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    The Datapoint 2200 was a mass-produced programmable terminal usable as a computer, designed by Computer Terminal Corporation (CTC) founders Phil Ray and...
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    to include them. The Datapoint 2200 became so popular that CTC later changed its name to Datapoint Corp. At this time the 2200 processor also had access...
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    Datapoint 2200, and hence also in the Intel 8008. No direct addresses could be used to access data. Load memory immediate not available on Datapoint 2200...
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    series. Released in June 1970, the programmable terminal called the Datapoint 2200 is among the earliest known devices that bears significant resemblance...
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  • The DataPoint 3300 was the first computer terminal manufactured by Computer Terminal Corporation, later renamed Datapoint, announced in 1967 and shipping...
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    "computer" required additional layers of purchasing authority approvals. The Datapoint 2200, made by CTC in 1970, was also comparable to microcomputers. While it...
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    manufactured by Intel. While the 8008 was originally designed for use in CTC's Datapoint 2200 programmable terminal, an agreement between CTC and Intel permitted...
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    replacement for the Datapoint 2200 terminal, the TMX 1795 (later TMC 1795.) Like the 8008, it was rejected by customer Datapoint. According to Gary Boone...
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  • processor was the Intel 8008 (1972) which was originally intended for the Datapoint 2200 intelligent terminal. Most competitors to Intel started off with such...
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  • CTOS Cassette Tape Operating System for the Datapoint 2200 DOS Disk Operating System for the Datapoint 2200, 5500, and 1100 Deos – Time & Space Partitioned...
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    Computers such as IBM 360 mainframes, PDP-11 minicomputers and the desktop Datapoint 2200 were built from bipolar integrated circuits, either TTL or the even...
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    Datapoint 2200 in 1970, for which the Intel 8008 had been commissioned, though not accepted for use. The CPU design implemented in the Datapoint 2200...
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  • Computer Terminal Corporation created the first personal computer, the Datapoint 2200 programmable terminal. Victor Dale Poor was born in Los Angeles, California...
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    years prior to the Apple II, including PDP-11/20 minicomputer in 1969, Datapoint 2200 in 1970, IBM 5100 portable computer in 1975, and DECSYSTEM-20 in 1976...
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  • 256 bytes of memory. It was priced at USD 750 and sold only 40 units. Datapoint 2200 (shipped 1971) was the first machine designed to use a microprocessor...
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     5-24. DEC-12-HFPPA-A-D. "Wang 2200 Microarchitecture Description". "Wang 2200 Disk Channel Description". Datapoint 2200 Version I and II Drawing Package...
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  • instead of a microprocessor chip, which was not available in 1971. The Datapoint 2200 from 1970 used TTL components for its CPU and was the basis for the...
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    big-endian architectures include the IBM z/Architecture and OpenRISC. The Datapoint 2200 used simple bit-serial logic with little-endian to facilitate carry...
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    could fit entirely on top of a desk. 1970 saw the introduction of the Datapoint 2200, a "smart" computer terminal complete with keyboard and monitor, was...
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    at Datapoint Corporation in 1976 under Victor Poor, and announced in 1977. It was originally developed to connect groups of their Datapoint 2200 terminals...
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    machines Developed in tandem with 4004 Originally intended for use in the Datapoint 2200 microcomputer Key volume deployment in Texas Instruments 742 microcomputer...
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    conceived at Computer Terminal Corporation as the processor for the Datapoint 2200. From the introduction of the IBM 3270, and the DEC VT100 (1978), the...
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    such as the Commodore PET, the Osborne 1, the TRS-80 Model II, and the Datapoint 2200. Many manufacturers of home computers like Commodore and Atari included...
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  • serially, but internally operated on many bits in parallel Kenbak-1 (1971) Datapoint 2200 (1971) HP-35 (1972) Digit-serial HP Saturn-based calculators from the...
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    (August 2023). "Tracing the roots of the 8086 instruction set to the Datapoint 2200 minicomputer". — (August 2023). "A close look at the 8086 processor's...
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    turn was an LSI implementation of the TTL-based CPU design used in the Datapoint 2200. The 6800 architecture was a TTL-compatible LSI design modeled after...
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    architecture of the 8008 was originally created by CTC Inc. for the Datapoint 2200 intelligent terminal, in which it was implemented in discrete IC logic...
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    value or address. Some instructions have multiple possible encodings. Datapoint 2200, a contemporary machine with alphanumeric screen and keyboard, suitable...
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    bipolar memory chip for a computer terminal they were designing, the Datapoint 2200. Mazor and Hoff considered their CPU design and concluded it was not...
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  • — 0 to 999 None not documented 4-byte mantissa and 1-byte exponent [Datapoint 2200 floating-point arithmetic package] not documented A–Z, A0–Z9 DIM (one...
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