Hi,
I purchased a Dick Smith "System 80" quite a few years ago - it was an
Australian TRS-80 Model III clone. This box was awesome - with 48KB RAM
and an inbuilt tape drive. It absolutely screamed along. I even got a
small B&W TV with the deal (second hand PC and TV) to use as a monitor.
:-)
After a while I thought I'd get a bit more adventurous - I purchased a
TRS-80 Model III with Level I and II ROMs (selectable via a toggle
switch), but it had only 16KB RAM. I purchased a number of 4116 RAM Ics
and increased the RAM in this unit to 48KB - now I had two awesomely
powerful machines at my disposal.
I then decided that tapes were a bit slow for my liking, and started
looking at hard drives. For AU$1000 I could purchase an expansion unit
and a 10MB hard drive - bargain. However, as I could not possibly see
me using that humungous amount of storage, I decided against purchasing
this.
O! the joys of the early home computer days - we'll never get those back
again.
Regards,
Hilton Travis
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Sent: Tuesday, 17 July 2001 21:09 PM
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Subject: RE: [Leaf-devel] New User Interface Tool: Breakthrough!
You had it easy.
I used to load programs from audio cassettes with my ZX81.
I was a power user though, I had a 16k RAM pack.
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David
> Douthitt
> Sent: 17 July 2001 11:01
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Leaf-devel] New User Interface Tool: Breakthrough!
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>
> Matthew Schalit wrote:
> >
> > Ray Olszewski wrote:
> > >
> > > At 08:37 AM 7/13/01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > >On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Hilton Travis wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> > Are those the 8" floppy disks?
> > > >
> > > >I think the 8" floppy disks never held more than 250KB
> at most, anyway.
> > >
> > > Actually, Jeff, us old timers remember them growing to
> the *huge* (at the
> > > time, anyway) capacity of 1.2 MB. I ran my first real
> CP/M compiler (Digital
> > > Research Pascal, I think) on a dual-8 system.
>
> > Ah yes, the joy of loading Wordstar on a CP/M off of an 8" diskette
> > and fighting through that revolutionary user interface of theirs.
>
> I remember running Wordstar on Apple II CP/M - or compiling with Turbo
> Pascal or Small-C. In fact, I put that Apple II CP/M machine on the
> "Internet" (look up deety.uucp in the UUCP maps....)
>
> Unlike many, I liked CP/M - still do - I really do miss ZCPR3 (a later
> enhanced CP/M lookalike for Z80s).
>
> But that machine never got used, and it was not doing me any good
> lugging it around (sigh).
>
> I remember when the Apple II 3.5" disk drives came out - as Apple II
> users, we went from 140k to 800k overnight. Paid $400 for one of
> those...
>
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