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> > Well said. There is (as I'm sure you are aware) a generation
> > of programmers that never wrote thier own assembler or woke
> > up a parent or sibling to show them an LED flashing on a KIM-1
> > single board computer.
>
> My tour de force was moving a single segment around the outside of the
> KIM-1 display like a little bug walking around. It took about 30 bytes
> of hand assembled and hand entered code.
I _knew it_!! But I guess now I'm guilty of preaching to the choir...
> I still have my KIM-1 including the full documentation. That was an
> excellent CS training system. It was possible to understand the KIM-1
> completely....
This is EXACTLY what makes the RCX an ideal entry to computing. Nobody
could sell something like a VIC-20 as an entry level to computing. But
this is exactly what we cut our teeth on. Again, the key is that even
a non-EE can understand the entire contents of the brick.
> PS. You've got me intrigued. What are the new wonderful things coming?
> A new release in the works?
Yes. It will have ( among other things) the following....
1. A Tcl shell that runs on Mac/Linux/Win boxes
2. Improved download of lines via a checksumming algorithm. Only
with custom software or Tcl shell
3. The servo driver I hinted at on my website.
The pbForth community has been making suggestions for other features,
please feel free to make your own for the next release.
PS, send me a private email to subscribe to the pbForth mailing list.
Cheers,
Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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