In 1976, Steve Wozniac wrote what’s commonly known simply as Wozmon. Wozmon is a machine-code monitor program and for those who may not be aware, this is essentially code that starts to run in a microprocessor at initial power on. … Continue reading
Category Archives: BASIC
So as well as technology, I love baking – to the extent that I bake stuff to sell with all the shenanigans that goes with that. Local authority inspections, food hygiene certificates, insurance, blah…. Some bread I made … (Devon … Continue reading
From the Wikipedia entry: The Little Man Computer (LMC) is an instructional model of a computer, created by Dr. Stuart Madnick in 1965. The LMC is generally used to teach students, because it models a simple von Neumann architecture computer … Continue reading
So today (30th April, 2014) marks the 50th anniversary of the BASIC programming language! Hurrah! The very first BASIC program: 10 LET X = (7 + 8) / 3 20 PRINT X 30 END To help celebrate this, I’ve made … Continue reading
So the 2nd (annual?) Jamboree was held in Manchester thanks to Alan O’Donohoe and whole host of others who helped him arrange it and it went fantastically well! This year it was spread over 2 days with some talks, etc … Continue reading
So the past two weeks has seen me attending Techcamp 2013 held at at Sparsholt college just outside Winchester. I was the lead tutor for their Raspberry Pi course. And now, a few days later I’ve finally had enough sleep … Continue reading
Tandy now has new stock, so should be properly caught up with the backlog in the next day or two… I’d just like to say a big thanks to everyone who’s bought one! It’s been a fun little project and … Continue reading
CESIL? What on earth is that, I hear you cry! Or maybe some of you are recoiling back in horror at the name of the 1970’s educational programming language stirring up bad memories… Or you’ve read this months MagPi magazine … Continue reading
Last month I wrote about the Raspberry Ladder Board and it appeared in the MagPi magazine too! This month I’ll finish it off with a full board description and some more software. (And if you don’t have one yet, then … Continue reading
At long last (well only 10 months or so!) I’ve released my BASIC to the world! RTB is a modern BASIC in that you don’t need line numbers and it supports nice looping constructs like while/until with named functions and … Continue reading