACHOMETERS: TYPICAL SPECIFICATION Total Ordinary
(Older current impulse types need an adaptor). Energy Capacitive
Discharge Discharge
STANDARD CAR KIT £15.90 PLUS SPARK POWER (Peak) 140W 90W
Assembled and Tested £26-70 P. Er P. SPARK ENERGY 36mJ 10mJ
£1 (U.K.) STORED ENERGY 135mJ 65mJ
SPARK DURATION 500u 160uS
TWIN OUTPUT KIT £24.55 Prices OUTPUT VOLTAGE (Load 50pF,
For Motor Cycles and Cars with twin ignition systems include 26kV
equivalent to clean plugs) 38kV
Assembled and Tested £36.45 VAT
OUTPUT VOLTAGE (Load 50pF
+ 500k, equivalent to dirty plugs) 26kV 17kV
VOLTAGE RISE TIME TO 20kV
ELECTRONIIE DESIGN (Load 50pF) 25uS 30uS
tams Dept. D Magnus Rd Wilnecote
J
TOTAL ENERGY DISCHARGE should not be confused with
Tamworth B77 5BY low power inductive systems or hybrid so called reactive
Buy Me kale
tel: 0827 281000 systems.
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ETI PCB SER
Up until now PCBs were always the hardest component to obtain for a project. Of course you
could make your own, but why bother anymore?
Now you can buy your boards straight from the designers -
us! As of this issue all jriort-
copyright) PCBs will be available automatically from the ETI PCB Service. Each board is
produced from the same master used to build our prototypes, so you can be sure it's accurat
and will be finished to the high standard you would expect from ETI.
In addition to the PCBs for this month's projects, we are making available some of the more
popular designs from our recent past. See the list below for details. Please note that NO OTHE
BOARDS ARE AVAILABLE. if it's not listed, we don't have it!
APRIL 79 LED Jewellery: Cross £1.47 MAY 82

. Guitar Effects Unit £2.64 Spiral (two boards) £2.64 DV Meg £2.92
Click Eliminator £6.64 E Star (two boards) £2.65 D Analogue PWM £3.37
JUNE 79
Waa-phase £1.53 E SlotCarController £4.96'
D Accentuated Beat Metronome E Wattmiser. £4.53
£3.60 JULY 80 E Sound Effects Boar,' £2.40
FEBRUARY 80 System A A-MM/A-MC £2.65 June 82
E Tuning Fork System A A -PR £5.17 D Ion Generator (two boards)
£2.64
E Smart Battery Charger £6.22
£1.97 Ion `Blinker'
MARCH 80
D £2.60
E Signal Tracer MOSFET Amp Module £6.99
£2.27
AUGUST 81 D, Logic Lock £3.41
AUGUST 80 E System A Power Am p(A-PA) £4.77 Digital PWM £3.84
CMOS Logic Tester £2.64 E Flash Sequencer £3.44 Optical Sensor £1.98
Capacitance Meter £2.93 E Hand -clap Synthesiser £3.97 Stylus Timer
Ultrasonic Burglar Alarm
£2.98
£2.87 Heartbeat Monitor £1.83 Oscilloscope (four boards) £13.19
Watchdog Home Security
OCTOBER 80 JULY82
E Cassette Interface (two boards) £5.31
£2.93 Mike Switching Unit £2.04
Fuzz/Sustain Box £3.27 TV Bargraph (main board) £4.85
SEPTEMBER 81
NOVEMBER 80 E Mains Audio Link (three boards) £735 D TV Bargraph (channel card)£2.44
Touch Buzzer £1.93 E Laboratory PSU Hotwire £2.99
£4.53
E Light Switch £1.93 Bridging Adaptor £2.74
E Metronome £1.93 OCTOBER 81
E 2W Power Amp £1.93 AUGUST 82
E Enlarger Timer £3.40 E Playmate (three boards)
E RIAA Preamplifier £1.93 Sound Bender £2.65
£7.92
E Audio Test Oscillator £3.13 E Thermal Alarm £2.63
E Kitchen Scales x.70
DECEMBER 80 E Micropower Pendulum Sound Track £4.38
£2.21
E Musical Doorbell £2.80 NOVEMBER 81 SEPTEMBER 82
E Bench Amplifier £2.53 Voice -Over Unit Auto Volume Control £2.07
£3.97
E Four Input Mixer £2.64 E Car Alarm Dual Logic Probe £2.31
£2.81
JANUARY 81 E Phone Bell Shifter
LED Tacho
£2.96 OCTOBER 82
£4.13
DECEMBER 81
Multi -Option Siren £3.20
Alcohometer(two boards) Message Panel (one card) £9.66
£5.32
E Universal Timer £3.31
Bodywork Checker £1.97 NOVEMBER 82
FEBRUARY 81
Infra -red Alarm (four boards)
E Component Tester £1.49 Spectrum Analyst (3 boards) £16.29
£6.64 Pulse generator
E Pulse Generator £3.57 JANUARY 82 £6.09
MARCH 81 Parking Meter Timer £2.37 Message panel interface £2.27
E Engineer's Stethoscope £2.65 E Infant Guard £1.80 DECEMBER 82
APRIL 81. E Guitar Tuner(two boards) £5.97 ELCB £2.54
E Musical Box £2.64 FEBRUARY 82 Servo Interface (two boards) £5.99
E Drum Machine (two boards) £5.60 Ripple Monitor £2.08 D Spectracolumn
£5.48
E Guitar Note Expander £3.20 Pest Monitor £1.85 Signal Line Tester
JUNE 81 E Ching Computer (two boards)
I £5.31, £1.78
' Mini -drill Speed Controller £2.93 Moving -magnet stage £3.80 JANUARY 83
E Antenna Extender £3.20 Moving -coil stage £3.80 Fuel Gauge £3.21
ZX ADC £2.39)
Programmable PSU £3.21)
How to order: indicate the boards required by

