P3D Re: Back from the DDDead! - Part I

[Tom Hubin <thubin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Greg,

> 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.

Beat ya ;)

Late 1960s I worked with an IBM 1620. It had 20k nibbles of BCD memory.
Later the IBM 360. Finally built my own machine.

Mid 1970s my first build was a Heathkit H8 with 8kb of ram amd a 12
button keypad. later I added monitor, keyboard, a pair of 360kb drives,
and DOS. Several years later I built a Heathkit (Zenith) XT.

Tom Hubin
thubin@xxxxxxxxx



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