[kwlug-disc] 40 years ago?

[CrankyOldBugger]

I'm happy with all the responses that my posting provoked.  It seems that
we're all a bunch of neckbeard Unix guys.. and no, I have no idea what
"neckbeard" means..

So here's my reward to all of us who contributed our stories:
https://youtu.be/PJtiPRDIqtI



On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 22:25, Jonathan Poole via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> I had a ti99. And coleco vision atom/adam.  I remember programming basic
> on it in early 82-83.  Hunt the wompit was my game and apine climber.
> Maybe that was intellivison?  Vision is foggy. No pun intended
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 12, 2021, at 1:33 PM, Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> 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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