On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:27:01AM -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 07:25 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote: <snip>
Got to use those on a display writer. As for the cp/m, I still have my TRS-80, Model I.
I built the Big Board in about 1982. I scrounged up used 8" drives for $250 each. (240K per disk!) I found a keyboard that originally had only upper-case output, and built a hardware converter out of TTL logic (not my strong suit--I'm an RF guy) and wrote an article for Micro Cornucopia on how to get better video definition. For the CPM driver for my daisy- wheel printer, I had to find someone who knew how to code in whatever language the thing understood. However, I learned and used Pascal on the machine. (Took a night course in it.) It also ran Basic and Word- Star, and I had the game with the twisty underground tunnels, etc. I thought this was wonderful! I even brought the machine to work and used it there for a while to do real work, with (mostly) programs that I wrote myself. Those were the days. . . .
Wow, that predates me. :) The first system I got my hands on was a TRS-80 Model I when I was in fifth grade. Started doing BASIC on it. In my high school, we had a few of the IBM word processors, which I thought were very cool. I did play around a bit with Kaypro machines, which used CP/M like the TRS-80.
I very quickly moved on to my cool new Apple IIe, with a roarin' 128MB RAM. That's where I picked up some Pascal, which only served to help me write games.
You got an Apple II to use 128 MBs of RAM??????
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Oh, you must be using that OTHER operating system. :) (I have AGV on my Win2K system.)
Which reminds me. I need to figure out how to setup the spam guard on KMail...
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