"Programming Arduino with an IDE is a trip as the arduino has nearly as much gas as a
small z80 embedded hardware block back then. Considering the Mega2650 has almost
256K of flash even room is less an issue. Good times are being had!" --ajparent
Talk about small spaces. Look at Microsoft AP689. This is a logic probe, frequency counter,
and a multitude of other functions, all in a 16F84. The uPc has 1024 bytes of flash memory.
The program uses 1023 of them. Think about what one could put in a Teensy 3.
My first computer was working with a IBM 1020. It was easy to program, using punch cards.
And Basic, essentially. My first home machine was a very late one, a Commodore C64,
but I looked closely at the Altair, and even the Heathkit "analog" ones. I guess the most important
one was a PDP8, which was a sort-machine controller at the USPS in the early 1980's. But the Univac
was used mostly for initial programming and data collection. The actual work was done by
a separate unit with a Z80 cpu and 1024 bytes of core memory. Each computer controlled 4 letter-sorting
machines running all night at about 60 letters per minute. We were responsible for maintenance.
We had 20 machines which were in almost continuous use.
john
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