First personal computer nostalgia

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Wed Nov 15 22:26:22 2000

Subject: First personal computer nostalgia


the brief history of my adventures in computers...

1968 late, PDP-8 and basic. Early Boces LYRICS also
          known as the Huntington computer project.

1969 early, PALIII on said 8 and early fortran.

1970 fall, PDP-10 TOPS10 what a machine and I had
           hands on access at site. macro-10, Algol, basic

1972 Cincinatti Millicron 16bitter mini (2000 series)
        
1973 fall, first pass at intel 8008, real hardware!
        company machine, still have the chip.

1974 December, Poptronics cover... ALTAIR I had
          to have one Delivered in January '75, completed
          four days later. I would add peripherals an
          memory. form the small 4k, and CT1024 start.

1975 (september) helped friend build Altair.

1976 started getting involved with LICA (LI computer assoc).
        built first block replaceable mass storage using phillips
        cassette. Big 64k of storage per tape.
        
1976 fall, started working with tandy computer.

1977 mar, NS* z80 board and one month later MDC-A
        Disk. First CPM system (V1.4)

1977 PCC 77, Picked up Technico Superstarter board
        (TI9900, 2 kbytes ram, 2708 burner with Monitor roms).
         
1978 dumped altair flakies for a NS horizon-I Crate.
        First UCSD pascal system. still a great package.

1979 added Netronics explorer 8085, National SC/MP.
        started as Apps Engineer with NEC Microcomputers.

1979 (august) Helped build first H11 on LI that I knew of.
        Got H19 terminal to replace TTY.

1980 Cosmac ELF, NEC TK80 added to collection.

1981 IMSAI-imp48 added, started SS100 (multicpu,
        multitasking Z80 super crate)

1981 (late) Multibus, 8088/8mhz, 512k 4 NEC 8" DSDD
        CPM-86 up and running. NSC 8073 (sc/mp with
        NIBBLE). Also TI99/4A with disk.

1982 sept, added LSI-11/2 system from scraps.
        Added SBC built with NEC 7800 cpu.

1983 11/23 built from DEC salvage. Online, Compuserve
        account!

1984 AmproLB+ on line. PDP-8E (Megan has it now)
        DEC LA100-RO printer (still runs great!).

1985 Vt100/125 with VT180 boards. bought box of VT180
        boards (all good 20+ of them) for 25$.

1986 pz80 running, real z80 code, started in 82 it was a
        bit slice z80 _at_10mhz. Retired many micro code
        experiments later.

1989 first VAX! (dec loner it's later buy in '93 for 100$).

1991 first PC, a retired Leading Edge Model D (XT clone)
        I still have it. Actively started collecting systems
        that were turning up cheap that I couldn't previously
        afford.

The rest... well its a disease.

Allison
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