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If you have a problem that can be solved by a computer-we have a systems solution.

• Two central processors with maximum RAM capacities of 56K and 384 K bytes

• Three types of disk drives with capacities of 175K, 1.2M and 16M bytes

• Two dot matrix printers with 80 and 132 line capacity

• A Selectric typewriter interface and a daisy wheel printer

Match these to your exact need, add one or more of our intelligent terminals and put together
a system from one source with guaranteed compatibility in both software and hardware.

Southwest Technical Products systems give you unmatched power, speed and versatility. They
are packaged in custom designed woodgrain finished cabinets. Factory service and support on
the entire system and local service is available in many cities.

SOUTHWEST TECHNICAL PRODUCTS CORPORATION

219 W. RHAPSODY
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78216 (512) 344-0241
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interested 1n receiving letters that will benefit or alert our
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• CONTENTS • letters that are composed using 'good taste.' We reserve
the ri9ht to define (for '68' Micro) what constitutes 'good
taste.
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(Articles and items submitted for publication) Please,
A BATTERY B/U BOAR0 •••••• ,12 Review always include your full name, address. and telephone
number. Date and number all sheets. TYPE them if you
UCSD PASCAL• •••••••••••••• t3 Puckett can. poorly handwritten copy is somet1mes the difference
between go. no-go. All Items should be on 8X11 inch,
BUSINESS PROGRAMMING, ••••• 17 Cegle white paper. Most all art work will be reproduced photo­
graphically. this includes all listings. diagrams and other
STYLOGAAPH W/P SYSTEM, 19 Pomerantz
non-text material. All typewritten copy should be done
••••

POSITION INDEPENDENT COOE.21 Boyd

with a NEW RIBBON . All hand drawn art should be black
on white paper. Please no hand written code items over
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Column width should be 3V• inches.
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(Advertising) Any Classified: Maximum 20 words. All
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word. No Commercial or Business Type Classified
SOFTWARE �S TO SWTBUG•..32 He I I advertising, Classified ads will be published in our
standard format. Classified ads $7.50 one time run. paid
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THE CLASSY CHASSIS

WHAT'S COOKING
on the FIFTY BUS
32K STATIC RAM BOARDS
Designed for usa with:
* Existing SS50 Systems * SS50C Extended Address Systems

• Assembled
• Burned In
$898.19
• Tested • 25 amp (SV) lerro·resonant constant voltage
power supply,

16K ... $328.12 • Heavy weight aluminum cabtnet wflh 3 posttlon

key swttch, tan, and provtslons tor two 5" disk

24K...$438.14 •
drtves:
6800/6809 Mother Board, Ill teen 50 pin and

32K ...$548.15 eight DIP·swilch addressable 30 pin slots (gold

plated pins). tully decoded.
16K and 24K Versions are • Baud rate generator on II0 seclion ol
socketed tor 32K and require Mother Board
only additional 21 14 • s lor
expansion. 1/0 BOARDS
FEATURES: for the 30 PIN BUS:
Decoding lor 4 EJCtended Address Unes (allows Write protect eilher ol two 16K sections
•

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•
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• DIP·swllch to set extended addressing or dtsabte It power RAMS 2 Pon RS 232 Serial 128.43
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8 Pon RS 232 Serial 288.40
AND NOW ... GIMIX OFFERS YOU A 8 Pon RS 232 Serial 318.46
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Choice of 6800 or 6809 CPU CARDS 8 Port Parallel 198.45
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Includes Chassis, 32K RAM BOARD, 110 Card, and features our 6809 PLUS CPU Card with the Time of Day
Clock option with llattery back·up Installed, as well as the 6840 Timer Package that provides 31ndependent
• Include 1 K of Scratchpad RAM on the CPU
16 bit counters
Thts system also allows the tollowlng options to be added at additional cost * Allow optional software switching of system
monitors.
• Battery back·up ot the IK RAM by substituting CMOS pans
• A 9511 or 95 t 2 Arithmetic Processor 2MHz 6809's at slight additional cost when they
• GtMtX or SWTP Dynamic Address Translators become available.

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OS-9'�LEVEL 1WO MULTIUSER
OPERATING SYSTEM • Buffer, line and character oriented

TJE:;:::s o 6T 80 9
commands.

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rue muiUtask;ng, muiUuser OS for • Search, change and extend operaUons.

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' ·time control

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management perm1ts use

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of over one megabyte.
ti � � puVoutput OS-9'"

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INTERACTIVE ASSEMBLER
• UNIX .. -like file structure including

T
.
hierarchical directories, pipes, filters, Compact Motorol� compatible
assembler for machme language

OOLS
and byte-addressable random access files.
. . program development.
• Prov1des log-on password protection
and user filie secunty.
·
• 0perates m "batc h" mode or
·

. interactive line-by-line mode.

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• Can run on small, inexpens1ve ..
systems WI'th floppy d'ISks and as little as
• Fac1,1t1es .or generat'10n of OS-9••
32K memory.
memory modules and system calls.

0 $495 00•
·
· e syntax and
• Formatted 1.1stm� me1ud ·

context error checkmg.

ENDLOOP. EXITif' ... ENDEXIT.
• Runs on OS-9'• Level One or
OS-9'" LEVEL ONE • Allows user-defined data types and Level'JWo.
OPERATING SYSTEM complex data structures. Five built-in
data types: byte. integer, 9 digit
0 Disk or tape $75.00

S
ingle-user. single-memory map floating-point. string and boolean. 0 ROM set (2716) $90.00
compatible subset of Level 'IWo • Extremely fast program execution.
for software development or • Available on ROM. disk or cassette OS-9'"
stand-alone control applications. tape. Runs under OS-9'. Level One or INTERACTIVE

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• Versatile inpuVoutput system can Level'JWo. DEBUGGER
support multiple devices using 0 Disk or tape $195.00•
interrupt-driven, DMA. or program­ acilitates testing and debugging of
controlled data transfer. Users can easily machine- language programs.
add additional VO devices.
• Includes common ··monitor"
• Tape or disk-based versions available. MICROSOFT functions: memory examinelchange.
6809 BASIC

S
• Disk versions support UNIX'•.Jike breakpoints, display/change registers,
hierarchical directory structure and hexadecimal arithmetic, etc.
tandard Microsoft BASIC optimized
for the 6809 and OS-9'•.
byte-addressable random-access files. • Access to system command
• Memory management for single interpreter.
• Four data types: integer, string,
address-space (up to 64K). • Available on HOM. disk or
single precision and double precision
0 Disk version $150.00" floating point.
cassette tape.
0 Tape version $95.00
• Program trace and edit capabilities. 0 Disk or tape $35.00
0 R0�1 (2716) $50.00
• Automatic line numbering and
renumbering. BASIC Ill IS a trademark of Motorola. OS-9 is a
tra�mark of �lotorola and fo1icroware•. UNIX IS a
trademark o( Bell Telephone Laboratories.
• Supports random and sequential
file UO. Full PRINT USING for
BASICW'w
PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGE SYSTElt1 formatted output. ft1ost software s
i available on ROM,
0 Disk or tape $250.00 diskette and tape in versions for many

E
xtended BASIC language
popular 6809 computers. Source listin�
compiler/interpreter with
and yearly maintenancelupdate service
integrated text editor and debug OS-9'v TEXT are sold separately for most programs.
•specify manufacturer and type of CPU
package. Runs standard BASIC programs
�:DITOR
and UO controllers. Contact Microware •
or minimally-modified PASCAL programs.

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• Permits multiple named program inimum-keystroke macro text
for specific availability.
modules having local variables and editor useful for text
identifiers. Modules are reentrant. preparation or interactive
position independent and ROMable. word processing.
• Additional control statements for • User-defined macros with MICROWARE,
Mkrowut )'Stems CorporaUon
5835 Crtnd A\"mUe, Box 4865
structured programming: IF ... THEN parameters permit virtually
Des Moines. 10\\'a 50304
.. . ELSE. f'OR ... NEXT. REPEAT ... unlimited command expansion.
UNTIL. WHILE ... DO. LOOP ... Macros can be saved, loaded 1515) 279-88<\4
 A/BA IC CO�lPILEH

T 6800
hiS BASIC compil�:r j.li:IWri.ltes
t-111\RUG - tompdllbl�: flU,\I th<�t combm��
pure. fast. tdfic 1 ent 6800 mad1me

math.
an 1mproved mon1tor deburutcr w1th a
lanJluage from c.1S\' to wnt� l.li\!:!ll
po,,erful mult1taskmg real-time oj)l'ratm�
source programs. Us11s ·
system. Supports up to 16

SOFTW�RE
ultra-fa�t integ er
concurrent tasl-.s at 'prion
extended strinJl
level� plus real tim� duel-.
functions. buoli:an
and mterrupt contrul.
operators and real- t 1 me
Thousands in use smce 1976 hand lin � all

SUPER
operations. Output is IWJI<Iable and rwt:.
types of applications. Availabl� on 6�0
without any run-time package. Disk
lt>III<UUG:typc) 01' _27US (�:PHO�l-typd flO�I.
versions have disk 1'0 stateme nts and
�1ilnudl 1s a cJ,ISSIC on 6800 real·lime
require 121< memory and host oos
Cassette vesrion runs in �I{ and
applie<rtio�s �nd contams a full �uurce

POWER
pro�ram llst mg.
requires HT/6 uperatmg system.
0 IH'61:l�IX (6 "101 $55.00
0 Disk Extended Version 2.1
SSB or t:LI�X· Diskette $150.00 0 RT6l!�IXP t270SI $55.00
0 Cassette Version 1.0. $65.00
BY MICROWARE
6800 CIIES

A
A/BASIC SOUHCE vers1on is J)crfect for M ot orola 02 kits. challe ngmg ch�ss program for
CENERATOH the 6800. iwo sel�ctable di(ficulty
0 Cassette, s 1:1 or Fu:x· fliskelt(;' $95.00
lc\-els. Displays formatted chess

A
n "add-un" ufltiun fur A BASil bo<tred on �t andard t�rminals. RclJUirl.'s
Compiler llisk wr sions that ttdus 81< memory. �lachme lan�u<r�c with
an extr<� third pass which �encr­ Ll P INTEHPI�ETEH AlBA'IC SOUICe listing.
ates a full assembly-languag� liUtput 0 Cassette. ·su or FLEX' Disket te $50.00

T
lislmg and assembly language sourc<- til•• he programming t..anguage LISt•
Uses original BASIC names and in�ert::. offers cxcilmg new possibil ities fur
microcomputer 11pplications. i\ Our software IS available for most 6800
BASIC source lines as comments.
h 1ghly lllleractive inlerpreter that use� systems on cass et t e or diskette unless
0 S..'itl or FLEX• Diskett e $75.00
list·tYtll.' d<rta structure:. wh1c h arc simul· otherwise noted. Phone orders welcomed.
Laneously data and executable 111structtons. We accept �lA TERCIIAI�C�: and VISA.
LISP features an unusual structured. We try to ship orders within 24 hours uf
A/BASIC INTERPRETER recursive iunct1on urie nted �)·ntax. \\'1di!l}' receipt. Please call or write if )'OU require
used for prucessmg. artificial intl.'lllgl.'nce. additional information or our free

H
l.'re it b a SUfler-fast A Bt\!:.1{ cataloj.l. �ticroware' software is available
l!duciltlon. :.1mulatiun symoolu.: and
·

compiler! Now you can inkr­ for 01��1 and custom aplllkallons.
computer·atdcd d�si�n. t�OI! LISP re4lmes
artivdy ctlil. execult' ami th:bu�
a minimum of 12K IWl
/VBJ\SIC pro�rams with the �a.w ot an in­
0 Cn.�sclle. S!'IB or FLF.X•
terpreter then compile to s uper t:ffim·nt
•

machine lan�ua�l'. Also il su1>c rb stand­ Diskette $75.00

alone applirations and control· unented
interpreter. Hequtres t!K HAN. The �assclle

MICROSOFT DISK EXTENDED BASIC FOR OS·9'"

M
icrosoft Basic is b)• far tt�e world's most populat lhl.\h.: • l))�1amic string spacl.' allocation
language - and a vast hbrat-y uf ar)phcatunt� sotlwart: • llandom and sequential file I 0 w1th variabll.' lcn�th rcwrds.
written for it can he u�ed on your sy::.ll:m: hu�illC!o..'\
• Ptott�ted files can be s.awti in coded b111ary forn1al .
pack;�es. scientilic. t!nginl'crin� and cdu�.:aliunal pru�l<•n�. �tanlt!:..
etc. The OS-9 • wrsion oi �tinosoll Ba.'1c IS a full mlpl�:mcnt.tl iun
• Clli\IN and t:O�lf.ION statl!mcnts proAmms may he lmkcd
togelher and share common vanahll'S.
of Helease 5.0 \\1ilh the followm�t tl.'aturc�:
• Four variabl� types: Integer. Strmg. 'm�tlc Prcdsmn Floatmg Thb version u( �licrosoft Basic ��not just" 1cas.-.emblcd liMO
Point (7 Di�it). Uuuhlc Precision Floalin�t l'oinl ( IH U1�itl. Basic- it has be�:n enhanced to Lake full a<.h <mtaSll.' or the t�OY
·

and 0$-!1 supe rior capabilities. It is aiS(t a r�!hahle Basic that vuu
• r'ull PIU!\'T l'SING fur forn1<1ttdi output llndudl.'� astcn�h Iii I.
•

can count un fc1r )'nur importdnt pro�rams.

Ooatm!! $. scientific notatio n. Lr,uhn� si�n. commt1 inscrllonl.
0 r<licrosoft Extendl!d Bask Rrlra'le 5.0 for 0 -9:"$250.00
• Tra..:e F<1�ilillcs for pm�ram dcbu�inJt.
0 Also available: 'landard r--licrosoft 68()(1 or 680!1 Bas1c
• E�hmSi\'C flro�ram r::dllmg faclhti�S Vld wn cwnnlttnd. Hd�ct."t' 4.51 for Flc.x•. �'Iany features of 0. 9 •· version.
• Matrices \\'ilh up to 255 d1men�iun� $250.(1(1 'lto�<l.tn.tfk ttl l..:hnk.'ill S),ll11b lur\'.UI�ults
• IF' TilE:\ ELSE ;u1d \\'llii.E\\'ENI> iur slnJdutt.>tl
pro!!rammin!!. MICROWARE.
• Automatic Lmc numb;:nn�-t .1110 r�num�t. 5.!\35 C.r.md Uo� 11S65 fl.'S �ltunl'S, lA 50.1tl1 • 15151 �7!1 X11
In the world of 6800 Microcomputing
there is only one Universal Mini-Disk System . "' .

the PERCOM LFD-400 ,..

with SOFTRAN "'

Made possible by SOFTRANr� an inno­

vative $24.95 translator program, the
reliable Percom LFD-400™ has just
been upgraded to the first universal
mini-disk storage system.

Suddenly the two worlds of 6800

mm1d1skette software become one
Because the LFD-400TM with SOF­
TRAN™ can read either soft-sectored
or hard-sectored disks.

And ownmg an LFD-400/SOFTRAN

system means you can run min1diskelte
programs from the enormous combrned
selection of all of the principal 6800 soft­
ware houses - TSC. Computerware. the
Software Works, Hemenway Assoc1ates and of
course Percom

Available in vers1ons for mini FLEX1, FLEX 2 01 and only $599.95. complete w•th: (1) the drive, drive
Smoke Signal Broadcasting Company's DOS, electron1cs and Percom's rugged PS-401 power
SOFTRANTM cop1es soft-sectored mtnidlsk­ supply all rn a f1n1shed enclosure, (2) a demon­
ettes track-for-track onto hard-sectored mtnl­ strably supenor controller PC card featunng an
dtskettes. If the source d1sk includes a FLEX' or explicit data/ clock separat1on c1rcuit, MPX. a re­
'Smoke' DOS, SOFTRAN™ IS used to modify the markable 2K DOS, and prov1s1on for 1 K extra
operatmg system to function w1th the Percom PROM, (3)an mterconnectmg cable and (4)a 70-
LFD-400™ page users manual.

