To: Retired Chemist
Ah, when I had my first “home computer”, you couldn’t BUY one. I had to wire wrap it, and the parts alone almost broke me in high school.
9 posted on
03/17/2015 8:01:22 PM PDT by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
To: The Antiyuppie
"Ah, when I had my first “home computer”, you couldn’t BUY one. I had to wire wrap it, and the parts alone almost broke me in high school."I wire wrapped boards with Z80s to make CPM machines. I believe the STD bus came along somewhere in there...
23 posted on
03/17/2015 8:28:47 PM PDT by
MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
To: The Antiyuppie
You guys were all rich and didn't have to stat with a Digital-Comp 1 with mechanical registers.
30 posted on
03/17/2015 8:46:21 PM PDT by
ProtectOurFreedom
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