10 May
2000
10 May
'00
11:18 a.m.
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Bob Brown wrote:
At the very least, I believe that you can boot from disk by starting at
location 040000.
I used to wander up to the local Heathkit store every weekend to play with
the H8, H11a (LSI-11 based machine running a variant of RT-11), and the
H89 - essentially a Z80 processor board and a 5.25" disk drive built into
an H19 terminal - I'd actually really love to have one of those, if anyone
has one they don't want ... :-)
Anyway, I was such a frequent visitor to that store that the manager gave
me a couple of advertising posters for the machines - one was a poster
that said "H8 POWER", above an illustration of the bootstrap address, as
it would appear on the H8 display in red 7-segment LEDs; I'm almost
positive that the display read "040000 Pc" .... The poster is still
hanging on my old bedroom wall at my mother's house, unfortunately I can't
get to it to look just at the moment ....
--Pat.
Heath made a computer (the H-8) which is similar to the IMSAI but actually
does use a program to control the computer along with the usual hardware.
The H-8 is a lot newer than the IMSAI, however.
-- Derek
Any idea where I can get info on how to run an h8? I saved one from the
garbage a while back, and it seems to function..at least it reacts to
it's front panel, but I have no doc for it whatsoever.