----- Original Message ----- From: "James Knott" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.
> My first computer was an IMSAI 8080, which I built from a kit* in Nov > 1976. Everything, memory, I/O etc., was extra. I also used cassettes > with it, but later was able to use paper tape on my M35 ASR Teletype. > Back in those days, there was very little software available for sale, > so you often had to write your own. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSAI_8080 > > *A "kit" consisted of bare boards and bags of parts that had to be > soldered to the boards. The whole thing then had to be assembled. Isn't that how Bill Gates started out? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
