From: "D. Jay Newman"
> > My very first was an 1802. Only assembly, which was a good kick-
>
> Yes, I wanted one of those ever since the articles in Popular
Electronics
> came out. But I was in high-school at the time and couldn't afford it.
:(

You must be about my age then.  After much begging, my parents got me a
$99 kit from Netronics (anyone remember them?) for Christmas in 1978
(IIRC).  That was quite an odd CPU having no "reasonably usable" stack
ability or even call/return instructions.  No assembler, all machine
code keyed in using the spiffy hex keypad (as opposed to the original
designs 8 toggle switches).  All in all, roughly comparable in power to
a low end PIC though the 1802 does have some "awareness" of the 16 bit
world.  There's a big groupie following for them at www.cosmacelf.com
Some guy even coded one up in an FPGA.

michael brown

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