OT: Humor

[Joel Rees]

On 2006.3.8, at 10:54 PM, Neil Cherry wrote:

> Joel Rees wrote:
>> On 2006.3.8, at 12:34 PM, Thomas Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>> Home built (wire-wrapped) 1802, 6802,
>> What was your monitor ROM on the 6802? do you remember?
>
> MBUG or MKBUG, I can't remember (though I could pull the boards
> out and see if the sticker is still there :-) ). I think I still
> have the 6808 CoCo around (that's not a type, it's a Moto dev
> board).

Micro Chroma, with the 6847 and 6846 and 2K by 4 bit static RAMs and ...

Had to go looking it up on the web. Mine is in a wooden case in Utah, 
under a pile of dust, and I think I've never had a chance to show it to 
my son and brag a bit.

I put dynamic RAM in the kludge space, hand wired 64K (half 
bank-switched by a bit on the PIA) in. Did you put anything special 
there? Also hand assembled and hand-entered a fig-FORTH on it.

When I was bored, I'd toggle the reset switch carelessly, just to prove 
to myself that real randomness doesn't go anywhere in particular. Also 
ran a wire about a football-field in length to attempt to use the 6846 
to get a really gross measure of the speed of light. Or maybe I didn't 
run the wire, just calculated the distance light would travel while the 
6846 timer counted one. Too bad I didn't understand the slotted wheel 
experiment back then. :-)