My first emulator was for the Coleco ADAM back in the 1990’s. I bought the ADAM in 1984 and watched a community grow up around it in various locations across Canada and the US. The ADAM-con conventions began in 1989 in Orlando. Emulation began in the 1990’s as a response to the continued interest in keeping the 8-bit world going.
Happy computing, Murray 🙂 On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 4:33 PM ben via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 2024-05-19 9:14 a.m., Tarek Hoteit via cctalk wrote: > > A friend of a friend had a birthday gathering. Everyone there was in > their thirties, except for myself, my wife, and our friend. Anyway, I met a > Google engineer, a Microsoft data scientist, an Amazon AWS recruiter (I > think she was a recruiter), and a few others in tech who are friends with > the party host. I had several conversations about computer origins, the > early days of computing, its importance in what we have today, and so on. > What I found disappointing and saddening at the same time is their utmost > ignorance about computing history or even early computers. Except for their > recall of the 3.5 floppy or early 2000’s Windows, there was absolutely > nothing else that they were familiar with. That made me wonder if this is a > sign that our living version of classical personal computing, in which many > of us here in this group witnessed the invention of personal computing in > the 70s, will stop with our generation. I assume that the most engaging > folks in this newsgroup are in their fifties and beyond. (No offense to > anyone. I am turning fifty myself) I sense that no other generation > following this user group's generation will ever talk about Altairs, CP/M > s, PDPs, S100 buses, Pascal, or anything deemed exciting in computing. Is > there hope, or is this the end of the line for the most exciting era of > personal computers? Thoughts? > > > > Regards, > > Tarek Hoteit > > > Well with the internet I have been finding a lot more about behind the > history of the 1970's. > The West Coast made the chips, and the East coast made the computers, > while here in Canada,We just got to watch computers on TV with the > blinking lights back then and the few chip sold by Radio Shack. > > Back then you could get to build a computer of some kind, on the kitchen > table, as the knowledge was available, and parts Thu the hole. People > are going retro simply because modern computers are too complex with > documentation known to a few. > The Z80 may be long gone, but I am sure lots of 8080's are sill > for sale on ebay. > > I wanted to build a computer in my teens, and now I have time and the > money. Looking back in time I see how bad the tech was back the for the > average Joe. BASIC to rot your brain. 4K ram so you never learned how > to comment stuff. Word lengths 4,8,16 so you spent all your time shoe > horning a stuff to fit. Parts costing a arm and a leg, and three weeks > for delivery. > (Today parts from China 95 cents, 2 months delivery and arm and leg for > shipping). > > My latest design on paper, requires 74LSXX,74H74,CY7C122 (25ns 256x4 > ram),13 mhz osc, and lots of cmos 22V10's.A 18 bit serial cpu, > with a memory cycle time of 2.25 uS. I am still working on my > personal computer. > Who knows,It might even work, but first the EMULATOR > and cross assembler. > Ben. > > > > > > > > > >
