Re: How big is Euphoria clan
- Posted by leviathan at uswest.net
Mar 21, 2001
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, leviathan at uswest.net wrote:
> >...and the ELF (a machine that ran
> > solely on ASM... my dads' friend had one before I decided to probe
> > it and blew a diode (long time ago)... or was it my dads, I wouldn't
> > know)... that thing was so tedious to program without having a video
> > source of some sort! :) And then all I had for keyboard input on the
> > thing was a couple of arrow keys and a-f, 0-9. Pure ASM.
>
> But, hey, you could draw a schematic for the whole computer
> on the back of a napkin.
Honestly? It looked a helluvalot more complex than a back of a
napkin. Maybe thats one huge napkin?
> I've still got one somewhere around here, that I expanded to
> an incredible 32k memory, and added a tiny 4" crt and a homemade
> video card using a 6845. With _tiny basic_ (gasp!)
32k? Whoa! And a video card? Not too much more suprising (I
remember my dad making a sound-ability hack for my bro's CoCo 2
with a GIMME chip (Thats for graphics, but I remember him refering
to it constantly by that)), but still, wowee! Irv, I wanna see this! :)
> I think it could do 1000 instructions per second.
> Or maybe that was per minute....
The ELF was probably as fast as my dads' 2Mhz 6809 :) But I don't
know this, I was never able to program it...
Hey, does anyone know the old Rainbow magazines for the CoCo
3's? I remember at a very very young age (Around 3-5 years old)
typing in those programs, and my poor dad kept telling me, "No,
Bonn, you got it completely right, its not your fault this program isn't
working"... he tracked it down, to programmers' error. And these
things were released constantly, and I typed in a handful of those,
and my dad had to fix them :)
So, Lev was always a programmer. Not quite the debugger til
recently, but hes always been a programmer.
Next step? Throw my butt into being an IT/IS drone. *sigh*
--"LEVIATHAN"
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