Last update Jan 21 2023. Links to our major pages are on my home page at this link for Herb's Stuff. To email me, see see my ordering Web page for my email addresses.
Before the STDbus, Pro-log sold board-based microprocessor products on the same 56-pin card as the STDbus. See this linked web page for information on those products. I cover many STDbus boards and documents on this linked STDbus web page. A related bus by age and function is the S-100 bus, I have a home page for S-100 bus stuff which links to many more S-100 Web pages.
I acquired the first of these Pro-Log documents and hardware in 2006 from a biology researcher who built a 4040 system in the early 1970's to control a lab instrument. In 2006 he retired and shut down his lab, and generously offered me his equipment. I've scanned these documents and so I have PDF available: contact me for specifics. I exhibited the Pro-Log 4040 card cage and boards in 2014. Over time, I've had a few but more inquiries about these products.
Some years prior, I acquired an Intel 4040 system and an Intel 4040-based PROM programmer. See these on my intellec 4/40 Web page.
all documents were produced by Pro-Log unless noted. Documents of a few pages are product brochures with features, edge connector pinouts, general specs.
8008, 8080, 6800 ----------- MPS 803, 803-1 - 2 pgs (8111, 8112, 8113) MPS 805, 805-1 - 2 pgs (8811, 8814, 8815, 8816, 8117) MPS 821 - 2 pgs 8008 system analyzer MPS 881 - 2 pgs 8080 CPU system MPS 883 - 2 pgs (8811, 8112, 8113-1) MPS 8111 - 2 pgs 8008-1 MPS 8112 - 2 pgs rom/ram MPS 8114 - 2 pgs input MPS 8115 - 2 pgs output MPS 8116 - 2 pgs ROM MPS 8117 - 2 pgs RAM MPS 8118 - 2 pgs interrupt MPS 8401 - 2 pgs driver out MPS 8402 - 2 pgs relay out MPS 8403 - 2 pgs optoisolated out MPS 8404 - 2 pgs triac out MPS 8405 - 2 pgs terminal strip MPS 8406 - 2 pgs TTY current loop (no UART) MPS 8611 - 2 pgs 6800 CPU MPS 8811 - 2 pgs 8080 CPU CRS-81 - 1/2 rack card cage for 8811A, 8816, 8814, 8815. 4 pgs CRS-82 - 1/2 rack card cage for 8821, 8114, 8115-1. 4 pgs (Giuli Microprocessors Inc) Communications Card COM-412, , 2 pgs 4004, 4040 ----------- PLS 401 - 3 pgs PLS401 card 4004 PLS 402 - 2 pgs 4115, 4113 4004 + I/O cards PLS 403 - 2 pgs (4111 4004 CPU, 4112 ROM, 4113 I/O) PLS M422 - 2 pgs system analyzer PLS 441 - 2 pgs 4010 4040 CPU PLS 442 - 2 pgs 4415 4040 CPU, 4113 I/O PLS 443 - 5 pgs wiring between 4417, 4418, 4113 PLS 4111, 4111-2 - 2 pgs 4111 4004 CPU, 4111-2 RAM+I/O PLS 4112, 4112-2 - 2 pgs 4112 ROM, 4112-2 ROM+I/O PLS 4113 - 3 pgs schematic I/O PLS 4114, 4114-2 - 2 pgs 4114 or 4114-2 I/O PLS 4115 - 2 pgs 4004 CPU PLS 4117 - 2 pgs schematic + 4 pgs document RAM PLS 4118 - 4 pgs schematic, control/display PLS 4121 - 2 pgs 4004 PLS 4415 - 2 pgs 4040 PSS 4417 - 2 pgs schematic 4040 PLS 4418 - 2 pgs schematic ROM CR5, CR10 - 2 pges card racks, CR5-1 for PLS401, CR5-2 for PLS402, CR5-3 for PLS403 (End of "documents that make sense" compilation)
