On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Gene Heskett wrote:
I got to work for several months as a bench tech for an outfit building
the first pair of the then smallest tv cameras in the world.
Later I found out that one of those civies was Jacques Cousteau,
3 hours later had a contract to put those two
hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
re: CP/M
No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet?
My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual
8085/8088 CPU board. At that time, the future in operating systems was
going to be CP/M 86.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the ZX80/1 yet.
Benny Pedersen wrote:
On fre 18 dec 2009 15:57:18 CET, Per Jessen wrote
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the ZX80/1 yet.
or even spectrum hacked to run cpm :)
I've also got a Newbrain stashed away somewhere, manuals, circuit
diagrams an' all.
add it to ebay if you want to sell it,
On Friday 18 December 2009, jdow wrote:
From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net
Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 21:21
[...]
Now, if you want to get me rolling about an incompetent computer
company just mention GRiD and their Compass not really a laptop computer.
Even the bugs were themselves
On Friday 18 December 2009, John Hardin wrote:
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Gene Heskett wrote:
I got to work for several months as a bench tech for an outfit building
the first pair of the then smallest tv cameras in the world.
Later I found out that one of those civies was Jacques Cousteau,
3
On Friday 18 December 2009, Per Jessen wrote:
hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
re: CP/M
No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet?
My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual
8085/8088 CPU board. At that time, the future in operating systems was
going to be CP/M 86.
I'm
R-Elists wrote:
as far as museum pieces go, i submit that my first was an Apple 2E if i
remember correctly..
BRUN BEERRUN
was an interesting game, or something to that effect... ;-)
...and (snore) i also programmed a helicopter to fly across the top and drop
a bomb on a space invader
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 18 December 2009, Per Jessen wrote:
hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
re: CP/M
No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet?
My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual
8085/8088 CPU board. At that time, the future in operating systems
was going to
On Fri 18 Dec 2009 07:09:03 PM CET, Per Jessen wrote
Completely agree, but the ZX80/1 made computers very, very affordable. I
was 15 when I managed to convince my parents that I desperately needed
one of those. Back in 1981,
zx80 was 1980 imho, and had just 1k ram, and 8k rom, fully
Benny Pedersen wrote:
On Fri 18 Dec 2009 07:09:03 PM CET, Per Jessen wrote
Completely agree, but the ZX80/1 made computers very, very
affordable. I was 15 when I managed to convince my parents that I
desperately needed
one of those. Back in 1981,
zx80 was 1980 imho, and had just 1k ram,
From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net
Sent: Friday, 2009/December/18 09:25
On Friday 18 December 2009, Per Jessen wrote:
hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
re: CP/M
No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet?
My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual
8085/8088 CPU board.
On Friday 18 December 2009, jdow wrote:
From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net
Sent: Friday, 2009/December/18 09:25
On Friday 18 December 2009, Per Jessen wrote:
hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
re: CP/M
No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet?
My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus
On 12/17/09 8:56 AM, Kevin Golding wrote:
I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere...
Kevin
I had an ASR 33 teletype with an Anderson Jacobs 110 baud coupler. We
dialed into an 800 number owned by tymenet (an X.25 pad).
had to hit the ^p on the keyboard after it stopped
I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere...
Kevin
I've seen CP/M mentioned but no mention of the venerable Kaypro! Oh
those were the days 8^)
But my first digital computer (at work) was a Raytheon 703 with paper
tape to load programs (after you fingered in the boot)
re: CP/M
No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet?
My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual 8085/8088
CPU board. At that time, the future in operating systems was going to be CP/M
86.
I decided it was time to upgrade when a computer store clerk was trying to tell
me
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
I decided it was time to upgrade when a computer store clerk was trying
to tell me that there was no such thing as an 8 floppy disk...
I wonder if IBM finally phased them out?
I still have a couple as souvenirs :)
- C
From: Steve Lindemann st...@marmot.org
Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 08:30
I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere...