ticking the boxes and send this page, together with
your payment, to: ETI PCB Service, Argus
Specialist Publications Ltd, 145 Charing Cross Signed
Road, London WC2H OEE. Make cheques payable
to ETI PCB Service. Payment in sterling only please. Name
Prices subject to change without notice. Address
Total for boards £
Add45pp&p 0.45
Total enclosed £
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The PRACTICAL way!
This new style course wilt enable
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of electronics by a modern, practical
and visual method. No previous
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an absolute minimum of theory.
You learn the practical way in eäsy
steps mastering all the essentials of
your hobby or to start or further a
career in electronics or as a self-
employed servicing engineer.
All the training can be carried out in
the comfort of your own home and at
your own pace. A tutor is available to
whom you can write personally at any
time, for advice or help during your
work. A Certificate is given at the end
of every course.
You will do the following:
Build a modern oscilloscope;
Recognise and handle current electronic
components
Read,drawandunderstand circuit diagrams
Carry out 40 experiments on basic
electronic circuits used in modern
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19" RACK MOUNTING CABINET. Lee
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£19-350
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components for HiFi and PA.
* Top, bottom end rear cover removable for assess *
Plates have heavy dory grey paint finish Front panel is * 50 DIY HiFi speaker designs including the exciting new
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hams mounting plate is pre -drilled and has four mounting positions to choose horn Front panel is of brushed * dB Total Concept speaker kits, the Kef Constructor range,
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Ideal for small scale production, testing, research, service engineers, education and
the home constructor.
The CNC 10 has a board capacity of 8" x 8" and longer boards (maximum 8" wide)
may be accommodated since they can project beyond the ends of the rails.
SELF SETTING at switch -on, 8 digits show Date, Hours, Adjustment of the board rails is extremely simple and they are locked in the desired
Minutes and Seconds, auto GMT/BST and leap year, also position by one central locking clamp. A further clamp enables the PCB, when in
parallel BCD output (including Weekday), receives Rugby position, to be rotated through 360 degrees
and locked in the required position.
60KHz atomic time signals, built-in antenna, 1000Km An optional foam pad is available which
range, GET the TIME RIGHT, £69.60. enables a number of components to be
inserted prior to soldering. Pad size 8" x
60KHZ RUGBY RECEIVER, as in MSF Clock, serial data 8".
output for computer etc, decoding details and ZX81 h;,-rings
for LOCAL, GMT and SIDEREAL time, £22.20.
CNC 10: £16.10 INC. VAT
LOSING DX? Antenna Fault? Check FAST with an Antenna
Noise Bridge, MEASURE resonance 1-150MHz and
FOAM PAD Et CLIP:
radiation resistance 2-1000 ohms, £18.60. £5.64 INC. VAT
Each fun -to-build kit includes all parts, printed circuit, case, Please add £1.50 to cover postage.
postage etc, money back assurance so GET yours NOW. Available direct from the manufacturer:
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Universal NI -CAD, battery charger. All plastic case

with lift up lid. Charge/Test switch. LED indicators
SAVE £££'s ON HOME HEATING BILLS
at each of the five charging points. UNIQUE DIGITAL THERMOSTAT
Charges:- PP3 19V), U12 (1.5V penlite), U11 POSSIBLE FUEL
(1.5V "C"), U2 (1.5V "D"), Power:- 220-240V SAVINGS OF
AC, Dims:- 210 x 100 x 50mm. Knock down
price only while stocks UP TO 25%
last. Normally manufactured exclusively for the trade. Features:
Only £6.00 Continuous readout of ambient temp via 3 digit 7 segment display
Order No. MW 398
LED indicates when pump is in operation 0.2°C Hysterises
Multitester & Transistor Tester
DC volts 0.1v-5v -2.5v -10v-50v -250v-1000v ±3% 240v 3A control contacts Switched set temperature
AC volts 0 -10v -50v-250v-1000v ±3% Freeze protection setting
DC current 0-50uA-2.5mÁ-25mA-0.25A
Resistance: High specification -
Simple to calibrate -
Minimum 0.2-2.200.200k ohms
Midscale 20-200 -20k -200k ohms
Connect in place of existing thermostat
Requires 240v 2VA supply - -
Maximum 2k -20k-2m -20m ohms Kit includes all
As a transistor tester necessary components, Enclosure, diagrams'
Leakage current 0-150uA at Z1k range
0-15mA at X10 range } ±5% and instructions.
0-150mA at Xt range J
Kit price only £39.90. Assembled Price £49.90
PLEASE ADD 15% VAT & £1 P&P
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4021 £0.40
4022 £0.48
4023 £0.16
D Connectors (Cannon Type) E.T.I. A.C. mains 200/240V.
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