On Friday 18 December 2009, jdow wrote:
>From: "Gene Heskett"
>Sent: Friday, 2009/December/18 09:25
>
>> On Friday 18 December 2009, Per Jessen wrote:
>>>hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
re: CP/M
No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet?
My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus
From: "Gene Heskett"
Sent: Friday, 2009/December/18 09:25
On Friday 18 December 2009, Per Jessen wrote:
hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
re: CP/M
No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet?
My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual
8085/8088 CPU board. At that time, the futur
Benny Pedersen wrote:
> On Fri 18 Dec 2009 07:09:03 PM CET, Per Jessen wrote
>> Completely agree, but the ZX80/1 made computers very, very
>> affordable. I was 15 when I managed to convince my parents that I
>> desperately needed
>> one of those. Back in 1981,
>
> zx80 was 1980 imho, and had jus
On Fri 18 Dec 2009 07:09:03 PM CET, Per Jessen wrote
Completely agree, but the ZX80/1 made computers very, very affordable. I
was 15 when I managed to convince my parents that I desperately needed
one of those. Back in 1981,
zx80 was 1980 imho, and had just 1k ram, and 8k rom, fully expandeble
Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 18 December 2009, Per Jessen wrote:
>>hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
>>> re: CP/M
>>>
>>> No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet?
>>>
>>> My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual
>>> 8085/8088 CPU board. At that time, the future in operating sys
R-Elists wrote:
> as far as museum pieces go, i submit that my first was an Apple 2E if i
> remember correctly..
>
> BRUN BEERRUN
>
> was an interesting game, or something to that effect... ;-)
>
> ...and (snore) i also programmed a helicopter to fly across the top and drop
> a bomb on a "space i
On Friday 18 December 2009, Per Jessen wrote:
>hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
>> re: CP/M
>>
>> No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet?
>>
>> My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual
>> 8085/8088 CPU board. At that time, the future in operating systems was
>> going to be CP/M 8
On Friday 18 December 2009, John Hardin wrote:
>On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I got to work for several months as a bench tech for an outfit building
>> the first pair of the then smallest tv cameras in the world.
>>
>> Later I found out that one of those civies was Jacques Cousteau,
On Friday 18 December 2009, jdow wrote:
>From: "Gene Heskett"
>Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 21:21
[...]
>
>Now, if you want to "get me rolling" about an incompetent computer
>company just mention GRiD and their Compass not really a laptop computer.
>Even the bugs were themselves buggy. (We had
Benny Pedersen wrote:
> On fre 18 dec 2009 15:57:18 CET, Per Jessen wrote
>
>> I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the ZX80/1 yet.
>
> or even spectrum hacked to run cpm :)
>
>> I've also got a Newbrain stashed away somewhere, manuals, circuit
>> diagrams an' all.
>
> add it to ebay if you want
On fre 18 dec 2009 15:57:18 CET, Per Jessen wrote
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the ZX80/1 yet.
or even spectrum hacked to run cpm :)
I've also got a Newbrain stashed away somewhere, manuals, circuit
diagrams an' all.
add it to ebay if you want to sell it, if i remember newbrain has
hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
> re: CP/M
>
> No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet?
>
> My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual
> 8085/8088 CPU board. At that time, the future in operating systems was
> going to be CP/M 86.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the ZX80/1 y
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Gene Heskett wrote:
I got to work for several months as a bench tech for an outfit building
the first pair of the then smallest tv cameras in the world.
Later I found out that one of those civies was Jacques Cousteau,
3 hours later had a contract to put those two camera
From: "Gene Heskett"
Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 21:21
My impression of the (DEC) field engineers knowledge was that it was nil,
other
than the rote stuff, DEC had taught him. And I suspect Joanne would back
me
up on that. Those guys couldn't replace a stuck output cuz it had an open
On Thursday 17 December 2009, R-Elists wrote:
>> The absolute, without a doubt, biggest POS I ever had to live
>> with was an
>> 11/23 that had more hdwe bugs than all issues of windows
>> combined since DOS5.0. Dec field engineers changed every
>> piece in that thing except the frame rail with th
> The absolute, without a doubt, biggest POS I ever had to live
> with was an
> 11/23 that had more hdwe bugs than all issues of windows
> combined since DOS5.0. Dec field engineers changed every
> piece in that thing except the frame rail with the serial
> number and all they managed to do
On Thursday 17 December 2009, R-Elists wrote:
>as far as museum pieces go, i submit that my first was an Apple 2E if i
>remember correctly..
>
>BRUN BEERRUN
>
>was an interesting game, or something to that effect... ;-)
>
>...and (snore) i also programmed a helicopter to fly across the top and
>
as far as museum pieces go, i submit that my first was an Apple 2E if i
remember correctly..
BRUN BEERRUN
was an interesting game, or something to that effect... ;-)
...and (snore) i also programmed a helicopter to fly across the top and drop
a bomb on a "space invader" and go boom...
wow hu
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Robert Ober wrote:
>hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
>> My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual
>> 8085/8088 CPU board. At that time, the future in operating systems was
>> going to be CP/M 86.
>
>You and Jerry Pournelle :-)
Yeah, but Jerry is
On Thursday 17 December 2009, jdow wrote:
>From: "Chris Hoogendyk"
>Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 10:07
>
>> Steve Lindemann wrote:
> I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere...
