Intersil Intercept Jr (was Re: Blowing Up Old Computers( early laptops))

From: Peter C. Wallace <pcw_at_mesanet.com>
Date: Tue Sep 3 18:13:00 2002

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote:

>
> --- Mike <dogas_at_bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >
> > I just had to nominate the Intersil Intercept Jr. to the early laptop
> > catagory, Runs on batteries, fits in a lap.
> >
> > ;) - Mike: dogas_at_bellsouth.net
>
> Are there plans out there anywhere? I doubt I'll ever run across
> a real one. They looked kinda cool back when I was a kid, but at
> the time, I didn't understand what it meant to be PDP-8-instruction-
> set compatible (i.e., the implications of it, not the literal sense
> of "compatible").
>
> It had, IIRC, some toggle switches, LEDs, and 4KW of SRAM, right?
>
> -ethan

The intercept had those, the Intercept Jr only had a keypad and numeric LED
display. It only 256 or 1K (12 bit) words of RAM ISTR





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Peter Wallace
Received on Tue Sep 03 2002 - 18:13:00 BST

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