12 Sep
2006
12 Sep
'06
6:01 a.m.
On Sep 11, 2006, at 7:23 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
This is a good idea. One can put together, using wire-wrap or
point-to-point soldering, an 8752-based machine in an hour or two.
Five chips, only one of which is a 40-pinner. Burn a copy of the
well-known 8052AH-BASIC into it and you've got yourself quite a neat
little machine. The BASIC interpreter has excellent I/O capability,
interrupt support, and even floating-point math.
If anyone wants to do this but lacks the stuff, I have 8752 chips and
the means to program them. And the BASIC interpreter, of course.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
Maybe, but
there is one heck of a difference between working on an
emulator and using (and modifying, interfacing, etc) the real
hardware.
And the OP wants to learn about hardware, I believe.
Why not start with a "mostly on one chip" type of setup, say a Z8 or
8051
and work from there? There are plenty of small circuits published
using
them and, as the student's knowledge grows, other bits can be added on.