SOFTRANTM is supplied on a mmidiskette along Also available Upgrade kits for SWTP or 'Smoke'
With utilities for only $24.95. mini-disk drive systems Kit includes LFD-400™
A users manual1s included controller, M P X DOS & SOFTRAN™ Only
You must ind1cate whether $224.95.
SOFTRAN™ is to be used
�.·-

for rntn1 FLEX•, FLEX 2 o· Available soon!

or Smoke's DOS SOFTRAN™ for Percom's 77-track LFD-aoorM
,..,,.... The Percom LFD-40QTM m1n1-d1sk system: SOFTRANf9lM for 6809 FLEXt
'------....11 mini-d1sk system sells for flies and programs
'" trademark of Percom Data Company, Inc. trademark ol Technical Systems Consultants. Inc

[ LJE�Il()MI
To place an order or request additional literature
call toll-free 1-800-527-1592. For techntcal tnfor­
matton call £2141272-3421. Orders may be patd by
check. money order. COO or charged to a VISA or
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4 ?1 l4 I 5% sales tax
Percom 'peripherals lor personal computing'
 A Few Extraordinary Products for Your 6800/6809 Computer
From Percom

Low Cost
M ini-Di sk Storage
In the S1ze You Want

Percom mtnl-dlsk systems start as cuit, buffered control hnes and other
low as $599 95. ready to plug In and mature design concepts ROM •

r un You can't get beller qu a lity or a DOS tncluded with SS-50 bus ver­
broader selectton of dtsk soflware sion - optional DOSs for EXOR·
from any other mtcrocomputer dtsk ctser• bus extra PROM sockets
•

system manufacturer -at any pnce I on-board EXORctser• bus versiOn

•

has 1 K-byte RAM· supported by ex­

Features 1-. 2- and 3-drrve systems tended d•sk operating systems: as­
m 40- and 77·track versions store semblers and other program de­
1 02K- to 591 K-bytes of random ac­ velopment / debugg ing aids: BASIC.
cess data on-line controllers tn­
• FORTRAN. Pascal and SPL/M lan­
clude exphctt clock/data separahon guages. and. business applicatton
CirCUit. motor tnacttvity lime-out ctr· programs EXORciser• Bus LFD--400EX'" -800EX'"' Systems

Versatrle Mother Board. Full-Feature Prototyprng Boards

Printed wiring Is easily soldered tin-lead plugged into an SS-50 bus Features
plating Substrates are g lass-epoxy. Pro- wide-trace conductors. Price. $21.95
lotyping cards provide for power regula· SS.SO BUS CARD-accommodates 34-
tors and distributed capacttor bypassing , and 50-p in ribbon connectors on top
accommodate 14·, 16-. 24- and 40-pln edge. 10-pi n Molex connector on side
DIP sockets. Prototyping boa.rds Include edge Price. $24.95
bus connectors. other connectors and SS-30 BUS CARD - 1 v.-lnch higher
sockets are optional than SWTP VO card, accommodates 34-
MOTHERBOARD -accommodates live pin ribbon connector and 12-pln Molex
SS-50 bus cards. and may Itself be connector on top edge Price· $14.95

ThF Electnc Wrndow·•· Instan t Real Ttme Vrduo D isplay Control

The SBC 9'"' A "10" By Any Measure.
Memory residency and outstandln.9 software control of display format and
The Percom SBC/9"' •s an SS·SO bus compatible, stand· characters make this SS-50 bus VOCcard an exceptional value at only $249.95.
alone Single-Board Computer Configured for the 6809
Other features:
microprocessor. the SBC/9"' also accommodates a 6802 Gen erates 128 cha rac­
ters Including all ASCII dis­
•

without any modification. You can have state-of-the-art

playable characters plus
capablh t y of the '09. Or put to work the enormous selection of selected Greek letters and
6800-coded programs that run on the '02 other special symbols.
The SBCI9"' Includes PSYMONn.o. an easily extended 1· Well-formed. ·to·
Kbyte ROM OS. Other features Include read 7x12-dot cniilfa<t:Iel
•

t h me SS·50 bus Requtres no changes to the

• Total compallbil•ty wl True baseline de:scen , d1
ers . •
motherboard memory or 110 • Character-store (di!>PIIIY l:�
• Senal port includes blt-ra1o generator RS.232.C com pa 1b t le with memory included
opiJonal submnaturo ·o· oonooctor tnstalled H>·Pirt Molex cortrl8C· Prov t slon l or "'IJ'""'"
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 FLEX• USER NOTES Zllog mnemonics: -As I understand the� LOIR
Instruction, the HL register Is loaded with the
BY: RONALD W. ANDERSON "FROM" address, the DE register with the "TO"
3540 STRUBRIDGE COURT address, and the BC register with the byte count for
ANN ARBOR, Ml 48105 the move. Assuming thet the values FROM, TO, and
NBYTES have been asslgned ll value previously, the
A DUt-e ERROR code for a block move would look like this.
Here's a story about yours truly and his LD HL,FROM
stupidity. As I have mentioned I bought e SWTPC LO DE TO
6809 processor board tor myse I t. I recentI y bought LO sc: NBYTES
a second tor the company, where I have a system LOIR
nearly Identical to rrrt home system. Recently we
ordered TSC DEBUG tor the 1 09, and It simply These four Instructions set up the move, and the
wouldn't run. Between the company and rrrt persona LOIR Instruction moves a byte, decrements 8 and
system we have duplicates of everything, end It repeats until B Is zero. The LD HL extended
wou I dn,t run on rrrt system eIther. T found one Instruction tllkes 10 machine states or clock cycles.
combination of 6809 processor, board, and sv.stem In LD DE lind LD BC, the same, and the LOIR 16 cycles
which debug would run properly, and In addition I except on the last I� pass (where It Is exited),
found that o the r combinations would run tor a few which tl!kes 21 cycles. That totals 133 clock cycles
minutes. Armed with the fact that I had a "heat for a 6 byte move , and the code Is II bytes. s Inee
(?roblem" and a can of circuit cooler, I proceeded to I don't have a sysTem running, I don't guarantee
find that If I would cool a particular area of the absolute accuracy In this analysis, but It Ts close.
processor board, debug would again run for a few
mInotes. I noted that It seemed to dIe a s I ow Now, let's look at the 6809 equivalent. The
death the output In the STEP mode slowing down and settIng up of the re g Isters Is the same, and It we
finalfy stopping. use a subroutine for the move, It only has to appear
once In the program and will not significantly
After a half dozen false starts end positive , program.
Increase the size of tne
Identifications of the problem, I got a good dual
trace scope from a trIend and started to poke LOU #FROM
l!round. I have a friend, Paul Petrick who has Just LOX ITO
put together e system and has the '09 runnlng. LOY #NBYTES
D E BUG ran tIne on hIs system. To mllke a very I ong LBSR MOVE
week of 2 AM's short, since I bought an as sembled
board, I didn't reed the fine print on the Addendum MOVE LOA ,U+
sheet, and see the note that use of the processor STA X+
board wIth an W� or MP�2 board It Is necessary LEAY' -I Y
,_
BNE MOVt.
to edd a pull-up resistor to the FI�Q line , which Is
the old UD2 line on the SS-50 bus. I noTed action RTS
on the bus status output of the processor, and then
that the FIRO line was low Cit ls active low). One The prQgram contains the same four line calI as In
pull-up resistor, and the problem went away the Z-80. Since LOY requires tour bytes, and we use
permllnently on both systems. Apparently, DEBUG a LBSR whIch Is a byte more than the LD IR
clears the Interrupt ml!Sk end the Interrupt was Instruction It costs us 13 bytes rather than the 11
seen, causing the program to go west. Whlle the b �
ytes In L-80. The subroutine Is 9 bytes long.
processor was cold, the open Interrupt Input was In According to TSC1s Debug States Counter thTs
the OFF state and the system worked until It Wllrmed program moves 6 bytes ln a total of 1�4 , clock
up. One comb! nation of processor board and system cycles. Our 68091s running at 2 MHZ execute this
worked though perhaps marglnal ft wit� that nput cOde as fast as a Z-80 runnIng at 2 MHZ. We have
open. Possl�ly the mother bOard had some leakage to some flexlblllty with the 6809 that Is lost In the
the supply voltage on that line and held the lnput Z-80 Implementation. If the block to be moved Is
high. shorter than 256 bytes we may use the 8 accumulator
as a counter and reduce the Code a IIttIe . It thIs
Before this discovery, I was ready to start Is done, the number of clock cycles used Is reduced
writing nasty letters to SWTPC about their marg inal to 122. Suppose MOVE were a subroutine In a Math
design and to go order someone else's 109 board for package, In wh 1ch aII varI abIes were 5 bytes. We
,
rrrt sysTem. I restraIned myse It from dolng so untII could Include an Instruction LOB 15 In the
the problem was found and solved. As someone once subroutine, reducing the cal ling code further. We
said, If all else falls, read the Instructions. I could lllso use a BSR rather than LBSR tor any call
had noticed that once In a while, a program would go within the range of the BSR, thus further reducing
west. I assume that this will not hl!ppen with t�e byte count and Increasing speed. If MOVE were used
problem solved. SWTPC, I take back alI the nasty a large number of times In a program, one could set
things I was thinking about you. I have never had up one of the SWI vectors to go to It and use a
any trouble thllt has been traced to a marginal single byte cal I SWI3 from anywhere In the program.
design of anything from SWTPC. At our company, we Furthermore, the 6809 code may easily be posTtlon
also have an 8080 system that Is now belna used In a Independent.
word processIng appIIcat I on, runnIng "Wordstar".
The hardware ln that system seems to fall once a On the basis of this comparison, we 6809 users
month. I have brought about a few fa II ures of my can only say that we can do as well as the Z-80
system b y a s IIp of the probe etc. but the given the same clock speed. A look at the Z-80
"random" failures, le. those that (,Just �appened", Tnstructlon set and clock cycles required does
have been limited to a few lnltlally bad memory revea I one area where we are much better off,
chips (marginal), the main rectifier brld� (one though. The z-eo has an X and a Y Index Register.
diode shorted) end a couple of problems with the Most of the Indexed Instructions take 19 clock
SA-400 drives. One drive motor quit, and one eyeIes. Some take 231 Our 6809 does an Indexed
plastic photo transistor holder broke (fixed with Instruction In var ing numbers of clock cycles
super gl ue In 5 minutes). I consider this to be depending on the optyon. The shortest Is a JMP
very high reilabl llty for nearly three years of Indexed which takes 3 cycles. The longest that I
heavy use. can figure out Is a LDYin,RI as In LDY I$1234,XI
which takes 11 cycles. Something like a LOA X+
Z-80 NOT SO FAST AFTER ALL only takes 6 cycles. The Z-80 doesn't even ofJer
the Indirect or the post Increment Instructions.
I may be forced to do a significant progremmlng Smile.
project In Z-80 Cugh) Assembler t due to a customer's
requIrements. Thet has Ied me T o 1 ook at the z-eo 6809 NOTES
Instruction set In a more serious manner than I had
previously done. One of the "great" features of the A few months ago , I mentioned my 6809 floating
Z -80 Is the highly publicized Block Move point math package, wnlch was In the debug phese. 1
Instruction. Actuallv there are four such have most of It work!� now, and It has passed all
Instructions, but let's just talk about the LDIR prllmlnary tests using the tour funct·rons. I have
Instruction. This Is presented using Zllog not had a chanoe to do thorough checking of the
Mnemonlcs. ApparentI y one has the cholce of us1 ng routInes that convert the Input ASCII or packed BCO
the "old" 8080 mnemonics for all the 8080 numbers to floating point binary notation and the
Instructions, and the Zllog for the Z-80 onl lnverse nor am 1 satisfied that all the functions
Instructions, or �olno all the way and uslna al y are fulfY operational at this point. I need to get
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the package Into an application and have some an ID number (one of 32), end run e pert thet he ran
numbers thrown at It tor a whl Je to g i ve It a good lest week without going through e set-up procedure
test before I wll I publish It as tully operational. ageln. I could eesf ly edd a routine to ellow
I was able to use the 8 by 8 bit multi ply writing to my Modem under program control while
Instruction for a triple precision multiply that running pascel. It you heven1t guessed, I em very
uses only about 400 clock cycles for the pleased with the Pascal end the Company. (I have no
multiplication end the moving of data onto the stack flnenclaf Interest or other connection with
and the result back off of the stack. This does not Lucldata.)
Include the above mentioned conversions of format.
It does represent e time for a multiplication In e POLYNOMIAL REGRESSION
series of calculetfons on variables already In No, It's not a disease. It you have the book,
tloetfng point format. This of course makes the Some Common Beste Programs by Borchers and Poole
Divide routine the "turtle" Instruction. Of course
you may speed up a calculation by using multiplies you have probably paged pest their program of tha�
rather then divides wherever possible. For example, name. It sounds deep and comp I Iceted but It Is
rather than dividing by PI, you could take the really not. I have used It In the pesf to find test
reciprocal of PI once In the program end then approximations for Scientific Functlons but
multiply by this value (about 0.318). If I get a recentl'l' managed to get It teamed up wf th TSC
ffllll letters from reeders expressing Interest In this Extended BASIC, When you have 14 digit arithmetic
package, we wll I publish It over a period of time. aveflebfe, this program can perform magic. What
does It do? It generates an equetlon that froduces
LUCIDATA INTERVIEWED en approximation to a function that you fnpu to It,
Supfose you have a group of data points that you
I recently wrote Lucfdata askin g tor some wan to describe with a mathematical function. This
Information about the prfncfpefs of the company, program, after you Input the data points (X and Y
having had some extended correspondence with them coordinates of the polntsl will_produce an �uatlon
L
or formula of the form A3Xg3+A2X02 +AIX+AO, The A's
concern!� their Pascal complier. I received a
bfographfcef sketch of them from which I have ere calfed the coef fIcI ents of the terms of the
prepared this "Interview". The company consists of equation which Is cal led a pofynomfer . It contains
three people. Nigel and Eileen Bennee, end David descendIng "powers" o f X. The power of the fIrst or
Gibby. David wrote the Pascal complier end Nigel largest term Is called the order of the equetfon.
the P-code Interpreter or Runtime pacKage. , The In the Polynomial regression program you specify
Bennee's are British and Dave Gibby Welsh. They the order of the equetlon and Input po1 nts on the
have been In Hoi land for about 10 years, having �ne curve to be approximated.
there to work In "the Computer Division of an
International Research Establishment." Nigel has a Such approximations are used tor the scientific
degree In Nuclear Physics, for which there Is not functions In most of the math packages for
much demand In England, so he went Into computing. computers. Just tor tun, I let Extended BASIC
The background Inc Iudes know I edge of e I ectron 1 cs, so compute the SINE of angles from 0 to 1,6 radians In
that Nigel understands both hardware and software. Increments of O, I radian and entered these
Both men bought "minimal 68001s" In 1978, end since coordinates tor a run of �he Polynomial Regression
they were bOth accustomed to workIng on large program. I was surprised to find that a 7th order
com p uters, didn't like working with BASIC at home, approximation produced an error thet was afweys lost
With the expenditure of much midnight oil, they In the 8th digit of the result. The worst case
developed version I on their small systems. Eileen error Is Jess than 4xiOD-8, This approximation
Indicates that she too has an education In Physics Involves 1 multiplications and 8 additions , so It Is
and worked In c omputing at the research center untrf reesonebfy fast. For the SINE and COSII£ runctfons
theIr fem II y requIred her to sta., home. EI Ieen the angIe can be reduced to a value between zero ana
started Lucfdate with the Idee of doing programming Pl/2 (about 1,59 radians).
work on a consulting basis, which she Indicates has
been her main occupation. Someone suggested that
they should market Pesce!, end 11thet ls when we
started workin g 20 hours e day!" Eileen goes on to The more straightforward way to calculate the
Indicate that t�e response to their first version SINE, Is as a sum of some of the terms of an
was very fevoreble, end thet was the reason thet lntlnlte series. The series for the sine Is
they went on end developed the second. They heve X-xC3/(3*2J+xC5/(5*4*3*2>-xC7/(7*6*5*4*3*2l etc.
moved recently. Their new address Is: Each term Is the previous term with the numerator
LUCIDATA mu I tlp fled by -(i<OZ) and the denomf netor mu It!p II ed
Dufnsroosweg 10 by the next two lnteaers. Math students will be
2597 KJ The Hague aware that 7*6*5*4*3 2*1 may be abbreviated 71 or 1
Netherfand s factorial. Calculating the first 7 terms of this
series requires 1 multiplications and eddltlons and
the error aporoeches 20$ at the limit of 1.59
I Inquired as to whether they would heve radians. The happroxlmatlon" Is thus ebout a million
deeI ers here , and they IndIcated that they want to tImes more accurate than e short port Jon of the
mafntefn conTrol over the production of the "correct" calculation for the value. This means, of
software. They Indicate that they feel that a Jot of course that many more terms of the Infinite series
software for the Micro merket Is badly supported and must be Included to �et the accurecy required to
that they 11re trying to do better. match the 11!1pproxfmatfon For your Interest the
Scientific Functions In PASCAL that were published
•

