On 5/26/24 17:30, dwight via cctalk wrote: > I'm not claiming it was the first personal computer but is was my first > personal computer. It was within a year or two of just about any other first > personal computer. > It was a Poly88 with ROM based tiny basic. I had a keyboard, I think I got > from Mike Quin's as well as a Singer typing terminal that I converted into a > serial printer. > I used a transformer powered TV as a monitor and used a cassette recorder as > mass storage. > It was more personal than other machine as it was my personal creation after > several modifications to enhance it. I learned a lot about computers and how > they worked from that machine.
I built a TVT and drove a hot-chassis all-tube Zenith portable TV. A little tricky when it came to getting the AC plugs the right way. Back then, US AC plugs were not polarized.
