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Macrotronics S80 Ham Interface User Guide for the Sorcerer - ChickenMan - 11-03-2022 Thanks to exidyboy for providing quality raw 600dpi scans of this manual.  Pages were re-sized, cut, cleaned and de-skewed before converting to a normal searchable PDF of 44 pages long. The manual was produced by Macrotronics Inc., California and Copyright 1979 to Ronald Lodewyck. From the manual : THE S-80 CONVERTS YOUR EXIDY SORCERER MICROCOMPUTER INTO A STATE—OF-THE-ART HAM COMPUTER SYSTEM. WHAT IS ESPECIALLY EXCITING IS THAT YOU NOW HAYE A POWERFUL, GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER WHICH, AMONG MANY OTHER THINGS, WILL ALSO GIVE YOU ALL-MODE HAM CAPABILITIES. THE S-80 SYSTEM WILL RUN ON ANY EXIDY SORCERER WITH BASIC PACK AND 16K (OR MORE) RAM. TO OBTAIN SATISFACTORY RESULTS ON RECEIVING, IT IS ASSUMED THAT YOU HAVE EITHER A HF RECEIVER COVERING THE AMATEUR FREQUENCIES OR A VHF-FM RECEIVER. Here is a pic of the actual S80 unit I found on the internet with the cover of this manual in the background -     The manual covers Setting Up Operating Hints and Kinks Trouble Shooting Theory of Operation Program BASIC listing Appendix - RTTY Equipment Interconnections Schematics So in the Vintage Repository in the Exidy_Sorcerer\Manuals folder we placed macrotronics_S80_ ham_interface_manual.pdf