All of these puns concerning mental DECay made me think of a post I saw on COMP.SYS.TANDY last week. Excuse the length, but I thought some of you might find it amusing. Ah, yes. Here is the original document I downloaded from a BBS in the 80's.... * * * * * THE COCO RUMOR MILL IT HAS BEEN RUMORED THAT TANDY (MOTOROLA) IS WORKING ON A COCO III COMPUTER TO BE RELEASED SHORTLY. AT PRESENT THE ONLY ADVANCE INFORMATION AVAILABLE IS THAT A NEW MICROPROCESSOR WILL BE INCORPORATED INTO THE UNIT-- THE 6813! OUR RESEARCH STAFF HAS BEEN ABLE TO UNCOVER A LIST OF NEW OPCODES THAT DISTINGUISH THE 6813 AS A BREAKTHROUGH IN COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY. THE LIST IS PRESENTED HERE FOR YOUR INFORMATION. ABBA - PLAY SWEDISH ROCK ADGB - ADD GARBAGE BAD - BARK AT DOG BBL - BRANCH ON BURNED OUT LIGHT BAH - BRANCH AND HANG BFEI - BEG FOR EXPANSION INTERFACE BLI - BRANCH AND LOOP INFINITE BPB - BRANCH ON PROGRAM BUG BPO - BRANCH IF POWER OFF BPM - BEGIN PIRATE MODE BRN - BURN UP SAM CHIP CFP - CALL FOR PROGRAMMER CLD - TRY TO COOL DOWN SAM CHIP CMS - CATCH MOUSE CNP - CALL NATIONAL PARTS CPB - CREATE PROGRAM BUG CPM - CORRECT PROGRAM MANUAL CRN - CONVERT TO ROMAN NUMERALS CSD - CREATE STATIC DISCHARGE DAO - DIVIDE AND OVERFLOW DEVO - START NEW WAVE (SINE) EIP - ERASE IF PIRATED ERS - ERASE READ-ONLY STORAGE ETOY - EMULATE ZX-81 HFA - HIRE FROM ATARI HCF - HALT AND CATCH FIRE HFC - HIDE FROM CHILDREN HFP - HIDE FROM PINTO HIC - HELP INTEL CHIP IAD - ILLOGICAL AND IBM - INTERUPT BAD MNEMONICS IOR - ILLOGICAL OR JOF - JUMP ON FLOOR JOM - JUMP ON MOTOROLA JOT - JUMP OFF TABLE JTZ - JUMP TO ZAXXON PROGRAM KAL - FLY OVER RUSSIA MDB - MULTIPLY AND DROP BITS MWK - MULTIPLY WORK NOPE - REFUSE TO DO ANYTHING OCD - OPEN COMMODE-DOOR PAS - PRINT AND SMEAR PIP - PULVERIZE INTERFACE PERIPHERAL PSD - PERFORM SAFETY DANCE RBT - READ AND BREAK TAPE REST - RELAX FOR 12 CYCLES RPM - READ PROGRAMMER'S MIND RRT - RECORD AND RIP TAPE RTR - REFUSE TO RUN RTM - RETURN TO MOTOROLA RTT - RETURN TO TANDY RSD - READ AND SCRAMBLE DATA RWD - REWIND DISK SINK - SINK INTO I.C. SOCKET SRZ - SUBTRACT AND RESET TO ZERO SSD - SEEK AND SCRATCH DISK STD - STOP TURNING DISK STI - SELL T.I. STOCK TLK - START SPEECH SYNTHESIS TPR - TEAR PAPER TRS - TRASH ('TRISS') PROGRAM WED - WRITE AND ERASE DATA WID - WRITE INVALID DATA WOJ - WEAR OUT JOYSTICK XBRA - GOTO ZOO XIO - EXECUTE INVALID OP CODE XOR - EXECUTE OPERATOR XPR - EXECUTE PROGRAMMER BESIDES HAVING THE ABOVE USER FRIENDLY OPCODES THE 6813 WILL ALSO HAVE 161 EASY TO REMEMBER ADDRESSING MODES! P.S. THERE IS NO WORD FROM TANDY AS TO WHEN WE MIGHT EXPECT THESE IMPROVEMENTS (THEYARE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT A 6809 IS!). PERHAPS IN THE NEXT COMPUTER CATALOGUE. -- Power Computing PowerCurve, 400mhz G3, Mac OS 9.0.4 Collector of Classic Microcomputers and Video Game Systems: http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757