> 1977: My first 'PC' was a KIM-1, which now resides in the Santa Barbara
> Fortress of Schloss Marvin.
> [...]
First ?
Well this woul be a never finished 4 Bit CPU build up from real
transistors in '76. Back than, at a training lesson, I did a
discrete NAND gate at the size of a bottle cap which stated the
thing. The task was to put 4 NANDs on a Eurocard board (4x6" ?)
with a defined connector - and I did put 'em as compact as possible
into the corners - as mirror images of each other. Doing this I
realized that I may put a 4 bit adder on just one board, and
it took of - just to be scraped somewhere halveways and replaced
in '77 by a design around a Valvo/Signetics 2650 CPU with the
terrible hughe MEM of 64 Bytes. All TTL, and horrible expensive -
I had no idea, and the TTL list was my best friend :) Data input
via switches and trigger button, output via 8 LEDs :) Next was a
KIM in 1978 ( I couldn't aford the AIM :) and in
1979 an Apple ][ - I had to take a loan to buy it - just to be
drafted half a year later.
1983 a PC-Clone joined my living room (almost as expensive as
the real one) - no, not for programming - I still did all IBM
Jobs with Turbo Pascal in CP/M on my Apple - transfered them to
the PC and did a recompile, colour adjustment ad teyboard test.
1984/5 Finaly a PC replaced my Apple, but again not a IBM, not
even a clone, but the Siemens PC-D (in my mind still the best
ever x86 Computer).
>From there on nothin special anymore :(
Oh yes, and another footnote in 1983 - the PET - the first computer
I bought just to have it... basicly the start of my collection.
:))
Gruss
H.
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