"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:32:21 GMT, "Bryan"
wrote:



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