I have found further nice features of the In this column previously have been redone and Just
Pescar In mv attempt to apply It to programs for those functions ere given here. The coefficients
balanc1 ng mach i nes. One In partlculer Ts worth are given to 9 digits slnce thet Is the limit of
writing about here. The Pescal as supplied has the Lucldeta PASCAL. The 9 digit coefficients produce
capability of supporting 8 output devices Including results that have a worst case error of less then 4
the terminal as two (one for Input, end one tor parts In the 8th digit. It was of some Interest to
output). This means th11t you can overlay the device note that the error curve Is symmetrical, end that
tables with the addresses of your 1/0 routines for the number of peaks or maxima In the error curve
some special device, and then READ and WRITE to It corresponds to the order of the epproxlmatfon
just es though It were your printer or termini!!. I polynomial. It was of Interest to note that the
used this devlce table to Jump to en Input and values for the odd power coefficients of the
output routine to do something that rs at first approximation are near the values of the
glance downright "silly". I wrote e routine to coefficients of the Infinite series. They are
write to and reed from memory. There Is In addition somewhat "distorted" and the even power coefficients
a procedure thet allows you to poke a location thet ere very smell for the first few terms. The reason
defInes the 11rea of � to whIch you want to that we cen get such Improved accuracy Is th11t the
write. Why on earth would anyone went to do thet, Infinite series In theory works for 1111 values of
as I afweys seyl Simple, my system will have some angle, but the epproxfmatfon only works for angles
batter backed up fWol (CMO:> l, end I went to S!lve between 0 end 90 degrees.
severe y sets of machine set-up parameters for
verlous parts. Pascal being stack oriented does I also found e much better approxlm��tlon for
not heve Vf!f'Y well defined locations tor variables, the Arctengent function than I had previously used.
so this device lets me write to 11nd read from ffx&a That these !lpproxfmetfons get better end better as
lll8l!l9f"Y I ocatIons. The date Is kept a II ve by the the Order of the approxImet Ion Is Incre11sed 1 s
batteries, end next time the pr99ram Is run, the logical. This fact wes somewhet obscured when I ran
machine operator C!ln retrieve his m��chfne set-up by the Regression prQRrem with 6 or 9 dlolt BASIC. The
68
' ' MICI'o Joumal ----1
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 pr99ram computes -�� "standerd error of estImete",
which reached a minimum and then Increased with the The routInes IndIcated ebove wIll be Inc I uded
order of the approximation equation. With the more In next months Issue. Also some additional
precise arithmeti c, I have seen no degredatlon f routines, furnished by Ron Anderson, end not
the error for equations of order as high as 18 published yet, will also be Included.
though the approximations heve been adequate wit�
less terms. I find that the Arctan g ent requires an As you can te II !rf thIs Issue, we heve
order 9 approximation to be about twlce as bed as Increased the size of 68 Micro Journal. This will
the order 7 approximation for the SINE. Also allow me to Include more listing s and other
Included here are the listings for the mater IaI • ThIs Is a I I due to the f T ne resJ>OOse our
epproxlmatlons for LOG and EXP done In this way, advertisers have received from YOU OUR READERS.
having reduced their range first In a manner similar
to tnat of reducing the angle for the Trigonometric Also will use this space to note thet we ere
functIons. running 1sloooow1 on the 1G1ANT SOFTWARE CONTEST'
wrap-up. We hope to have It finished soon but when
,
we got to the final part of Judging the enTries, we
One more note regerdlng the Polynomlel found that some of the dis�, especially those from
Regression program. In order to try verlous orders overseas were 1 bombed 1• We hope we have them aII In
of polynomials for the approximation, It Is by now and can get It completed soon. Thanks ageln
necessery to run the program severe! times. I don't to each and every one of you who entered. Needless
like typlng In 12 dlglt velues for the 17 points of to say It was a much bIgger Job than we had thought.
Input deta, so I changed the Input statement to e
read stetement, and Included the values as DATA
statements at the end of the pr99rarn. AIso, In
order to try the approximations of higher order, It
Is nece.ssary to Increase the dimensions for some of
the arrey verlebles as explained In the program A BATTERY BACKUP CLK BOARD
IIstIng In Borchers and PooIe. I Ieter got t I rea of
typlng In the date polnts even once, end modIf I ed
the program to reed e date fIIe, and then wrote very For those users who have need of a battery
short pr99rems to generate the date points. It was backed up, clock for the S50 bus, the ROBERTSON
Interesting to note that the TSC extended BASIC Is ELECTRONICS CLK 68-1 clock-Interrupt board Is now
accurate enough to ellow celculetlon of the error evalleble from Robertson Electronics, 1003 Warm
curve for errors In the 8th digit. TSC must be Sands Drive SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87123.
eccurete to et least 12 digits tor these functions.
I don't have tables accurate to that many places to
find out and my celculetor Is only good to 9 places. The CLK 68-1 Is lnstelled on the 30 pin bus end
obtains elI volteges from this bus, both operetlon
SO BASIC and battery cherge. This meens that If ell power Is
lost the clock remelns active. Not Just for a day
I tInaII y broke down end bought the Softwere or week or so, but for up to four C4> months. Thet
Dynemlcs BASIC complier. As a result of the column
for July "soepbox s ech" thet I mede regarding should Just about survive elI power felluresl
compliers In generer from a user's point of vlew T
t
received a letter from Ron Whites of SO, lnform1ng PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
me of their version 1.4 that allows long verleble
nemes end labels. Now they tell me II Anyway, there The clock Is a combination celendar end clock
were IncI uded a few programs that they had done to
demonstrate the new complier. Sorry Ron, but I board. Also aval table Is a Interrupt generetor, with
think long labels can be wey overdone. They produce Intervals from 488 microseconds to 256 seconds. No
elmost as unreadeble a program as do the varalble Jumpers are required as dip switches are used for
names AI through Z9 In Basic. Further, It really setting all features. The Nl-c8d batteries
gets frustratIng when you have to tvpe a very Iong furnished are In a ch8rglng st8te when the computer
verlable neme or label more than 11 Jew times.
Is running. This should Insure dependable battery
In his sample program Ron used some of these back up under norm8l useage. Provision are for day
for verlable namesi THEREEXISTSAWAYOUT, of week, month, day of month and time (12/24 hour
RANOOK>IRECTIONSAVE, end KANOOML.ENGTHSAVE. Maybe formet> the year Is set In software. Gold pin
wlffl lots of care end lots of white space around connectors and 2 MHz operation are avalleble as an
stetements these work tor you but I wouId . prefer
abbrevleted versions such es �AYOUT, RDIRECTION, and option. The board Is solder mesked end silk
RLENGTH. I really don't think the longer versions screened. and also h8s 8vellable an extra p8rel lei
convey eny more Information except perhaps on the 1/0 port. It comes with all p8rts Including the
fIrst reedIng of the program. These varIabIes ere batterIes and I C sockets. The advert I sed prIce 1 s
Incidentally from a program to generate a maze. It $89.95 kit and $119.95 assembled and tested.
was modified by SO from the program by Paul Wennberg
In Kilobaud Mlcrocomputlng, Nov. 1979. Version 1.�
also has provision for passing peremeters to Also es options alI software on SSB disk $14.95
subroutines end functions, whlcfi make It look like - cassette (Kenses City) $12.95. The 36 page manual
Fortran or Pascal. c8n be ordered for $10.00 -refundable with order of
Aside from these observations, SO BASIC Is CLK 68-1.
fast, and I wIll soon have a serIes of Benchmark
tests of most alI of the compliers and Interpreters The control crystel h8s 8 trimmer for tight
currentIy avel I abIe for FLEX. These wIll compare caI I brat Ion. The board has no 'after-thought'
not only run time but memory efficiency. My current Jumpers and the boerd used for the review worked
lmpresslon Is that the SO complier uses abOut half without 8 hitch.
egaln as much memory as Lucldeta Pascal when
runnIng the equIvalent pr99rarn. SO does have fu I I
sclentlflc functions Included In the runtime DOCUMENTATION
package, and Lucldeta Pascal does not. These
estimates Include the Scientific Functions as I have The manual Is well done. It consist of 36
prepered them to run with Pascal. There will be pages of assembelY 1ns tructlons, app 11 catlons notes
more here about the subJect when I have had a chance
to do the compar 1 sons accuretel Y• end exampIes, checkout, caII bratIon, theory of
operation, software description, software listings
Please excuse my previous reference to ucso• and component ldendlflcatlon cherts. For en Item of
Pesce! as USCD. It was not a typogrephlcal error, this type the documentation Is above average, and
but a genuine mistake on my part. T hadn't realized the computer user with little construction
thet tl\e ecronym stands for University of California
at San 0I ego. experience, should not experience much dlfflcullty.
The only part that might give trouble Is tight
Editor's Note: calibration of the crystel circuit. The standard
All references to the symbol rot should be accuracy of the crystal Is .0003 percent. For those
changed to 1 t '• This Is a fault of our daisy wheel without adequate lab equipment to do a close crystal
In the 15 character oonflguratlon. alignment or those who desire the tightest ratio
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possible, the factory wll I do a final alignment for INTROOUCTION
the modest sum of S5.95.
When you type "U" or "D" for the fIrst tIme to
As stated earlier the manual Is wei I put bootstrap the system, you wll I find yourself I n a
together and Is laid out In such a manner that It I s new wor Id. UCSO PASCAL• Is un II ke anythIng
easy and logical to follow, even for a beginner. available to 6800/6809 users before. Its forte Is
The software listings furnished In the manual are Its transportability and machine-Independence. The
written assuming the computer Is a Smoke Signal same system, except for the machine unique
system running DOS 5.XXC or later. However, It Is Interpreter and BIOS, has been Instal led on the
easy enough for the user to convert to any other 8080, Z-80, 6502, Tl 9900, 8086, NOVA, POP-I I ,
system or monitor 1/0 running on a S50 bus machine. wo-11, Z-8000 and 68000 microprocessors. More than
For those who heavily use BASIC, sample routines are 15,000 cop les ere In exIstence and users have
given also. written software ranging from FORTRAN compliers end
text-proc.essors to accounting and small business
OPERATION packages. The Idea here Is that you can run theIr
programs on your 6809 system wIthout the straIn of
Interfacing and addressing the board Is translating from one dialect to another, etc.
straight forward for both calendar/clock and
parallel port. Access Is fast, on the order of a ThIs transportablllty Is made possible by a
milllsecond or so. A sample of the printout Is: Pseudo-Machine architecture. The complier generates
p-code which looks like machIne code to the
FRI AUG 8 1980 (DATE) pseudo-machine. This p-code Is the same for all
21:45:22 (TIME 24 HR> machines. The lnterpeter translates I t to machine
7:35:12 A.M. (TIME 12 HR) code for the system In use.

We find that program listing that have the date and OPERATING SYSTEM
time printed on each one are easier to use, from the
standpoint of knowing when each was written or The operating system Is on a file called
modified. A system calendar and clock Is a SYSTEM.PASCAL and Is the first thing you see after
worthwhile addition to any computer syst� booting. After a nice welcome message, a prompt line
Is prInted a I ong the top of the screen. If your
CONCLUSION screen Is 80 characters wIde, you see the entIre
word, for example, F(ller. If I t Is smaller you
As detailed earlier the Robertson
w I II onIy see the f I rst letter of the c011111and
calendar/clock board Is a product of excel lent because terminals with shorter lines receive
quality, both In desIgn and construct I on. one-letter prompts.
Additional Information may be secured from:
Robertson Electronlcs
All commands ere one-letter. For example to
1003 Warms Sands Or SE
run a pro ram, you type R. To c0111plie a program,
Albuquerque, NM 87123 g
you type C.
(505) 294-Q025
Most of the disk work Is done by a program
called the Flier. Its one-letter commands allow you
to move fl les, remove them, and list their
directories, etc. It also keeps track of the date
UCSO PASCAL• and keeps a record of the names of your various
peripherals end their flies.
Oale Puckett
14753 Endsley CX>MMUNI CATION
Woodbridge, VA 22193
Every peripheral on your system Is Identified
This review deals with one of the most powerful by e number and e name. You may use either. For
example If you want to print a file, you transfer I t
and least understood software products available to
t o the printer. When the fl ler prompts you with "To
6809 users.
where?", you may answer 11PRINTER:11 or 1117:"., The
colon tel I s the system that the word Is e volume
UCSO PASCAL• for the 6809 Is sold by the
des lgnator.
Mlcrosystems Division of Control Systems, Inc.
(CSil, 1317 Central Ave., Kansas City, Kansas 66102.
SWTPC OMAF drives are assigned to volumes 4 end
CSI 's free telephone number Is 800-255-4411.
5. The MF-68 mini-floppy system appears es volumes
9 end 10. If you had a three (three mini 5" disk
UCSO PASCAL• I s supplied to SWTPC system owners
are maximum) drive mlnldlsk system It would appear
on three disks I n either the 8-lnch or 5 1/4 Inch
es 9, 10 and 11. Volumn 112 I s used tor the SWTPC
format. The disks end a manual written by SofTech,
COS-I Marksmen winchester hard-disk drive.
Inc., sell for $419. The first disk contains the
operating systeM, e complier, a screen editor, a
The PRINTER 11180t loned earlier Is assumed to be
f I I er, e IInker, and a I I brary f lie. A 6809 unIque
a serial Interface on port 7. The drivers supplied
Interpreter end Basic Input Output System (BIOS>
In B I O S are dumb drivers and assume a standard ASC I I
round out the dIsk. •

terminal. To Interface parallel printers, etc., you

must write your own assembly language prooedure end
Another disk Includes e BA S I C complier, a line
link It to the system using the Linker.
oriented editor for use on teletypes and other hard
copy terminals, a disassembler end a calculator.
The standard UCSO package places the console on
The f InaI dIsk contaIns Assemblers for both 6800 end
port I and e remote Input and output on port 2.
6809 systems.
Port 10 Is also used as a remote port.
Before pursuing the details of this very
GETIING IT RUNNING
complex system we should tip our hat to Dave Allen
et CS I . Dave �s out of his way to help his
Disks used on the 6809 system must be
customers master UCSO PASCAL·.
Initialized uslnq the TSC NEWOISK utllltv. CSI

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plens to supply an lnltlel lzatlon utiIlty written In Typing X wll I generate a prompt for a filename.
PASCAL In the future, however. If the flleneme you provide Is on line, It will be
executed. If not, an error message Is generated.

You must heve 56 K of memory In your system to From this level you cen also call In the
run UCSO PASCAL·. The operatIng system checks to Linker, Assembler, or Debugger. Typing en F In the
see thet 56 K Is available end will return to outer level wlI I eelI In the Fl fer wh lch wlI I
S-BUG-E If It Is not. Immediately print Its own prompt line.
Flier: GCet, S(eve, W(het, N(ew, L(dlr, RCem,
The peckege comes reedy to run on a SWTPC T<rans, OCate, and QCult (A).
CT-82. If you have this terminal you have It made,
If not, don't worry. CSI supplies two utilities, If you type e "1" you wII I be shown t�ore
SETUP end BINDER, which allow you to describe your commands. The second group allows you to check for
terminal to the PASCAL system. Bad blocks, Krunch the disk, Make e new disk, Set
the name of the volume Prefix, or Zero e new disk.
SETUP hendles detells such es the screen width,
number of lines on the screen, beckspece character, An overview of fl fer commands Is provided here.
delete cheracter, etc., much I Ike the TTYSET utility G, for Get, will l�ad the named file Into the
which comes with FLEX. SETUP Is completely workfl le. <>ne fl lename here will load both the .text
self-promptIng end Is e dream to use. You can and code fI I es If they are on I Ine.
enswer the prompts with a decimal number, e
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hexldeclmel number, an octal number, or you can type An S wllI allow you to Save the file you have
the actuel cheracter you ere defining. It even been workIng on. It prompts you for a f II enema.
confirms the chenge and prompts ageln, just In case
you went to chenge your mind. When you are Typing N clears the workfl le and creates e
finished, you mey updete the parameters In memory or blank, unnemed workflle. If there Is a workflle
on e disk file. If you pick the disk option, SETUP already present you wll I be asked If you want to
creates e flle called NEW.MISCINFO which you later throw It away.
ere Invited to convert to SYSTEM.MISCINFO.
A W will Identify the neme and present state of
BINOER allows you to Insert your own GOTOXY the workflle. A V will give you a list of the
routines Into the SYSTEM.PASCAL fl le. These Volumes you have on-line. L wllI produce a List of
rout 1 nes tell termIne Is II ke the CT -82 where the a dIsk dIrectory and the system wIll prompt you for
cursor should be on the screen at ell times. the volume you wish to list. C wllI allow you to
Chenge the neme of e vol� or a pertlculer file. R
Believe It or not, I used the example GOTOXY wlII remove e file from the directory and T will
routine for extremely dumb terminals In the syste� allow you to copy one file to enother. It should be
manual, and It made Iff( ancient CT-1024 appear to be noted here that you can transfer a file To the
smart. Unbelleveble. CONSOLE: or PRINTER:. It took me a long time to
f lgure out thet thIs wes the easy way to IIst e
A CLOSER LOOK flle. At first I loaded the file Into the editor and
listed lt.
lrrmedlately efter booting you are offered a
choice of all the commends et the outermost level. 0 will allow you to chenge the current Dete, or
The prompt IIne I ooks IIke thIs. check It and P will allow you to change the volume
Prefix.
Commend: ECdlt, R(un, FCIIe, CComp, L(lnk, X(ecute,
A<ssem, D(ebug, ? CII.O). Typing an E will load X, for eXamine ellows you to physlcely attempt
the editor Into memory end automatlcel ly load In the to recover suspected bed blocks on e disk. K wllI
current workfl le. The workflle Is a concept centre! Krunch a disk. This meens that alI flies present
to the structure of UCSD PASCAL•. It Is e are moved so that the empty spece Ieft on the dIsk
scratch-ped area whIch cen be used for the Is contiguous.
development of programs. <>nly one workflle Is
allowed at a time elthough eny workflle may be saved One good point about the operating system Is
elsewhere with a different filename. thet system codef I I es do not have to be on the
system disk. The system scans e II voI umes that are
The workflles are called SYSTEM.WRK.TEXT and on-I lne for the System fIles and r-bers where
SYSTEM.WRK.COOE. If you type C, the system compl ler they ere.
wIll be reed Into memory end the workfIle wIII be
complied If It Is present. If It Is not present, This Is extremely Important to persons using
the compII er wIll prompt for a f I I ename. the 5 1/4 Inch disks. Especially, those with only
35 tracks.
If It detects en error In the syntax of your
prognm, the complier will stop and display an error The reason Is that PASCAL system flies are very
number. It also points to the offending text. long. For example, SYSTEM.co.f>ILER Is 68 blocks
long . The editor Is 45 blocks long. A block Is the
At this point you can type escape To abort and eq uivalent of two FLEX sectors. In other words, It
return to the COimllln d level, or you ma y type an E
takes over heIf e dIsk for Just the complier.
and go straIght to the Ed I tor. When you do thIs,
you will find that the Editor wllI place the cursor Since the operating systeM scans, I am eble to
near the mistake. If the error Is unimportant
place the compller, editor, linker and library all
however, you may hIt the spacebar end go on wIth the
on one d 1 sk ready for use. I can then use the dIsk
complletlon.
which wes boot ed In to hold quite large yorkflles.
The only system flies I Include on It are BIOS, the
Typing an R will cause the current workfl le to
SYSTEM.INTERP and the SYSTEM.FILER.
be executed. If the progrem has not been compI Ied
yet, R will load In the complier and compile lt. It
TliE EDITOR
will also automatically cell the linker If
necessary. If the codeflle Is already existent The SYSTEM.EOITOR Is the prlnclpel tool for
however, It will execute It l rrrnedlately.
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creating, reading, and changing text flies. When J· Z, for Zap, remembers the location of the Jest
fIrst comes up It prInts a prompt IIne on the top o· thing found, replaced, or Inserted; and deletes
the screen and begins printing the file on th• everything between there and the current cursor
second II ne. A.s much of the tI I e that wII I fI t I: position.
p 1 eced on the screen. The rest con be cal Ied In a·
will by moving the cursor. The SYSTEM.EDITOR supplied with the UCSD
PASCAL• package from CSI allows you to work only
The pro.pt line almost explains Itself. with fl Jes thet will fit In available memory. This
appears to be Just over 14,000 characters and could
Edit: A(djust C(py D<Jete F(lnd l(nsrt J(mp R(plac• be a disadvantage If you are working with extremely
Q<ult X(chng and Z<ep. long source flies. I understand, however, that UCSO
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Is working on enother editor called the L2 Editor

It a workflle elready exists, It which can edit tiles as larg e as the space available
automatlcelly read In when the editor Is eel led. on the disk. 11m sure CS I wll I make It avalalble
It Is not present you may nome a fIIe to be read, o when the UCSD folks, perfect Jt.
you rwtJY hIt return end stert a new work fII e.
As we mentioned earlier the CSJ packege also
A. summery of
the verlous commands evellebl Includes an editor called YALOE for Yet Another
with the editor follows. Line Oriented Editor. I tried It and didn't like
Jt. But, It does allow you to use the UCSD system
A., for AdJust, allows you to chenge th with a hard terminal such as e teletype.
lndentetlon of the line which contelns the cursor.
The SYSTEM.COMPILER Is an adaptation of the
C, tor Copy, enebles you to copy text fro portable Pascai-P complier developed at the Swiss
enoth«" disk file Into your workflle. It els Technical University. It has been changed to run on
allows you to move selected portions of the curren microcomputers with restricted memory cepaclty and
workflle Into a specie! buffer for holding. to handle UCSD extensions.

