----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Knott" <james.kn...@rogers.com>
To: <users@openoffice.org>
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.


> My first computer was an IMSAI 8080, which I built from a kit* in Nov
> 1976.  Everything, memory, I/O etc., was extra.  I also used cassettes
> with it, but later was able to use paper tape on my M35 ASR Teletype. 
> Back in those days, there was very little software available for sale,
> so you often had to write your own.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSAI_8080
> 
> *A "kit" consisted of bare boards and bags of parts that had to be
> soldered to the boards.  The whole thing then had to be assembled.

Isn't that how Bill Gates started out?



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