Kevin
I've seen CP/M mentioned but no mention of the venerable Kaypro! Oh
those were the days 8^)
Have one complete with the SASI hard disk.
From: hc...@mail.ewind.com
Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 09:06
re: CP/M
No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet?
Processor Technology SOL-PC boosted to a higher speed (had to
reengineer timing on the board.) I also added a paddle board with S-100
slots on both sides. I was able to stick 5
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Charles Gregory wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
I decided it was time to upgrade when a computer store clerk was trying to
tell me that there was no such thing as an 8 floppy disk...
I wonder if IBM finally phased them out?
I still have a couple
From: John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org
Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 09:35
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Charles Gregory wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
I decided it was time to upgrade when a computer store clerk was trying
to
tell me that there was no such thing as an 8
Steve Lindemann wrote:
I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere...
Kevin
I've seen CP/M mentioned but no mention of the venerable Kaypro! Oh
those were the days 8^)
But my first digital computer (at work) was a Raytheon 703 with paper
tape to load programs (after
On Thursday 17 December 2009, hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
re: CP/M
No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet?
Sorry, my omission. The first gizmo I ever built, in 1979, was a Quest Super
Elf, which has an expansion connector on its board that allowed an s-100 buss
backplane to be plugged into it.
From: Chris Hoogendyk hoogen...@bio.umass.edu
Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 10:07
Steve Lindemann wrote:
I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere...
Kevin
I've seen CP/M mentioned but no mention of the venerable Kaypro! Oh
those were the days 8^)
But my first
hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual 8085/8088
CPU board. At that time, the future in operating systems was going to be CP/M
86.
You and Jerry Pournelle :-)
jdow wrote:
From: Chris Hoogendyk hoogen...@bio.umass.edu
Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 10:07
Steve Lindemann wrote:
I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere...
Kevin
I've seen CP/M mentioned but no mention of the venerable Kaypro! Oh
those were the days 8^)
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, jdow wrote:
I still have my KE Log Log Duplex Decitrig. It still works. And it's
still aligned despite it's being bamboo.
Ah, you've got the newer cheaper model. I inherited mine from my father
(40's vintage) and it has a rosewood core.
In my freshman year of college,
On Thursday 17 December 2009, jdow wrote:
From: Chris Hoogendyk hoogen...@bio.umass.edu
Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 10:07
Steve Lindemann wrote:
I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere...
Kevin
I've seen CP/M mentioned but no mention of the venerable Kaypro! Oh
those
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Robert Ober wrote:
hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote:
My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual
8085/8088 CPU board. At that time, the future in operating systems was
going to be CP/M 86.
You and Jerry Pournelle :-)
Yeah, but Jerry is
as far as museum pieces go, i submit that my first was an Apple 2E if i
remember correctly..
BRUN BEERRUN
was an interesting game, or something to that effect... ;-)
...and (snore) i also programmed a helicopter to fly across the top and drop
a bomb on a space invader and go boom...
wow
On Thursday 17 December 2009, R-Elists wrote:
as far as museum pieces go, i submit that my first was an Apple 2E if i
remember correctly..
BRUN BEERRUN
was an interesting game, or something to that effect... ;-)
...and (snore) i also programmed a helicopter to fly across the top and
drop a
The absolute, without a doubt, biggest POS I ever had to live
with was an
11/23 that had more hdwe bugs than all issues of windows
combined since DOS5.0. Dec field engineers changed every
piece in that thing except the frame rail with the serial
number and all they managed to do was
On Thursday 17 December 2009, R-Elists wrote:
The absolute, without a doubt, biggest POS I ever had to live
with was an
11/23 that had more hdwe bugs than all issues of windows
combined since DOS5.0. Dec field engineers changed every
piece in that thing except the frame rail with the serial
From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net
Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 21:21
My impression of the (DEC) field engineers knowledge was that it was nil,
other
than the rote stuff, DEC had taught him. And I suspect Joanne would back
me
up on that. Those guys couldn't replace a stuck
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