Introduction to the 1802 Membership Card Timer In this section, we’ll crate a scan based 1802 Membership Card Timer using BASIC3. The 1802 Membership card uses the COSMAC 1802 Processor. Since we are basing the timer on the scan rate, you may have to vary the delay loops to calibrate Read More »
Introduction to COSMAC 1802 I/O Operations COSMAC 1802 I/O Operations allow us to get data from an input port, and write data to an output port. In this case, I’m using the 1802 membership card. On the 1802 Membership Card, we use Port 4 for both the switches and the Read More »
Introduction to The Meaning of TRON When some of us think of The Meaning of TRON, we think of a movie with cartoon-like motorcycles. For others, we think of TRON as being part of the name of a machine with lots of gadgets from an old black and white SciFi Read More »
Introduction to BASIC READ DATA RESTORE The BASIC READ DATA RESTORE command allows you to easily set up data that you use in a program. BASIC was one of the early “High Level” programming languages. In other words, you don’t need to know much about how the computer itself operates. Read More »
Introduction to the BASIC Input Command In this post, we’ll cover the BASIC Input Command. In our last post, we discussed the FOR NEXT loop. This allowed us to calculate our salary for the next 10 years. Our variables were coded into the program. Obviously, though, we would want to Read More »
Introduction to Altair BASIC For Next Loop In this section, we’ll discuss the Altair BASIC For Next Loop. Manipulating variables is an important part of any programming language. For this example, let’s go back to 1975. The median pay was $13,720 per year. We’ll assume that you signed a contract Read More »
