<h2 id="intro">intro</h2>
<ul>
<li>trying to keep hpr going</li>
<li>encourage people not to be content is better than quality</li>
<li>last show audio</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="southern-cross-brief-history">southern cross brief history</h2>
<ul>
<li><p>talking electronics TEC-1, 1983, i think it was influenced by
kim-1 although the kim-1 was released by MOS the 6502 designers in 1976
as a way to get people using the 6502 processor. TEC-1 was designed
specifically to get the ordinary bloke involved with computers.</p></li>
<li><p>Cris Jones<br />
<a href="https://github.com/crsjones/Southern-Cross-Computer-z80"
class="uri">https://github.com/crsjones/Southern-Cross-Computer-z80</a><br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/AK2FOw1ilg0?si=KX0ocEpk_fV6x-ry"
class="uri">https://youtu.be/AK2FOw1ilg0?si=KX0ocEpk_fV6x-ry</a><br />
I developed the Z80 Southern Cross Computer for Hong Kong based Kitsrus
in 1992/93. The kit was based on the TEC-1 Computer that was designed by
John Hardy and Ken Stone in 1983 and appeared in Australia's Talking
Electronics Magazine Issue 10 March 1983.</p></li>
<li><p>Kitsrus distributed the kit into the US and the UK and was sold
online from Hong Kong.</p></li>
<li><p>The Southern Cross Computer appeared in Australia's Silicon Chip
Magazine in the August 1993 edition</p></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="my-southern-cross">my southern cross</h2>
<ul>
<li>i found this southern cross on ebay. its revision 3, and it came
assembled.</li>
<li>description<br />
this is easier to program, still hand assembled machine code, but
encourages building bit banged serial interface<br />
good documentation at the github page<br />
easy to interface too, plenty of projects out there</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="outro">outro</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law"
class="uri">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law</a><br />
sturgeons law<br />
"Ninety percent of [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent
of everything is crud."</li>
</ul>
<p><em>Southern Cross</em><br />
<img
src="https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4059/hpr4059/southerncross.jpg"
alt="Southern Cross" /></p>
