8080 Assembler-Text Editor (ATE)

[Chuck Guzis]

On 4/16/2006 at 4:51 PM Lawrence Wilkinson wrote:

>Does anyone know about this?  Is it of interest to anyone?  I could
>either type it in, or scan the listing for someone else :-)  The code
>would need patching for console & tape I/O, and I don't have any
>documentation on how to do this, or even how to use it, but it can't be
>too difficult.  Forgive me, it's been almost 30 years!

I used something like that before I had the luxury of a diskette drive on
the MITS Altair.  But I don't recall a 2-pass mode from paper tape, just a
BASIC-type editor that read the source into memory (or created it); each
statement had a line number.  Assembly in place--i.e. no intermediate
binary output was the normal mode.

It wasn't a MITS-original product, but i think I got it from a friend who
had an IMSAI 8080.  It may have even come from something like a Processor
tech box.    When I got my first disk, I dropped it like a hot potato.

Cheers,
Chuck