Ben Eater has some great stuff!!!
I agree on breadboarding and I have done that with an 8080, but our class is freshman, and they wouldn't be up to that. It would make a great follow up class for more advanced students though!
Happy New Year!
I am sad that I missed Festivus, I will be there next year for sure!
I just found a video made by students in my HS and it has a section on kids using our 1130 that I learned on.
I will edit that section out and send it down in case Jeff Brace wants to add it to our youtube channel.
Has our 1130 headed to FL yet? I am very excited to see it when it is finished. I have watched all of Carl's videos - he is INCREDIBLE!
Bob Jeffway
Bob Jeffway posted:
I co-teach a class at University Of Massachusetts in Amherst
using Bob Applegate's KIM-1 replicas.
An interesting choice for sure.
Hex keypads & displays are definitely a step-up from toggle switches and
individual bits.
We start with machine language programming, then move to an assembler,
and teach all the low-level stuff; address bus, data bus, controls,
clock, etc.
and how to interface hardware.
Very nice!
Ben Eater advocates breadboarding everything yourself, learning every wire
along the way:
One of my masters' degree pre-reqs was a 68000 lab course with this single
board trainer:
The ROM provided an interactive debugger and a few run-time library calls
for print, read, etc.
-- jeff jonas