Teach on 8748

Wayne Downer and I squeezed the Morse Code Teacher into a then new one-chip computer, predecessor of the 8051.

I translated the teach algorithms to the chip's instruction set while Wayne wrote auto-baud serial functionality using the few remaining unused bytes in the chip's 64 bytes of available ram.


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We sent a copy to Heathkit suggesting that they might make it a kit. They took their time returning it but declined to go forward.

Hand wired computer with serial terminal interface and add-on display.

Wayne later added a single character display so that he could practice code without having a terminal on hand.

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