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From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: I need a Big Trak
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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 05:20:41 GMT
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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
