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Dream 6800

The DREAM 6800 (Domestic Recreational Educational and Adaptive Microcomputer incorporating the Motorola 6800 microprocessor) was designed by Michael J Bauer from Brisbane’s Deakin University. It is not particularly sophisticated but at the time offered those handy with a soldering iron the opportunity to build a simple computer that would be a lot of fun to use. It offered programming in two languages: native 6800 machine code and a strange but quite powerful language called CHIP-8 (Comprehensive Hexadecimal Intetpretive Programming- 8 bit).

Heathkit ET-3400

Posted by musovern on Apr 4th, 2018 in Heathkit, Single Board Computers | 0 comments

Heathkit ET-3400

The Heathkit/Zenith Microcomputer Learning System model ET-3400 was a very popular item designed to teach principles of computers and programming at Universities in the 1970s., and to educate the students of internal computer hardware and software components by self-assembly and programming the machine in pure Hexadecimal language.

It was delivered in assembled or kit form. It also featured a prototype area and could be used as a design aid for developing special interface circuitry with common 6820 parallel interface or 6850 asynchronous chips.

Several software in ROM were also available, among them an Assembler and a Tiny BASIC.