Any of you youngsters remember the Ferguson Big Board? Z80 CPU and
64k memory. My first real computer, built with my own two hands and
it actually worked first time. Two (count 'em at $450 each) 8"
Seagate floppies. CP/M forever!
geep
On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:06 PM, N4PY2 wrote:
I remember back in 1976, we were developing a store controller
system that used an 8 inch floppy drive as its main storage device.
The diskette drive used a geneva mechanism for moving the head. It
took 5 full seconds for the head to move from one end of the floppy
to the other!
Carl Moreschi N4PY
121 Little Bell Drive
Bell Mountain
Hays, NC 28635
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Ellison" <telli...@itsco.com>
To: "N4PY2" <n4...@earthlink.net>; "Ross Stenberg" <ross.stenb...@charter.net
>; "Flex Radio" <FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz>
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:44 PM
Subject: RE: [SPAM] Re: [Flexradio] OT
It is tough getting old. I recently threw away an original IBM XT
10 MB hard drive (I am sure the seek times were I the seconds). Oh
the bygone days of the 16-bit 8088 4.77 MHz personal computer. My
toaster has more processing power than the old XT. We have come so
far....
-Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz
] On Behalf Of N4PY2
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:33 PM
To: Ross Stenberg; Flex Radio
Subject: [SPAM] Re: [Flexradio] OT
I have a bunch of them myself that I should throw away. But I don't
have anymore 8 inch floppies!
Carl Moreschi N4PY
121 Little Bell Drive
Bell Mountain
Hays, NC 28635
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ross Stenberg" <ross.stenb...@charter.net>
To: "Flex Radio" <FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz>
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:28 PM
Subject: [Flexradio] OT
Nothing relevant but just wanted to mention that I just found an
old box
full of 5 1/4 floppy disks. Throwing away originals of MS-DOS 5.0,
Windows
3.0, ProComm Plus, Norton 6.01, AfterDark screensaver, and Orchid
video
drivers. It's tough to get old.
73 Ross K9COX
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