On 02/01/18 21:41, Girvin Herr wrote: > I, too, sometimes get nostalgic for the "heady" old days of computing. I > started in the late 70s with hand-coding programs on an Intel 8080 > system. I then graduated to CP/M-80 on an S100 Zilog Z80 processor > system. I then built my own PC-XT from components in the mid 80s and PC > technology has been progressing ever since. I keep a MS-DOS computer > around to talk to a device programmer with proprietary DOS-based > application software, just in case I need to program an EPROM or PAL > chip. I still think the Cromemco Z-80 Macro Assembler which ran on > CP/M-80, is the best macro assembler I have ever used, so I created a > CP/M-80 Z80 software emulator which runs on my Linux desktop, just in > case I have a need to assemble a Z-80 program or maybe run a CP/M-80 > program or two. That emulator runs so fast on my desktop that a fairly > large assembly is done virtually before I can release the Enter key. > Would I go back? Heck no!
I made a lot of international flights in the mid 80's with a Phillips portable computer. It was badged version of an Osborne, I believe. It was more of a luggable and weighed a ton - it crippled the shoulder on anything more than 100 yards walk. I used Wordstar on the CP/M os and the screen was a very small monochrome crt but it did have dual 5.25" floppies. Later, when early pc look-a-likes were available, I actually installed and tried Windows v1 for an afternoon before uninstalling and dumping the disks in the wastepaper basket to go back to WordPerfect under DOS. Those were the days !! Philip -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
