Date : Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:25:31 +0100
From : mike@... (Mike Tomlinson)
Subject: Free Stuff Tranche III [Results]
In article <4C47C6A4.8000809@...>, Rick Murray <rick@...>
writes
>Master Compact is cute, we used them at school, but they're somewhat
>lacking in the I/O department. Not to mention weird NVRAM EEPROM jobbie
>with a really short lifespan. Not so good in an education environment to
>think something like the following could mess up the computer:
Someone in the class at my tech college (many moons ago) discovered that
POKeing a certain location on the Commode Pet caused it to go up in
smoke. Once that got around, that was the end of them.
I learnt to program 6502 machine code on the KIM-1 and then the PETs.
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