On Oct 13, 2005, at 8:17 AM, Bill Burns wrote:
Richard Scales 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?
Hex keypad!!! We used to *dream* of having a hex keypad and seven-
segment displays!
My Altair (still in the attic) had toggle switches and LEDs; if you
were very lucky you could key in the Teletype KSR interface in
about 5 minutes, then you could load programs from paper tape into
the 1K of memory.
YOU HAD LEDS AND SWITCHES? I would have killed for that! We had
bare wires and relays and were happy to have them!
Kids today!
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