Date   : Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:54:48 +0100
From   : djameson@... (Daniel Jameson)
Subject: BCPL Stand Alone Generator

Mike, that would be excellent. I've got the disc images, just no idea how 
to use (in fairness I can work out the calculation package, but the SAG 
is completely evading me - I can't work out what the different utilities
do and what input they expect in what format!).  Interesting to hear of an
actual, and very niche, application! :D

d.
On 24 Sep 2013,@19:11, "Mike Pepper" <profpep@...> wrote:

> another esoteric book request (unsurprising on this mailing list :D)... 
 Does anyone have a copy of the BCPL Stand Alone Generator Userguide that
they'd be willing to scan/let me scan? Additionally, if anyone has the documentation
for the calculations package that would be doubly excellent :)
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>  
> I hvae both, and the associated discs, thought they may take awhile, since
i need to dig them out, but yes, I can do it.
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> I last used the SAG to generate ROMs for a device for unlocking Philips 
car radios, for a local repair shop - the ER1400 chip needed very fast bit 
banging, and BCPL was fast enough, as well as providing some code security, 
to avoid letting miscreants know the technique. Another use was a ROM that
turned an old BBC into a dedicated label printer, for  a knitting comapny
- I think I did about 6 of them.
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> Mike