Overview
We meet three times this week, so we have a great opportunity to make significant progress toward learning how to program the Altair.
Thanks to the wonderful efforts of Jason and Edward, we are ready to load CP/M in our Altair clone. We won't be doing that this week, but it is nice to know we are ready.
Friday, September 22nd
Classwork / Homework
I'm out sick today. Please complete the project assigned Wednesday, and have it ready when you come to class next Wednesday.
Wednesday, September 20th
Classwork
Today in class we will share the programs that we were not ready to share on Monday. After that, we will work on the homework problem as time permits.
Homework
Write a program that reads a value from memory address 0x0050,
and then increments that value by one ten times, storing each incremented
value in the next location in memory.
For example, if the value found at address 0x0050 was
00001010, after your program runs the values at memory addresses
0x0051 through 0x005A would be 00001011
through 00010100 respectively.
Pairings for this assignment are Nate and Edward, Cyrus and Joseph, and Julissa and Sheel.
Monday, September 18th
Classwork
We will spend class today sharing the Altair machine language programs we wrote for homework, and then planning our next in the programming process.
Homework
Do a web search and come to class on Wednesday with at least three websites containing useful Altair 8800 resources for our study. Come to class on Wednesday ready to share your resources.