HLL Computers

APL - MCM70 from the Micro-Computer Machines. For the mid-70s this was a truly amazing machine. - Dimensions were about 6"x14"x24" - microcoded APL implementation - dual casette tape drives for mass storage - single line 20(?) character display - full APL implementation MCM released several hardware based APL machines in the mid-70s. It can be argued that a microprogrammed language implementation is not direct hardware execution, but close enough for me. list of microprogrammable architectures: B1700 Microdata 3200 Interdata 8/32 Nanodata QM-1 CDC 5600 Digital Scientific META4 Varian 73 Intel 3000 HP21MX The above list is from "Microprogrammable Computer Architectures" by Salisbury (1976). The IBM 5100 ran APL and BASIC, but I know it did not implement APL in microcode, don't know about BASIC. "Computers in the 1980s" by Turn (1974) also has a brief, but interesting, take on HLL hardware. Has the SYMBOL machine machine been mentioned? (There's one in on display at the Computer Museum History Center in Mtn. View CA.). Lee Courtney President Monterey Software Group Inc. 1350 Pear Avenue, Suite J Mountain View, California 94043-1302 U.S.A. 650-964-7052 voice 650-964-6735 fax Advanced Authentication, Audit, and Access Control Tools and Consulting for HP3000 Business Servers http://www.editcorp.com/Businesses/MontereySoftware