PRO-LOG June 1975 price list and Short Form Catalog, 36 pgs PRO-LOG Oct 1979 price list and Short Form Catalog, 67 pgs "How To Design with Microprocessors", Edwin Lee for Pro-Log, 1975, 12 pgs Program, "PLS 400/PLS440 self-test Routine", 4 pgs, 1976 PLAN "Programmed Logic Application Note - 100", discusses PLS-403, 411-2; 4 pgs PLAN "Programmed Logic Application Note - 101", discusses PLS-4114; 4 pgs PLAN "Programmed Logic Application Note - 103", discusses PLS-400 4 pgs "the Buffer", Pro-Log newsletter, Vol 1 No 6 NOv 1981, 8 pgs. STD bus products list Ad copy, 1975, "Pro Log Microprocessor modules reduce parts count...", 1 page Graphic, "Go Real-World with PRO-LOG Logic Processors", 1974, 1 page article reprint, "When Programming Microprocessors, Use your Hardware Background" --4004 programming w/ Pro Log. Ed Lee, Electronics magazine, 1976, 8 pgs App NOte 107, 8812 ROM/RAM 8K X 8 memory, 4 pgs App NOte 109, System Expansion for th 8811A Processor Card, 1977, 12 pgs Series 90, PM9005 Operating Instructions, 2704/2708 personality module, copy --1976, 5 pgs PROM Programmer Series 80, brochure, 1975, 2 pgs
Microprocessor User's Guide, 9/75, 34 pgs --presentations from WESCON 1974 & 1975 on use of microprocessors --brochures on MPS-883, PLS-401, Series 90 PROM pgrm, M821 system analyzer --covers 4004, 4040, 8008, 8080 The Designer's Guide to Programmed Logic for PLS 400 Systems, 1973 and 1977 versions, see below for details. PROM user's Guide, 1975. 20 pgs. HOw to use 1702's, bipolar PROMs. -- for 90 series and 92 series and 9100 series Pro-Log PROM programmer products PROM user's Guide, 1977. 50 pgs. HOw to use 1702's, 2708's. -- for 90 series and 92 series and 9100 series Pro-Log PROM programmer products PROM user's Guide, 1979. 100 pgs. Selecting among 1702, 2708, 5202/3/4, etc. -- for 900 series and 9000 series Pro-Log PROM programmer products
I have a 1973 version and a 1977 version of this manual. The 1973 version is Intel 4004 based, the 1977 has the same material updated for the Intel 4040 as well and those then-new products. The 1977 version has 140 pages and is in a 7 inch by 9 inch format. the 1973 version is 130 pgs. These have been reduced to PDF's.
It describes the processor instruction set, basic features of the Pro-log cards, and then a tutorial on how to program in HAND-ASSEMBLED 4004 or 4040 code. The author Matt Biewer shows programming for 4004 products: 4001, 4002, 4003; and a design example of hand-held calculator with hand-assembled code!
The tutorials cover issues like subroutine calls (due to the limited stack), TTY I/O, and some arithmetic routines. Several pages are tables for fractional values in decimal and in hex. Strange to see all this, but in the early 1970's, engineers did not have access to computers for cross assemblers and so forth. The 4040 and 4004 were intended to replace control logic, not as actual "computers" themselves. The 4004 and 4040 were from an era where it was very hard for most companies to believe that "ordinary people" would be interested in a personal computer!
There is not much on hardware design, as the Prolog modules provide the hardware. But the modules use the Intel 4004 series chip set, so the information is informative in general.
I have an Intel databook, MCS-40 USer's Manual for Logic Designers from NOvember 1974. It describes some 4040 series chips at the hardware design level, some 4040 assembly and binary programming information, and a very little bit on the Intellec 4/40. I'd estimate it to be 120 pages, and its a softcover which measures 7 by 9 inches, like most of the Intel manuals of the period. Contact me for copying and shipping costs as described for the ProLog document above.
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