One wonders what the micro instructions were? It looks like a lot of circuit tracing ahead. Dwight
________________________________ From: cctech <[email protected]> on behalf of Chuck Guzis via cctech <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2019 7:57 PM To: John Ames via cctech <[email protected]> Subject: Re: So what the heck did I just pick up? On 8/30/19 7:24 PM, John Ames via cctech wrote: > Ran into this at the electronics-surplus store just down the way from > my workplace and grabbed it on the cheap. I don't actually know what > it *is,* but the labels on the switches make it look a *hell* of a lot > like a 16-bit general-purpose computer of some kind. Despite the > claims of being "microprocessor-controlled," I looked at every board > inside the thing and couldn't spot anything that looked like a 16-bit > or even 8-bit CPU. Genuinely curious what this is, but I can't find > much on it online - the name pops up in a few archived documents, but > Bitsavers doesn't have anything for the company. Though the design is > attributed to Stanley Kubota and Edward Corby - looks like Mr. Kubota > still has an online presence at https://www.exsellsales.com/about-us/ > so I'll have to drop them a line... > > Anybody heard of or encountered one of these before? > > http://www.commodorejohn.com/whatsit-front.jpg > http://www.commodorejohn.com/whatsit-back.jpg Not surprisingly, the answer's on Bitsavers: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/microcomputerAssociates/Microcomputer_Digest_v02n08_Feb76.pdf PDF page 7. --Chuck
