My turn to quibble. You are using the term PC the way IBM used it I
was not. I meant a personal computer that could sit on your desk in
early 1978. Mine was an Imsai 8080 and the operating system was put in
by toggle switches on the front and the display was an ADM terminal. I
used a version of BASIC that preceded MS but loaded that one as soon as
I could.
At the time, Radio Shack also had a computer but I didn't want to tie
myself to their components as Apple did not too long after. My first
memory was 32K (not an error) and it was on a circuit board that was,
as I remember about 8" x 12". I soon got another one so I had a
magnificent 64K and one disk drive for floppy disk that were really
floppy and held 64K. My memory is not that good anymore but I think
the idea is there.
I think my printer was more ancient than yours: an old Teletype. I
had a friend modify a Selectric for my later on.
NoOp wrote:
On 02/13/2008 03:27 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 23:00, Bob K. wrote:
I've been using desktop PCs for over 30 years
Sorry to quibble, but the first PC wasn't launched until August 12, 1981. So
it can't be _over_ 30 years!!
My ability to _remember_ the history of computers is very distressing. Well,
at least I can say that I don't remember Colossus, tho' I do ante-date
it. :-(
Lisi
Oh my aren't youngsters wonderful... :-)
My first "desktop" was a breadboarded 8008 w/Kleinschmidt Teletype
around 1975. I later upgraded in 1977 to a "real" desktop in 1977
(shipped to me in Japan) that I built from a kit - Heathkit H-8 w/H-9
video terminal, handmade 300 baud modem (Motorola chipset) & a converted
IBM Selectric as a printer.
Anyway; Welcome to OOo Bob K. - the unwritten motto here is pretty much
"pass it forward when you can" :-)
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