Talk:TEC-1

The information on this page
The information on this page, while brief, is essentially correct. The TEC-1 was presented in Talking Electronics issues 10 and 11 around late 1983, early 1984. The design was by John Hardy, and Ken Stone (myself). Further articles were presented in issues 12-15, though my involvement ended with issue 14. Issue 15 was the last issue of the Talking Electronics magazine that was printed. Otherunicorn (talk) 10:04, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

John Hardy adds:

Ken and I built the design of the TEC-1 over the summer of 1982-83. I was not an employee of Talking Electronics but was promised by Colin Mitchell a $1 royalty on each board sold. Mitchell reneged on this agreement when a grand total of 300 boards were sold. I withdrew my involvement from the project at that point. Ken continued on to do more fabulous work designing peripherals for the TEC-1 after that. Jhlagado (talk) 10:16, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Craig Hart Says:
''I worked at TE designing several add-ons and software for the TEC-1. Jim Robertson and myself developed a number of enhancements for the the TEC-1, resulting in the TEC-1B design and TEC2 monitor program (BIOS). Jim came up with a 16×2 LCD display to replace the original 7-segment LED displays, for example, whilst I cooked up the speech synthesiser module and much of the LCD software. The whole lot was then stolen by Peter Crowcroft of DIY Electronics and kitsrus.com (A consultant hired by TE to assist with outsorcing to China) and sold as the “Southern Cross 1″, which he falsely marketed his own product for many years. August 7th, 2008 at 12:29 pm '' (|Comment 10)


 * Southern Cross 1 Z80 Computer

Emulated in MESS

 * For the one or two Australians who remember the TEC-1, it has finally been emulated in MESS., 49264 - 04/11/2009 04:19 AM TEC-1 computer


 * [VARIOUS TEC-1 Computer roms.zip] MON1 & MON1A


 * pyzx80, A Z80 CPU emulation and machine language monitor written in python. Two historical machines are emulated: Jupiter ACE: An obscure British computer from the early 80's distinguished by the choice of Forth for its language. & TEC-1: An even more obscure Australian kit computer from the mid 1980's that was programmed directly in Z80 machine code.

Image

 * old computer tec-1 z80 05 by ~otherunicorn-stock, Resources & Stock Images / Stock Images / Objects / Technical (Photo: no restrictions on use)

Talking Electronics - Magazines Index

 * Talking Electronics - Magazines Index

links

 * Securing Linux, By Sam Varghese, July 3 2003 - theage.com.au Few people decide on their careers until they are well into their teens. Russell Coker is an exception. When he built his first computer, a TEC-1, from a kit, at the age of 11, he consciously made a career decision as well - he would be working in that field. 
 * Robbie Mk. III, I put together the excellent Talking Electronics TEC-1B Z80 based computer.