From: B. Degnan (billdeg_at_degnanco.com)
Date: 2007-05-27 18:59:37
Bil,
Thank you for the clarification ..
Bill
At 09:21 AM 5/27/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just read the description for the Easter Egg for the plus 4. A couple
>of notes:
>
>John Cooper is/was a very real person, he once threw a fake brick at my
>head. He did code revolving around the cassette and other stuff, he
>didn't stay at CBM long after the TED came out, none of us know where he
>went after that.
>
>Fred Bowen did the Kernel, which would explain why his name is
>highlighted.
>
>I did the hardware though the reality is the hardware design was really
>dictated by the chip since it was the closest thing to s single chip
>computer for it's time. Just add a processor, some rom, some ram, some
>more decoding, a reset circuit and oh yeah, a keyboard buffer. And a
>handful of analog circuitry, some RFI filters, a modulator....
>
>The address we used to remember it by, if memory serves, was
>sys dec($cdab) or in other words we would think of abcd, byte swap it
>and then go to the decimal equivalent. (we byte swapped automatically
>those days which meant dialing the last four digits of a phone number
>could occasionally be a challenge) I still remember the day Terry Ryan
>described that this was in there and where it was. For the C128 it was
>something like take half of total memory, round up, then 123,45,6
>
>Also my named in spelled Bil :)
>
>Bil Herd
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-cbm-hackers@ling.gu.se [mailto:owner-cbm-hackers@ling.gu.se]
>On Behalf Of B Degnan
>Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 4:15 PM
>To: cbm-hackers@ling.gu.se
>Subject: Plus/4 Easter Egg
>
>I posted on my web site a picture of the Plus/4 Easter egg.
>
>vintagecomputer.net
>
>check the left column of the site, under the Univac 1219 info.
>
>Please advise if I am in error in my description of what the Easter egg
>represents.
>
>Bill
>
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