Re: My four-yorkshireprogrammers contribution

2010-03-11 Thread Albert van der Horst
In article 7vdo8sfre...@mid.individual.net, Gregory Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: MRAB wrote: By the standards of just a few years later, that's not so much a microcomputer as a nanocomputer! Although not quite as nano as another design published in EA a couple of years earlier,

Re: My four-yorkshireprogrammers contribution

2010-03-05 Thread Gregory Ewing
MRAB wrote: By the standards of just a few years later, that's not so much a microcomputer as a nanocomputer! Although not quite as nano as another design published in EA a couple of years earlier, the EDUC-8: http://www.sworld.com.au/steven/educ-8/ It had a *maximum* of 256 bytes -- due

Re: My four-yorkshireprogrammers contribution

2010-03-05 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:19:03 +1300 Gregory Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: MRAB wrote: By the standards of just a few years later, that's not so much a microcomputer as a nanocomputer! Although not quite as nano as another design published in EA a couple of years earlier, the

My four-yorkshireprogrammers contribution

2010-03-04 Thread Gregory Ewing
MRAB wrote: Mk14 from Science of Cambridge, a kit with hex keypad and 7-segment display, which I had to solder together, and also make my own power supply. I had the extra RAM and the I/O chip, so that's 256B (including the memory used by the monitor) + 256B additional RAM + 128B more in the

Re: My four-yorkshireprogrammers contribution

2010-03-04 Thread MRAB
Gregory Ewing wrote: MRAB wrote: Mk14 from Science of Cambridge, a kit with hex keypad and 7-segment display, which I had to solder together, and also make my own power supply. I had the extra RAM and the I/O chip, so that's 256B (including the memory used by the monitor) + 256B additional RAM

Re: My four-yorkshireprogrammers contribution

2010-03-04 Thread python
Not to out do you guys, but over here in the states, I started out with a Radio Shack 'computer' that consisted of 10 slideable switches and 10 flashlight bulbs. You ran wires betweens the slideable switches to create 'programs'. Wish I could remember what this thing was called - my google-fu