alt.energy.homepower

Mike Swift wrote:
| In article < @ >,
| Eeyore wrote:
|
|| no spam wrote:
||
||| Either you're not that old or got into computers late. My first
||| BLAZING FAST machine was a 386 flying along at 33MHz with 4MB or
||| 'you are wasting your money on that much' RAM and a 'you will
||| never fill it up' 105MB hard drive. After much whining I pried
||| enough money out of the wife to add a 2400 baud modem. And she's
||| been sorry every since.
||
|| Hey, my first 'speedy' PC was a 10MHz 'AT clone' with a 20MB HD !
||
|| Graham
|
| I can beat you by a mile :). 2MHz Z80 CPU with a wire rap S-100
| motherboard. Had to key in an 8 word boot loader from the front
| panel to drive the paper tape loader. Software available was a very
| limited text editor, assembler, and Tiny Basic.

Heh heh. I've still got my IMSAI 8080, a pair of SSSD drives, and the
little Televideo ASCII CRT that replaced my ASR38. Come to think of
it, I've also still got my old O-1 (squint squint) around somewhere...

When the Z80 came out, I put the I8080 card into semi-retirement and
used the IMSAI to write a BNF compiler (PL/C - see March 84 DDJ) so I
could write portable compilers and interpreters.

Good memories!

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
/DeSoto/