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Daves Old Computers - Heathkit The Heath company produced "build it yourself" kits for everything from Radios to Robots. Here are some of their computer offerings.

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ET-3400 The ET-3400 is the "little Heathkit computer", an educational trainer from 1977. It is based on the 6800 CPU, came with a whopping 256 bytes of RAM (expandable to 512 bytes) and a 1K on-board ROM monitor program.

The Heathkit ET-3400.

Views: Side, Bottom, Inside.

The ET3400 is one in a series of educational trainers. Here are the ET-3100 Analog and ET-3200 Digital logic trainers.

Heathkit ET-3400 Manual (10M PDF) Heathkit ET-3400 Memory I/O manual (5M PDF) Heathkit ET-3400 Memory I/O Software Reference Manual (7M PDF) Heathkit ET-3400 Modification Kit (500k PDF) Heathkit ET-3400 simulator (175k ZIP)

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H8 The Heathkit H8 is a popular kit computer from 1977. It is based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and features a "soft" front panel which is implemented via a ROM based monitor program.

The H8 was donated by Rob Krten.

The Heathkit H8 Views: Back, Inside-front, Inside-back,

The Heath documentation binder.

Operation and Assembly manuals.

Serial/Cassette and 4K memory manuals.

Heathkit H8 Assembly Manual (2M PDF) Heathkit H8 Operation Manual (6M PDF) Heathkit H8 4K Static Memory board (0.7M PDF) Heathkit H8 Serial I/O and Cassette Interface Card (2m PFD) I/O Cassette Interface Schematic (600k JPG) My own H8 simulator Another H8 simulator PAM8 a new Approach - Byte Oct78 (1.1M PDF) Building the Heath H8 - Byte Mar79 (1.6M PDF)

H89 In 1979 Heathkit prodiced the H89 - an all-in-one Z80 based unit which could run Heath's own HDOS or the industry standard CP/M operating system.

The Heathkit H89. Most H89s have an internal diskette drive, and a label that reads "H89" - I believe this unit may be an upgrated H88

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or possibly an upgraded H19 terminal. The H19 was based on the same chassis and video controller board, and Heath offered the H89 boards an an upgrade. Shown to the left is an H77 dual-drive system.

H89 Views: Back, Open: Card "cage" behind monitor, Top, Left-side, Right-side, Back.

H77 Views: Back, Open: Left-side, Right-side.

This is the H10 paper tape reader/punch. Paper tape was a common way of storing programs in the early days of personal computing.

Operation Manual (550k PDF) Operation illustration booklet (1.2M PDF) Assembly manual (13M PDF) Assembly illustation booklet (4.5M PDF) Schematic (630k PDF)

The H14 printer is another common companion to an H8 system. Like all Heathkit products, you assembled it yourself.

Operaton manual (7.3M PDF) Assembly manual (14M PDF) Illustration booklet (4.4M PDF) Schematic (475k PDF)

Heathkit 1978 advertisements: Up and Running, 8-bit machine.

August 1977 Byte "Whats New": Page1, Page2.

Data sheet for Intel 8080 CPU (0.5M PDF) Quick guide to 8080 instruction set (5k TXT) Intel 8080 Assembly Language Programming Manual (7M PDF) Intel MCS-80/85 Family Users Manual -Ch 5- "Instruction Set" (5M PDF) Back to Old Computers

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Copyright 2004-2007 Dave Dunfield.

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