garym wrote: > ah yes. Wordstar, VisiCalc.....my first computer was an Apple ][. Still > have it.
My first computer was an 8080 based homebrew monster. I spent a month wire wrapping that thing after school. I had an OLD Tecktronix tube based scope I used to debug it. The first incarnation just had the infamous switches and lights, but it WAS a computer! 8080s were still $75 back then, so I had to be darn sure I wasn't going to fry it! The big improvement came when I got a cassette tape recorder running as non-volatile storage. The very first display was a vector display using the scope and a couple 8 bit DACs, very crude but it worked. A year later I built a color TV interface and wrote a couple video games for it. It was done all with SSI and MSI TTL, a big board crammed full of parts all wire wrapped. I still can't believe I did some of that stuff back then. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98544 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
