[SOC] Fwd: Re: Retro-computing, was "Hi"

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De Joe, VE3VXO,

Speaking of Apple, does anybody remember when they came out with the Lisa
computer?  The college I was attending bought one for each bench in the
lab.  It was an enormous desktop box from the day when people at Apple
seemed to believe people needed a computer that was all in one case.  Well
this was one of those VHS/Betamax situations and despite it having some
impressive specs for the day, nobody was writing any software for it and
those boxes to the embarassment of our prof's sat dormant in the lab for a
couple of years while we played with assembler programming on intel
development kits. This was about on par for the way things went in the only
english speaking college in the province of Quebec. ( no doubt also part of
the reason I am only a second class operator)  Check out that sexy one
button mouse with no scroll wheel!

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/lisa2.jpg

Best regards
Joe ve3vxo



On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 6:02 AM F5PBL - Claude <f5pbl at dx.to
<mailto:f5pbl at dx.to>> wrote:

    Hi all,

    > I remember when I got my Apple2 system back in 1975 (it cost as much as a
    > small car back then) and had 48kB of RAM.

    Funny fact: I am currently "loosing my time" with a Pravetz 82 (Bulgarian
    clone of the Apple II+).
    Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravetz_computers

    I am an 6502 fan but planning to give the 6809 a try.
    Do you really want to start a new "6502 vs Z80" war? ;)

    If interested in retro things, you can visit
    https://www.retrobrewcomputers.org/doku.php?id=start
    The N8VEM  architecture is archived there, among other things.

    73 & less,
    Claude, F5PBL - #503j