I can remember being online on Quantum Link, the precursor to AOL, and
there'd be less than 23 people online across the country...
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From: healeys-bounces+wsthompson=thicko.com@autox.team.net
[mailto:healeys-bounces+wsthompson=thicko.com@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of T
W
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 9:11 AM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Cc: AAHealeyguy@aol.com
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Computer Stuff not Healey related
This thread is a walk down memory lane...
I ran CP/M on my Heathkit H-8. I had 64K of memory and 3 floppy drives
squeezed into the H-17 disk drive enclosure with a cooling fan to keep the
power supply from overheating. The first program I wrote was a terminal
emulator in basic; that was too slow so I re-wrote it in 8080 assembler.
Mine was built in my apartment in Halethorpe, MD. :-) It's boxed up now,
waiting until I get too old to get in and out of my Healey.
At my first real job, our lab had a DEC PDP-12 (basically a PDP-8 / LINC).
I use to program that in FOCAL or PAL-8 assembler. It had no disk drives, a
tape drive, and a paper-tape punch/reader on a teletype machine. And 16K of
memory.
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