Control Console on two levels: first, on a general functional level; second, on a more detailed theory of operation level.
Since the INTELLEC 8/MOD 8 Control Console has been designed to support the imm8-82 Central Processor card, many of its operations cannot be described without referring to the operation of that card.
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
The operations performed by the Control Console can be divided into seven groups, as follows:
1. Data display operations, including:
Memory Data display operations, in which the contents of a selected memory location are displayed;
I/O Data display operations, in which data used for an input or output operation is displayed;
Status display operations, which display indications of the operating mode of the Central Processor;
Cycle display operations, which provide a continuous display of the 8008 machine cycle.
2. Manual Memory Access operations, in which data is read from or written into a selected memory location from the Control Console rather than the Central Processor.
3. Manual I/O Access operations, in which an input or output operation is performed from the Control Console rather than from the Central Processor.
4. Interrupt operations, in which an interrupt cycle is initiated from the Control Console by the user.
5. Processor Control operations, which allow the user to directly control the operation of the Central Processor.
6. Sense operations, which allow the user to manually enter data during a programmed input operations.
7. Search/Wait operations, which allow a selected instruction to be executed a given number of times, after which the Central Processor enters a WAIT mode.
