Re: Poll: Who works for the Semiconductor industry?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Hotte wrote:
> On Oct 4, 2:30 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Steven Lichter wrote:
> >
> > > Michael J. Mahon wrote:

> > At HP Labs we used (clone!  ;-) Apple II+'s for hardware bringup
> > and debug--they made great pattern generators if speed was not an
> > issue.
> >
> > I believe that some were also used in some manufacturing locations--
> > I have a ][+ clone in an HP instrument case!  ;-)
>
>
> That sounds nice, do you have a picture of it?

No, but when I get a chance (could be a while) I'll take one.

> Thinking about Apple II for simulation or layout work was a
> stretch :-)
> But the idea of having spice running got me somehow.
> I checked the web for early spice implementations but could not find
> any usefull source code.
> I had a simple spice running on my HP48sx, maybe I should dig for the
> source and try to port it to the Apple.

Spice is an "analog" simulator and makes very heavy use of floating-
point, so both speed and RAM space would be major issues running on
an Apple II.

-michael

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