Documentation in PDF format
Building and Programming Australia's First Hobby Computer, the EDUC-8
Steven S. Pietrobon
Small World Communications
6 First Avenue, Payneham South SA 5070, Australia
steven@sworld.com.au
Presented at the Institute for Telecommunications Research
University of South Australia
Mawson Lakes, South Australia
25 February 2009
The Educational Digital Micro Computer (EDUC-8, pronounced "educate")
is Australia's first hobby computer.
It was designed by Jamieson Rowe of Electronics Australia
and presented as a series of articles from August 1974 to August 1975.
- discrete TTL implementation
- initially 32 bytes of memory, increased to 256 bytes by October 1974.
- not the world's first hobby computer:
Electronics Australia was beaten by the US magazine Radio Electronics
with its MARK-8 computer using the Intel 8008 microprocessor, published in July 1974.
40 pages, color photos
The Primer Trainer
self instruction manual
manual revision 3.0
for board revision 3
(c) 2005 Emac Inc
www.emacinc.com
8085A based trainer
plenty of examples, explains the ROM monitor
no schematic
94 pages
Title: GRAPHICAL HUMAN INTERFACE TO A NEUTRAL BEAM SYSTEM
Author: Elischer, V.
Publication Date: 06-14-2010
Publication Info: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Permalink: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/35h8f1qq
Local Identifier: LBNL Paper LBL-9146
Preferred Citation: SIGGRAPH 1979 Sixth Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Chicago, IL, August 6-10, 1979
10 pages
Features a custom touch panel, knobs & buttons to augment the CRT interface.