On 6/23/13 12:35 PM, Andrew Patterson wrote:
Hello.
I found your description of GneRad FutureData.
The ICE and development unites were separate. The development units contained a Z80
processor, not the target processor. We had a preparatory operating system. It had a
command language similar to CPM. It also provided overlapping I/O. We supported Intel 8086
processors. Maybe a typo nut I do not remember it having a target of a 6802. We did have
6502 and 6800 ICE units. I do not remember having BASIC. We had a PASCAL compiler. Bill
Author wrote the front end of the PASCAL compiler. I started with Future Data about the
time GenRad bought them. I initially worked on the code generation for the 8086
processors. While there we developed code generation for the 68000, Z8000, 6800, 6502. I
worked for them until they moved operations to the Bay area.
Abdy
thanks. where did you find this? I thought it disappeared when I moved from
spies.com to
bitsavers.org.
We have a large number of hard-sectored Futuredata floppies in the archives at the
Computer History Museum
where I am the software curator. Somone also just gave me a 9520 and a couple of the 68000
Genrad development
systems. You wouldn't happen to have saved any Futuredata documentation?
There is a 2401 on eBay right now
http://www.ebay.com/itm/251289990497