+dhe Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 Maybe my search FU isn't up to snuff. Does anyone know if there is a copy of John Willforth's ProtoTyping Manual on whtech - or can someone please upload a copy here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HOME AUTOMATION Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 Spoiler .IF DSK1.C3. .CE 6. .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. ^W-AGE/99 * NEW-AGE/. ^99 *.NEW-AGE/99.* N. ^EW-AGE/99 * NEW-AGE. ^/99 *.NEW-AGE/99.* . ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. ^^^^^^^^^^^.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^.. ^^^^^^^^^^*.by JACK SUGHRUE, Box 459, East Douglas, MA 01516.*. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^.#14.. . ^^^^^^^^^^^.GENTLEMAN GENIUS.. . Of the two tags, Gentleman and Genius, I think the former gets my approbation concerning the best way to describe John Willforth. My wife, Elaine, agrees. For John is first a real gentleman; and that is what you think of before realizing he's also a genius. Gentlemen, I think, are rarities today, even among TIers; though I've discovered more in the 99er ranks than in other walks of life. People like Charlie Good, Jim Cox, Jim Peterson, Barry Traver.. Geniuses, though, are a dime a dozen in the computer world, and most of them are far from civilized.. An example, small but significant: Lots of TIers have been to my home, all of them treated to Elaine's gracious welcome, her extended hospitality in the matters of food and lodgings, so they get to know her and discover, too, that we two rattle alone around our hut, now that our four tykes have leapt into the grownup world, returning us to "couplehood" these past two years. So any female voice answering our phone will be Elaine. But John is the ONLY "adult" TI person who will acknowledge Elaine's existence on the phone. He always says, "Hi, Elaine, this is John Willforth," when she answers, just as if she's not a non-person. Sometimes they converse so long I have to pry the phone from her fingers so I can get to talk to John.. With others who've been here, however, it's usually "Jack there?" when she answers, without even mentioning who they are.. I don't know. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I still believe a lot in courtesy and friendliness and the acknowledgment of the existence of someone I've met.. Anyway, John's old fashioned in this way, too, and I like it: 19th Century values in a 21st Century mind. It's fun being in tune to someone as family oriented as he is. He talks about his wife (Fay) and his three daughters with such joy that you know love and sensitivity are a VERY LARGE part of his nature.. My wife and I talk about John so much that my son Matthew and his wife (Carolyn) wanted very much to meet him. The last time he came over for dinner, we had the "kids" over, too, and all of us enjoyed his pleasant, witty company all evening.. John's a talker. That's a compliment. And he can converse about almost anything but literature (as he claims he doesn't have time to read novels, thus leading to the time-worn argument in THIS house that all the major social changes in the world have been brought about by fiction ... and so on). It's fun arguing with John because the conversation is stimulating and he's still your friend in the end.. John's logical. He even tries to use logic with his teenagers (which probably makes him illogical, when you think about it).. He's hardworking (to a workaholic degree, I think) at some pretty heavy duty electronic wizardry. John even has a calculator on his watch, which he uses.. He writes well. His articles on printers, as well as the long-term articles on hardware (and software) are lucid, practical, and scary: SCARY in the sense that he takes apart consoles and P-boxes and anything else mechanical, electrical, and electronic that he can get his hands on and performs vivisectionist surgery on their innards. He seems to be able to radically modify anything, from computer chips to his backhoe and assumes everybody else should be able to do so.. Whew! Not me. My hands shake when I have to dump my pencil sharpener or fill my stapler.. But John's made me a believer. One evening he came up to my computer room, still chatting about his family, and, while carrying on the conversation, took apart my working P-box. Completely! Screws, nuts, bolts, fans, stuff, whachamacallits, and thingamajigs. Then he reversed my fan, explaining that it would keep my box cool (maybe even cooler) while it would cut down the noise to one-third. It did. We turned on other P-boxes in the room and compared them to the fix.. He also told me where and how to order floppy drives and how to install them (5.25 and 3.5 operate with no cable modification on the TI). I learned that I could buy any IBM compatible half-height disk drives and put them in my TI. [ERM Electronic Liquidators (1 800 776 5865)] for fully warranted reconditioned drives. I called, bought two Panasonic DSDD ($29 each!!!!), installed them myself, just like a computer grownup. Though they also sell cables and disks (for as low as .15 each DSDD), I ended up getting a Power Y cable for internal power connector ($.99) and an AT-HDDR cable set for double connector to controller ($2.89) and a whole lot of other things from another company he recommended: National Computer Accessories (916-441-1568). So, thanks to John, I was able to convert my setup on my school system from one SSSD to two DSSD at a cost