I have found a 1990 version of set 9700 which strangely enough contained the 1987 instructions and booklet. I have scanned everything as the contents seem to be difficult to find in decent quality on the Internet.
You can download it from here:
I recently bought a lot of old LEGO dacta teaching materials from the 80’s, among them set 9750 that consists of the “Interface A” along with an instruction booklet.
I have scanned the booklet and you can get it from here (56 pages, 39 MB). Please report any errors to me.
I recently bought a lot of old LEGO dacta teaching materials from the 80’s, among them book 950037 which is a ring binder from 1987 containing pages of documentation in Danish for programming the LEGO 70455 “Interface A” box from a IBM PC or compatible computer. There is no ISBN.
I have scanned the book and you can get it from here (137 pages, 54 MB). Please report any errors to me.
Accompanying this book is a floppy disk with software for IBM PC and compatible computers. There may have also been a disk with sample programs for the projects in the books, but those programs may also be included on this disk.
I am currently working on getting the contents of the disk dumped, so please check back regularly.
About the restoration:
The pages of the binder are photocopies, and due to some chemical process occurred during storage for many years (most likely a reaction with the plastic of the binder), the ink on the last pages have become sticky, and the pages stick together, almost impossible to take apart without destroying the print. Partially soaking the pages in IPA, I was able to pull them from each other with only slight damage, but a lot of graphical work have gone into restoring the contents. You can see similar examples of restoration on my page for book 9760.
I recently bought a lot of old LEGO dacta teaching materials from the 80’s, among them book 950036 which is a ring binder from 1987 containing pages of documentation in Danish for programming the LEGO 70455 “Interface A” box from a Commodore 64/128 computer. There is no ISBN.
I have scanned the book and you can get it from here (140 pages, 56 MB). Please report any errors to me.
NOTE: At least 14 pages are missing, but I have copied them from the almost identical book 960037. For the project pages, the only difference between the books seem to be the keyboard key names, and these are not referenced on the missing pages.
Accompanying this book are two floppy disks with software for Commodore 64/128 computers and sample programs for the projects in the books.
The disks have been ripped and you can get them from here as D64 images:
The first two files are the original dumps including bad sectors. All bad sectors ought to be outside any data areas but in case you need disks containing no bad sectors (e.g. for copying), the last two files are identical to the first ones except that all bad sectors have been marked as good. Many thanks to Carsten from retro-commodore.eu for helping out.
You can load the software from the program disk with
LOAD"*",8
RUN
As I don’t have a real computer to test it on, the software is currently untested. Please contact me if you get the software running.
About the restoration:
The pages of the binder are photocopies, and due to some chemical process occurred during storage for many years (most likely a reaction with the plastic of the binder), the ink on the last pages have become sticky, and the pages stick together, almost impossible to take apart without destroying the print. Partially soaking the pages in IPA, I was able to pull them from each other with only slight damage, but a lot of graphical work have gone into restoring the contents. You can see similar examples of restoration on my page for book 9760.
I recently bought a lot of old LEGO dacta teaching materials from the 80’s, among them book 9760 which is a ring binder from 1989 containing pages of documentation in Danish for programming the LEGO 70455 “Interface A” box from a Commodore 64/128 computer. ISBN is 87-7737-000-7.
I have scanned the book and you can get it from here (197 pages, 108 MB). Please report any errors to me.
Accompanying this book is a floppy disk with software for Commodore 64/128 computers.
The disk has been ripped and you can get it from here as a D64 image (170 KB). Many thanks to Carsten from retro-commodore.eu for helping out.
The rip was done without errors, but is unknown at this point whether or not the contents are actually working. It requires a Comal 80 version 2.01 cartridge installed, and you can start it with
load"linker"
I don’t have a real computer to test it on, and running it in the VICE emulator makes it hang under loading the controller software. Please contact me if you get the software running.
About the restoration:
The pages of the binder are photocopies, and due to some chemical process occurred during storage for many years (most likely a reaction with the plastic of the binder), the ink on the last pages have become sticky, and the pages stick together, almost impossible to take apart without destroying the print. Partially soaking the pages in IPA, I was able to pull them from each other with only slight damage, but a lot of graphical work have gone into restoring the contents. Here are a few examples: Move the slider to switch between “before” and “after”. Later in the process, the pages get converted into black-and-white and scaled down into grayscale to get a smooth, high contrast image with as few artifacts as possible. Enjoy!
