[Milsurplus] Re: kicking tires off our PCs

[Cletus W Whitaker]

de WB2CPN                2004.09.16

There was a lot of CP/M around before RS TRS80 Mod 1
came out.  When I got my TRS80 Mod 3 it was said there
were more programers writing in BASIC than any other
language, including ASSY and COBOL.  RS had a word
processor called "ScripsIt" but it died quickly.  I
still have some BASIC stuff I wrote back then, and
I run a thing called "GWBASIC" although I tried DRDOS
for a while.  Problem with the TRS-80 was it did
interfere with my ham radio.  I wish I'd hung on to
the AT&T 6300's I had.  Also, IBM metal keyboards
were unique.  My machine here is an "A-Open" that's
eight years old.  In the early 70's H-P came out
with a small table top or rack mount machine that
had 48 K wire core.  It never survived.  AT&T came
up with their 3B1 desk top which took a good 5 minutes
to boot up from a cold start.  AT&T ran UNIX then.
Back then the PDP-11 was more attractive, but the
1401 was smaller.

73  Clete