On 17.10.22 06:08, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote:
Thanks. I was curious about if I found a Datapoint 2200 "in the wild" --
You'd be very lucky to find one. They are much rarer than the contemporary and similar ICL1501. And if you find one, watch out. The powersupply is seriously dangereous...
into appropriate audio tones -- unless they didn't actually use audio tape?)
They did not use audio tapes, but the digital variant.
Sounds like the "systems debugging" might allow injecting direct machine code at addresses
You can do just that on my system. If you have a true 2200 with the dual cassette system you do not have a bootrom : system hardware will just load the first block from tape and start from there. One of the tapes has a monitor similar to the one in my bootrom. My system is a DP1100/Floppy, has no tapes, but a PCB with the bootrom instead of the tape reader board. I intend to make a combined bootrom / tape reader board, as I would like to extend my DP1100 with casettes. Jos
