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From: seeker@indirect.com (Stan Eker)
Subject: Re: Radio Shack's Armatron
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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 08:59:36 GMT
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Thomas B. Morgan (morgatb@eng.auburn.edu) wrote:
: Bill Gidzak (bgidzak@minet.gov.mb.ca) wrote:
: : Does anyone have information about a robotic arm type device that Radio Shack once sold called 
: : an Armatron? (or something similar)

: IT was a swell toy but a bust as far as making computer controlled.  It
: is all gears and cogs and cams with only 1 dc motor running the whole thing

C'mon folks!  I remember an old article in the early to mid-80s in one of
the magazines where someone gutted one and ran it into an old PC.  It was in
Byte (in their homebrewing days, sniff) if memory serves.  Anyone have a
better pointer?  My old Bytes are packed up, somewhere...

