Oops, misremembered: Altair 680. On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Ian S. King <isk...@uw.edu> wrote:
> 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." > -- 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."