>
> Kevin
>>>
>>> I've seen CP/M mentioned but no mention of the venerable Kaypro! Oh
>>> th
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, jdow wrote:
> I still have my K&E Log Log Duplex Decitrig. It still works. And it's
> still aligned despite it's being bamboo.
Ah, you've got the newer cheaper model. I inherited mine from my father
(40's vintage) and it has a rosewood core.
In my freshman year of college, (
jdow wrote:
From: "Chris Hoogendyk"
Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 10:07
Steve Lindemann wrote:
I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere...
Kevin
I've seen CP/M mentioned but no mention of the venerable Kaypro! Oh
those were the days 8^)
But my first digital co
hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual 8085/8088
CPU board. At that time, the future in operating systems was going to be CP/M
86.
You and Jerry Pournelle :-)
From: "Chris Hoogendyk"
Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 10:07
Steve Lindemann wrote:
I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere...
Kevin
I've seen CP/M mentioned but no mention of the venerable Kaypro! Oh
those were the days 8^)
But my first digital computer (at work
On Thursday 17 December 2009, hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
>re: CP/M
>
>No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet?
Sorry, my omission. The first gizmo I ever built, in 1979, was a Quest Super
Elf, which has an expansion connector on its board that allowed an s-100 buss
backplane to be plugged into it.
Steve Lindemann wrote:
I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere...
Kevin
I've seen CP/M mentioned but no mention of the venerable Kaypro! Oh
those were the days 8^)
But my first digital computer (at work) was a Raytheon 703 with paper
tape to load programs (after yo
From: "John Hardin"
Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 09:35
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Charles Gregory wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
I decided it was time to upgrade when a computer store clerk was trying
to
tell me that there was no such thing as an 8" floppy disk...
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Charles Gregory wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
I decided it was time to upgrade when a computer store clerk was trying to
tell me that there was no such thing as an 8" floppy disk...
I wonder if IBM finally phased them out?
I still have a couple
From:
Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 09:06
re: CP/M
No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet?
Processor Technology SOL-PC boosted to a higher speed (had to
reengineer timing on the board.) I also added a paddle board with S-100
slots on both sides. I was able to stick 5 S-100 cards into a remar
From: "Steve Lindemann"
Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 08:30
I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere...
Kevin
I've seen CP/M mentioned but no mention of the venerable Kaypro! Oh
those were the days 8^)
Have one complete with the SASI hard disk.
{^_^}
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
I decided it was time to upgrade when a computer store clerk was trying
to tell me that there was no such thing as an 8" floppy disk...
I wonder if IBM finally phased them out?
I still have a couple as souvenirs :)
- C
re: CP/M
No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet?
My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual 8085/8088
CPU board. At that time, the future in operating systems was going to be CP/M
86.
I decided it was time to upgrade when a computer store clerk was trying to tell
me that
I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere...
Kevin
I've seen CP/M mentioned but no mention of the venerable Kaypro! Oh
those were the days 8^)
But my first digital computer (at work) was a Raytheon 703 with paper
tape to load programs (after you fingered in the boot) an
On 12/17/09 8:56 AM, Kevin Golding wrote:
I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere...
Kevin
I had an ASR 33 teletype with an Anderson Jacobs 110 baud coupler. We
dialed into an 800 number owned by tymenet (an X.25 pad).
had to hit the ^p on the keyboard after it stopped scream
In article <64de5c8b0912162232k1482d588y8ebe065f17c45...@mail.gmail.com>
, Rajkumar S writes
>On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:05 AM, McDonald, Dan
> wrote:
>
>> I miss my Ohio Scientific C3. I had a Tektrinix 4027 terminal with more ram
>> than the computer.
>
>Just wondering if any one here started of
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 18:27 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
>
> jdow wrote:
> > From: "Charles Gregory"
> > Sent: Wednesday, 2009/December/16 07:49
> >
> >
> >> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
> >>> Marc Perkel wrote:
> http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml
> >>> There was actua
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:05 AM, McDonald, Dan
wrote:
> I miss my Ohio Scientific C3. I had a Tektrinix 4027 terminal with more ram
> than the computer.
Just wondering if any one here started off with BBC Micro? I had
couple of them in my school and they were truly sweet to program.
http://en.
On Dec 16, 2009, at 9:42 PM, "David B Funk" > wrote:
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Marc Perkel wrote:
I don't know if anyone still remembers this but this is what I had
for
my first computer back on 1979.
I miss my Ohio Scientific C3. I had a Tektrinix 4027 terminal with
more ram than the com
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Marc Perkel wrote:
> I don't know if anyone still remembers this but this is what I had for
> my first computer back on 1979.
>
> http://www.scotthodson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/imsai8080.jpg
>
> IMSAI 8080 - except I had a Z80 board for it.
Hah, I've still got my
jdow wrote:
From: "Charles Gregory"
Sent: Wednesday, 2009/December/16 07:49
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Marc Perkel wrote:
http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml
There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house.
For your amusement:
I still have my ol
From: "Charles Gregory"
Sent: Wednesday, 2009/December/16 07:49
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Marc Perkel wrote:
http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml
There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house.
For your amusement:
I still have my old Commodore 64
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