TSC Assembler?

[Santo Nucifora]

Hi Monty,

Glad your found it useful.  All of these documents were scanned from the
documentation I have.  That article was definitely a bad photocopy to start
with but I'll leave it up and if anyone asks, I can point them to that July
77 issue of Kilobaud.  Thanks for sending the link!

Santo

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 9:16 AM Monty McGraw <mmcgraw74 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Santo,
>
> I finally got down to the TSC 6800 Assembler source file on your site :)
> Lots of great information on 6800 to digest!
>
> Thanks,
> Monty
>
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 7:49 AM Monty McGraw <mmcgraw74 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Santo,
>>
>> What a treasure trove of 6800 information!
>>
>> I just started looking at your site - although I haven't found the TSC
>> assembler source code file yet.
>>
>> I could not read the code in your file "Article Introducing the 6800
>> Disassembler".
>> I found a much better scan of that article on archive.org:
>> https://archive.org/details/Kilobaud197707, very readable and very
>> useful!
>>
>> I've been looking for 6800 programs to run on my Tektronix 4054A computer
>> - that although it has a bit-slice microprocessor, the microcode supports
>> the complete 6800 8-bit opcodes and adds 16-bit for floating point, 16-bit
>> registers and supports 16-bit address space with 128KB of memory, 64KB for
>> the BASIC ROMs and 64KB for RAM.  It uses the 6800 SWI instruction in user
>> space assembly code programs in RAM to access ROM global entry points - so
>> I can't use 6800 programs that include SWI without changing that code.
>>
>> Monty
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 5:06 AM Santo Nucifora via cctalk <
>> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi AJ,
>>>
>>> I also have some TSC documentation here that you might find useful
>>> including the TSC Assembler System 1.4 source code and the TSC
>>> Disassembler
>>> too.
>>>
>>> http://vintagecomputer.ca/files/SWTPC/
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>> Santo
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 3:21 AM AJ Palmgren via cctalk <
>>> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Bill, thank you for this thoughtful response.  hand-punching is no
>>> small
>>> > thing.  That is amazing dedication, and from what I know of you, I am
>>> not
>>> > at all surprised...
>>> >
>>> > Yes, it was absolutely an assembler for the 6800 processor.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for mentioning the cassette for the Altair, that would be super
>>> > retro-geeky cool to play with...but yes, this is an extremely busy
>>> season
>>> > for most, if not all of us.
>>> >
>>> > It looks like Monty McGraw might have come through with something, so
>>> let's
>>> > check out his page suggestion.
>>> >
>>> > Thank you!
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 3:44 AM Bill Degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 4:46 AM AJ Palmgren via cctalk <
>>> > > cctalk at classiccmp.org wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > >> Hi, all.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Would anyone here happen to have access to the original early 80s
>>> binary
>>> > >> files to to run TSC Assembler?
>>> > >>
>>> > >> http://bit.ly/2rLsORe
>>> > >>
>>> > >> I'm looking for the vintage software that this document refers to:
>>> TSC
>>> > >> Floating Point Package by Technical Systems Consultants.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> I know there's a fair number of more modern assemblers that will
>>> > >> accomplish
>>> > >> essentially the same thing (LWASM, A09, etc), but I was curious to
>>> see,
>>> > >> and
>>> > >> play with, the old-school version of this on one of my vintage
>>> > machines...
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Thanks, everyone!
>>> > >> AJ
>>> > >>
>>> > >> --
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Thanks,
>>> > >> AJ Palmgren
>>> > >>
>>> > >
>>> > > AJ .. I did not read the code to determine for myself but what is the
>>> > > processor / instruction set that goes with the TSC assembler, 6800? I
>>> > once
>>> > > hand punched the entire TSC BASIC to a papertape so it could be read
>>> into
>>> > > an Altair 680 via Teletype.  Given the date on the assembler, and
>>> their
>>> > > BASIC, it is very possible that at that time TSC sold an assembler
>>> for
>>> > the
>>> > > 6800 then.  It should not take long to determine what instruction set
>>> > your
>>> > > TSC doc pertains to.  I might have it in cassette for the Altair but
>>> I am
>>> > > kind of busy to archive it unless no one has it otherwise.  Busy
>>> time of
>>> > > the year.
>>> > >
>>> > > Bill
>>> > >
>>> > >>
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > AJ Palmgren
>>> > http://fb.me/SelmaTrainWreck
>>> > http://SelmaTrainWreck.blogspot.com
>>> > https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010931314283
>>> > https://www.linkedin.com/in/aj-palmgren-4a085516/
>>> >
>>>
>>