[GreenKeys] OT a bit: Memory Lane

[Steve Garrison]

Wow, Cromemco!  Does that bring back memories; the Cadillac of S-100
computers.  The first Cromemco 2MB (that's right megabyte) was priced at
$6995.  And that period on the previous sentence was where the decimal point
was, not between the two nines!

I worked for a company that sold Cromemco systems, mostly in GA, but some in
the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Panama.  NASA and the FAA had systems from us
as well, and I even hood-winked a 2 week service support trip along with
NASA to a United Nations Conference in Vienna.  Got to go to just about
every one of our installation either for the initial install or later for
service and support.

Enough memory lane, everyone have a great day!

Steve G./N4TTY

-----Original Message-----
From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net <greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net>
On Behalf Of Harold Hallikainen
Sent: Saturday, August 7, 2021 11:55 PM
To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] OT a bit: USB TTY RS232 modem to wifi

When I got my first MS-DOS machine (a 286 to replace the Cromemco Z80
machine), I ran z80mu (
http://www.hehlhans.de/bilder/euroz80/download/Z80MU.pdf ) on the 286.
With that, I ran dBase II and our inventory control program. Also ran cross
assemblers for the Motorola 6800 and 6805 (early microcontroller).

archive.org has a flash emulator so you can run flash content without having
Flash.

That Wifi RS232 adapter is interesting. If you could set it to 45.45 bps, I
wonder if it could pass hand typed Baudot. The most significant bits would
be 1, just looking like a long stop bit. It would not be able to handle
"tape speed" baudot unless it was indeed set to 5 bits per character.

Harold