Driving Milton Bradley’s Big Trak by Remote Control in 1981

I posted about Big Trak earlier this month, and if you thought we were finished with Milton Bradley’s old programmable tank toy then you’re in for a real surprise today. A 1981 issue of Byte magazine (hosted at archive.org) includes the geekiest of geeky computer articles of the time as Steve Ciarcia offers up specs and instructions for turning the toy into a more robot-like machine. I started reading this and was quickly lost; so I’m sharing this in case those of you smarter than me can find some enjoyment in the techy bits of the article.

I’ll just look at the pictures.

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