Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 18 December 2009, Per Jessen wrote: >>hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote: >>> re: CP/M >>> >>> No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet? >>> >>> My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual >>> 8085/8088 CPU board. At that time, the future in operating systems >>> was going to be CP/M 86. >> >>I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the ZX80/1 yet. I've also got a >>Newbrain stashed away somewhere, manuals, circuit diagrams an' all. >> > That's because the z-80 was only slightly less dain bramaged than the > 6502.
Completely agree, but the ZX80/1 made computers very, very affordable. I was 15 when I managed to convince my parents that I desperately needed one of those. Back in 1981, I think it was about DKK1500, I'm not sure. It was a hell of a jump from the RC7000 with teletype and 32k core memory we had at school. /Per Jessen, Zürich
