4 May
2025
4 May
'25
10:11 a.m.
I recall that system had many boards, the whole
"CPU" box was external to
the monitor (and in the earliest versions, the power supply was also a
large external box). I can't really fathom creating a BASIC out of raw
TTL, or maybe I'm misunderstanding the approach.
You build a processor with some TTL, and then implement a BASIC on that
microprocessor.
There is always this intermediate step, no machine executes BASIC directly in TTL.
Look here for an example of a processor (Datapoint 2200) in TTL :
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/datapoint/2200/jdreesen_shematics/DP2200_mb.pdf
Jos