On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 20:40:23 -0500 Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 > http://www.tonh.net/museum/pdp8.html Aah, a PDP 8. That was my first hands on computer (1969) as opposed to handing in jobs to the IBM Big Iron. Actually the photo is of a PDP 8i, whereas ours was an 8e which should be a bit older. You set that row of rocker switches in octal in order to boot it. The basic model had 4 k memory but ours was jazzed up with an extra 4k. Iron core memory and programs stored on punched paper tapes. Cheers John Montgomery
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