My first computer was a wirewrap board with a 6809, 2k RAM, 8k eprom and serial io to an old GE Terminet 300.? I wrote assembly on it for fun.?
I'll definitely join the group!?
Mike Dooley,N5BGZ
On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 3:36 AM, k6whp<k6whp@...> wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 02:35 PM, Bob Macklin wrote:
I was also in the group that made the 1st 8080/Z80 PC. 1974. We paid Gary
Killdall $25K for the 1st license of CP/M.
Bob,
What an incredible piece of history! When I left the Big Blue world (after my stint in the USAF and 6 years of programming COBOL), I stumbled into the Unix world and was abducted by several of my co-workers to purchase a KayPro wherein I learned the magic of CP/M. Using a "borrowed" C compiler (NOT BDS C), I crafted my own little empire in that box and never looked back. My stock in trade, up until my retirement last October, was C/C++ and I had no truck with those who trafficked in the "development environments du jour" named after restaurants proximate to train lines or that syrupy hot beverage so many delight in drinking.
Now, with so much water under the bridge, the kids think ancient history is the rise of Apple since their first smart phone and few realize that there is a Sumerian pre-history *before* this that dominated personal computing. Also, I never put much stock in a guy who based his success on writing a Basic interpreter (Bill Gates). My Idol, Gary Kildall, remains so..as does my conviction that he could whoop Gates' fanny in a bar fight.
I vote for the creation of a Groups.io assemblage of the old 8-bit machines as well.
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William, K6WHP
"Cheer up, things could get worse..so I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse!"
