This thread is a walk down memory lane...
I ran CP/M on my Heathkit H-8. I had 64K of memory and 3 floppy drives
squeezed into the H-17 disk drive enclosure with a cooling fan to keep the
power supply from overheating. The first program I wrote was a terminal
emulator in basic; that was too slow so I re-wrote it in 8080 assembler.
Mine was built in my apartment in Halethorpe, MD. :-) It's boxed up now,
waiting until I get too old to get in and out of my Healey.
At my first real job, our lab had a DEC PDP-12 (basically a PDP-8 / LINC).
I use to program that in FOCAL or PAL-8 assembler. It had no disk drives, a
tape drive, and a paper-tape punch/reader on a teletype machine. And 16K of
memory.
- Tom
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:03 PM, <AAHealeyguy@aol.com> wrote:
> And we first used a Kaypro computer with CPM operating system, all
> together
> in one unit that the keyboard folded up onto the screen area and made
> like
> a big heavy suitcase. Used WordStar, DataStar, etc and with the big
> big
> floppy disks. And went from that right into Windows (skipping DOS) and a
> mouse !! ??? What's that? !!
>
> Gerry K (in San Diego) where Kaypro was made right here in Solano Beach
>
>
>
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