D, for Delete, el lows you to delete cherecters The complier makes one pass through the source
words or eny combInetIon of the two. When you co I file thus allowing It to run relatively quickly.
the function, the locetlon of the cursor becomes th The cost Is a relatively large amount of memory
enchor. You then move the cursor at wIll ��� space. However, the 561< SWTPC system con handle
cherecters between the two posItIons ere removE quite large Pascal programs.
when you type en ASCII ETX.
If you do have extremely large source flies,
F, for Find, of lows you to find e string In tt this package has the answer. It allows you to
workflle. It hes two modes, Literal and Token. 1 operate the complier as It It were two separate
expleln, e Llterel search for IF-STOP/ would fir programs. Only one part Is brought Into memory at a
only that exact character combination. A. Toke time. This expands the compl lers working memory by
search on the other hand wou Id aI so fInd /F - STOF over 5 K but It does slow the process down a bit.
or /F- STOP/. It would even find the token If tl
two parts were on d Itferent IInes. Another feature of the compl fer which should be
mentioned here Is the Include directive. This
I, for Insert, Inserts text stertIng et tl feature allows you to keep small parts of a Pascal
location of tiM! cursor. It ellows the use of tl program on separately edited text fl les.
backspace and delete characters to reject select•
parts of tiM! Insertion. ThIs comes In handy when you want to use one
section of program statements In several different
J, for Jump, gives you a way to move the curse programs. The Include directive tel Is the compl fer
fran one part of the flie to another. You can Jut to regard the entire text contained In a named text
to the Beginning or to the End of the file as we file as If It were part of the source program text.
as to Markers you are allowed to establish. It looks like this.
(1$1 EXAMPLE.TEXT•>
M, for Mergln, will edjust anything locat•
between two bIank IInes to the margIns you set. This statment would cause the text file
EXAMPLE.TEXT to be read In and comp I Ied as If It
P, for Page, wll I move the cursor one page at were part of the source file being complied. You
tIme. A Page here Is defIned as the amount of te can even Insert an IncI ude flie whIch contalns
thot cen be held by the screen. CONST, TYPE, VAR, PROCEDURE end FUNCTION
declarations. To do this you must use the Include
Q, for Quit, will let you leave the editor. directive between the lest variable declared In the
the process you may, Update the workf lie; E x VAR list and the first PROCEDURE or FUNCTION heading
without changing t he workt lie; Write t o a nom declered In the main program. This placement tel Is
file; or Return to the editor. the complier to relax the strict Pascal syntax
requirement that OONST declarations occur before
R, for Replace, lets you change one string TYPE declarations.
another. It will operate In the Literal or Tok
modes. And, will allow you to Verify the chan DISK FILES
before It hap,.ns If desired.
Another Important area that should be covered
S, for Set, gives you a chance to set Morke In this review Is the use of disk flies. UCSD
by assigning a nam to them. It also allows you tc PASCAL has been extended to aIlow the handling of
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define the Environment. random acc,ess disk flies.

v, for Verity, wll I redisplay the screen witt The UCSO system regards all disk files as If
the cursor centered. they were composed of blocks 512 bytes long. This
Is made possible because of the low level routines
X, for eXchange, wll I exchange the current tex1 In the BIOS package. This allows the physical
In the file with the text typed. It only works lr characteristics of the users particular disk system
one IIne. A backspace wIll cause tiM! orIgInal to remain transparent. These details ore of no
cheroct.- to re-appear. concern to most programmers.
ea Micro Journal
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 Packing of the records Into the correct number Because of the larger 512 byte file blocks, and
of 512-byte blocks Is done automatically by the because of the sequent I eI eccess whIch puts
Pascal operating system. This means the progrenwner everything In logical order, disk access seems to be
need only request access to a specl f lc logleal very fest and oompl letlon Is amazingly fast.
record In his file by using Its number. Executing or Running a pro gram that has already been
complied appears to be en Instantaneous operation.
A type definition for a typical Pascal date
file might look like this. I personally complied nearly a dozen Pascal
programs of varying length from several magazines
TYPE INFOREC•CPERSON); and text books. They all ran without a hitch.
THISREC•
RECORD My onI y oompIaInt Is about the document atIon
NAME:SlRINGI321; supplied by Softech, the company that holds the
ADORESS:SlRINGI201; license from UCSD. The manual Is a graphic disaster
TOWN:STRINGI301; and the style Is befitting a typical government
PHOt£:PACKED AAAAYI0 •• 9J OF CHAR; bureaucrat.
.AMOUNT: INTEGER I 91;
END; On the other hand, the 6809 unIque
documentation which you racelve from CSI Is well
written end attractively printed. It Is easy to
Fl le handling reserved words Include: GET, PUT, understand and makes life much simpler.
READ, WRITE, RESET, REWRITE, CLOSE, LOCK, SEEK, end
EOF. There are two things I would like to see with
the system. A pre-packaged set of drivers for a
LONG INTEGERS pare I lei printer end a warm start address for the
main system. The drivers would seve me the work of
One of the comp IeI nts you see In some of the writing my own. The warm start would allow
trade publications about UCSD Pascal Is the leek of re-lnltlellzlng the system without reboot ing when a
the precision of Its REAL number types. But, again disk hardware problem occurs. It would save the 30
the designers have planned ahead. Users who need plus seconds required to re-boot the system.
extended number lengths with complete accuracy for
business and scientific applications may use the UCSD Pascal will be a welcome addition to your
LOt.G INTEGER type. LONG INTEGERS ere dec Iared by 6809 system. In the long run your Initial
using the standard INTEGER Identifier followed by a Investment will hold your software costs down. This
length enclosed In square brackets. savings will result because of the portability of
the system end the larg e number of users who are
VAA X: INTEGERI1211 already using lt. Their programs will make your
life much simpler.
The largest number Inside the square brackets
Is limited to 36. Editor's Notes: The L2 Editor above mentioned Is now
a standard part of the CSI-2 package. For those who
And "long" constants can be defined In e normal have purchased this package; a 1FREE1 update Is
manner. available merely by returning the orig inal disk.
The update will be returned with the L2 Editor and
CONST LOTOFNUMBERS • 12345678987654321; any other updates since you purchased your original
version.
The example above would default to a LONG
INTEGER type. It shouI d be noted that the current poIIcy of
CSI Is to furnish 1FREE' updates on return of the
CONCLUSION original disk. Few software vendors go to this
degree of customer support!
The CSI 6809 Implementation of UCSD PASCAL•
works end It works weir. The support from the Additionally It should be noted that there ere
company Is very good. several 'USER GROUP' programs that WILL NOT execute
In 56K. They use too much memory for variable
This review only touches the surface of the storage; also the stack being at the top and the
features eva I fable In the package. There Is Just heap at the bottom also require memory, therefore,
too lft.ICh system end not enough writer or space In In sane Instances 56K Is Just not enough.
the Journal to do It Just Ice.
The ergurment for a 'Warm Start' entry point Is
The only problem I faced was the feet that my valid; however, UCSD did not 1111k
1 e any provision for
PTA disk driver board Is not totally compatible with this feature. Due to the structure of PASCAL very
the SWTPC DC-2 board. Because of this the system little time would be saved with a warm start entry
locks up on booting when It goes over to look for a point (actually less that 10 seconds) so no support
disk on voll.m8 110. Deve Allen gave me the location at this time Is available for any other entry point
of some of the dIsk drIvers end I got the nerve to then 'Cold Start '•
experIment. WIthout hIs he I p I probeb I y wou Id have
thrown up my hands end quit. As It was I found that The necessity for paraI lei printer routines Is
I could unplug the cable running to my drives and another need that Is being filled (so I am told by
trick the system Into continuing. After this Dave Allen>. Deve reports that several users are
everything seemed to work perfect. working on this end It will be published In the
users Qroup newsletter <and 68 Micro Journal) as
This personal support from the nw�n behind the soon as It becomes available.
llllpl--.tetlon Is a very Important plus for the CSI
package. Dave reelIzes that the system Is so Any bed memory that your IIIIh
IC lne might have
complex that, unless you are another Einstein, you that has been hard to fInd or unable to flnd by
can't help but have questions. And, he Is happy to normal testing routines, will certainly show up
answer them for you. using PASCAL. PASCAL, by vlrture of the 'stack' and
'heap' utilization Is an effective 'memory test'l
Another plus for the system Is Its speed.

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 A final note for those who find that ' booting ' The solution Is to give the operator Just a
PASCAL Is e sometimes affelr. Seems that meny 1 771 little more Info, for example:
disk controller chips ere not up to snuff. The good 1010 PRINT 11PROVIOE DATE"
ones seem to be the 17719001 - 1771902 types. So If 101 I INPUT11CUSE IO>AYR F�)11,01
you cennot get It to boot or It Is Intermittent: Or,lf your operator Is a little dumb:
check your memory and 1771. 1010 PRINT11PROVIOE DATE 1 1
1011 PRINT"(USE 71280 F � J U L 1 2 180)11
1012 INPUT" 11,01
As more of you stert using this version of Notice thet the Input area has been lined up with
PASCAL pIease keep me In formed of your progress and the example date.
especially any procedures or routines that you feel
will help the rest of us. The advantage of using a numeric date Input Is
that It can be used In subsequent calculations, or
-ucso PASCAL Is e tredemerk of the Board of Regents can be checked for reasonableness, example: 1015 IF
of the Unlv. of Calif. 01>123200 OR 01<10100 THEN 1010 This would cause a
repeat of the date prompt It the date was not In
01/W this reasonable range.

In some cases there will be no need to check the

ADDITIONAL PASCAL INFO date. A string Input wll I suffice If the only use
Is to to print the date on a report.
For those of you who have �lied or written
concerning Lucldate PASCAL for the 6809, I cannot If you are using TSC1s Extended Basic, there Is e
report anythIng as we have not recel ved a 6809 OATES command which can be used to retrieve the date
version from Lucldate for review or evaluation. If from the DOS. For example OS-DATES wll I give you a
and when we do I will get a review or report OS string In the format 100-MON-YR1•
pubII shed.
You may have noticed In the above examples that I
01/W have deviated from the normal practice of evenly
spacing line line numbers. I do this to make my
programs look ugly and to simplify debug. If the
program bombed at line 1011, the 110111 tells me It
Is a part of a sequence that begins at 1010. A
NOTES 2: BUSINESS PROGRAMS program can always be made pretty after the
debugging Is done using a renumberer, such as the
By: RICHARD G. CAGLE ones sold by STAR-KITS or other advertisers.
Appleval ley Day School
11103 Sagepark Ln Getting beck to Interactive communication,
Houston, TX, 77089 words shouI d be used II beraI Iy to avoId operator
713-481-3586 (after 6 pm> confusion. W.L.King recently sent me his payroll
program for my opInIon. He was very proud of hIs
program, and with good reason as It did many things
This article Is a sequel to one published In we I1. S Inee he ran the programs hImseI f end was
the June 1 ssue. I recelved severe I letters Cone completely tamlliar with It, he had no need for
from a college prlclpal who liked the article In detailed operetor prompting. I'm sure that he will
spite o f the mlsspelt words>. not mind It I use his program as an example. This
Is what the operator saw:
For this Issue, we wll I get Into some specifics
o f business progra1111l
1 ng techniques In basic. EMP 1001 MARY JONES
DAYS W<RKEO? 5
Since these articles are oriented to the first EXTRA�? 200
tiM business user of the 6800/6809, some of It may SALES? 0
be vwy elementary to the experienced user. CORRECT IONS? 0

INTERACTIVE COiot4l.tliCAT I ON This payrol I Is for a sales and service operation.

They pay a delly salary plus commissions on dollars
The oommun Ication between you and your computer billed tor sales and dollars blI led for service.
shou Id be In a form that both of you understand.
S Inee your normaI language Is not bl nary or hex, The employee Is not reelly needed, unless
then English Is the only choice. Programs should there ere mor� people than the operator can keep
have enough Information for e semi-unskilled track of. For this appllcetlon the DAYS WORKED I s
operator to make Intelligent Judgements. As a satisfactory (although a lot of programs, Including
simple example: my own, use a hours worked quantity>. The program
does have a reasonableness check to see I f more then
1010 INPUT "0ATE",01 7 days were Input. The EXTRA LABCR cetegory does
In this case,the operator could answer: not tel I what units (dollars ,cents,hours,ergs)
JULY 12, 1980 shou I d be Inputted. EXTRA LAE!CR <TOTAL DOLLARS
or 7/12/80 BILLED) would be better. The computer ·display
or 12-Jul 80
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should specify the units that the program needs.
or 7,12,80
or 71280 Keep In mind that It Is Illegal to have the
operator have to whip out the old 4 function
Only the last one would be acceptable since It Is calculator. After al 1, part of the Justification
the only numeric answer. TSC Extended basic would for getting the computer to help In your business
Issue an error on the first 3 answers.The fourth was to avoid those dreary hours spent with the
answer Is particularly bed,as It would result In little red eyed monster.
Just '7' being entered, since the comma signals the
end of the Input. SWTPC basics will ask for a
The SALES? prompt Is pretty obviously Intended
re-enter for the first one, and would swallow only
as a total dollar volume, or Is It thousands of
the leading nuMrlc on the next three.
dollars? Or, maybe It Is the amount of the sale
commission. SALESCTOTAL S SOLO) would be clearer.
'88' Micro Joumal ------ 17
 And finally, the CORRECTIONS? prompt. This occur when there Is no means to make correctIons
couId be askIng for how rnany mI shkes were made subsequent to the step and the results are final.
durIng the week In order for the program to dock the Use something like this:
employees pay. Assuming you understood that the
prompt was asking If there were any errors In the WARN It-G I
prIor entrIes, your normaI response wou Id be YES or LAST CPPORTUNITY fOR CORRECTIONS
Y, NO or N. It didn't work that wayl The prog ram IS THIS CORRECT (Y•YES CR ,.._N0)1
Is looking for either 0 for no corrections required
or for a non-zero number If they are requIred. And the program logic would check for either a ryr
There are two things wrong with this one word or 1N1 and restate the warning If neither were
prompt. first, the computer should never prompt for Inputted.
corrections without first displaying what It has
swallowed. In the above example, I would clear the In the same category as yes-no prompts are the
screen ( or skip lines If In scroll mode) and set a program pause prompts. These are used when the
display: computer puts a lot of data on the screen,and time
must be given for the operator to look at It before
BASED ON YOUR Itf>UTS: continuing, although no action Is needed
5.00 DAYS WORKED • $500.00 SALARY Immediatel y. flex has a Pause feature, but I prefer
S200. 00 EXTRA LA� • $30.00 COt+!. to leave It disabled and to program In pauses where
SO.OO SALES • SO.OO COMM. they belong In the program. Most of my programs use
TOTAL WAGES • $530.00 a simple:
ANY CORRECTIONS (Y•YES>?
1410 ltf>UT 11REA0Y",AS
ThIs gl ves the operator a chance to see what was
entered and the result of the computer calculations. with no logic to check the answer AS. However, my
This gives the operator the responsibility of son managed to Interpret this as a yes-no prompt and
performing a reasonableness check of the dah. Of was surprised when the program continued, even when
course a check can be placed In the program to warn he keyed In 'NO' to say he was not ready. In newer
the operator If some IImIt has been exceeded but at programs, I am using:
the current rate of Inflation, this check would
have to be redone every year I Note that al I of the
money omounts are shown with dollar prefix and with 1410 INPUT"(HIT RETURN TO COflfTINUE)",AS
two decimal places shown. This Is done with Or, for TSC Extended:
"01GITS•2" In SWTPC basics or with PRINT USit-G In 1410 PRlflfT11(PRESS mY KEY TO COflfTINUE)"
TSC Extended besIc. Note also the new correct Ions 1411 ANS•It-CH$(0)
prompt. It clearly tel Is that If you hit "Y" you
wIll get a chance to make correct Ions, otherwIse for A pause prompt would typically be followed by a
any other character struck, you wIll proceed wl th screen clear, If In page I'IIOde. This can be done In
the program. ThIs was the second thIng wrong wIth eIther of two ways. One wouId be to set up a
the one word prompt - It did not al low a default
s u broutine:
option or Indicate the type of response desired. 20 PRiflfT OfUCI6),C.fUC22):RETURN
The new program logic would be:
and use 1GOSUB 201 anytime a screen clear was
INPUT"ANY CORRECTIONS (Y•YES>",AS
wanted. Or, earl y In the program a variable can be
If UEfT$(A$,1)•"Y" THEN 1300
defined:
20 CS..Ctfl$(16)�$(22)
which will return to the line 1300 Initial entry
and anytime a screen clear Is desired then 'PRINT
program If the answer Is anything beginning In "Y".
cs I w III do It.
Or the same routine In T S C Extended would be:
The use of page mode or scroll mode Is a
PRiflfT"ANY CORRECTIONS (Y•YES>"
personal opinion cholce,but I prefer the page mode,
If lt-CHS(0)•11Y11 THEN 1300
prlmarlly because with my stock SWTPC CT-64 terminal
the results are much more predictable.
The advantage of the INCH$(0) command Is that no
Occasionally, when I am displaying data that
carriage return Is needed.
slightly exceeds one pege, I will use control
characters (Issued by the program) to transfer to
While we are discussing yes-no prompting, there
scroll mode, then beck to page mode.
Is an Important point: A smooth l y flowing program
shouId do most of the work, wIth the operator
Here Is a technique for crowding more data onto
hitting the big fat 1RETURN1 key from time to time
the screen during Input. The Input w l l I cause a
signal ling 1thats right, beby, go-man-gol1•
II ne-feed/return but you may want to prInt somethIng
Therefore the logic should default to allow a
on the same line. This example Is part of an option
'RETURN' to be used as the normal answer. In the
routine In my payroll program for calculating time
above example the default was a'NO' choice. I have
worked by entering clock times for IN and OUT o f f of
adapted the convention of always tel ling In the
the tIme sheet.
pra.ptlng message what the non-default answer Is,
like the (Y•YES> In the above. The words that make INPUT"IN",AS
up the prompt should also be canpatlble. for
(processIng of AS goes on here)
exa�nple: ABC20) ; CHRSCII);"0UT" ;
PRINT T
INPUT BS
IS THIS �Ofl«> (N•NO)
CBS Is processed and CS caIcuIated>
ARE THERE �S(N-NO) PRINT TABC33); CHRS(II);11EQUALS ";CS

