🚀 go-pugleaf

Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> writes:
>On Mon, 23 Jul 2018, Brian Reay wrote:
>
>> In the mid/late 70s, when I was at Uni, I had a vacation job and worked on a 
>> project involving the 6100 uP.
>>
>> Initially, I was let loose on a simple singe board dev system (if you can 
>> call it that), a simple keyboard, 7 segment display etc, as was common at the 
>> time.
>>
>> Eventually, I was trusted to use a 'real computer' - laughable by today's 
>> standards but ..... . It was a typical (at the time) 'Pizza Box' 6100 based 
>> unit, I'm pretty sure it had toggle switches for data and address set up etc 
>> but I used other machines around then and it was 40 years ago, the usual LEDs 
>> etc. I/O was teletype etc.- no CRT etc.  I'm sure at the time, Intersil were 
>> the only make of the 6100 and probably made the Pizza Box.
>>
>> Purely for old times sake, I'd like to try and acquire one- if the price is 
>> right.
>>
>> Does anyone know the beast, please?
>>
>
>The 6100's big fame was that it was an IC version of the PDP-8.  It rand 

pun intended?

>the code, but of course missed out on the front panel and probably some 
>other missing bits.
>

CJL talks about a logic bomb in FOCAL 69 when run on a non-DEC PDP-8
clone.

>Someone I knew got a contract to computerize a local vinyl record press, 
>and I'm not sure how that started, but he had someone in who was very 
>familiar with the PDP-8, though of course the Intersil 6100 had the 
>secondary advantage of being CMOS, low current.  So they made a board, 
>worked the software, with a probably expensive terminal that fitted into a 
>calculator case, I can't remember any details beyond that.  So they got it 
>going, tested it at the plant, and then produced a bunch.  This was 1980, 
>little did they know the future was in CDs.

Although there is somewhat of a resurgance in vinyl sales - probably
one of the best markets for someone with an old, but well maintained
collection to sell into.