TSC Assembler?

[Bill Degnan]

Some of that TSC stuff was thought lost, so great to see.  Like I said I
have a few cassettes I need to archive.  Put it on my list.
Bill

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 12:56 PM Santo Nucifora via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> 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/
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>
>