That does it - I going to the cupboard and taking out my Hp45 calculator (thats before
you got the programmable ones) and I am going to grab a bowl of blue berries and watch
the Video of Niel Armstrong romping on the moon . And just for fun see if I can still
disassemble the TRS-*(*! Basic Interpreter - Z80 intruction set was a zinger in it's
time.
This is getting scary - I remember playing with this stuff.
"Howard C. Berkowitz" wrote:
> >I didn't get to play at the high stakes tables (where the PDP-11 people sit)
> >but I do fondly recall the happy feeling of getting my SYM-1 talking to a
> >KIM-1 via serial connection.....
> >
> >The SYM-1 was really funky for it's time as it had a quasi video out that
> >would display a line of text on a oscilliscope's screen...
> >These computers came out after the boxes with all the paddle switches
> >(Altair8080) but before video was a "standard" item....
> >
> >Actually with the other thread about age I am starting to feel old......
> >Sniff....
> >
> >
> >Bob
>
> And military stuff. Never forget the military stuff.
>
> I fondly remember a description of the KY-57 secure voice unit, which
> said its speech quality demonstrated symmetrical encryption. Not
> symmetrical as in today's usage of public/private key, but in that
> the voice quality was the same whether you were listening to it with
> or without benefit of the key.
>
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