PICOSMAC - Back to the Past (Nuts and Volts Magazine)

[Chris Savage]

PICOSMAC - Back to the Past (Nuts and Volts Magazine)

This is a story of a nostalgic, useless, but fun project that spiraled out of control; a lesson in the lost black art of machine code from the bygone era of code written and debugged on square ruled paper, from an era of hand-drawn schematics and actual manual tape-out of chips.

[granz]

Very cool. I actually had one of these VIPs, along with an Ele II. I also still have one of the COSMAC 18S020 evaluation boards (and it worked last time I tried it, several years ago. )

The name, Picosmac, reminded me of the project that implements an original Mac computer on a Pi Pico. I bought one of these, and it is pretty cool, however I still need t build up the HD image on the SD card.

That Picosmac is another cool project and also reminds me of the Kimuno - an emulator for the Kim 1, as Al Williams (from Hack-A-Day) wrote a COSMAC Elf emulator for that KimUno. I need to me careful not to dive into that Picosmac as I still have too many projects on the front burners (and several more on the back burners. )