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From: Chuck_M_Grandgent@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: RCA MicroSystem CDP 1802 uP
Message-ID: <33298@cup.portal.com>
Date: 28 Aug 90 01:42:55 GMT
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Yes, there was the COSMAC ELF, from a company called Netronics.
I was doing IBM System III's in RPG, and I talked my boss into
buying me one of the ELF systems for maybe $200.
The company was out in Western Connecticut, I can't remember the
town (I was NW CT-based).
The company was located in a building that used to be a motorcycle
shop.  It was a nice system, I had a lot of fun with it, and expanded
it greatly.  RCA was selling the COSMAC VIP system, which was very
similar.
There were some nice interpreters for the system for designing
simple games.  The video was DMA-based, so updating memory updated
the simple video display.
I probably ended up spending almost as much for that system as I
did for my 286-based system....
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Chuck Grandgent, PictureTel Corporation
Peabody, Mass

k1om@cup.portal.com
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