The BASIC Programmer's Toolkit
date: label: date made
content: 1979
notes: label: Description
content: This pamphlet describes, as the subtitle suggests, "A Collection of Programming Aids for the Commodore PET." This was, according to donor and user Lous Mittelman, "a programmers aid called "Toolkit" which is a ROM plugged in internally in one of the available spaces, hex b000, in the 64K address capability of the 6502 uP". According to the user's guide, Chuck Bond was the creator and "main implementor" of the BASIC Programmer's Toolkit. The user's guide was originally written by Gregory Yob. BASIC Programmer's Toolkit was a trademark of Palo Alto ICs, a division of Nestar Systems, Inc. Nestar Systems is better known as an early designer of local area networks for microcomputers like the Commodore PET, the Apple II, and the Radio Shack TRS-80.
label: Description
content: This Toolkit board is installed in the PET 2001 microcomputer given by Mittelman, which has museum number 1985.0591.01.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Palo Alto
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Louis Mittelman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0591.05
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0591.05
label: accession number
content: 1985.0591
objectType: label: Object Name
content: documentation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 21.59 cm x 13.97 cm