On 1/14/2014 9:18 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 15 January 2014 02:13, Dave Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Assembler .. yep I remember doing some of that on 6800 Micros.. Very >> tedious. > Tedious? Ha! I used to _dream_ of an assembler, I wrote machine code > in raw hex, from a paper list of mnemonics! > (on the Z80)
I went through that also.. I still have a wire wrapped Z80 or 8080 board (I forget) that I put together from scratch since I could not afford an S100 Bus system as I was in high school at the time. The S100 systems were really expensive back then - like $1000!!! The display was a bunch of "expensive" 7 segment displays. I don't remember how I loaded the program .. I think I had some type of keypad. That was more than tedious.. that was torture. Lose power and the program vanished out of the static memory chip.. I had almost $200 in parts in it which was a bunch of money considering that my first car, a 68 Chevy Impala with a 327 V8 was $300 from the Chevy Dealer used car lot. That must have been about 1973. During those years you could buy a Ford Pinto for $999 brand new from the local Ford Dealer. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
