On 6/23/13 12:35 PM, Andrew Patterson wrote: 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. Futuredata was founded by Bruce Gladstone and Paul Page around 1975. I saw a demonstration of the Futuredata Microsystem in the Fall of 1977 and still have the brochure and price list. The CRT monitor was a modified television set. They sold out of General Data in February 1979 for $5 million worth of stock. I joined Data I/O, the PROM programmer company, in early 1981. Data I/O was a hardware company and I was on the team that developed their first purely software product, ABEL. This was a design language for Programmable Logic Devices, PALs and FPGAs. It was released in April 1984 on the IBM PC and DEC VAX. FutureNet was founded by Bruce Gladstone and Paul Page around 1980. Their product, DASH-1, was a schematic drafting system that ran on the original IBM PC. (Bruce told me he purchased 2 IBM PCs on the day they were released. August 1981.) Bruce designed a high resolution monochrome graphics card for the PC with a mouse interface. Paul wrote the schematic editor in 8088 assembly language. The system was introduced around 1983. Price for a PC, graphics card, mouse and software started at $5,980. Here is a review in PC Mag. http://books.google.com/books?id=qURs4j9vKn4C&pg=PA530 Data I/O acquired FutureNet in November 1984 for 2.6 million shares of stock. One of the first joint products was DASH-ABEL, you could describe the design of a Programmable Logic Device with a mix of schematics and logic equations. Xilinx adopted DASH for designing with their LCAs. Their netlist format, XNF, was based on FutureNet's format. Most of the PC based schematics editor netlist were similar FutureNet's format. I have copies of ABEL and DASH (circa 1991) that run on a Windows 98 system. These do not require a hardware dongle. Michael Holley