15 Apr
2015
15 Apr
'15
4:36 p.m.
On 04/15/2015 04:28 PM, phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca wrote:
If it had a BASIC interpreter, it might have done better. And a power supply that didn't catch fire ;).
The Datapoint 2200, which was originally intended to use the 8008, had a BASIC interpreter. I worked on those back in the mid '70s. Also, there was SCELBAL BASIC, from Scelbi Computing, for the 8008 (and later for the 8080), which might have run on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCELBI