Christian Just my opinion, but this looks like exactly what it says it is, a microprocessor-driven ePROM reader writer that allows a person to perform some specialized functions related to altering the contents of an ePROM, such as re-locating to a different memory space or similar edits before writing a copy. This is a peripheral device. I would not call this a computer, as in "general purpose stand-alone computer for convenient human i/o, programming". I have a similar 4040 (4004) programmer. The microprocessor takes the place of a lot of microcode ROMs, thus cheaper than a similar unit without a microprocessor. Maybe this is what everyone else has been already saying I have not read every post in this thread. Bill On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 1:11 PM Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Here is a picture of the unit. I pulled it out of storage and I didn't have a day to really work on it. But it should give you an idea of what it is and how it was assembled.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/YpDBYpxU56vC9dbq7
On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 2:01 PM Herbert Johnson via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, Christian has/had in hand physically, at least the "compiler" Comstar product, maybe also the "controller" product? Not quite clear what he owns. I hope he puts it up on some kind of Web page or other editable Web-accessable thingy, that has stability and can be edited and refined. Too hard to do that in threaded discussions (this a case in point).