On Thursday, Mar 4, 2004, at 20:57 US/Pacific, Colin Constant wrote:

>
> Your first assignment:  Make it say HELLO.
>
heh.  In college, a long time ago, the powers that were decided that it
was time that perhaps the senior EE majors got some experience with
these 'microprocessor' things.  So they acquired a bunch of
then-current intel SDK-86 evaluation boards.  Unassembled.  So first,
this bunch of ivy league seniors had to assembled a rather complex PCB.
  hundreds of pins, and all that.  Some of them had probably never
soldered before, but mine went together just fine.  Now, I had always
been on the brink of HW vs SW (which was wider back then), and being
assigned to do something with an SDK-86 was like a gift from heaven.
The SDK-86 had this 8279 keyboard/display controller, which was
completely new to me, and rather neat looking.  In a little bit, I had
it scrolling "HELP" across its 7-segment displays.  The prof caught me.
  He thought it was pretty neat too, and had me explain it to the rest
of the class...

BillW

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