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ChuckT
PostPosted: Wed Dec 16, 2015 12:58 am 
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Mini version of the OSI-300 trainer

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The OSI Model 300 Computer Trainer was advertised by Ohio Scientific Instruments in 1976 as a computer designed to introduce individuals to computers and teach them the basics of programming the MOS 6502 processor. The original trainer consists of a MOS 6502 processor, 6810 128 byte static RAM, one bit output latch, switches for entering data, and LEDs for reading the values of RAM.
The trainer was intended as a starter for individuals before moving on to their more advanced Model 400 Superboard system.

I first encountered one of these at VCFE 9.1 in 2014, and was intrigued by the simplicity of the design. I was particularly interested in the operation, and wanted to learn how the switches and LEDs were interfaced to perform the data read/write operations.


http://dangerousprototypes.com/2015/12/ ... 0-trainer/

http://randomvariations.com/category/osi-300-trainer/

I did a google search of 6502.org and did not find anything on this topic so I'm sorry if I duplicated anything.
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BigEd
PostPosted: Wed Dec 16, 2015 1:33 am 
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LEDs and switches - love it!

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The original is bigger but somehow looks simpler, as seen on Hans Otten's site:
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There's a thread (including a schematic) on anycpu.org here.

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Looks like a lucky few could buy a kit for $20 at Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 10:
http://commodorez.tumblr.com/post/12811 ... -home-from
http://commodorez.tumblr.com/post/12825 ... imple-jump
http://commodorez.tumblr.com/post/12964 ... -off-a-few
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BigEd wrote:
... The original is bigger but somehow looks simpler ...

It looks like the original had only 128 bytes of address space, while the updated version supports up to 4KB.

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Imagine what you could do with 4k!
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BigEd wrote:
Imagine what you could do with 4k!

Get blistered fingertips from hand-jamming a few dozen machine instructions to calculate and display (on four LEDs) the 3141st digit of pi, only to have it all lost to a momentary power glitch?

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We must suffer for our art. I'd certainly be tempted to toggle in not too much more than a loader, but that presumes some kind of peripheral to load from - there is none here. A pi program might only be a hundred bytes - most of the memory would be used for data. I accept the challenge!
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BigEd
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There's a recent video showing off the original OSI-300 - there's also an overview of Ohio Scientific's rise and fall.

Toggling action from the 9 min mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vww6XbDc2pY
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BillO
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At a quick glance the OSI-300 had some ... unique ... approaches to things ...

- Data bus was assumed to be high if left floating
- Writes to memory were not qualified with Phi-2 (in this case fair enough, but not a great template for the student of the 6502)
- No de-bounce on the reset - must have produced some interesting results from time to time
- that clock circuit
- No de-bounce on the NMI - wouldn't this confuse the interrupt handling in the CPU from time to time?

Talk abut being built down to a price.

However the tutorial in the manual was pretty good.

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