Slightly off-topic, but the recent thread on the "yellow thingee" has me
waxing nostalgic ...
For those who are interested, point your browsers at:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=637
to see a picture of El Greco, my first home computer.
The owner's manual was loose-leaf, three-hole-punched, typed (Pica), and
printed by a process one step up from mimeograph. It included documentation
for the 8080 and Z80 assemblers and a note to the effect that they (the
manufacturers) would not presume to bundle in more software than the OS
(CPM) and assemblers because we (the end users) would certainly prefer to
write our own applications.
Ah, the good old days, "when men were men and women were women and furry
green things from Alpha Centauri were furry green things from Alpha
Centauri ..."
Sp00ky
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"The universe is not only stranger than we imagine,
it's stranger than we CAN imagine."
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