dean blackketter wrote:
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!
You had WIRE!!! We had to get up in the morning and go down t' mine,
dig the copper ore, smelt it, and make our own wire every day.
--
Bill Burns
Long Island NY USA
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