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.
My first computer was also an Imsai 8080 and when I bought it, I also bought 4 K bytes of memory, later increased to a total of 20K. I also used a M35 ASR Teletype for my printer. My 1st keyboard was a kit from South West Technical Products and I used a security monitor for display. I also had a pair of cassette recorders for storage. My BASIC was "Scelbal" and I typed in all the octal code by hand! BTW, the S-100 bus boards were about 10" x 5" or thereabouts. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