In both of these prompts there Is some double

The Ctfl$(11) Is the vertical tab on my tennlnal,and
negative ambiguity. The following would be the above example allows two Inputs and the results
preferred:
to be put on a single Ilne, allowing one weeks worth
of time to be displayed on a single pege. TSC
IS THIS RIGHT(N-NO)
Extended does have a 1 I NPUTO' COINIIIInd that InhI bIta
In a few cases, you may find that a particular the 1? 1 prompt and the C/R-LF, however It wIII
routine Is critical, and may want to force the prInt the next prInt statement on top of the
operator to deliberately make a choice. This can Inputted data.
18 ------ ·�·��o�rMI
 a aicrocowputer 111 Michael Shrayer, who wrote the
In most business programs there Is a need to
Electric PancH for the 8080 procauor. Many other
round oft dollars to two significant places. The
eortwere packegu have iaprovad on Shrayar'e idaae
standard routine Is:
but the general concept r•e1 n e the ••• - na��aly
A•INT(A*I00+.5)/IOO
that the full text should be visible on the soraan
This routine Is not needed In TSC Extended because
a n d ehou ld iaaad1etaly reflect changes ee they are
the PRINT USING statement wll I perform the rounding:
aade froa the keyboard. Furthannora, the editing
PRINT USING 'TOTAL WAGE SSII.I1,A
and proceeaing ehould axiat aa one co11plata package.
STYLOORAPH ••• clear-ly duignad w1th these idaela in
Another Interesting feature of TSC Extended
aind. While STYLOORAPH conteine aany advances over
print using Is the abll lty to use a variable to
the Electr-ic Pencil, the overall straightfor-war-d
define the print using field. For example:
d e a 1 g n a n d •••• or uae, for- which the Electric
ES•11TOTAL WAGE SSII.I"
Pencil 1e well known, era retained.
PRINT USING ES,A

C�•nds
Which accomplishes the same thing as the previous
example. Using this In a s ubr o uti n e can save a few Thera ere actually three aodea of operation while
u a 1 ng STYLOGRAPH: tha •eSCAPE", " I N SERT", and
bytes of code.
"SUPERVISOR" modes. In the ESCAPE mode, you can
TAPE-BASED BUSINESS PROGRAMS ac roll up end down through the text end per-form ell
of the editing functions. In the INSERT mode, you
In spite of my negative discussion of tape can type in the text as you would on e typawr1tar.
based business systems In the last article, I did The SUPERVISOR mode is for interacting with the diak
get some enquiries about buying cassette programs. operating system and for outputing to the printer.
I do not have any to sel I or to e ve n give away!
Yes, I did use tape at one time, and I stll I have All of the ESCAPE commends r-aquira only a single
the programs, but I d o nat consider them useablelll keystroke and the keys involved era arranged logi­
Ta pe users shou Id refer to a serIes of art Ic Ies by celly on the keyboerd to make them easy to rae&��b ar.
Ron Harvey In Kl lob&ud, In For axempla, all of the cursor end scrolling keye
Oct '77, Nov 177, and Dec 177. In addition to are located under the right hand, ea so:
providing a useable payroll program, he also .
explains U I 0
the techniques to use to get data on and
J K L
o f f of the tape.
M
That Is alI for this Issue. The next sequel
will be several months from now. If you either need
Information about some particular a.spect, or have a The five cursor control keys (IJKL,l are arranged 1n
favorite algoryt hym or routine that you would like a erose. Typing en "l" •oves the cursor up, an "L"
to share with 681 readers, please write. We wll I m o v e s it one space to the right, and so on. The
probably discuss the use of TSC1s Extended teslc c a n t e r "K" k�y 1& en express key thet move& the
random flles, as I have already received one request cursor al tametely to the fer lett end right or the
for help. screen. The sorolllng keys (UOM.] ceuee the sor-een
to scroll up and down, with the "UH" keye scrolling
STYLOGRAPH WORD PROCEBSING SYSTEM one line and the "0." keye scrolling a full page.
The cursor atays 1 n 1 ta post ti on while scrolling.
If you try to ecroll off the screen the cursor will
Dr. J..,, Pmnerentz autoaatically •ova to the next Una. SiaHarly, if
Oepert.ent or Peychology you try to move the cursor off the ecrean, STYLD­
SUNY/Burrelo GRAPH will scroll to keep the cureor on the eoraan.
Buffalo, N .. York 14226
The ueuel oompl111ent of search, replace, copy, block
The STYLOGRAPH word proceeeing eyet.. f1lla a wall •ova and delete co••ends era eva1leble and fully
recognized need for s&-50 bue ayet.. s. (STYLOGRAPH iapli111ntad. They are ell quite si111pla to uee but I
••• neaed STYLUS but beceu11 or 1 trademark conflict will exp lei n the uee of the replace co111•nd 10 you
the neae hll been c h an g ed.) It 1a available fr0111 can eea the cere with which STYLOGRAPH well dae1gnad.
Sonex Syet•a, Box 238, W1ll1eaav1lle, NY 14221. After you hit the "R" kay, an area 1a claersd out on
STYLOGRAPH 11 preee ntly the only fully interactive t h e top of the screen end the rut or the text
text proceeeing package ava1leble for s&-60 ueera. appears below th1s area, In the top of the soreen
It 11 eva1leble only for the 8809. For thoM SfllO two mas88gee will BPPIBr nking you for the etring
uure who heve bean conaider1ng upgrading to the you want raplacsd and the string you want to rapleca
8B09, STYLOGRAPH aey w a l l be t h e product to it w1 th. After you have entered thaea, the cureor
c o n v ince thea thet the tiae hee finally coae to will then •ova to the next occurr-ence of this etring
convert, Th11 111 certeinly the cue with 111; once and aek you 1f you went the etring replaced or not.
I eaw STYLOGIW'H working, I ord.ered 1 8lll9 proceaeor SiiDply answer "Y" or "N", The sorean will i-d1-
board etraight away and aada the rather e1apla herd­ ately reflect the chenga and eek you If you went to
ware end eoftwera chengea thlt were required. Thia g o o n t o t h e next string. You 1111y, if you are
text prooeeeing peokega ie the aatch or any text breve, answer "A", indicating that you want all the
prooaeeing packege I have 1110, including tho11 for o c o u r a n c a s of the atring changed without being
the 8-100 bue and a nuaber of caa..rc1el eyat•• proapted on aech one. The iaportance of all of th1a
(aany o r which it quickly puta to eh..e.J 1e that you always s e a auctly whet 1e going on.
Alao, t h e r e are clear-ly underatandebla Engl1ah
Much of today'• word prooaaeing aortwere hea been ••seegee Which appear during the editing procaee,
aodeled after progr.. a developed on large acele
ooaputera. On theae eyet••• tarainela ere inter-­ Ae you a r- e typing in a line in the IHSERT
hoed with the aein coaputer at low baud rltee end •ode, there ie no need to wetch for the and of the
teat rHea ere handled in a batch aoda eo that text l ina ei nee STYLOGRAPH will take 11 word that over-­
editing e n d word procaeeing were actually eaparete flow& off the end of the line, ineart it on the next
operetione. Suoh h the ceu, tor ax .. ple, with line and bu•p ell of the following text to the right
TBC'e uellent EDIT end PR coabinetion. (and, if nacaseery, down to the next Una.) STYLO­
GRAPH automat! celly scrolls the text up or down i r
One of the firet people to realize the extra conven­ the cursor tries to move off the acraan.
ienoee e n d cepebilitiee that could b1 achieved with

'68' Micro Journal ------- 19

In either the ESCAPE or INSERT aodee you aay eteo Diablo, or Quae can do letter quelfty prfntfng end
execute 1 eeriee of CONTROL coa..nde. Theee co.­ heve a nuaber of edvenced flltur.. thet STYLOGRAPH
aende serve e variety or functione. There ere three uue. If the t1n11 ere fully rfght end left Juetf­
delete coa111e nda: at ngle character, word, end line. ffed, STYLOGRAPH alcroepecaa between all of the
Whenever STYLOGRAPH encounters an error, you will l e t t e r • to even out the Una rethar than fnNrt
heer a "bell" fro• your tonntnel. There te • cen­ apecee between t h e worde, reaultfng In 1 auch
trot coaaand to dhpley the error aelllge (ageln 1 n cleaner looking copy. A nuabar of other prfntlng
Engl1ah l end then return the ecreen to norael. A opttona era alec eupportad on thfl prfntar 11 the
"pa ga ate tu1" coa•and cau11 a the ecraen to be r.­ following ex .. plae, teken fro• the aenuel, will
wrlttan with statue tnroraetion. Thfe tncludee ahow:
thtnga such aa Una lengthe, file naaea, •••ory
left, end eo forth. Thera ie a CONTROL co•..nd that � CD'Itrollebla pftdl
ceu111 the foraetting coa..nda to dt..ppaer froe the
end lfne apacfng
aoreen. The tab functfone (eat, clear, and aova to
teb) are CONTROL ooaaande that operata auoh lfka IDLDFACE
typewriter tab functfone. eupa rae rfpt1 , eubacrtpt 2
uodarltna. ovirtinl,
One exception to the "whit you 111 11 what you get•
rule fa that aany advanced prfnter capabflftfal,
or � '�
euoh u boldface, underlinfng, euparecrfpt and 10
forth, efaply cannot be ehown on the ecreen, The It you have e non-apacfalty prfnter lag., Decwrfter)
eolutfon to th11 probl• 11 clever end fun to watch. end think you eight aove up to 1 epecfalty printer
Whe n e v e r a character h a a eoae apaofel oharao­ aoaedey, I would edvf N buying one of the epacfelty
t e r i e t t c, ft Ia dfapleyad on the eoraan fn low prfnter verefone fnlteld of the TTY verefon afnce
intenefty. If you nnt to aee whet charactar11tfo the epeofelty verafone cen drive 1 TTY prfnter but
the character hee, you hft the control kay [control not vtca varae.
-o• fndioatfng "overlay") which oau ..a the oheractar OocuMntatfon
to b a r e p l a c e d by a n o t h e r character. If, for
The manual that coa11 wtth STYLOGRAPH 11 one of the
IXMpla, a word haa been underlined, the word will
aaetaet to reed I have encountered. It Ia delfgnad
be replaced by a atring of undertinae. Hitting the
ao that evan an inexperienced ueer cen leem the
key egafn wfll return the ecrean to nonnel.
eyet .. wfth l1 ttl a or no 111htenoe. The new uNr
can eft down at the terafnal wfth the ••nuel It hand
Ohk 1 nterfacaa and learn by actual uN or the eyet•. A text fila
STYLOGRAPH 11 fully Interfaced to the FLEX dlek
of part or the manual fteelf 11 included on the dfek
operating eyet•. You aay toed additional fllaa at to axpari•ant with end to sea how an actuel text
eny pot nt In the text and eave ell or port! one of 1 fila locka. One •fnor objactfon that I have to the
text to a fila. Thte kind of flaxtbfllty aakea It •enual 11 that there 11 no Index. Th11 11 only 1
11pacf ally ally to orelta "botlarplata" docu•nte, alnor q u i b b l e , a i n o e t h e table of contente f e
11 they are called. You can output any or ell pagae logically arranged and coapleta. A au••ry of the
to the printer or a text fila for leter apoolfng. commands Ia Included fn an appendix, I would adviN
You a a y alec e x e c u t e aoat F LEX coaaande fro• copying th11 page and keeping ft neer the tanninal
STYLOGAAPH. Sonex h11 Indicated thet Htcrowara whfla learning the ayat...
Corporation will be aarkettng a varefon for their
06-9 dfak operating ayet• and a verefon for UNIFLEX
Coat and Updatee
will appear early next year. Thl a rev law ie basad upon 11y UN of STYLOGRAPH wfth
a Gi11h 80x24 board, but I have eaan ft work !1'1th a
For11ettlng CT-82 and a nu•bar of other tenninale (eg.,SOROCl.
Foraet co...nde era entered ae noraal text while you It Ia deatgned to work with any tennfnal that hee a
are In the INSERT aode, very auch 11 you would on c l e a r ecraen function end curaor addr.. efng end
the TSC text proceaeing ayet ... These foraattlng which rune at 9600 beud or batter. Since tenninale
coaaande will, or course, not appear on the printed and printers vary eo •uch fn the way they operete, 1
output. Separate headers and footers with page different vareion of STYLOGRAPH 11u1t be purchNid
nuabere end tftlee can ba defined, Cantering, right for e a c h co11b f n a t t o n of p r inter and taralnel.
juetlftcatton, full juetf ffcatfon, lndanta, pagi­ Fortunately, you are not left tn the lurch ff you
netlon, line langtha, epactng, vertical tabbing, buy aoea new pertpherela atnca Sonax wfll updeta and
left aargfn, pega nuabera, and page lengtha can all replace your varston with another for a •odaet fll.
b e epectfled. Moreover, a "gholt hyphen" faeture The praeant update fee te fSO.OO plue any price
fe Included that allowl long worda to be hyphenated dfffaranca. The currant prfca for STYLOGRAPH fe
during foruttfng only ff the word happens to fall a150 for proportional epacfng prfnter veretone end
et the and or a lfna. a1ss for tty type printer varetone. Thfa 11 lall
than half the price of et•flar eoftwara eotd for
One o f t h e t r u l y u n i q u e c h a r a c t e r fstfce o f other syet••·
STYL OGRAPH f e that the text fa foraatted o n the
ecr11n auch 11 1 t will appear on the final printed Concluetona
output, T h e ef tactl of aoet o f t h e for•attf ng S i n c e w r i t i n g a n d e d i t i n g text, whether 1t be
ooa•ande ere directly vtelbta on the screen. I n a e e a • b l a r f f l a a , hfgh-level language progr .. a,
oontraet t o word procaeetng packag.. uafng eeparata lattare, aenuacrfpte or whatever, fl the •oet tiM
edftor e n d procaeeor prograae, with STYLOGRAPH coneuafng uea of aoet coaputare, any eoftwera that
t h e r e te lfttla need to get e printed output t o aekaa thfe teak aaelar fe cartetnly walco••· The
1 1 1 u r a t h a t eve rything fa foraetted correctly. e i m p t a , h u • a n a n g t n a a r a d d e e t g n a n d t h e full
Headere, footere, pege nuabera, Juett ftcatfon, and co•plaaant of for•atti ng co•aende ehould ••k• It
eo forth eppaer df ractly on the acreen. If you heve p a r t i c u l a r l y w a l l e u ft a d t o • a n y o f f f c a
bun eurprt..d et prfntout tf• while uetng e batch envf ronaante.
•ode prooeeeor, you wfll epprecfete this feature.
Aleo, ft 11 fun to change 101111 perl8eter, such 11 Oaepfta STYLOGRAPH11 111ny advanced text procaeatng
the line length or juetf ffcetfon, end 111 the anti ra featurae aeny ueara wfll find that ft will eteo earn
ecreen refonnet el•oet tnetently before your ayaa. it1 keep ae an editor for B.a6IC end IIN•blar text
filee. When you era adftfng, the text te alwaye
STYLOGRAPH eupporta both TTY and apactalty prfntare. fully vf et bta. You cen alwaye 111 the lfna you era
The epacfelty prlntera, euch ae the NEC Spfnwrltar,

20 ----'-- 68' Micro Journal

working on along wit:h the ecijecent ltnee. There h
no need to rel11t the prog .. to 111 1f you h.ve ••d•
eny errore. The eb1l1ty to 11e the ltructure of the
ICLAfl't'( OIIPI.4C(M(Mf Of .125 TO •129 l"fllo lMII 1otOOC UUS
p r o g r • • 11 1 greet e e e e t . The lhe, on-eoreen
for11tttng 11 eeton1eh1ngly felt with STYLDGRAPH, A IIMti..C ADOiiiiCII IHC {rOLLI'' INt fMC IMifiUCTION ITH,

end unlike with the Eleotrtc PancH, for ex11ple, 1t Ct. 2'4)f9, WH(Iill( 25 II fMC II:•IICM IMJtiU(ttOM 4•0 Qf9 II HI[

•••• to be 1•poee1bll to ouctype the progr•; n o

Ott•LACC:IIII (Ny) AIIIO 1M( &001111( 1 1 II (AL(VLAftO It' 4001MG fMIJ l'tf(
11tt1r Whit llll 1t IIY be doing, 1 C llWiyl IIIII CO
f i n d t1•• to eooept c h erectere typed tn. It 1 1
d1ff1cult co epprechte e l l the vtrtu11 or cureor
b111d ed1t1ng until you try to go beck to ed1t1ng
IM IM0l1 ,.OCiflla •l 01 IM ICC•(fllfl Or LAIO(I PltOOilANI, IUt If II
ueing 1 noneel line editor.
r at r•o• aoct""'' ro• PIC. ro•'""•"L" "'' <•• uu '-" ' �'•
For u11r1 who 1lr11dy h1v1 1 lerge nullber of cut
filii on hand thee h.ve been prepered for outputting
hfOC:I(O A.001liiU10 II AU.IL41Ll ON MOlt Or fMC IMIUI\ICTIOIIII
w i t h • e e p e r 1 t 1 text p r o oeeeor progrea, t h e
convereton p r o o e 1 1 i l felt end •t•ple. I heve Ill TM( � 111$11U(TIOif Jtt. A IPIIL( ll'Tl aOOiltl CODf II UllO.

converted ••v•r•l text filii prepered w1th TBC'• 1\IT TM( &CfU.t.l.. A001liJ 1$ (A\.(U'-AflO t• 400ttiC (AS •• UIIIIG-11(0

EDIT for PR w1ttl no probl•• llheteoever.

II•AIT •u•ltlfll) 111111 Iff( TO 1M( (OIIflMll Or TN( 1110(:1 UG.IST(Ifll.

