[kwlug-disc] 40 years ago?

[Ron Singh]

Nice one! That was such an underrated vendor, it had little traction in
Canada as I recall. Beautiful hardware.

My 1st printer was a Teletype 33 RO(sans keyboard, punch and stand), had to
convert the current-loop interface to rs-232 to make it useful to my
systems back then. Nothing like pip-ing a file to PRN and hear that lovely
clatter that drove my siblings mad as they tried to watch Welcome Back,
Kotter, haha.

Ron S.



On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 11:23 AM Doug Moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:

> Hi Ron. We had a North Star Horizon with 32kB RAM, dual floppy drives,
> 16x64 character generator display with 48x128 graphics, and a daisywheel
> printer (which was a terminal with its own keyboard). All the important
> chips were socketed. This was a premium system, cost similar to a new car.
>
> Plus a 300 baud acoustically coupled modem. At the time it was illegal to
> connect a modem directly to your phone line without the acoustic coupler.
> (You also could not own your own telephone handset. They could only be
> rented from Bell and only connected to your phone line by a Bell
> technician.)
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021, at 10:15 AM, Ron Singh wrote:
>
> Oh man! I feel dated now...I had a Cromemco Z2(S100 running CP/M 2.21)
> back then, and later a Ferguson Big Board and the requisite Apple ][ Plus
> with a Microsoft Z80 Softcard.
> A real close friend of mine had beaten me to the punch though, an Imsai
> 8080, which he still has and boots up once a year in the winter to heat up
> his basement fast.:-)
>
> Which S100 beastie does/did he have?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron S.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 9:54 AM Doug Moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:
>
>
> My dad got an S100/CPM/Z-80 system in 1977, which was a milestone in my
> life.
> We skipped the IBM PC, and he got a Macintosh in 1984.
> It was the Mac that was lifechanging for me. The PC with DOS (which I
> never used) was not that different from CPM.
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021, at 8:54 AM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>
> Our lives were irrevocably changed forty years ago this month:
>
> https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/40-years-of-the-pc/
>
> (I started on a Vic-20, tbh... long live 4k RAM!)
>
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