On Tuesday 05 April 2005 11:04 am, jdow wrote:
> From: "Aron Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > On Monday 04 April 2005 09:16 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > > Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
> > > >On April 2, 2005 05:26, Daniel Anderson wrote:
> > > >>On Friday 01 April 2005 04:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote:
> > > >>>On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote:
> > > >>>| I'm going back to my TRS80 model 4.
> > > >>>|
> > > >>>| Dan
> > > >>>
> > > >>>OMG! I had one of those. I think it cost- like -
> > > >>>$1650, which is probably about $10,000 in today's dollars.
> > > >>
> > > >>I still have mine, still works, dabbled a little in basic with it. I
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> put
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> > > >> in the extra memory and two 720k drives. Paid $50 for it used.
> > > >>
> > > >>>And the first 386/25. I still have that laying around somewhere, or
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> at
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> > > >>>least pieces of it--4 MEGS of RAM-whoo hoo--that was one hell of a
> > > >>>machine. I actually ran Linux on it, for a while, kernel 1.x
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> something,
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> > > >>>maybe 1.2, I can't remember exactly. Yup, them were the good ole
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> days.
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> > > >I've got you all beat. I started on a Cosmac Elf with 256 bytes of
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> static
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> > > > ram, a hex keypad and 2-digit 7-segment display! An RCA-1802, the
> > > > best
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> 8
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> > > > bit cpu ever built. Composite tv output (40x25), and audio tape
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> storage
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> > > > were also available. My brothers and I soldered the components onto
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> the
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> > > > motherboard ourselves.
> > > >
> > > >And I walked to work bare feet in the snow, 5 miles, up hill both ways
> > > > 8^).
> > >
> > > Do you really want to start comparing who has the oldest hardware
> > > sitting around? I think there is a lady on this list that has us all
> > > beat. (Especial after I junked the model 33 teletype last year.)
> >
> > An ASR 33? I would have killed to get one of those back in the old days
> >
> :-D
>
> Not worth it. Traditionally the earliest amateur computers were built
> out of Strowger relays and pinball machine parts. As for earliest "micro-
> computer" I have a friend who still has his 4004 based computer. (And for
> what it is worth perhaps the earliest micro-computer multitasking OS
> went into the OM-55 satcom modem for the Navy. It was built by Magnavox
> in Torrance back when 8080s were about $100-$150 a piece. On the other
> paw there may be something even older than that. But COSMAC ELF is a piker.
> Trust me on that one. Even my Processor Technology Sol PC is relatively
> new on the block compared to the first toys out there. (6502 based
> thingies need not apply. And I think the Sol PC design predated the
> COSMAC and F8 chips, too.)
>
> (I passed up acquiring a mostly built Altair when its owner died of
> pancreatic cancer. I was playing with bigger iron, some nice Hewlett
> Packard 8500 consoles based on their 2100S mini-computer. I built
> myself a nice interactive circuit analysis program. That was before
> "They" discovered I could commit software as well as design fancy
> Radio Frequency electronics. All of which is mooted by the couple
> people I know who built pinball machine and Strowger relay based
> "things".)
>
> {^_-} Joanne
I would love to look at your jnk box you have had some machines that I used to
drool over in the pages of Computer Shopper (back when it was a freebie)
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