Since I heve been etngtng STYLDGRAPH'• pr1i111, you lM( 6&lf'l tll0(& I(I,JTU II 16 lltl 11110( SO Till ( IHSULfPIO AOOI(SI

auet be wondering i r 1t h11 eny reulte. There ere (&. It Afil'fVIHIC I ll lll (tO
� af. lMt SUIQI,.( Iff( OII''-A((111[1111 Ali..OIIIS

1011 fllturw it leokll tnlt ••Y be required by -•

1M( •••IC fiOM X (1M( UQ(I I(OIIfllilll CO•H•ta) 10 X+211jl). 8f
ueere, It cennot hendle f1lw lerger Vlen ••ory,
10 long text filii •u•t be broken up 1nto 11otton1. (fiiA ..IIIIfO ffll( CO•tt•TI or lM( UIO(I ICOIIT(I VC C•lf AOOICSS .t.illll't

Sonex 11y1 thet thil reetr1ct1on w11 necee11ry to 1.0CATI0" 1111 M(MOIIII'f.

••k• the eyetw eiaple fro• the u11r'• etendpoint

end to aeke it run •• feet 11 poee1ble. For ay o w n
ed1t1ng I noraelly breek up f H w when Vley g e t too
lerge enywey. There ere eleo no provietone for llil­
l1et generet1on, I would think thet en euxtliery
progr• of thil type would be • veluebll eddition to
BTYLDGRAPH, end I would not be eurprilld to 11e 1t
offered eoon, IUMI. \1( NUS1 I( All.( TO ��tOOiff 1Ht lllfOCI Ullltrl
1
1 CONftlll fS

10 ALLOW AOOIUitllll MDIIII ( fllfAiil A 2156 IYU IAM6(,

STYLDGRAPH 11 certetnly 1 welcoae eddition to the
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M. BOYD len.eth o! the Oht\rACitGr 1\. le �rUUtntly wcrk1nC or.. A "t •

ST • �y OF TME Pl..AINS
11 out.,ut 1! t.he eh:u-e.ct.ttr tr Uleeal lh eo.uce or 1 te ltntth
DODGE CITY, KS 67801
or H 1t Ju•� cannot bo found 1n tho proeru look-up table.

If tho J."ore-t error charact.t·r (8 �ota) 11 atnt, th e coar\lttr

vUl backapact to correct the ll'lt-t r ent character . .

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in r:oree the left and r1&ht parenthe811 cha'hctera ar•

Terry A. Mayhugh W4MSR repreaented by the au)e eltetnta, -the proc:ra& kttpl tnelc
11632 Mldhurst Dr.
of tht nu•'btr of parentheatt tent anct output.• u,. tn nu•t.chil'C
Concord, TN 37922
patre. .\leo, vhen tht en4-of-m.,·et"se chal'ftct•r ( •••_._) 11
IIOJICIIX lo a r.orao Oo4o rocohinc prouu for tho Sll'l'P
Dtnt the CCJ.JIIpu.t er outpute 1 o-.rrt-.o• rot\arn_, 1 tne, feed
6800 •1orocoaputor. 111 acld1UoD to tho c011puhr tho onl 7
aoquence "" " then vAlte for Ad41t1onU text. T'ht procr••
huC...-. requ1,.... to d•oDOtrate tho procraa 1a o. toheraph
hAl no latch lap modea. 'Jhenever it 'bee�•• the leaet 'bit
'1107 11114 u avUo oooUlator. Slnoo tho docod1nc o.lcorHh•o
cor.f'llcod duo to a poor Clot at tbo o thor end or a hlC)> lonl
..,... S..pl••'-" 1D eof\var·e •o•• rather dabon\te f'taturt•
atattc crAah, it triel \'try hard t o decoct• tht p·reren\
u4 ••117 1noll>4od. !'ho procna 1o ••lf-ac!aptlnc to code
eharactar •n4 t.�.en reab.r'te to aooept the noxtcho,..<.\t.t.
opo.. ftl"iatlou allowinc o o114 oopJ ovor • vldo raneo ot

opoo<la vttbout operator adjuotamt. Paronthoo1a porH7.

braoktpace oo ttTOr cbarao\tr, ar.4 e14e\one aonitor control

fha i nput to tbt recetver/co•J.�Utf'Jr tnttrfl\ce can be
uo -• of U.o foatu,..o of thH ooftwat'o OOII troUo4
connected diroctly aoro11 tbe IJ)e""ktr terminal• of' M1 S"IL
..oo4or. IIOIWRX 11 OIO'od at locaUo11 S0900 ud eln co 1t Ia
receiver. A voltAae d1•14er cona1at1n£ ot Rl and the chllnnel
1••• \111111 1 kllobrto lone H will oao11,7 flt In a ain!Jlll.r
rocht'<noo ot Q1 h tho vortnblo £"In not�ork eontrollo4 by
ooii111UH4 1,at•. All optional 1ntor1'aco 11 doror1bo4
the AOC loop. Seth holveo ot JCl "nd \hair 11Ctoc1"tod pnnrlvo
*lob eoabl.ee the v.aer to interface an1 C'IL l'OCtiTir to tht
coaponente co•bln• to foJW a narrow bandpaae tilt1r centered
.
C<lltpU\Olr 10 \bat oodo 01111 bo \alton 41roctly orr tho oir. In
at liO!a. 'l'hlo fU tor..S out}ut 11 I'Ullvno rootlflod and
tllll -e of oporat1on a aof tnre fllter1nc routlno tfftctl•ol7
aaplltlo4 b7 IC2 vlllob tronrforaa tho URI � to 2XIla for
fUton ..., e\aUo IU\4 other ataoopbtr1o noho to provont
•ore otf1olont onnlopo dotoctlon. 'l'ho reot1 Cled output 11
orraUo OOJJ•
•.Ppllod to the 'OC orror oaplltlor (1/2 lC)). Sinoo

� ----·--- ··�«0��
 ettectlve AOC aoUon le ncctti&J"1 tor proper op�'"'tton of a
naoh, tho 4otoctlon thruho14 •hould bo lovoro<l b1 o4JuUIII&
non-..tun.tlnc \One deooder,. the deetan P""'"')•t•-r• ot t.h1e
hl9. lf a4Juoto4 too low, tho lo<l vlll r..Un o n ecatiJiuoualy,
loop voro dt\traJ.nod Al\tr conotdo.-..blt otvdy of tho offtcte
01\ce thle ooar1e adJvltaent 11 aade. gre11 \lit 1paee bAr an.4
of ataoepher1o ud adj&oe�t C))M ntl l�ter!"eronce on the
adju,at. the \one ,_n4 volu.at ltYtll on. the etdeto:ne ocm1 tor \.o
oporottoo of I.OR!IIl. 4 Cut 1\tteoll tl•• (100 aoec Uat conot&nt)
c�t or\Ablt levele. The r·ecetYer aho\114 nov be tl.l'le tuned
1.1 oat by lt29..CII vtlllt tllo dtc"y Uae conot.Ant .., by 1U7..CII
for tho boot rocoptiOI\ •• heard th�h tho ICOR&RI o14otono
lo hnathonod to 22 ,,.,. by <llodt D,. '!'he hill! �ln of tho
aonltor. 1119 ahoul<l now bo tlnoll,y a4Juetod Cor beat cop7
\OC error lUopllflor provu .. tho roqutre<l loop C"in for
Yl\Uo 1Uhnlnc to tho aonltor ond ohoul<l not reqvlra turthtr
,r·tcleloo \OC control IU'Id the rerer·ence currett throu.«b RlS
o4Juataont, Rt..t tho c
..putor <1114 roatart I'ORBRI to boall>
dohJWinoa tho lnol of tho atablllle4 output. �� aetton 1o
rooo!VIn£ co4o. Copy vlll not bo lt\tor ptrfoot rith lo..
etfec\lve over e. 40 dl cSJn�lo "'"4* end the clrcutt la
ctatlona duo to a to t lo croahoo and hll!t> level o4Jocent channel
deetcned to optr"-t• over "" lnp\lt. ,.na• froa .1 to lO volta
1nter1er•nce. A11o, 11Dct IOIIt rt1\1 are colored vt th Joo•nonal
,..k. 'I'll• flll l wave rocUflt4 o"tput of IC2 11 al�o fUtoro<l
dialtote, alaplaced epacea Md err01 eoua ch�r,cter• tJ1;1 .,_ut
by hl'-()10 an<l 1o appllo<l to tho other t.•lf of lC' vt lch II
appear.
coMectedi •• a co•p•rator 'tilth � aV ot h,atereAta. 'ttle l.S

•ooo uao oonotont of thll fll\tr etflehntly !Utero tho

2KIIo � conponont ltovlna only tho •nvelope of tho ko7ed OV

Ill, IUS 5.11< lOll cnrbon Dl-D6 111914 or equlv•hllt
""v•forw. The coap•rator equ•Tea up the detectod ptalee1 and
D7-to4
Rl, R5 U.lk l" aoto1 rna
they aro rou\t4 throulh Q' to tho oOOlpu\tr, Tho ootuna of
11,, R6 '16 olla 1" aotol fll• Ql 28485a Ncl.o,. ift\
R19 4oto,.ln" tho 4ohoUon throohold an4 thll ohould
1\4, R7 un 1" ..tal tn• Q2-Q4 2N2222
noJWlly
.. ntod a4 Juctaont only onct unhr actual oportl\lnt:
1111 470 olla lOll carbon ICl-10) Dual 74 1 op AMP
eoadl \lent. fi1nct kt7-down eorrt t�ond r to a lev •t the
R9,R10,Rll,Rl2,RU, lOk 1" aot.ol til• IC4 555 Uaor
colloc\or of Q), a t.toc:roph ko7 can be coanoctt4 fro• thU
Cll •lnlaturo 1!-50 oha opeaktr
RH, lUll, R24, U7 lk lOll corboll
p<�lnt to �ero�l\4 for pro(rta toeUnc or aMual optroUoo.
atac. ttlecrapb kt7, •nclocvrt
R16 47 011 lOll carbon
'frv.uotor Q2 n..�. . .., lo<l Vl\on • cv pul.. lr hhc te d and
IU 7 4.7 Ilea 10!1 carboa Cl,C2,C,,C4,CS,C6 .02711! � •1hr
oporotoo ln<lopondon\17 of tho coeputor or I'OR!:RI, 'l'll o tone
R19 lOt pot C7 luP non-polarlsod
0114 wol�&o rottlnc• of tho tlhtono ooolllator •1 be
ll20 47k 10!1 corboa Cll 41\11 ..114 t<111 \al,..
o4Jvt\od •• 4orlro<l by 1\26 and R211. fto orclllator ttroU
R21, R2) 1011 lOll carbon C9 47uf' oltctrolytlo
lo \tJod on and off by tho COO<putor Yl\llo oporotlna vn<ler
R22 270 oba 10!1 carbon ClO .15\l, aJl&r
I'Oil:.«JC, ::1nco thlo h7od ovdlo lo lftCIIoatln of vbat U.o
R�� lOll corbol\ cu .22\IP ayl..r
.. p�tor 1o aotuo.U7 4ocodlna, tho SVL roeelnr 8&7 'to fiJio
c
012 22\IF' oloctrolytlc
'"""" vhllt lUtonlq to \�It •onltor, 'l'llt low p<�vor oupplJ

wrronto roqvlrod allow \110 1 1 2 vol\ and tho •5 volt povor

to be tUn dlt'tctly froa tho �IITP "-FOO eooputer.

ProJtot Checkout

'l'llo procroa MlOt bt t1pod Into tho eo•putor troa a ktt­

board ohrUna at ••orr location $0900. O f eouru, the

proaroa thoul4 bo 111Ar41ato11 eno<l to tope or dlek before

prooo<llna. 'I'll• .\ o14o ot tilt �..-TP Y.PL.\ (or I'PL) para llel

lntortoco cord a�oul4 bt Jwapor tonfiC"rod tor coorutor out�"'•

on4 tho 5 ol4t tt1ould bo J""P•rc4 for coaputor tnrut. 'l'llio

card chould bt pl8co4 111 t1ot #2. Tho I.:l! of tho .\ aido

ohoul4 bo oonntchd to 41o4o D6 ot tht lntorf•c• 01..! tl\t LCB

of tho a olh obo�14 bo connoott4 to tho collector of Q}, 4

toltcnph kty obo\114 alao bo eonnooto<l fro• the Q} colloetor

to c,roWI<I. It tho rooolvor lotorfaco U not coutructt4, a

h7 con Juot be connootod to ttoo loSI ot tho I oldo ot U.o

partllal cord, 4 Juaf to loootloo 1�11 ollo\1 14 be ptrfo"'od

ut1111 tho uyot• aonltor, Tho bonoor ");()RS!Il Rli\DT... rRott

l lllVlfO" ol\oultl appear.

W'M.C 'Ul 10 lltOlJI l'IO Prou tho rp•c•

:.O.r tn4, .aln' tho tol..,._ph h7, oorA coG• 111to tho eoa;utor1

""" U.o tnt viU to 41aployod 011 tha to,.,.lnd. !o \oralnato

�OII&U, tho coejiUtor root\ '''"' bo proo•o<l. �btoqvontly

\Jiolftl 0 (U114or KllDUO, IIVTIUO, oto,) will r .. tort tho pro,....,

!o clatclt out t.b• rtcel'fer 1ntertaoe connect u SVI. rtctl'f•l"

to tho Input ot tllo IJihrfooo "'' tuo 0 to brlna up �ORSIIX.

""'' 111 a aodoroto1J otronc CV otatloa, 011 d o4Juat tba

rocoi'tor t\U\111& \U\tll tho lo<l tlaohoo In aync:h vitb tho ltoyo4

liCII• ton" t.- tllo recol""r apoakor. It U.o lo4 4ou aot

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 WE HAVE A 6809 FOR YOU
POWER SUPPLY INTERFACE
Convenient serial or parallel 1/0 cards have DB·25
Modular plug-in construction with computer grade
connectors mounted directly on the circuit
filters and a 25 AMP rectifier bridge. Blower
board. Up to 16 interface devices may
fan is standard equipment. All con-
be installed on the address decoded
nections to the power line
1/0 bus. Programming strips are
are beneath the
provided for input and out·
safety shield.
put baud rate selection
on each port. All
outputs are
fully buf·
fared.

CABINET
Rugged 1/8 inch alloy aluminum
base plate combined with a solid 1/8

PROCESSOR inch alloy aluminum cover for unsurpassed

protection. All interior metal is conversion
The world's most powerful
coated. The cover is finished with a super tough tex.
eight·bit processor, the Motorola
tured epoxy.
MC6809, plus 2K byte monitor ROM
that is 2716 EPROM compatible and full
buffering on all output lines. Built-in multiuser capability, just add 1/0 cards to operate a multi-terminal system.

MEMORY- You can purchase the computer with either 8K bytes of RAM memory (expandable to 56K). or with the full
56K. The efficient, cool running dynamic memory used in this system is designed and manufactured for us by "Motorola
Memory Systems Inc."

PER IPH ERA LS- The wide range of peripheral hardware that is supported by the 6809 includes: dot matrix printers (both
80 and 132 column), IBM Electronic 50 typewriter, daisy wheel printers, 5-inch floppy disk system, 8-inch floppy disk
systems and a 16 megabyte hard disk.

SOFTWARE- The amount of software support available for the 6809 is incredible when you consider that it was first
introduced in June, 1979. In addition to the FLEX9 operating system, we have a Text Editor, Mnemonic Assembler, Debug,
Sort-Merge, BASIC, Extended BASIC, MultiUser BASIC, FORTRAN, PASCAL and PILOT.

69/K Computer Kit with SK bytes of memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 495.00

69/A Assembled Computer with SK bytes of memory ..................................$ 595.00
69/56 Assembled Computer with 56K bytes of memory.................................$1,595.00

SOUTHWEST TECHNICAL PRODUCTS CORPORATION

219 W.RHAPSODY
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78216 (512) 344-0241
 6809 DISK SYSTEMS
All disk systems are supplied with our version of FLEX 9, the world TYPE CAPACITY COST
standard disk operating system for the 6809. Our systems normally
operate in double density format, but they are compatible with single D-5 720,000 bytes $1.80 per/K
density, or single sided recording formats. FLEX is supplied with over
forty utilities, many of which are only available with our systems. DT·5 1,400,000 bytes $1.16 per/K

Our disk systems offer you mass storage at low cost. The cost per thou­
DMF·2 2,400,000 bytes $1.04 per/K
sand bytes of storage for our various systems is shown in the chart.
Other 6809 disk systems have costs up to three times greater for the
CDS-1 16,000,000 bytes $ .27 per/K
same general type drive.

0-5 Two double sided, double density, 5" disk drives with a total on
line capacity of 720,000 bytes of data. Includes cabinet, power supply,
connecting cable and controller. Controller will operate up to four
drives. This is an ideal disk system for small stand alone word proces·
sing systems, or for businesses that do not work with large inventories.

14 )( 6 )( 10-20 lbs ... ... .. ............ .. ..... $1,295.00

OT-6 Double track density version of the D-5. The DT-5 uses two 96
track per inch drives to provide an on line capacity of 1.400,000 bytes. O.&or OT�
Includes cabinet, power supply, connecting cable and controller. C'on­
troller will operate up to four drives.This is a disk system with enough
capacity to include small Inventories of up to 1,000 items, plus the
usual business package of general ledger payroll, etc.

14 )( 6 )( 10-20 lbl � . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . $1,695.00

OMF·2 Double sided, double density, dual eight-inch disk system with
an on line capacity of 2,400,000 bytes. Our "top of the line" disk
system features a OMA type controller for fastest possible data trans·
OMF2
fers. This drive was designed for larger businesses and multi user in·
stallations. The DMF·2 will provide the fast operation necessary for
systems running multiterminals under the UniFLEX operating system.
Complete with a heavy duty 1/8-lnch metal cabinet, power supply,
connecting cable and controller. The controller will operate up to four
drives.

17� x 5 x 2 1�- 53 lbs ........... ... ...........$2,495

.00

COS·1 This "Winchester" type hard disk provides both large storage
capacity and high speed operation.The COS-1 Is the answer for systems
that must handle large inventories or systems with more than tour ter·
minals. The controller has Its own processor and uses DMA data trans·
fer.

