16 Nov
2024
16 Nov
'24
8:20 p.m.
On 11/16/24 12:09, Sid Jones via cctalk wrote:
Purely as a matter of interest, my first hands-on
code-cutting experience with a microprocessor, an 8008,
was at a Swansea University seminar in November 1974...
Where does the off half-century go?
Yup, on my first real job, I did the controller for an air
pollution instrument on an 8008 in 1975 bleeding into 1976.
It was a fairly tough slog, I had to write my own integer
multiply and divide routines, 7-segment LED driver code, etc.
Jon