TSC Assembler?

Santo Nucifora santo.nucifora at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 04:40:12 CST 2018


Hi AJ,

I also have some TSC documentation here that you might find useful
including the TSC Assembler System 1.4 source code and the TSC Disassembler
too.

http://vintagecomputer.ca/files/SWTPC/

Hope this helps.
Santo

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 3:21 AM AJ Palmgren via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> Bill, thank you for this thoughtful response.  hand-punching is no small
> thing.  That is amazing dedication, and from what I know of you, I am not
> at all surprised...
>
> Yes, it was absolutely an assembler for the 6800 processor.
>
> Thanks for mentioning the cassette for the Altair, that would be super
> retro-geeky cool to play with...but yes, this is an extremely busy season
> for most, if not all of us.
>
> It looks like Monty McGraw might have come through with something, so let's
> check out his page suggestion.
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 3:44 AM Bill Degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 4:46 AM AJ Palmgren via cctalk <
> > cctalk at classiccmp.org wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, all.
> >>
> >> Would anyone here happen to have access to the original early 80s binary
> >> files to to run TSC Assembler?
> >>
> >> http://bit.ly/2rLsORe
> >>
> >> I'm looking for the vintage software that this document refers to:  TSC
> >> Floating Point Package by Technical Systems Consultants.
> >>
> >> I know there's a fair number of more modern assemblers that will
> >> accomplish
> >> essentially the same thing (LWASM, A09, etc), but I was curious to see,
> >> and
> >> play with, the old-school version of this on one of my vintage
> machines...
> >>
> >> Thanks, everyone!
> >> AJ
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> AJ Palmgren
> >>
> >
> > AJ .. I did not read the code to determine for myself but what is the
> > processor / instruction set that goes with the TSC assembler, 6800? I
> once
> > hand punched the entire TSC BASIC to a papertape so it could be read into
> > an Altair 680 via Teletype.  Given the date on the assembler, and their
> > BASIC, it is very possible that at that time TSC sold an assembler for
> the
> > 6800 then.  It should not take long to determine what instruction set
> your
> > TSC doc pertains to.  I might have it in cassette for the Altair but I am
> > kind of busy to archive it unless no one has it otherwise.  Busy time of
> > the year.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >>
>
> --
>
> Thanks,
> AJ Palmgren
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