[NLRS] Who's the computer programmer in the bunch?

[Fast Eddie]

I just had to jump onto bandwagon here.... I still have my first and the one 
of first Commodore single-board computers made, the KIM-6502, 2K of ram, hex 
keypad and used a tape cassette for data storage...   I even hooked it up to 
300 lb model 35-KSR teletype via the 20ma loop... sheesh those were the days 
of machine code!

Eddie VE3KRP



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I still have a few Sinclairs sitting around, I believe 4 mhz, 4 mbs, 
cassette drive and they displayed on your tv!  Gotta dig them out one of 
these days!
Dan
KC0RQH

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From: "Ford Peterson", INTERNET:ford at cmgate.com
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Date: 6/30/106  9:12 PM

RE: Re: [NLRS] Who's the computer programmer in the bunch?




Jerry wrote:

...snip...

> Before I built my CP/M system, I built a school computer that uses a
> cassette drive and it still runs. Its a candidate for the state
> historical museum being the first computer built for elementary school
> kids to use. My second computer was for a weather company, a Z80 with a
> quarter mb of RAM that monitored a 1200 baud weather wire and let them
> search thee saved data  (and it saved on what they told it to save) with
> a terminal. It ran 18 years 24/7 with only 40 hours total down time. It
> wore out two sets of back up batteries and I had to change them with
> power up each time.
> -- 
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ,
> All content copyright Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer

I think you may have me beat on this score.  My first computer was purchased 
by Norwest for use by the Treasury dept.  Serial number 1014, and I think 
they started at 1000.  It had no floppy drive (none was available as an 
accessory), no hard disk (obviously) and used a cassette port.  The 16K ram 
had been upgraded to 56K as I recall, using the logic "who could ever use 
more than 56K of ram?"  The newer stuff came with 64K but you needed a 
memory card to get the originals past 56K.  We upgraded to the 128K floppies 
after they were available.  That would have been about 1980 or 1981 or 
thereabouts.  Bare bones cost was about $2800.  With monochrome (green) 
monitor, extra ram, and cassette deck it was well into the mid $3K as I 
recall.  Quite the deal at the time.  The only one in the company was on my 
desk because nobody else could figure out how to make it do anything other 
than blink "OK>"  There were no programs yet.  Only Bill Gate's "Basic"

Ah yes, the good ole days...  When you could make a computer add three 
numbers together, print them on the screen with the phrase "hello world," 
and get oohhhs and aaahhhs from the boss.

Ford-N0FP
ford at cmgate.com

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