> My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honkin' big desktop > horizontal all-steel box, with a "Turbo" switch that toggles a > front-panel (7-segment LED) display between "4.77" and "8.00" > > And of floppies that really *are* floppy (5.25")... > > And of copy-protected diskettes and CopyIIpc and CopyWrite... > > As you can see, I have a severely traumatic childhood... > > Rgds,
You mean those small floppies? Remember the big 8 inchers? In the early days, putting a computer together took more than a screw driver. Remember soldering irons and PC board kits with discrete components? I do believe I still have an S-100 bus machine in my attic. Regards, David
