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From: zcaccha@ucl.ac.uk (Christopher Harris)
Subject: Re: I need a Big Trak
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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 14:35:39 GMT
Reply-To: zcaccha@link-1.ts.bcc.ac.uk (Christopher Harris)
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In article <nagleCo6MuH.B27@netcom.com>, nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
|> uddenoud@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (David Denouden) writes:
|> >I'm looking for an older toy put out by Milton Bradley
|> >sometime in the 80s.  The thing is called a BIG TRAK,
|> >sort of a tank type deal that you can program via a
|> >little keypad and it'll move around for you.  If anyone
|> >has a source (or wants to get rid of one)
|> 
|>      Late '70s is more like it.  Known to be a emitter of heavy RFI.
|> If a Milton Bradley Big Trak is brought near a TRS-80 model 1,
|> both will crash.  Neat little piece of machinery, with a rather exotic
|> gearbox.  If both tracks are running at nearly the same speed, the gearbox
|> locks up, you get synchronized operation, and thus straight-line
|> movement.  Has some 4-bit micro inside.  One of the first computerized toys.
|> 
|> 					John Nagle

... not to mention amazing fun for small kiddies!

Speaking as an ex-small kiddie myself.

Chris
