29 Dec
2008
29 Dec
'08
11:49 p.m.
Re:
It was reasonably unique* in running FORTH from ROM
rather than BASIC (which
probably makes it a rarer animal than a ZX80, too)
* I'm not going to play the "only one ever" game, but I can't actually
think
of another home system which ran FORTH as the primary language...
The Hector HRX :)
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=142
(Par Torlus is trying to make an FPGA reimplementation of the HRX, at
http://www.torlus.com/index.php?2007/01/31/198-hector-hrx-in-a-fpga )
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Stan Sieler
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