[time-nuts] Questions about Austron 5000 Loran C receiver
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Mar 3 16:14:34 UTC 2012
In message <CAAzRQfAhDyMexYqYPQXVbvuFwZ_tow2HCp9WYeS=dksREnWnQw at mail.gmail.com>
, Andy Lokken writes:
>Recently, a member of this list gave me an Austron 5000 Loran C receiver.
>With the recent news about Loran C, I am interested to try to use this
>device. But I have some questions:
>
>Is it possible to use this receiver without the PDP-8 computer that it was
>generally paired with? If so, how is it done?
Only by substituting a different computer, running a program which
controls the receiver like the PDP-8 would have done.
This may be easier than it sounds, provided you know what the heck
the PDP/8 did.
Otherwise: forget all about it.
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