I still have my Netronics system fully functioning somewhere. I was amazed
how cool it ran. I kept on touching the package waiting to see if it got
warm. I liked the lottle boot routine it had that would detect the baud rate
by sending a CR to it. It required a fraction of the code that my old Altair
needed.
Rick

michael brown wrote:

> 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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