the fully fledged junior computer

5-08 — elektor may 1981 the fully fledged Junior Computer Now that the interface card is to be added to the Junior, the computer will be "fully grown", that is, it will have all the hardware it requires. Its "brain", the software, may however be further expanded. It is time for the computer to "talk like an adult", or rather, operate in a higher level programming language and it would of course be interesting for the operator to learn to work with such a language. Elsewhere in this issue machine language and additional system ible, the sky is the limit as far as the theoretical expansion possibilities are concerned, the final result being a computer with multiple facilities. A single board system, on the other hand, incorporates everything on a single card. It all depends on what the "everything" must comprise to suit the user"s purposes (and therefore on the size of the card). Putting "everything on a single card" is a bit of a gamble: you either win or you lose. It means the u...