[sdiy] Paia 8700 Keyboard

[phillip m gallo]

Jim,

Is the printed source so far gone that OCR is a total loss?  I remember
showing a PAIA 8700 advertisement to Charles Rodgers of CFR/Dynasyn/ARIES
fame and he also thought it was pretty cool and wondered at a price that
represented a very good "bang for buck".

regards,
p


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of James Patchell
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 9:50 PM
To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: [sdiy] Paia 8700 Keyboard


Since I can't afford to much of anything else at the moment, besides the
hi-fi amp I am cutting the heat sinks out for, I thought I would get back
to restoring my old Paia 8700 keyboard.  One of the things I am doing is
replacing the original keyboard with a Fatar keyboard.  This of course,
means changing the firmware a bit...which means reassembling the
code....well, last time I did any coding for this thing was on my Atari 800
system...which I still have, but am in no mood to use...partly because some
of the things that go with it need repairing, like the monitor...well and
others too.  I down loaded a 6502 assembler off the internet (there are a
million of them...), and I got a copy of Friendly Stories....etc by John S.
and I am going to type all the code in...again....(this should not be too
hard...a lot easier than cutting a heat sink with a jig saw).  When I
finish, I will have to ask John S. if it would be ok to post the files...I
always thought that the Paia 8700 computer code was kind of cool.


         -Jim
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