I built a kit version of the Kaypro 2 in 1983, and remember Intel
assembly language, Wordstar, and so on.  It came as a bare, unpopulated
circuit board; I had to solder all the sockets for the chips and
descrete components by hand.  Soldered all my own floppy cables and
interfaces, too. Good days; when you really had to know the architecture
of the system to get along.  

That was actually my second homegrown.  The first was called a Quest
Super-Elf, and it had a 8-bit RCA 1802 processor, and 4K of memory. I
built it in 1981.  It had only a hex keypad on the front.  I wrote the
programs in assembler, hand-assembled them into binary, transposed to
hex, and entered them in on the hex keypad.  I saved programs to
cassette tapes.  Good training I suppose, but it sure required patience.


I still have the two mother-boards for those computers, framed and
hanging in my office.  

Best Regards,

John D. Schneider
The Computer Coaching Community, LLC
Office: (314) 635-5424 / Toll Free: (866) 796-9226
Cell: (314) 750-8721



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] why create a 12TB LUN
From: "Bruce T. Harvey" <bruce.harvey.nonemployee AT PNC DOT COM>
Date: Fri, May 28, 2010 11:25 am
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU

Now you're making me yearn for my Kaypro 2 ... 56K of application memory
and when you used 'DDT' on the upper memory, you'd run into a small text
field that said, "NOSEY LITTLE BASTARD, AREN'T YOU?" in the middle of a
mass of nulls. up near about 63.5K or so.

Good old Z-80 code .... and swapping mini-floppies every time I used
Wordstar.

Many thanks!

Bruce T.

>>>
Bruce T. Harvey
AIX Network Engineer
PNC Bank @ Rivertech
office 301-699-4013
facsimile 301-887-4070
mobile 443-465-1204




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On May 28, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Thorneycroft, Doug wrote:

> OK, I think I have you all beat on the early high tech front.
> Commodore VIC-20 with a whopping 5K memory, and a cassette player
> for storage.

If you're going to be like that...
I had a MITS Altair 8800 with 256 bytes of memory, where you would step
through memory to then toggle bits on and off via sense switches beneath
LEDs.
I think we should stop there, rather than go back further, to desk
calculators and comptometers. :-)

 Richard Sims



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