30 Sep
2004
30 Sep
'04
4:08 p.m.
I may be
whacked in the head, but what did the Poly 88 innovate other
than cuteness? Or maybe that doesn't matter because it is has an s-100 buss?
Actually it did provide a turning point in micro processors.
It was the first S-100 to have only a power and reset button on the front.
It had a monitor ROM built in that provided a display of memory and
registers, using the memory mapped video. The ROM also had the
tape read code built in. They'd have put the tape write code in