alt.energy.homepower

Jim wrote:

| =My= =first= computer was a Toshiba T1000 laptop.
| processor, 512kb RAM. The floppies weren't even double density
| IIRC. Don't recall what ever became of it....

...Mine was a Bendix G-15 with no RAM (rotating drum memory) that, if
you didn't blink, you could _watch_ each instruction execute. No disk
drive, of course, because they hadn't been invented yet. The circuitry
was all tubes and discrete components (resistors, capacitors, coils) -
not a transistor anywhere - but it went a lot faster than a slide rule
or a mechanical desk calculator...

MTBF ran about two or three hours, depending on the season.

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
/DeSoto/