I think it used unobtainium type RAM and ROM, being
all early Intersil CMOS, so it might be very difficult
to make an "authentic" one today even if you had a
6100. The 6100 was, given my limited knowledge, harder
to make truly PDP8/e compatible than the later 6120.
I've looked around for a ROM listing or front panel
code for the 6100/Intercept with no luck.
--- "Peter C. Wallace" <pcw_at_mesanet.com> wrote:
> 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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