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@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 <mmcgra...@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 <mmcgra...@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@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@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 <billdeg...@gmail.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 4:46 AM AJ Palmgren via cctalk < > >>> > > cctalk@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/ > >>> > > >>> > >> >
