26 Oct
2008
26 Oct
'08
3:08 p.m.
> > > If anyone is interested, make an offer
for Tab Books: "How To Design
> > > Build & Program Your Own Working Computer System" by Robert P.
Haviland
> > > Pub. 1979 . 308 ppg. This is a complete how-to for the SC/MP
> > > microprocessor.
> > >
> > >
> Strangely, I'm sure I have the same title from the same publisher
> sitting on my shelf but it's for an 8080.
Hmm....
The book is a pretty complete "how-to" for
building the authors SC/MP
based "SCAMP" computer. It's quite possible the author did versions with
the same title except focusing on different microprocessors. Other
logical offspring would be the Z80, 6502,and 6800.
I had the SC/MP version. I found the TAB books to be uniformly low quality,
both in production and content. I found enough fundamental errors in them
that I never tried to build the actual machine, as I was prett sure it would
not work, or, at least, it wasn't going to be more useful than grabbing data
sheets and whipping it up myself.
KJ