What language can you program this computer in?
Can the processor be addressed directly, if that's the correct terminology, with assembly language?
80C86 16 bit processor
Quote ‘Windows PC-based Integrated Development Environment for OPL language; further Software Development Kits (SDKs) are available for OPL and C; specialist communications and data related SDKs are also available’
(06-11-2019 04:52 PM)MNH Wrote: [ -> ]Can the processor be addressed directly, if that's the correct terminology, with assembly language?
Hi, you can find the HC programming guide here
http://basic.hopto.org/basic/manuales.php
I think than you can also program an app on OPL in any of the other psions pdas in one of the Solid State Disks, mainly series 3 and MX, compile in them and then change the SSD to the HC to run the app. Although I have all this machines, including the HC, never tried.
Thank you all for replying!
(06-11-2019 03:11 PM)MNH Wrote: [ -> ]What language can you program this computer in?
Just Googled for PSION HC 110, the first pdf was this:
(I hate Google on phone, it can't copy the link of the downloadable stuffz, but the site is:
http://oldcomputer.info/index.htm)
UPDATE:
http://oldcomputer.info/others/psion/HC-PG.pdf
You can find there:
CHAPTER 2
WRITING SOFTWARE FOR THE HC
Basic programming choices
Choice of programming language
The two main high-level programming languages for the HC are Opl and C.
I have one somewhere, as I can remember it has a DOS (or something DOS-like) on it, I guess as a shell. I never used it and not really liked.
Btw: good luck!
Csaba
(06-11-2019 03:11 PM)MNH Wrote: [ -> ]What language can you program this computer in?
As others have stated, it's OPL
I myself have a Psion Series 3a that's in need of repair which I used many years ago, when I was only about 15 years old or so. I have fond memories of programming graphics algorithms in OPL on that little machine when I was on a road trip
Regards,
Jonathan
(06-11-2019 07:02 PM)Leviset Wrote: [ -> ]80C86 16 bit processor
Quote ‘Windows PC-based Integrated Development Environment for OPL language; further Software Development Kits (SDKs) are available for OPL and C; specialist communications and data related SDKs are also available’
Yes -- it's a custom 8086 chip. But, the OS uses preemptive multitasking with message passing IIRC. The OS is Epoch 16 I think.
Regards,
Jonathan
Thanks all for the additional posts! The HC 110's shape reminds me of the Corvallis-Micro-Technology-MC5GT I used in 1994 on an FDOT project in Palm Beach County, FL. It had an environmental case and an air release valve for those who worked at higher altitudes. I think it was programmable in BASIC. I don't think it ever crashed on me. The attached picture is not the MC5GT I used.
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