17 May
2025
17 May
'25
8:14 p.m.
On 05/17/2025 11:56 AM EDT dwight via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
It all depends on what one means by a computer that one could do useful things on. A
fellow named Tom Pittman wrote a 4004 assembler that ran on the SIM4-01 board, using a
teletype's tape reader as the source code and the intermediate output for the 2 pass
assembler. This assembler was released, through Intel, in the 4004 manual listed below.
I don't know what the Comstar systems had but Tom
Pittman didn't let not having a computer to work on stop him from using the 4004 as a
computer.
Dwight
As a related side note, Tom Pittman was rather prolific and well-known in the early days
of home computing. He also wrote several popular versions of Tiny BASIC. He is still
active.
http://www.ittybittycomputers.com/
Will