On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Lester, Bob <bles...@ofiglobal.com> wrote:
> Hi John, > > Commodore 64 anyone? :-) > > Do you know what OS it ran? > Some variant of Microsoft BASIC, in ROM. > > Was the HW an x86? Motorola? Apple? > Motorola 8 bit 6510 CPU. Apple ][ was the 6502(?). And don't forget the Atari 800 (and lesser 400), which was 6502 based. Or, the one that I had: Tandy / Radio Shack's TRS-80 (affectionately known as the "trash-80") which was Zilog Z-80 (superset of Intel 8080) based. Oh, and the grandfather of them all (immortalized in "War Games" - how did they get an acoustic coupled modem to autodial?????) was the Imsai 8080. Not to mention many other CP/M-80 machines, such as Comemco and Altair 8800. These latter two had the "feature" of being able to toggle individual bytes into memory via switches on the box. Damn, I'm old. > > I had a buddy (years ago, of course), that did strange and wonderful > (at the time) things with several of them connected together. No cases, > wires everywhere, but pretty cool anyhow for the time. > > TGIF, else I'd be in trouble. :-) > > BobL > > -- Werner Heisenberg is driving down the autobahn. A police officer pulls him over. The officer says, "Excuse me, sir, do you know how fast you were going?" "No," replies Dr. Heisenberg, "but I know where I am." Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance -- Jim Horning Schrodinger's backup: The condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted. He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
