[rescue] Sun memo regarding Java

[Scott Newell]

>I had an Atari 800 "back in the day", and it was a great machine - I
>think a big part of it's "coolness" was the sprite graphics - you
>design a bit map, then poke values into registers and set it into
>motion!
>
>You could even, IIRC, tie the output of the paddles to the registers in
>one or two instructions...

I used the joystick direction pins to wire up a cheesy little rat shack 8
bit serial ADC.  I tried to sample fast enough to graph audio and music
waveforms, but never was happy with the results.  My (much slower) graphs
of battery (nicad, alkaline, zinc, mercury) discharge voltage and current
vs. time came out fine, however.  Thinking back, that was some of my first
(clueless) digital hardware hacking.


newell