On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 20:01 -0500, Mike wrote:
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 19:11, James Knott wrote:
Anyone here remember 8" floppies? Hard sectors? CP/M?
My first computer (SWTC 6800) used cassette tapes - loaded data at a smokin' 300 baud!
My first was Radio Shack 4p two single sided low density 5.25 floppy's no HD and needed a disk knotcher to use other side of floppy. Used LSDOS after RS gave up on maintaining their own. Had a 300 baud internal modem screen and computer in one unit and kb which fit into slot below screen. But at least I did not need a daughter card to get 80 columns. I had a Pascal compiler which cost extra $200. Whole thing about $2k for 64k ram with Z80 processors like those in the original Hubble and space shuttles. -- _______ _______ _______ __ / ____\ \ / / ____|_ _\ \ / / | | \ \ /\ / / (___ | | \ \ / / | | \ \/ \/ / \___ \ | | \ \/ / | |____ \ /\ / ____) |_| |_ \ / \_____| \/ \/ |_____/|_____| \/