12 Aug
2008
12 Aug
'08
6:30 a.m.
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:28:56 -0700, dwight elvey wrote:
Why does everyone always assume that Tiny BASIC was
Tom Pittman's.
Palo Alto TB was the primary one used on Intel processors. This
was not even similar in coding style. The instructions were the same
because they were both basic BASIC.
As I recall, Tom did the 6800 and then the 6502.
I know for a fact he was working on a RCA cosmac 1802 version when I met him years ago.
I was out on the left coast on business and stopped by his house to purchase a copy for my
AMI EVK300
prototype board. I expect I stil have it in storage somewhere. I will never forget the
4004 system he had out
on the porch connected to a teletype punching distribution tapes. I had never seen an
8" floppy
interfaced to a 4004, before or since that night. It was memorable.
Bob Bradlee