12 Nov
2003
12 Nov
'03
5:01 a.m.
ATM, there are six things on my Classiccmp Most Wanted
list:
1) Synertek SYM-1 or SY-VIM-1
so do I
2) MOS Technology KIM-1
3) Rockwell AIM-65
4) CUBE Eurobeeb (a BBC Micro on Eurocards - made by Control Universal)
I heared
they are even rare on the island.
5) Multitech MPF-1B or MPF-1P "Micro
Professor". Why? Because it folds up
like a book - I know of no other computer like that.
Now, there's still the good old LC80, an East German Z80 (U880)
based SBC, which could be orderen in a folder stly case.
If Multitech, I'd be realy looking for the MPF II!
6) Working papertape reader/punch with a supply of
paper tape. Would prefer
something with a fairly small footprint, i.e. smaller than about 10x10in
and preferably less than 1ft tall.
Items not necessarily in that order of course. I can
probably fix a SYM1 and
I would actually prefer a SYM - ISTR they didn't use mask programmed 6530
(6532?) chips, unlike the MOS KIM. The AIM65 is, IMHO, pretty neat. I like
the 6502 - what can you expect from someone who grew up using BBC Micros? :)
At least the 6502 is a bit more logical than, say, the x86 >shudder<.
Now, beeing a 6502 Geek from the beginning and a long
time 8086 assembly programmer, I can't realy follow
that. The 8086 is in my eyes one of the finest designs
around. What I realy dislike is the Z80 ... if there
was ever a CPU with an instruction set designed using
a random number generator, it's the Z80!
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Gruss
H.
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