of around $60! And does that make a LARGE difference in my ability to do TI things in my classroom. As a matter of fact I'm writing this at school on my quiet P-box, DSSD system and LOVE it! Everything works great. (Remember, we're talking about John teaching me, the man who has to use a manual to open a jar of peanut butter. You readers are chuckling over this "big" hardware deal, but John opened up new worlds to me. I plan to confidently upgrade another system soon and maybe even do a user group demo.. Which brings me back to John's generous spirit. While at a training session in Connecticut some months ago, John willingly came to our M.U.N.C.H. in Worcester, Massachusetts, one evening and shared some great insights and answered all kinds of questions, including some about things he had written as newsletter editor of the West Penn user group, which he founded many years ago to reach out to users outside the Pittsburgh area.. He was also the hit of the New England Fayuh that same week. Everyone there was thrilled to meet the man they all knew through his writings and references to his work by others. He ended up being the biggest TI star at the whole event. People at the fair were in awe of him and still talk about his visit, yet I've met very few humbler men.. . Now, back at my desk at home, I'm using a console John modified a while ago and recently gave to me. It has a plexiglass cutaway of the interior housing of a Zenoboard containing a clock, speech, 32K, E/A, XB, ADVENTURE, TIW, DM, and a system Pause button. All switchable. I feel as though I died and went to TI Heaven.. The man's a genius, no doubt, but more important, he sure is a warm and sensitive friend. To me, it's worth owning a TI just to have met John Willforth.. ..[If you use NEW-AGE/99 please put me on your exchange list.].. ............................................ 0806.DSK 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HOME AUTOMATION Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 This is peaking my interest now! This isn't a set-up ...IS IT! John's mentioned 3 times here... contents.txt TIGERCUB_1119___HARDWARE_UT.DSK 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 I scanned it sometime back, but I don't seem to have a full copy of it on this computer, as I only found the Appendix C and Appendix D schematics for a Forti board and a speech in the PEB board using it. I'll try and check on my archive machine later. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airernie Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 (edited) 19 hours ago, dhe said: Maybe my search FU isn't up to snuff. Does anyone know if there is a copy of John Willforth's ProtoTyping Manual on whtech - or can someone please upload a copy here? Sorry, somewhat massive in size.. Sorry, not sure this is complete since it was done from a copy. I've also added a couple PDFs that I just have labeled content00x.pdf. Not sure if they were part of the copied manual or from other sources. I do have some photo scans from another source that seem to be part of the original covers and manual, but without an index.. who know. I will upload those once I've converted to pdf. Ernie The Proto Board.pdf content001.pdf content002.pdf Edited April 3 by airernie 3 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dhe Posted April 3 Author Share Posted April 3 Thanks @airernie - I'd have bet dollars to doughnuts, that had already been put on whtech. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 8 minutes ago, dhe said: Thanks @airernie - I'd have bet dollars to donates, that had already been put on whtech. You know, I'm glad you asked about this. I just realized that in the 35 years I've had my two Cards I thought that they were Bunyard cards, and I've only had part of the manual for these. The file named content001.pdf is pretty much what I've got, never had the big one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airernie Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 (edited) 14 hours ago, dhe said: Thanks @airernie - I'd have bet dollars to doughnuts, that had already been put on whtech. Probably because all I had was a copy and not an original and wasn't sure if it was complete. I have also uploaded the version with original covers that I mentioned in my previous message. It's the same as content002.pdf, but with an 'original' cover and better resolution. I'm pretty sure this is complete because I would have scanned any other pages that were between the covers had they been present. However, time and memory prohibit me from stating more than that. :-) Perhaps Jim will find his copy and remove any doubts.. :-) proto-card-misc.pdf Edited April 4 by airernie 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 32 minutes ago, airernie said: Probably because all I had was a copy and not an original and wasn't sure if it was complete. I have also uploaded the version with original covers that I mentioned in my previous message. It's the same as content002.pdf, but with an 'original' cover and better resolution. I'm pretty sure this is complete because I would have scanned any other pages that were between the covers had they been present. However, time and memory prohibit me from stating more than that. 🙂 Perhaps Jim will find his copy and remove any doubts.. 🙂 proto-card-misc.pdf 2.79 MB · 1 download Actually this is the same one I have too, somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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