On 02/14/2008 02:28 PM, Bob K. wrote: > 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.
You replying to Lisi or Me? Mine was in *reply to* Lisi and was: >> 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" :-) >> Anyway... welcome to OOo :-) Get your threading & quoting right & you'll be just fine. Don't forget to toggle those switches first though... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