COS. 1 - 1151bs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,395.00

SOUTHWEST TECHNICAL PRODUCTS CORPORATION

219 W.RHAPSODY
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78216 (512) 344-0241
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down for a Schottky input is 2�� ohms. "double density" bit in the drive-select
However, other chips have trouble pull­ word (the old 6800 hardware is too slow
ing up 2�� ohms when the switches are to handle the double-density mode of the
closed so a compromise value of 47� DMAF-2).
to 75f ohms may be indicated.
Some special problems may remain
*TM Soutbvest Technical Products Corp. for those who hope to interchange disks
**TM Motorola, Inc. between older DMAF-1 and newer DMAF-2
If you're suffering from the prob­ systems. The 1791 FDC chip in the DMAF-2
lem described, try tacking a 1k to 3k cannot read disks formatted by the orig­
resistor acrosa each of the pull-downs. inal NEWDISK routine of the DHAP-1 FLEX
If this stops the problem, consider the 1.0 operating system (though the 1771 in
preferred solution, which is to change the old system has no problem reading
IC13 back to ita original design type, disks formatted for the 17911).
74LS139. (It is no longer necessary t o Therefore, all disks used for soft­
pay ridiculous prices or wait a year to ware or data interchange between DMAF-1
get one of these chips.) and DMAF-2 systems must be initialized
using the DMAF-2 FLEX NEWDISK command.
Leaving R6 and R8 at 1k will pro­ This formatter puts $FF's in various
vide adequate pull-down and noise margin gaps on the disk (where the old NEWDISK
for the low-power chip, and be more com­ put 00's). Once properly formatted, the
patible with the other chips which must disk can be written on via either system
drive these bus linea. and read via either system -- no problem
once the original formatting is correct.
DMAF-1/DHAF-2 Systems
Using SWTPC 68f)0 CPU Some users may have DISKBUG* or a
similar PROM already having a disk boot
Geoffrey A. Gass in it written for the DMAF-1. This boot
5240 S. l-1. Dosch Rd., unfortunately fails to clear the Double­
Portland, Oregon 97201 Density bit in the DHAF-2 Drive-Select
Latch, and so is not directly compatible
As many frustrated SWTPC customers with the DMAF-2. However, since the
have learned, that firm has quietly de­ DHAP-2 must be locked to single-density
cided to abandon entirely any further operation with the 68�0. it can be hard­
support of 6800-based systems, and is wired as follows:
deleting all 6800-oriented products from
its line -- including the DMAF-1 single­ Cut the line that runs from pin 16
density floppy-disk system. of IC29, the Drive Select Latch on the
DMAF-2 controller board, to IC2f), IC15
It is still possible for owners of and IC7, just after the line leaves IC29
SWTPC 68�� CPU's to add the dual floppy and before it goes through the feed­
disk with DMA -- but it's considerably through hole near R55 and D6. Install
more difficult and expensive now. a 10k 1/4W pullup resistor in this feed­
through hole, picking up the +5V supply
SWTPC offers the DMAF-2 double­ at the other end of R55. Thi.s change
denaity dual floppy disk system (same forces single-density operation, regard­
drives; different controller) for a few leas of the state of the Density bit in
hundred dollars more than the DHAF-1, the Drive Select Latch.
and the hardware is nominally 68�kom­
.........................................................................
patible. However, SWTPC ships this only •• ••••ttt()lllAa 11fiTIItl,l'fi;NTATtON"I t.OW COST S'ISTOI••••
•• •conatata of one eecha··
with a 68�9 FLEX operating system. To •••vtdeo Ale Card••, ••sup.r CPU C• rd vtth tcJ Jllonttor••,
••t elot leellplane whh 4 elote of told conn�tora••.
obtain a 68�,/DKAF-2-compatible operat­
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ing system, one must go to the original 11\4 teated •• ,
•••t t carda haYe told Nqe con.nect.ora
PRICI tsts. 00
authors of FLEX, Technical Systems Con­ •• ••aYS1'1M ACCIIIOAJIS..
•• •Leedea NonI to r·vhen purchlltd wl th the lov-coet •Y•t• tl )t.Of)
sultants (consult their ads in this •ae-so Ttlo.•a Jnatr....nt•tlon RM card,
oochte<l for HK viUI UK JHS.OO
journal for the address). The new DOS ,
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differs from the DHAF-1 version in the ·······························.........................................
.

NEWDISK formatting (now compatible with ,._.. 11-. A-. N...l, 01201
.
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.
leoti 117-4210
the requir... nts of the 1791 floppy-disk - COIIINT IM

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 Some software modifications to

SWTBUG based assembler tools

A.J. HALL
Diagnostic Ultrasound Unit,
Queen Mother's Hospital, Glasgow G3 8SH
Scotland.

It is very useful to have a Ed Smith's Assembler and Loader

bard copy facility when developing
and modifying programs and this need The M68AS assembler and relocating
is recognised in the South Western linking loader {version 2) is fully
Technical Products {SWTP) 6800 documented and the availability of a concise
computing system by providing software source code listing makes modification
routines to drive a PR40 parallel simple and straightforward.
printer via an MP-L interface
located at port 7. Typical of software The Loader - this provides tbe user with a
expecting this configuration is print option to list the entry point
Ed Smith's Software and SWTP software.
addresses. The printer routines are found
However, because the data transfer is under the heading "PRINT ENTRY TABLE ON PR40'
parallel and controlled by handshaking which starts on page 17 of the loader
the code is not suitable for driving listing.
serial devices such as a teletype.
While a 110 band teletype is slow {A) PORT CONFIOURATION - The code for this
and noisy these are not major starts on line 883 {$0755) at the
disadvantages if it is used for label "PRINT IN" and continues up to but
listing only. Additionally they does not include "LDX PNTMSG". This
are often readily available for use code should be altered to that given
because they are being superseded b y below.
video terminals in the large computer
installations used in universities etc. 0755 CE801C LDS #-X' 801C'

0758 C6 03 LDABfX'03'
To use a teletype with the
software mentioned above it is easiest 075A E7 00 STAB O,X

to replace tbe MP-L interface with 075C C6 4 5 LDABfX'45'

an MP-S ACIA interface and alter the
printer initialisation and printer output 075E E7 00 STAB o,x

routines to suit. If you wish to use a 0760 01 01 NOP, NOP

port other than port 7, port 0 for example
it is a simple matter to alter the 0762 01 01 NOP, NOP

"LDX X'801C' to LDX X'8000' " In 0764 C E 07D8 LDX PNTMSG

modifying Ed Smith's Software it was
necessary to insert a routine to generate {B) SINGLE COLUMN LISTING - This is
a line feed on detecting a carriage obtained by changing the code on
return but only in tbe loader character the two linea following the
output routine - it is not needed co-ent "PRINT ADDRESS" on Page
elsewhere. However if used and there 18 to provide a carriage return
is apace to get it in, because the and branch to the "PRINT" output
ACIA output routines are aborter tban routine
tbe KP-L ones, it gives a double spaced
listing which can be useful for editing 0786 8D 06 {078E) BSR $ 3 PRINT ADDkESS

and correcting. 0788 86 OD LDAA'f«'OD'

078A 8D 32 {07BE) BSR PRINT

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-- Micro Journal
(C) CHARACTER OUTPUT - To output a OOE3 CE 801C OUT.PTR LDX + X'801C'
character the "PRINT" routine
ooEe c8 02 LDAB'ItX'02'
starting at 07BE is modified to
drive an ACIA and to provide a line OOE8 E� 00 WAIT BIT B O'X
feed ($0A) on detecting a carriage
OOEA 27 PC BEQWAIT
return code ($0D). The new listing
h u below OOEC 18 TAB

07BE DP 82 PRINT STX TEMP OOED C4 7F AND8tX'7F'

07CO 37 PSBB OOEF E7 01 STAB l,X

07Cl CB 801C LDX*X'801C' Then NOP' s until

o7c4 C8 02 r2 LDA�'02' OOF9 3� RTS

07C8 B� 00 WAIT BIT B O,X

07C8 27 PC BEQWAIT Ed Smith's Disassembler and Trace (V2.5)

07CA A7 01 STAA 1,X

This package allows the user to
07CC 81 OD CMPAt-1' 0 D' examine, chance and execute a program
line by line under complete operator
07CE 28 04 BNE Pl
control when debugging a prograa. A
0700 88 OA LDAA.X'OA' print option allows all or part of a
listing to be transferred to printer
0702 20 PO BRA F2
port 7, but again the configuration is
0704 33 Pl PULB for a PR40 printer. In casette fora the
progru 18 supplied with 3 differe.nt
The Aaeeabler - This, like the loader, origins $3700, $2700 and $1700. The
is configured for parallel output code listing given below is for the prograa
to the printer port and will not at $2700. As no source listing is
support teletype operation even though supplied with the package the code changes
there is aoae provision for it in the given below for printer initialisation
software; the print comaand and output are shown in a disassembly
description (p 11) in the instructions listing.
tells the user to enter 72 for
teletype use. When the printer Port configuration starts at $27CE
initialisation and output routines with a LDX $2715 which is where the
found in the section "PRINTER INTERFACB port address is stored.
ROUTINES" are modified, an entry of
27CE FE LDX $2715
72 allows the teletype to be used but
only if the following bug on page 3 27Dl C8 LDAB .. $ 03
is fixed. The instruction on line 200
2703 E7 STAB oo,x
($00CA) should be changed from "JSR
PUT.CBR" to "JSR OUTPT!l''. 2705 C8 LDAB ·$4�

2707 E7 STAB oo,x

Port ConfiiUration - The printer port
initialisation routine is contai.ned 2709 C8 LD!B •s3P •

between linea 88 ($0000) and 98

270B 0 1 NOP
($000P) and starts with the label
"INIT.PNT"; it should be replaced 27DC 01 NOP
with the initialisation code ctven
270D F7 STAB $27E8 •
above in the section on loader
aodification. After the last line. 27EO 39 RTS
of the replaceaeot code, put in NOP'a
• These codes auat be included.
down to the RTS.

Character Output - The output routine is Character Output - starts at $2788;

contained between line 213 ($00!3) acain with a call for the port address

and line 224 ($00P9) and starts with the

label "OUT.PTR"; it should be replaced 2788 FE LDX $2715

with the oode civen below 2789 C8 LDAB � $02

•y·����� --------�A
 floe tollotr1nc lll'tiol.. .... sYailo.blo troaoo
27BB D5 BIT B OO,X lftlUJ'1o• E. �. S•lMeD
tezu InotiNMllU Softwaro ConeultMt
9213 L&Mtlll Severn lloa4
27BD 27 SEQ $FC ($27BB) LADhaal, llaeyland 20801

•ta.-u Iu-•Dte 110-lOCA Intertaoe DeocrtnUon• 12 f'•roa

27BF A7 STAA Ol,X
'OIIt lDterfaoa for ft-59' b,y J.Jan�on WtJ J. �oyer 25 PI\':OO

Then NOP's down to OlrouU dll\j!J'U of �I-59 1 •"'I•

It I .,... flDd the u

... , I hOJ>I to deoiflTI llo.nl••.re nnd ooftwore
27C9 33 PULB o
tw the ictart..,., unle e I bu7 "" .W95ll or .U..9512 rtret.
ftare .._ to bo e n <Nid>
lnfon�>CUon in the 'lbove ,., lo""t

27CA FE LDX
for re� the ro -100
or with lntarn!>l •1Mnc nimulMlnr,
$27E9 tl>* hJ'boarll.

31noorol,y ,youro,
27CD 39 RTS.
��
Riohtu"d 8. Dell
SWTP CORES Assembler (V2.0)

It does not appear possible to

obtain a source code listing of this
NEWS IIUEAIE
product from the supplier but some
information about it is to be found [�EfHlllM)
N-.COfrlo4 D ATA GO�Y . ..c.
1-dlate

in the literature (1). The routines Harold Hauch

(2U) U2·SU1
are the same as previously discussed.

Port Configuration - This starts at

$17A2 with a LDX $ 801C and finishes
PI!P.COM IWIUPACTVRIIIC VIDEO DISPLAY CONTROLLER
at line $17AB; the printer initialisation POP. 2XOP.CISI!R0 IUS SYSTl!IIS

code listed in the modifications to Ed

Oarlond, Toxos • AprU 13, 1910 • Harold Maucb, predoltnt of
Smith's loader can be used but do not
Parco• Data Coapany, announced here today that the �oapany
include the NOP's - stop at the STAB,
O,X instruction. h 1\0W IHnuhcturlna a video d.hplay aonerator/controllor U<lula

for tbo I!XOJtclur� and EXOP.cllor•·bus coapatlblt syattaa.

Character output - the code for this

The vrx: card, dulanaud tho V C·EX ( ta) h tho third aoabor
starts at $1A83 with a STX $01CA to
of the Porco• ModulEX(ta) bally of low-cost I!XOP.ciur• bus
save the index register which is then
co��puiblo aodulu.
loaded with the printer port address.
From $1A89 onwards substitute the Othor Moduli!X(uo) unlu l.ncludt tho LPD•4002X(ta) ailll·dlak

printer output routine given in the syste• and tho IC6411.X(ta) 64·lbyte MM end.

section on modifying the Ed Smith's

Maucb sold tbe VC·EX(ta) h ...
ory ruidont and thortforo tho
assembler. After entering the
host MPU h&J direct ace••• •• for any other •••ory.
necessary code put in NOP's down to $1A99
Ho sold tbo aeaory ruidtncy leature atecJ tbe dhl'IIY h
just before the RTS located at $1A9C.
lastantly updated, and proaru control o£ dhplay cbaractorhtics

Reference h acco11plhlltd by ttraiabtforword aeaory oddrouiq and data

Dhploy cbaracterhtlcs that aay ba software co11trolled

(1) GASS, G.A. 1979 Patching the

include data Hno ltnath, nuaber of dau 111181 por frue,
SWTPC Co-Resident �ditor Assembler.
Jcrollina, cur1or poat.tlon1na, character 1Bt,ella1ty atul acaaalll.l
Dr. Dobb' s Journal of Computer
aodt (interlaced or non·inttrlacod).
Catisthenics and Orthodontia.
Vol. 4 pp 28-36. Tilt dhplay NY also bo euUy 110dlf1ed for revoru video,

l.e., black charac.tera on whit

· • back.arov:ncl.
THE BIT BUCKET
Tilt VC·llX(tll) 1Dclud81 on•card MM to ICCOMOdiU Ill dbplay

Where all that 'good stuff' falls. control raaiatera a.ncl provide for Ch&1'&Ct-er ltora aeaory. fte
Somethinq for everyone.
on•cnd MM aay bt strap11ed for raddtncy 111 tither of t"" -ry

529 fOUMh AYem:a• apace location•.

'Bethlen.., PA 18018
AIICila� 11, 1980
Tile VC·EX(ta) choracter aonerator auoraua Ul chanctera, 1.11
raIlloro JOVIIIIl
llamll J4. a 7xt <lot aatrlx, lncludinl !naHah letters with true lovor cue
o. !loa 849
-· �e-••.. 37343
,llear llNI
corr81pon.dence sTJfbolo and apechl JTJfbola.
a- - .JO:::O:-:,a�,����.!� :s:l��_;gl��M
T , Other featuru of the VC·EX (te) include:
=::. u I haw a ft-59, I ha
... a a1A11er intoreo\.
• A buffered parallel input port which allows tho VC·U(ta)

3o4 ----'88'
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1t1e EXORdMf', Acc:lcwell _,.
System 65 and Olhet 5-86 bus aystems
tooU •• Dn'IC PYA t.l IYUT JOt..-. _,., VUtAII� ••
• �memory ellocalicn
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ao•o OIU,A ("It) I" ,., ,.,r
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•••r tl\e ClOt end t h e 11000, to Flea 2.0 and Unlflea, to "Suoer
11 c Ye rtiOft tt.l", end to
1 c-rollftratlon of ..new" lenauecea.
1
Nell and aood. We need the news, bvt h thOt.tld be "•wt, not
r
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on'ltt!h=a:b::!�:· d::r.•;
o1 t�:· fOr' M, It le ast ) In COIIIPUt In& h
ttl I 1 MlrdFI•• SWT,Co le alc It I need Nthf!mltlcel occ u recr to
will ooon announc e a alcroCOIIplltar netvorl< (SIIIIZT).
i enath, TSt lealc If I need '"'d, 11\d TSC's To•t
f o r aft ••trtfllith
sON tonaer
Procetsor wo,.d
"SDOS ldftor end Te•t
SDNIT 11• ehared r••ource aic.rocOIIPuter... b a e e d n.etvork for
My two little S lftch dh'&s 5tlll hold 1110re
POWerful
proctatlna
locally cllat rlbvta d elate procualna and data cunaa...., t.
ayatlfl,
data t he n 1 ever work with at one tiN, I couple of
Sea tha tlrat oub·aroup novahttor tor dataUa.
he¥• •
ceaaette uchlnea on e n At•JO th a t Just ebout never a•t uted
t e�tcept to ••chln&e pro a riMI with friends who st111 think I
end "V tiC* poke A nder t oft Jacobaon prfnter atl11 turns out
11'&e
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u•
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f�o do
aupporto o 1• ��aaabyto lllnchaatar hord dlok (avalloblo tr.. SO). c�v et fest as r can uae lt. My l!atet pr-Inter, et 110 beud,
Mkes nice ,.e fe ttnce c op fe a f o r �n�.

'M'M«o�m•' --------� 7
 1 envy the peoote wit h printers ru nnln& at 250,000 baud;
vldtO terminals thlt odn t from too, side, and bott011 It the sante BIT 7 6 s 4 3 2 1 0
time (I sure like my Soroe IQ•120 at 1200 baud)' and 6k bit
proces•lnl syste�ns th•t can outout the E'ncv . clooedll Br'l tannlco. -------------------------------------

COft\PhteiV forNlttd, In 27 seconds.

