Imagine that the first-ever commercial transistor computer fell into your laps (figuratively!).

I have been reading the specification for MV 950 over and over for the last couple of weeks (as well as documents for other Gen 1 and Gen 2 computers, including famous Bendix G-15 that uses similar magnetic drum memory), and my head is overflowing with ideas and a-ha moments.

This thing might look like a pile of junk that will wreck your electricity bill, but its power draw is comparable with a high-spec gaming PC. This thing looks like no useful modern-style computing can be done with it, but it runs faster than some BASIC microcomputers. Its contemporaries had plotters and seek-able magnetic tape storage systems.

I want to try and edit texts with it, draw anime girls with it, play music with it, maybe run a small inventory database. It should be able to handle these tasks flawlessly.

And I am especially passionate about it because computers of this scale and scope can be made with low-tech, in a garage, without semiconductor factories.

In case it's not clear from the previous posts, I wrote a simple emulator* and an assembler for the first commercial transistorised computer Metrovick 950. And this document is a manual for the emulator and assembler.

* Technically speaking, it's a simulator, and it stores instructions slightly differently from the original, but it should be mostly compatible. Which is good enough for a machine that barely has any documentation preserved. All 7 of them most likely were scrapped for parts half a century ago, too.