David Relson wrote: > >> My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honkin' big desktop >> horizontal all-steel box, with a "Turbo" switch that toggles a >> front-panel (7-segment LED) display between "4.77" and "8.00" >> >> And of floppies that really *are* floppy (5.25")... >> >> And of copy-protected diskettes and CopyIIpc and CopyWrite... >> >> As you can see, I have a severely traumatic childhood... >> >> Rgds, > > You mean those small floppies? Remember the big 8 inchers? > > In the early days, putting a computer together took more than a screw > driver. Remember soldering irons and PC board kits with discrete > components? I do believe I still have an S-100 bus machine in my attic. > > Regards, > > David > >
I still have my breedboard. You know, the thing you run the traces with wires with. Heck, I got a couple small ones that still have circuits on them. One is a temp circuit that turns a fan on when it gets above a certain temp. I think my pump controller is still out there too. We used to have well water out here. It was nasty so we had a HUGE filter. I'm talking truck size filter. It held about 2,000 gallons of water if you take out for the filter media. Dang, that has been a while back there. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
