> The 1974 introduced NatSemi Scamp aka SCMP aka SC/MP aka ISP-8A/600 ...
> is less weird than the F8 and actually quite nice to use, but still rathe=
r strange.

Its most weird aspect was that it would increment the program counter then =
fetch the next instruction, meaning that after a reset the first executed i=
nstruction was in location 1 not 0.

I remember reading an article in Electronics magazine (now defunct I think)=
 at the height of the 'microprocessor mania' of the early 1980s where some =
guy in the USA used a SC/MP to control the damper on the flue of his wood b=
urning stove at his house somewhere deep in snow covered territory. It adju=
sted the damper to maintain a constant temperature for the gasses coming ou=
t the top of the flue, and once the damper was fully open and the temperatu=
re fell far enough it set an alarm to make you put more wood on the fire. I=
 think it was my first experience of reading about a useful application for=
 a one chip micro that was outside the normal computer realm (as in using a=
 one chip micro for keyboard scanning etc).

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