Looking for OLD (really old) Ham-related software
Hi folks,
In the small world department, it turns out that a fellow Ham club member and I were both part of the original Homebrew Computer Club back in the 70's. We thought it might be fun to have a demo at one of the Ham club meetings of some of the old hardware running something ham-related, just for fun.
I have an "MAI Jolt", a 6502 / TIM system that I built in 1976, and just got it running again. 12K of memory, TV Typewriter, paper tape reader. CPU runs at a blazing 750 khz. Plays Hunt the Wumpus perfectly. Yes, folks, computing in the AM Broadcast band was never better.
What I need now is some software (besides HtW) to run on it. This is NOT a C-64 or Apple-II; they have the same CPU chip, but different memory map and I/O. Besides the raw CPU itself, I also have a copy of Tom Pitman's Tiny Basic that also appears to run. The usual Google searches have come up either empty or with broken links to places like GeoCities.
Anybody have anything TIM or Tiny Basic compatible that they can share or point me to?
Thanks,
Greg KO6TH
If a link is broken, you could always try to look for it or other material on archive.org.
Here's a link to a national semiconductor manual for tinybasic, for example.
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_nationalstSCTinyBASICUsersManualNov80_...
Jay Cox KG5BZW
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On Oct 6, 2016, at 5:31 PM, Greg D [email protected] wrote:
Hi folks,
In the small world department, it turns out that a fellow Ham club member and I were both part of the original Homebrew Computer Club back in the 70's. We thought it might be fun to have a demo at one of the Ham club meetings of some of the old hardware running something ham-related, just for fun.
I have an "MAI Jolt", a 6502 / TIM system that I built in 1976, and just got it running again. 12K of memory, TV Typewriter, paper tape reader. CPU runs at a blazing 750 khz. Plays Hunt the Wumpus perfectly. Yes, folks, computing in the AM Broadcast band was never better.
What I need now is some software (besides HtW) to run on it. This is NOT a C-64 or Apple-II; they have the same CPU chip, but different memory map and I/O. Besides the raw CPU itself, I also have a copy of Tom Pitman's Tiny Basic that also appears to run. The usual Google searches have come up either empty or with broken links to places like GeoCities.
Anybody have anything TIM or Tiny Basic compatible that they can share or point me to?
Thanks,
Greg KO6TH
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