P3D Re: Back from the DDDead! - Part I

[Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:16 PM 2/17/99 -0700, you wrote:

>Ha!  Call *that* pioneering?  I assembled my first personal computer in
>1979.  It was an S100-bus based Z80 machine running at 4 (yes, four!)
>MHz.  It had 56K (yes, K!) RAM and dual 8-inch floppy drives, for a
>whopping 1.2 megabytes of storage on-line.  It ran the CP/M operating
>system from Digital Research.  This was the sort of machine that the Y2K
>bug was invented for; every byte was precious.

Ha! Call *that* pioneering?  I started my own discrete CPU logic design until
I switched to designing and building my own 8008 system *before* any
of the processors hit the magazines.  Much later came the S100 bus
and systems, and I built (my own hw & sw design) 8080 and Z80
systems.  Designed my own video terminal that at the time blew away any
available commercial ones -- all wire wrapped by yours truly back in
my younger hardcore-nurd days, hopefully cured.... mostly :-).

Of course, it didn't hurt that in the early 70's I was an engineer
at Intel's largest customer (when Intel was a teeny tiny company)
and was the first comercial users of microprocessors.  :-)  Didn't know
Intel used to be teeny tiny?  It's true!  Had I only bought $10 of their
stock back then. :-)

Back to stereo.... anybody seen the reviews/announcements of the new
Nikon 950 digital camera?  A pair of those would be very very
nice!  Only about $1K each, still cheaper than an RBT camera!

Mike K.

P.S. - Now trying out (IMAP) YAMailer, this time from home.

P.P.S. - I also attended the first computer faire  where some joker
	named "Woz" and another joker Steve Jobs were showing
	their new Apple I which I thought was a joke and would amount
	to nothing.  Well, actually it was bad, and it went nowhere, but
	they did seem to succeed a wee bit better overall than I have  with
	their later products  :-)



------------------------------

End of PHOTO-3D Digest 3203
***************************