I reaaaaaaallyyyyyyy love this tread guys, don´t feel stupid when
bombing this OO.o-forum with "I used to use an pretty old shiny thing
called XYZ-machine.. It hadn´t any keyboard or monitor or other vital
stuff. But it didn´t matter.. It was so cooooool ! I was the first guy
on the block with this thing, and I still have in my bedroom..."
Please... start an new forum called "Me and my antique stuff...." ;-)
but let this thread die.....
// Per
James Knott skrev:
Ugly Me wrote:
----- 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?
He and Paul Allen came up with a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800.
The IMSAI 8080 was a better quality clone of the Altair. He also used
to dig source code out of the garbage for his own use and then got all
upset when someone copied his BASIC interpreter.
