smbaker
Experienced Member
I've recently come into possession of a Vesta OEM-188. This is an interesting little single-board computer, with a write-up included in a few Radio Electronics Magazines back from 1987. The computer boots Forth natively and playing around in Forth is somewhat self-explanatory. However, there are a bunch of customer words that are not obvious. There's also mention of a BIOS Formatter, and the ability to load and save words to disk.
If anyone has documentations on these extensions to Forth-83 for the OEM-188, or any documentation (other than the previously-mentioned Radio Electronics articles) on the OEM-188 at all, it would be much appreciated.
There's also a BASIC ROM that can be used (instead of the FORTH ROM). Someone here had it back in 2006, but that fellow hasn't logged in since 2007. If anyone has any additional ROMs, that would also be useful.
Finally, I've found several mentions of running either DOS or DOS applications on the OEM-188. This is a surprise, given the BIOS appears to be fairly small, but I can't discount the possibility.
Thanks, Scott
If anyone has documentations on these extensions to Forth-83 for the OEM-188, or any documentation (other than the previously-mentioned Radio Electronics articles) on the OEM-188 at all, it would be much appreciated.
There's also a BASIC ROM that can be used (instead of the FORTH ROM). Someone here had it back in 2006, but that fellow hasn't logged in since 2007. If anyone has any additional ROMs, that would also be useful.
Finally, I've found several mentions of running either DOS or DOS applications on the OEM-188. This is a surprise, given the BIOS appears to be fairly small, but I can't discount the possibility.
Thanks, Scott