alt.energy.homepower

Mike Swift wrote:

> 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 !
>
> I can beat you by a mile :).

No you can't.


> 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.

The above was my first *speedy* PC.

I had previously used this ...
/~fjkraan/comp/hx20/

It had a 6301 CPU running at 600kHz.

And yes, I was programming on the train using this laptop commmuting into London
in the early 80s.

Graham