On Saturday 03 April 2004 05:38 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Saturday 03 Apr 2004 5:02 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > On Saturday 03 April 2004 08:35 am, Richard Urwin wrote: > > > On Saturday 03 Apr 2004 6:21 am, Aron Smith wrote: > > > > On Friday 02 April 2004 05:13 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > > > > On Friday 02 April 2004 02:06 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > > >>> > > >>> whack > > >>> > > > > > > still got my old KIM-1 ;-) > > > > > > > > It is modified got 4k of Static Ram (rembember static ram?) > > > > > > > > > And the winner of the 2004 Ultimate Packrat Award is (fanfare, > > > > > please) Aron Smith! > > > > > -- cmg > > > > > > Not so fast. I still have my Science of Cambridge MK14. It's got > > > 256 bytes of (static) memory. > > > > Richard: > > According to Google, the KIM-1 came out in 1976, two years prior to > > the MK14, so the UPA is still Aron's pending an appeal based on date > > of acquisition. -- cmg > > I found a date of 1977, which accords with my memory better than 1978, > but I couldn't claim 1976 with any honesty.
As noted earlier, my dates were based on quick googles for KIM-1 and MK14. Since it is commonly known that not everything on the web is absolutely dead accurate, I'd say that we call it even. Aron will be the North American Ultimate Packrat and Richard will be the European Ultimate Packrat. (Drum roll and fanfare.) I was somewhat astounded to get 73,500 hits on KIM-1, and 13,500 on MK14, since their heyday was long before the web came on the scene. My first computer was an Exidy Sorcerer (circa 1978) -- Z80, 16 Kb RAM, cassette I/O, Microsoft Basic, word processor, development package. A year or two later, I added another 16 Kb at a cost of $140. It got tossed about 10 years ago when my wife began to enforce her rule that all of my really neat stuff had to be kept in this one (very crowded) room. Those of you who have suffered similar losses can get a glimpse of your first loves here: http://www.tonh.net/museum/homecomputers.html -- cmg
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