<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 6:01 AM, NoOp <<a href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> No. But I learned Benton Harbor BASIC (circa 1977) on this: <a href="http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/heath/ad78a.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/heath/ad78a.jpg</a> [note the price: for me that was $1,400 as I had to have it shipped to Japan where I was living at the time (1977 dollars & in todays dollars is around $4,960 based on the 2009 CPI more if you use other indexes): I eventually upgraded to 32K of RAM & that cost considerably more] and was still using my H8 in 1998. Finally gave the whole system away (all pristine condition & working - including cassette drive, H9 Terminal, manuals, and original software sometime around 2000. Wish I would have kept it now.) Had a heck of a time explaining to my instructor at the University of Maryland (yes, we had satellite courses even then) that my BH Basic could do serial I/O with the hardware access statements. See: <<a href="http://home.comcast.net/%7Edavidwallace2000/h8/project8080_archive/pgs/basic.html" target="_blank">http://home.comcast.net/~davidwallace2000/h8/project8080_archive/pgs/basic.html</a>> Here's the assembly manual for the H8: <a href="http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/heath/h8_asm.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/heath/h8_asm.pdf</a> I after dabbling with BH BASIC, Fortran & Cobol, I went the other direction from others in this thread and instead concentrated on assembly language (HASL-8 2 pass assembler was what I used to learn), and then Varian Minicomputer Microcode (hence: NoOp). Note: TRS/Trash-80's were for wimps in our circle & paddle keys sucked... Octal keypads ruled... until we discovered that Hex became the defacto standard :-( Seems like we always seem to have an OT reminiscence of this around this time of year... :-)</blockquote><div> Nice experience! </div></div> -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia