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The Mark 1 FORTH Clone follows the design of the original Mark 1 Forth Computer very closely. The only main difference is that the clone uses mainly LSTTL chips whereas the original computer uses mainly HCMOS chips. The computer's specifications are:
For those of you who are not familiar with FORTH, Wikipedia has a great entry on it, together with links to tutorials. Check it out here: FORTH@Wikipedia As in Andrew Holme's original Mark 1, the computer consists of 9 system cards, which are: 1. System Clock and Instruction Decoder 2. Microcode Sequencer 3. Working register (W) Index Register 4. Insturction Pointer (IP) Index Register 5. Stacks 6. Memory 7. Arithmetic & Logic Unit (ALU) 8. Diode ROM 9. Input/Output The following pictures show the completed system cards: System Clock and Instruction Decoder, and Microcode Sequencer(left) The 2 Index Registers Memory(left) and Stacks ALU and Diode ROM(left) Input/Output | ||||||||||||||||
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