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Reddit mentions of Interfacing to the IBM Personal Computer
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I wrote the code to manage the experimental test harness for a sensor that was launched aboard the shuttle.
The test harness was the more interesting portion. It was composed of a 386 PC with a whopping 8MB of RAM and a 387 FPU. In 1990, even with the 486, this was some serious hardware, especially the RAM.
Hardware included a stepper motor and a channel plate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchannel_plate_detector) to record results. Eggbrecht (http://www.amazon.com/Interfacing-Personal-Computer-Lewis-Eggebrecht/dp/0672227223) was my friend.
The code to manage the setup was written in approx. 250 screens of glorious DOS-extended 32-bit LMI/Forth. It did everything from control the hardware to generate a very basic but serviceable GUI. Hardware control was at a very low level, with direct interaction with devices, DMA code (also written in Forth), etc.
I still have the source.