My first computer was a Sol-20 (1977), with an 8080 and 16K of RAM. There was a skeletal OS in ROM, but you could load a bigger OS and/or Basic from cassette. Later, I got floppy drives and North Star Basic, and still later 8" floppies and the CP/M OS. I wrote a machine-language driver to relocate North Star Basic and link it to CP/M -- the state of the art for a couple of months. I also made some hardware I/O gadgets with spring lever-switches, and a space battle game to go with them. When you hit your target, it rang the bell on the printer.
The power of that machine was way, way less than what's in a dishwasher now. Tony KT0NY ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
