As coincidence would have it, I'm writing a piece on the UK's Centre for Computing History and paying them a visit this weekend (I'm also donating to them the Compaq Deskpro 8086 which started this digression yesterday). Here's an interesting timeline from their site: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/cgi/computing-timeline.pl - have a snoop around, there's a lot of interesting stuff on there.
Oh, and here's the Commodore VIC-20 for Tim > http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/2535/Commodore-VIC-20/ //DMc -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Timothy Hughes Sent: 28 May 2010 15:33 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] why create a 12TB LUN I remember commodore the 128 from junior high when did they have Commodore Vic-20? Richard Sims wrote: >On May 28, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Thorneycroft, Doug wrote: > > > >>OK, I think I have you all beat on the early high tech front. >>Commodore VIC-20 with a whopping 5K memory, and a cassette player >>for storage. >> >> > >If you're going to be like that... >I had a MITS Altair 8800 with 256 bytes of memory, where you would step through memory to then toggle bits on and off via sense switches beneath LEDs. >I think we should stop there, rather than go back further, to desk calculators and comptometers. :-) > > Richard Sims > > No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2896 - Release Date: 05/27/10 19:30:00
