[cctalk] Re: Altair 8800 50th birthday...

2024-04-29 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
On Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 2:08 PM The Doctor via cctalk wrote: > > On Saturday, April 27th, 2024 at 07:14, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > Magazine cover january, and into 1975 the revolution. So I'd say all > > > > I had that magazine. Wish I hadn't thrown it

[cctalk] Re: PCs in home vs businesses (70s/80s)

2024-04-29 Thread Sellam Abraham via cctalk
On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 1:03 PM Joshua Rice via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I'm a youngster when it comes to this hobby, being manufactured myself > in the early years of the 90's. As such i cannot really quote from my ... > > Thanks for reading my TED talk, > > Josh Rice > Nice

[cctalk] Re: Altair 8800 50th birthday...

2024-04-29 Thread Sellam Abraham via cctalk
On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 11:53 AM Bill Degnan via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Magazine cover january, and into 1975 the revolution. So I'd say all > year. Not one specific date > Bill > > On Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 12:05 AM Fred Cisin via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > >

[cctalk] Re: Altair 8800 50th birthday...

2024-04-29 Thread brianb1224 via cctalk
Me too !Also another Issue where computer company publicized their private researched architecture in the ad on the back page in simplified form. Woops !!! Original message From: The Doctor via cctalk Date: 4/29/24 11:12 AM (GMT-06:00) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and

[cctalk] Re: Altair 8800 50th birthday...

2024-04-29 Thread The Doctor via cctalk
On Saturday, April 27th, 2024 at 07:14, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > Magazine cover january, and into 1975 the revolution. So I'd say all > > I had that magazine. Wish I hadn't thrown it away oh so many > years ago. This one? https://archive.org/details/197511PopularElectronics

[cctalk] Re: Z80 vs other microprocessors of the time.

2024-04-29 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Apr 29, 2024, at 1:59 AM, Steve Lewis via cctalk > wrote: > > After learning more about the PALM processor in the IBM 5100, it has a > similarity to the 6502 in that the first 128 bytes of RAM is a "register > file." All its registers (R0 to R15, across 4 interrupt "layers") occupy >

[cctalk] Re: Charles Stross, replay the bubble of 1995, alt history plus retrocomp

2024-04-29 Thread Johan Helsingius via cctalk
On 28/04/2024 01:14, Gavin Scott via cctalk wrote: Fortunately, in the US the net wasn't run by the Post Office No, but fore a very long time the phone network was run by a government-granted monopoly, Ma Bell. Hadn't the divestiture happened, AT had their own dinosaur ideas and would have