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The last issue of The Embedded Muse (#500)

Click here to go to the on-line version After 500 issues and 27 years it's time to wrap up the Embedded Muse. It's said there's some wisdom in knowing when it is time to move on, and for me that time is now.

I had been working as an electronics technician while in college, but the company found itself in a quandary: clearly their analog instruments were to become obsoleted by digital technology, but the engineers didn't know anything about computers. Development was straightforward: Punch instructions into the Intellec's front panel to jump to the ROM loader (44 00 01 - I still remember these!). The code had to do multiple linear regressions so we found a marvelous floating point package by a Cal Ohne which fit into 1kB.

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