[Coco] Embedded CoCo

[Ron Delvaux]

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-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
On Behalf Of jimcox at miba51.com
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 1:34 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Embedded CoCo

James:

Astronomy, like my insterest in CoCo's is another one of 
those hobbies/interests/obsessions that I really have to 
start making time for :)

I CoCo-like controller for a scope.  Cool.

Jim

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 22:19:25 -0500
  jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
>jim
>
>What actually peaked my interest in a 6809 SBC was that I 
>came 
>across software and a board design that controlled a 
>telescope. It 
>did in 64K almost all what the Meade Autostar 492 unit 
>did with an 
>HC11 and 512K of flash. Needles to say it perked my 
>interest.
>
>On downloading the software and nearly pulling what very 
> little of 
>my remaining hair ontop of my head, I saw this breif 
>little phrase in 
>the binary file :
>
>Fig Forth.  
>
>After some breif searches on the internet and so 
>education. I 
>concluded that the contrtoller software was written in 
>Forth. An 
>interesting languange/os. It uses every register in the 
>6809 as 
>pointers. Basically it is a stack oriented and extensible 
>language/os. 
>>From a base dictionary,  one can created higher functins 
>>and word 
>definitions from the base. 
>
>Awkward to write for but very compact and relatively fast 
>execution. 
>
>james
>
>
>On 23 Dec 2003 at 13:45, jimcox at miba51.com wrote:
>
>> All this talk about an embedded CoCo reminds me of a 
>>board 
>> I got along time ago from Brad Rodriguse, who is of some 
>> prominence in the Forth community.  It was designed to 
>>be 
>> used with Forth.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, I decided I didn't need it and sold it to 
>> someone else.  DOH!
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
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