Lpc2000

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "rtstofer" <rstofer@p...> wrote:

What was the word size on an 1130, wasn't it 18 bits? Back in 1969
that nust have been state-of-the-art! Maybe 4K words of core?

I learned assembler programming on an 1130 and it stunted me for life!
That relative addressing in particular taught me bad habits.

When micros came out I couldn't understand why nobody interfaced an
029 card reader/puncher to them! But some people did support paper
tape, and that was almost as good. But paper tape kept kinking and
jamming. I guess you could choose your poison: the nasty paper tapes
or the possibility of floor sorting a deck of 1,000 cards!

> A year or so back I implemented the T80 core on an FPGA and I now 
> have CP/M running silently using 2 CF devices to implement the 16 
> logical drives.  It's fun to visit with old friends: ED, MAC, 
> FORTRAN, PL/I, MicroShell and, yes, WordStar.

Any chance this might work on a Spartan-3 board? I may get one of
their low end boards some day if I get enough free time to actually
use it.

Eric