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Tom:

My first computer was homemade: A Processor Technology Sol-20 with a modified Hitachi TV for a monitor.

I wrote an accounting package on it, and ran in 8K of memory using 90K 5.25" FLOPPY DISKS! That eventually lead to my software company, Ecosoft. I dropped the accounting package and concentrated on a statistics package (Microstat) and C programming tools (Eco-C88 C compiler, editor, assembler, and linker). We even had an IDE for the compiler with the entire tool chain embodied in it.

At the time I was teaching a Butler University and a colleague and I built 11 Sol-20's and opened a computing lab, mainly for stats (plus Lotus 123). The Math Dept. got PO'ed because the computer lab was in the College of Business. The College of Business even let me teach a Z80 assembler course as a "business course"...tons of people from Eli Lily.

Those were exciting times!

Jack, W8TEE

On Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 9:46:26 PM EDT, Tom, wb6b <wb6b@...> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 06:13 PM, Jack, W8TEE wrote:

Try typing in: "Wadayamean What?"

If I included the quotation marks, it replied with "How?". Otherwise: "What?"


----- Cut --------

Starting up TinyBasic Plus...

?

65362 bytes free.

OK

>Wadayamean What?

Wadayamean What?

What??

?

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>"Wadayamean What?"

"Wadayamean What?"

How?

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I need to find a old issue of Dr. Dobbs and start typing some Basic code.?

If the Basic was supposed to give some kind of wiseacre response. Maybe this basic is too small to be a wise guy, too.

So imagine running those old text based Dungeon and Dragons games on an Arduino Nano.

I had an old Star Trek game that used two funny special charters from the display ROM of a Processor Technology 64 x 16 ASCII terminal S-100 card. Like they would keep swapping between a couple of funny round shapes to make the Klingon's mouth move when he was talking and generally making threats of one kind or another.

If that was written in basic, now I could, with a little more firmware, relive those glorious days on a 0.91inch OLED display.
The new possible use for the board I may not use for my audio filter project.
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Tom, wb6b

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Jack, W8TEE