Comments on: Stack Computers, Forth, RISC, CISC, etc. http://mike.magin.org/2008/03/01/stack-computers-forth-risc-cisc-etc/ Fri, 15 Apr 2011 03:05:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Magin http://mike.magin.org/2008/03/01/stack-computers-forth-risc-cisc-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-4817 Michael Magin Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:32:15 +0000 http://mike.magin.org/2008/03/01/stack-computers-forth-risc-cisc-etc/#comment-4817 Keith: Interesting, but due to space limitations, I've had to stop collecting old computers. :) Keith: Interesting, but due to space limitations, I’ve had to stop collecting old computers. :)

]]> By: Keith Neufeld http://mike.magin.org/2008/03/01/stack-computers-forth-risc-cisc-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-4816 Keith Neufeld Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:25:10 +0000 http://mike.magin.org/2008/03/01/stack-computers-forth-risc-cisc-etc/#comment-4816 Mike, I think I have a Forth computer, and by that I mean a computer on which Forth is the only language and (sort of) OS. It's an NCR Tower circa 1984, probably a 10-20MHZ 68010 CPU with half a meg of ram and 20-40M of MFM disk, in a case a little larger than a window box fan. I used to manage several Tower computers running Unix, and got a reputation for being interested in collecting them when they were retired. Ran across this one at a surplus yard, and it when I booted it up it appeared to still be populated with a full set of data from the aircraft company it had belonged to, and it appeared to be running Forth. I'd be happy to let go of it and send it your way, along with an appropriate serial terminal, if you'd be interested in having it to complement your FPGA project. ;-) Mike, I think I have a Forth computer, and by that I mean a computer on which Forth is the only language and (sort of) OS. It’s an NCR Tower circa 1984, probably a 10-20MHZ 68010 CPU with half a meg of ram and 20-40M of MFM disk, in a case a little larger than a window box fan.

I used to manage several Tower computers running Unix, and got a reputation for being interested in collecting them when they were retired. Ran across this one at a surplus yard, and it when I booted it up it appeared to still be populated with a full set of data from the aircraft company it had belonged to, and it appeared to be running Forth.

I’d be happy to let go of it and send it your way, along with an appropriate serial terminal, if you’d be interested in having it to complement your FPGA project. ;-)

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