I don't remember the exact date, but I was in high school which places it in the mid-1970s: there was a storefront called "The Retail Computer Store" that sold Altairs, IMSAIs, Chromemco and SWTPC. I really wanted the little SWTP 680 - now, of course, they're sky high if you can find one. Interestingly, my first programming job was just a few years later, programming the 6800 in assembly for what we'd now call embedded systems. -- Ian
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:38 AM, <couryho...@aol.com> wrote: > I find USB useful and with USB 3 pretty darn quick! > only downside it does not like to run 45.5 baud to run our 60 wpm UPI > Teletype machine > in the Journalism Display. Hey anyone have a AP Teletype we need one > in AP dress too! > > Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) > > > > In a message dated 7/26/2015 6:14:58 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, > a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk writes: > > > > > Remember when USB was referred to as the Useless Serial Bus after it was > introduced? I think it was a solid 1-2 > > years after it was introduced that I began to notice peripherals > designed for it. > > I still call it 'Useless Serial Botch' most of the time. It's not a bus, > after all. > > -tony > = > -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
