Maybe the 8008? Not the 8080. As I already posted the 8080 would turn into a 
simple counter when it saw all ones (FF hex) as an instruction.
 Truly. we used to removw the EPROMs to debug the address bus on the Q8000 
FDM (Functuonal Data Module) we built for INTEL to test the 8080s they 
manufactured.
 We (Megatest ) sold INTEL hundreds of these units, and eevery single one 
was tested this way.  I know. I tested 90% of them.

Eric Thompson
S/V Procrastinator
South San Francisco
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Knopf" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 6:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Punch tapes


> The byte size instructions and addresses were expressed in octal, so the
> eight bit RST7 was 377 as compared to FF in hex.
> This was the early 8080  from Intel as used on the Altair computer. Intel
> later switched to hex.
>
>
>> PDP-11 or something like that, I take it?
>
> Whoops - of course not. You'd already said it was an Intel chip. The 
> "octal"
> part had me confused; I'd never heard of an Intel CPU that had a 12-bit
> word. You may well be mistaken about that. Intersil, possibly?
>
>
> Ben
>
>
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