"RCE" wrote in message
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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:32:21 GMT, "Bryan"
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i built an altair 8080 which, well wasn't the neatest thing on the
block, but it worked - i did some rudimentary switching with the
thing. then i went to work for small time mini-computer company and
had my run of minis until about '79 when i bought an apple ii. then
an apple iie. then a vic 20, commodore 64 and into the pc world from
there building my own until five years ago when it became a silly
quest to roll your own when you could buy for less than you could
build.

Had Commodore 64 for a while - replaced my first computer - A Texas
Instruments TI-1 or something like that. It didn't have a disk drive -
had 16k of memory - and you saved your programs to a cheap Radio Shack
reel to reel tape recorder.

In our business, we built a fully automatic vapor deposition coating
system using a Tandy Trash 80. I still shutter when I think about it.

Eisb ..... ooops ...

RCE


TI-99. I think it is still in the gargage. Had the best game for kids.
Alpiner. My daughters loved that game. Tandy had one of the best early
PC's. Had the much superior Motorola 68000 and ran SCO Unix. I think it
was the 16B. We used it to develop a multi computer hook up disk subsystem
with 8 megabytes of Cache. When 8 Megs cost a couple of thousand dollars.