First personal computer nostalgia

From: Dwight Elvey <elvey_at_hal.com>
Date: Thu Nov 16 18:20:48 2000

~1969 Play with programmable Monroe calculator. CRT display
      with about 100 steps.
1969-1975 See the world in the Navy. Got to watch some
      blinking lights and once did a boot load from tape.
      I don't recall the computer but it was in two modules
      that opened like a clam shell.
~1975 see articles in Pop. Elect. about building computers.
      Bought a TI 50 calculator.
~1978 Bought a used Poly88. I spend many an hour fiddling
      with this including a few circuit improvements.
~1979 Went to work for Intel. I was responsible for test
      of UPP and the controller cards for M2FM drives.
~1982 Bought H89. I thought the price of their OS was
      bad so I didn't buy it. I hand entered a Forth and
      wrote my own disk block I/O.
~1985 PC ------------
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1995 Started working for a company that designs 64 bit
     SPARC processors for high end systems.

 Some place in there, I started, actively rather than passively,
collecting old computers. And worse, I started collection pinball
machine as well. Help!
Dwight

All dates are fudged slightly to protect the guilty. The facts
are all true.
Received on Thu Nov 16 2000 - 18:20:48 GMT