Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.forth > #54967 > unrolled thread

Re: Novix NB4300

Back to article view | Back to comp.lang.forth

This discussion starts older than the indexed window; earlier articles aren't shown. The article labeled Started by below is the oldest one visible, not the original post.

Contents

  Re: Novix NB4300 mhx@iae.nl - 2017-02-18 03:13 -0800
    Re: Novix NB4300 stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2017-02-18 12:11 +0000
      Re: Novix NB4300 Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-02-18 08:47 -0600
      Re: Novix NB4300 JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2017-02-18 09:41 -0800
      Re: Novix NB4300 JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2017-02-18 09:45 -0800
      Re: Novix NB4300 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-21 17:06 -0500

#54967 — Re: Novix NB4300

On Tuesday, November 4, 2014 at 1:37:40 PM UTC+1, Anton Ertl wrote:
> dougatdoughq@gmail.com writes:
> >What stuns me is that it looks like there there is *nothing* 
> on the web about the board - almost a complete vaccuum - which 
> is weird.
> 
> It's from before the web.  Almost nothing from that time is
> represented on the web, unless it is of interest to history fans and
> such.  Apparently the Novix has escaped the attention of the
> retro-computing people; I guess the overlap of these two small niches
> is too small.

The NOVIX and the Wiesel are from the BBS era: 300 baud
acoustic couplers, home computers, floppy disks, 10 MB
harddisks, CD-writers that couldn't back up a hard drive
etc..

I dug up and saved all that I could find (a backup CDROM
from 1998) here: http://home.iae.nl/users/mhx/novix.html .

IIRC, at the time I used the Harris kit to read/write audio
directly (no disk controller) on to a floppy disk. That one
was a contender in an MPE contest at the time. (I didn't win,
they probably thought that I was pulling their leg :-)

Maybe Stephen kept some entries from that epoch.

-marcel

[toc] | [next] | [standalone]

#54968

On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 03:13:36 -0800 (PST), mhx@iae.nl wrote:

>IIRC, at the time I used the Harris kit to read/write audio
>directly (no disk controller) on to a floppy disk. That one
>was a contender in an MPE contest at the time. (I didn't win,
>they probably thought that I was pulling their leg :-)

I think I was just one of the judges for a competition
sponsored by a magazine ... but it was a long time ago
and some of my memory cells have emptied themselves.

If I find some Novix or RTX hardware and/or docs, is anyone 
interested in preserving them?

Stephen

-- 
Stephen Pelc, stephenXXX@mpeforth.com
MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd - More Real, Less Time
133 Hill Lane, Southampton SO15 5AF, England
tel: +44 (0)23 8063 1441, fax: +44 (0)23 8033 9691
web: http://www.mpeforth.com - free VFX Forth downloads

[toc] | [prev] | [next] | [standalone]

#54970

On 2/18/2017 6:11 AM, Stephen Pelc wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 03:13:36 -0800 (PST), mhx@iae.nl wrote:
>
>> IIRC, at the time I used the Harris kit to read/write audio
>> directly (no disk controller) on to a floppy disk. That one
>> was a contender in an MPE contest at the time. (I didn't win,
>> they probably thought that I was pulling their leg :-)
>
> I think I was just one of the judges for a competition
> sponsored by a magazine ... but it was a long time ago
> and some of my memory cells have emptied themselves.
>
> If I find some Novix or RTX hardware and/or docs, is anyone
> interested in preserving them?
>
> Stephen
>

I would be interested and have a hosting account and domain for Forth.

-- 
Cecil - k5nwa

[toc] | [prev] | [next] | [standalone]

#54973

On Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 12:10:58 PM UTC, Stephen Pelc wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 03:13:36 -0800 (PST), mhx@iae.nl wrote:
> 
> >IIRC, at the time I used the Harris kit to read/write audio
> >directly (no disk controller) on to a floppy disk. That one
> >was a contender in an MPE contest at the time. (I didn't win,
> >they probably thought that I was pulling their leg :-)
> 
> I think I was just one of the judges for a competition
> sponsored by a magazine ... but it was a long time ago
> and some of my memory cells have emptied themselves.
> 
> If I find some Novix or RTX hardware and/or docs, is anyone 
> interested in preserving them?
> 
> Stephen
> 
> -- 
> Stephen Pelc, stephenXXX@mpeforth.com
> MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd - More Real, Less Time
> 133 Hill Lane, Southampton SO15 5AF, England
> tel: +44 (0)23 8063 1441, fax: +44 (0)23 8033 9691
> web: http://www.mpeforth.com - free VFX Forth downloads

Stephen, for the time being I would like to have access if possible, especially as Noxix, RTX and probably other Forth cores are on the agenda. I had said no in the past as I was not sure we would get that far.

[toc] | [prev] | [next] | [standalone]

#54974

On Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 12:10:58 PM UTC, Stephen Pelc wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 03:13:36 -0800 (PST), mhx@iae.nl wrote:
> 
> >IIRC, at the time I used the Harris kit to read/write audio
> >directly (no disk controller) on to a floppy disk. That one
> >was a contender in an MPE contest at the time. (I didn't win,
> >they probably thought that I was pulling their leg :-)
> 
> I think I was just one of the judges for a competition
> sponsored by a magazine ... but it was a long time ago
> and some of my memory cells have emptied themselves.
> 
> If I find some Novix or RTX hardware and/or docs, is anyone 
> interested in preserving them?
> 
> Stephen
> 
> -- 
> Stephen Pelc, stephenXXX@mpeforth.com
> MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd - More Real, Less Time
> 133 Hill Lane, Southampton SO15 5AF, England
> tel: +44 (0)23 8063 1441, fax: +44 (0)23 8033 9691
> web: http://www.mpeforth.com - free VFX Forth downloads

And I forgot one important one on the IP list: GA1toN, but with more Flash and RAM per core - or at least Standard and the option to do real work per core ...

[toc] | [prev] | [next] | [standalone]

#55037

On 2/18/2017 7:11 AM, Stephen Pelc wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 03:13:36 -0800 (PST), mhx@iae.nl wrote:
>
>> IIRC, at the time I used the Harris kit to read/write audio
>> directly (no disk controller) on to a floppy disk. That one
>> was a contender in an MPE contest at the time. (I didn't win,
>> they probably thought that I was pulling their leg :-)
>
> I think I was just one of the judges for a competition
> sponsored by a magazine ... but it was a long time ago
> and some of my memory cells have emptied themselves.
>
> If I find some Novix or RTX hardware and/or docs, is anyone
> interested in preserving them?

I would be interested in that.  I can add them to my 8080 collection... 
  I also can host a web site for the docs.  I already have the domain 
name armforth.com which is not totally related, but should be close 
enough.  I've been looking for some content to use to start a web page.

-- 

Rick C

[toc] | [prev] | [standalone]

Back to top | Article view | comp.lang.forth

csiph-web