However, socnehow It 1111 tttl'llll Irrelevant. S Inee I don't kttl) BYTE1 1 BA fl f2 F1 FO 0 0
boOkS for the Ccwnotroller of the Stoto o f Teaas. nor dO I do
research for the United St4ttf Coast and Ceodetlc. Survey crews, I 2 0
•
xs X4 Xl X2 Xl xo
.,.. not terribly ln t tre u ed In Reverse Polish Pascal runnln& In )
mt&ebyus of statiC: RAH. I .,. tretnendouslv Interested In a 3 0
•
X11 X10 X9 XB X7 X6
oroar•, runnlna In Bes lc, that wouta t•ke the eo•ordlnates of
4 0 YS Y4 YJ Y2 Y1 YO
•
Hurrfe:ene Allen l•hlch Ju$t went over •v hOfll.it and that of JW'fteS
o·
c1tdwelt), c:omPart the m to cHevlous hurrlc•ne c ordl netes anll
Issue • "p robability plot" on futur� movements. 5 0 Yll Y10 Y9 YB Y7 Y6
At usual Don, t am unable to C on"ft
unlca te In ftlUtCt term�o. I
don't want " , our " Journal fo11owln.: the pattern of lyte Ma&az.lne.
(I have Jutt let ��nv tubscrlptlon to 8yte eAPir� end don't lfttend
to renew lt.) DO rePOrt the ne� but OOtf'T •�sume we. all have the FO=Z AXIS SWITCH
re1ourc•s to dash out •nd buy alt the new &oodlol not only
Flr F2rFJ=FLAG DATA
••
don't assume that we don't have t he resources but please don't
n�ake the aut�tlc assumptiOI" we have the desire to buy lt. We
00 have lnuret't In It, yes. XO-X11=. 12 BIT X COORDINATE ( 0 TO 2200)
Therefore, raoy we have a h:w more basic Basic articles, • few
mort mlnlfleJL oro&r&mt Cor bf!tter, orOIIlf&tns written for Flea 2.G YO-Y11= 12 BIT Y COORDINATE ( 0 TO 2200)
with the corresoondlnc mlniFiea tddresae:. alven so we can d.o o ur
own auemblles), end similar tevet, BA=BYTE AVAILIABLE
Remember me? I'll tho &u� who Is •tilt trvlnc to find SOfflt
"''' of fl na nclnt the ourchase af a Glmf• Malnfratne to hold whet
ctrds 1 own. I •m sure not aolnlt to buy a new
r l
oooratln�t svstelft
until 1 have that. I don't et that I stand Gtono I n this The eilht data lines fro• the bitPad
thlnkln&.
are connected to the eilht in�utt of a PIA
located at address tEOlE. Also the bit.Pad
ProducRs a data strobe which is connected to
the C B 1 inPut of the PIA.

The first Part of the interfacinl is

accoaPlished b� BITPAD.BIN which when called
reads in the next five b�te seouence of data
July '• 1980
and Places this data in a table. This
Prolra• is entered at 'GETBIT' and returns
with flat data at TBLr x Posistion at TBL+l
68 IUcro Journal
P.O. 849 and TBL+2 andr � position at TBL+3 and
)0111 Hw>Ul R O<l d
Hi)7)LJTil TBL+4.

DUr Slra: The final section of the interfacinl is

ThAnko ror a greoL publlca<lon Cor all or u• 68U
lovers ou• the BASIC Prolra• BITBAS.TXT which contains
P
hero. It. aeCJll that. all t. ho other consUIIIor cOII uf.er map
hGvo doci dO<l LO 110 wi;h tho ujoriLy and are to�ally two subProlra•s BPINIT and BITREAD. BPINIT
1111orina all Lhe aood hardWa,.. and oofLwa re being puL
tor;e�her ror tho 6800 aeries ch ipo. does the followinl. Oner Places the •achine
l WOUld be intereaLtd ln hOS ring (,.., anyone Who hal Proira• BITPAD.BINr contained in the data
done 00110 work on radio OL4t1on TRAPPIC eort..,.ra. Spoclrically
pro11nuna Lo h andle louin&• stat...ents• in t.he arra� na•ed PROC<>• Twor
Ve are current.l y (lotns all or our payroll, oocourn.a Ncelv able BPINIT sets the address of the user function
and c"l'l !low whh a dual 8 lnch oyat011 and SWfPO 6800 uchlne
with C(f(PUTEifiARB RANDOK BASIC. Thal\ka
•o Paul Searby and hia such that when USER<X> is invoked it calls
a
rlno tarr •
ovr ays .. !lao paid ror iuelt ""'ny Lill.. over during
Lho pan � l/2
yoara. Anyone noL (uiliar with C<»>PUTERWAR£ BITPAD .BIN. SubProlra• BITREAD when called
c en.olnly ahould take t.ilne t.o uke contact..
returns with BPFLAG cont.aininl the flal
Keep up the &OOd work.
datar BPXPOS containinl the x Posistion of
�nlly, the Pen andr BPYPOS containinl the y
...(..
� �- Posistion of the Pen.
n B . Je • u �
dont. '-fi
Tht un of this Prolra. is ouit.e si•Ple
and I hoPt the users of '68' HICRO JOURNAL
find this a useful Prolra•• Particul•rw
sinct the bitPad has Proved to bt auitt
tt.Yin• Nrc:bned • --.rwhih MRHd useful and reliable.
t.or the "'r�ou· of ent.erinl EKe; det.a ipt.,.
6809 .svst.H w f·il'st. uu .,.. t.o wtt.e h
int.lrf�in• Mt\Mare. This arUc:le will
c»al •�•dfirali with t.he int.erfadn• of U.. Ja.u Taaffe
bi \.Pad t.o TSCf S BASIC • Bost.on Universitv
DtPt.. of Phwsics
Firslr � bit.�1d 11 �urchased c... 111 Cu••inlton St.
�ith a �arallel int.erf1ce 1nd was confilured Boston Ha.
for a �arallel binarw t.rus•iuion forHt. at.
200 bwt.n/second. The data for•at. consht.es
of 1 · continiouslw t.r•nnitted 5 bwte
seauence as follows.
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--- Mleto Journal
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:���:� ! � �:U:-:1{� �:!�=.������!":.�to.;,:��!�'"!�u!�e�a«e BEING AN AVID READER & SUBSCRIBER OF 68

oartlcular 1/0 dtvfce(s) you will be using. lllough thh I> l•frly ''"�''"to
do. lht P.frtlcuhr'l IN' boyond the scope of lhh paper t.lt tr« dtscdbK fully MICRO JOURNAL, I HOPE YOU MIGHT HAVE A
fn tilt 0S·9 Syst- nu M.t tl
wntch h >upplftd with UCh PI'O<)riOI.
READER WHO CAN HELP ME. DOES ANYONE HAVE
Q: h CIS·9 or tu lflts�O!I!.II I b lt with I'!Y present
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- 9 itentirely rtpltc e\ t a n '*' ro;:-lt you
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re•d tut ltlu 1- your old DOS to OS·9 rfles.
LOCATED AT PORTII. WOULD LIKE TO
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o to MUllt...,s�r o rttlon h""'" I haw� to buy•11
r on new
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TI RE D OF PLA YI N G THE THE SCRE DITOR SCRE E N

QUESTI O N ANDANSWER GAME? EDITING UT ILITY I S N OW EVEN
Frullralod by tht llmlllhOnsotBASIC? Tlrod of quuhon ond onswer doll '"'ry?
e- w•sh you could ontor ond upoort dill th41 w o y I heBIG SY STEMS <IO ,,? BETTER!
hmattd by haYil"g t o r•enlet som.one·s tnlire name when au you wan teo to do was
c�>onoo onot1tttr? WAIT NO MORE! NOW YOU CAN CHO OSE ONE FROM COLUMN A
CONF ORM AND ONE FROM COLUMN B

ALFORD AND ASSOCIATES •• proud eo pr-no t ho b•ggosollttie• t o m to A (DOS) 8 (VDU)

M h41
t amatloyllerns world o•nc• BASIC ,,..It A & A hll p<oduced a program
lhll ollowou-ootMEMORY·MAPPED VDU'S IOd•sploy o G olo-entrytorm
on·scrtll\. lilt In 1111 blonho. moheSCREEN-EDIT cltongH with functions such
SSB DOS 4.X GIMMIX 80x24
.. INSERT SPACE. DELETE CHARACTER, ERASE TO END OF SSB DOS S.X GIMIX 64x16
FIELD, ERASE FIELD. TAB FIELDS. CLEAR ALL DATA
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FIELDS. IO< new ltfll<y. tiC• • • ond Go •• o il ur>det '" conorol o l yourBASIC
MINI FLEX SSB VDB-1
l)fogra.mt FLEX 1.0 THOMAS INSTRUMENTATION
FLEX 2.0 PER COM
CONF ORM works with
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 DS·68 DIGISECTOR _L PSB-08 PROM SYSTEM BOAR � B-08 EPROM PROGRAMMER ...!._u10 UNIVERSAL I/O BOARD

DS-68 DIGISECTOR Is a random access video dig

lzer featuring 256 x 256 picture element scan and
i:t: -85 DISK MIXER is an add-on board for the
Smoke Signal Broadcasting BFD-68A Disk Con·
64 levels of grey scale, with conversion times as low troller which allows operation of both 8" and 5"
as 3 microseconds per pixel. It accepts either inter- drives. Controller mode (8" or 5") Is selected on a
laced (NTSC) or non-interlaced (industrial) video drive-by-drive basis, so any mix of 5" and 8" drives is
input. Use It for computer portraiture, moving target allowable. The 2" x 3" PC board mounts lncon·
Indicators, precision security systems, fast to slow splcously on the back of the BFD6
- 8A. Its operation
scan conversion ... with clever software, the Digi· is completely transparent to software. An oscillo·
sector can read just about anything. Truly a pro· scope Is required for the setup procedure. Kit Price:
fesslonal tool at a price you can afford. $169.95 $39.95

8-08 2708 EPROM PROGRAMMER Is a compact un

that fits In the 6800's 110 slot. A safety switch and
LED Indicator provide control over the high pro-
f 6809 EMULATOR Is a machine language program
that will emulate all of the functions of the Motorola
6809 third generation microprocessor. Developed
grammlng voltage generated on board. An industrial for use on any 6800 system, the program allows soft·
quality Textool socket and extended board height ware development and debugging. The 3K byte pro-
allow effortless PROM Insertion and retrieval. Fully gram Is complete with a 6809 mini-monitor and
commented source listings of U2708 Is included In single-step trace routines. Fully commented source
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 Model EP-2A-88

EPROM Programmer
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• Constants input from DISK or CONSOLE

Fast as Jackrabbits ... Well. almost!
• Automatically uses system variable NAMES

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In A ustralla, twO rabbits can r
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EP-2A-88 checks If EPROMS are erased. programs and verifies. object code. Full operating instructions (you'll learn in
It also checks for defective EPROMS.
minutes!)
Two basic models are available. The EP·2A·88 1 will a ccept Copy
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6800/6809 PASCAL DATA BASE MANAGEMENT SYSTE"

DYNASOFT PASCAL is a cassette based Universal Data R e s e arch Data Base

The
PASCAL subset designed to run on most 6800/ Manag.ent Systaa provides the user and programmer,
with a highly structured end efficient method of
6809 systems with 12K or more of memory.
programming and data file handling.
DYNASOFT PASCAL includes most of The System consists of a Menu of programs to
Create, B u i ld, Sort and Maintain Data Flies,
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including IF-THEN-ELSE, CASE-OF-OTHER­ programs are wrItten In TSC Ex-tended BasIc.
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URE's and FUNCTION's. It supports the data
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-Cash Disb ursement/Cosh Receipts
interpreter, and program SAVE and LOAD -Customer and Vendor Programs
routines. The whole system resides in less than -Numerous vertical market programs

8K.
The Data Base Management System a l lows the
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The cassel te version with manual is priced at
systems programs to fit Custom appt !cations.
$35 plus $3 for postage and handling. Please
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add sa Ies tax

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 6809 RECORD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM RMS
DATABASE MANAGEMENT
•USER DEFINED DATA DICTIONARY AND RMS is a complete DATABASE MANAGEMENT system for
RECORD FORMAT the 6809 computer. It runs under Flex, and supports the
•SCREEN ORIENTED, FORM FILL OUT TYPE OF ACCESS CT-82, or other CRT terminal. RMS is a set of five machine
•OPTIONAL TWO LEVEL RECORD HIERARCHY language programs that make up the most powerful
•ALL FILES IN ASCII TEXT FORMAT, BASIC COMPATIBLE business programming tool available for the 6809. It can be
•DIRECT ACCESS BY KEY FIELD, MULTIPLE INDEX FILES used by the relative novice, to implement an incredible varie­
•EXTENSIVE DOCUMENTATION, SAMPLE APPLICATION ty of information storage and retrieval applications, without
INCLUDED any programming. However, the programmer can use RMS
•VERSATILE. PROFESSIONAL QUALITY REPORT WRITER as part of the solution to a larger problem, saving many
•BUlL T·IN SORT I MERGE •EASY TO USE hours of unnecessary program development time. RMS can
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 6809!
INTRODUCING THE NEW
STATE-OF-THE-ART
IN MICROCOMPUTER
BLITZ
SOFTWARE FROM MICROWARE SCREEN EDITOR FOR T H E CT-82
OS9-1 SINGLE USER
• IDEAL FOR WOAD PROCESSING OR PROGRAMMING
OS9-1 WITH TAPE FILE MANAGER • THERE IS NO FASTER I EASIER WAY TO EDIT TEXT
on 27165 $ 95.00
• IT ALL HAPPENS IMMEDIATELY ON THE SCREEN SO
on 2708's $ 95.00
YOU SEE EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE DOING: INSERT
Manual & Source only $ 85.00
CHARACTER, DELETE CHARACTER, INSERT LINE,
OS9-1 WITH DISK FILE MANAGER DELETE LINE, SCROLL UP, SCROLL DOWN
on 27165 $150.00 • RUNS ON 6800 OR 6809 UNDER TSC's FLEX
on 27085 $150.00
• AVAILABLE ON 5 DR BINCH DISKETTE
Manual & Source only $150.00
BEST OF ALL - YOU CAN BUY THE ENTIRE
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•

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(aprox 1 K) CAN ADD YOUR OWN CUSTOM FEATURES
on 2716's $ 50.00
•FRDMTHE COMPANYTHAT BROUGHT YOUTHE
on 27085 $ 50.00
MICROPI4-USER PILOT/BASIC/EDITOR PACKAGE

- OBJECT ONLY
on tape $ 35.00
on disk $ 35.00 $60
Manual & Source only $ 50.00
INTERACTIVE EDITOR/ ASSEMBLER $100- SOURCE AND OBJECT
on 27165 $180.00
on 27085 $180.00
on tape $150.00
on disk $150.00
Manual & Source only $150.00

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M69RR $150.00
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MENTED SOURCE TEXT GENERATOR. An Invaluable tool lor
modifying large object programs lor reassembly on your !. THE MOTHER BOARD
system. f BMB-1 Has 12 main slots, 81/0 slots, non wasteful DIP
M69RS • . • • •• • • • . . . • . . . $50.00 e switch addressing to any 32 or 64 byte boundary, 4 or 8
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e addresses per slot. 1/8 "thick epoxy glass. Shearable
is a version of RRMAC without its macro capabilities. Retains
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all of RRMAC's programmer convenience features.
e THE CPU's
M69AS • . . • • . • • . . . . . . . . $75.00
-;; SBM-1 -Based on the many-featured 6801. Up to 8K
All programs come complete with Programmer's Guide and
e of EPROM/RAM, Serial 1/0, baud rate generator,
g
extensively commented assembly listin . Available on cas·
e Parallel port. hardware timer, etc. $37.50
B
sette or mini·lloppy. Specify cassette. SS disk, mini·Fiex disk
or FLEX 2.0 disk. -;; CPU-2 - Based on 6802. Has on-board EPROM
e space, serial 1/0, 2 parallel ports, 256 bytes of RAM.
e On-board devices located from $F400-F7FF so as not
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e 2.0* to move 1/0 and disk controller to $EOOO block
I g iving 56K of undisturbed memory space. $35.00
!. AD-209 - A plug-in adapter board used to convert
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!. THE MONITORS
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!. with MIKBUG** and SWTBUG*** plus supports PMB-1
COMPUTER SYSTEMS CONSULTANTS INC.
HARDWARE f video controller for operation without a terminal if
RS·232/TTL TO SELECTRIC INTERFACE BOARD $35.00 desired. Preprogrammed 2716 available. Instruction
e
SS·SO WIRE·WRAP BOARD -;; manual and listing $10.00
) $25.00
-;; FA DMON-E - A 2K monitor for CPU-2. Commands
(52·16 PIN POSITIONS
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SS·30 UNIVERSAL 1/0 WIRE· RAP BOARD
(
32·16 PIN POSITIONS ) $12.50
e same as above, similar to SWTBUG···. Supports
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SS·30 ERIAL INTERFACE B ARD O $10.00
-;; PMB-1. 1/0 and disk controller expected at $EOOO
SS-50 FRONT PANEL DISPLAY BOARD $15.00
(16 LEO'S DISPLAY FIRST DIGIT OF ADDRESS) e block. Preprogrammed 2716 available. Instruction
RS·232 25 WIRE CABLE W/CONNECTORS -;; manual and listing $10.00
$20.00
8 FT. LONG
34 WIRE 2 DRIVE W/CONNECTORS
-;; FADBUG-9N IDE0-9-Monitor and video handler for
6 FT. DISK CABLE $30.00 e CPU-2 when converted to 6809. 1 K each. Available
e together in a 2716. Manuals and listings, both
SO WIRE 2 DRIVE W/CONNECTORS
8 FT. DISK CABLE $39.00
CABINET FOR DUAL 5" MINIFLOPPIES e for . $15.00
$40.00
AND POWER SUPPLY
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SOFTWARE !. PMB-1 -A memory mapped video controller based
680016801/6809 PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM
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1\UNS UNDER AND PROCESSES ANY 680X INSTRUCTION
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CROSS·REFERENCE (680X ASSEMBLER SOURCE, f for a keyboard. Helps avoid software hassles when
NAME·CHANGER
ALPHABETIZED REFERENCE LIST).
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(SET OF TSC EXTENDED BASIC SUBROUTINES TO ALLOW -;; MDI-1 -A 30 pin card that uses either the 1771 or
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