scalesr1 Wrote: > Well, I have never owned an Amiga - I started out with an Ohio > Scientific Superboard with 4K of Ram, to fit more I had to build my own > memory add-on board. I am struggling to think what was around before > this - but I bet someone out there had some 8080 based thing with a hex > keypad and some 7 > segment displays - am I right? I had a 6502 based thing called a KIM pretty much as you describe. 7 segment led displays. I wire wrapped a whopping 4K of static memory and connected it to the board with a ribbon cable, increasing my memory 5 fold (slow clocks). It had a serial port so I built a 16 line x 64 character video terminal and did most of my work with that.
P.S. Why am I not surprised to find old hobby computing pioneers on this site? Ohio Scientific Superboard. Oh, my. Never saw one. Only read about them. My friend who was president of the science club at the time home built an 8008 system with toggle switches and core memory. -- Michaelwagner _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
