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Author:  BluesBrian [ Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:03 pm ]
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grante wrote:
Xsecrets wrote:
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I had an Everex "Edge" ISA graphics card that did _both_ CGA
and Hercules graphics.

Wow I don't feel like such an old man anymore. I was afraid I
was the only one left on the internet that remembered ISA CGA
EGA hercules etc. :D

Hey, just because there are two of us, it doesn't make you any
younger. :)

I'm still using the keyboard that came with my IBM PC-AT (the
new-fangled 8MHz version, not the original 6MHz one).


or three of us? I'll have to admit, I don't think that I ever used a CGA or Herc board on the internet! .. I quickly adopted VGA. (Although, maybe/maybe-not a CGA card.. I was an early Prodigy user before going to CompuServe!)

I recently gave up my "Austin Computer" keyboard for something that's a little more modern! (Yes, Dell/PC Unlimited did have a "local competitor" at one time!) :lol: The only thing that I wish I kept.. I had one of those original "cigarette box" Logitech mouse! .. before "Ergo" came on the scene!
Author:  tjc [ Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:17 pm ]
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PC-DOS? IBM PC-AT? Heh. One TLA, "CP/M". ;-)

Anybody else remember working with the original Commodore 6502 based PET, or the SWTP 6800 based machines, or the original IMSAI 8080? Or remember when "Byte" was still stapled rather than glue bound?
Author:  Dale [ Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:23 pm ]
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I had an IMSAI S100 bus machine in 1976 - my first "pc".
Author:  grante [ Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:46 pm ]
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My S100 bus machine was sort-of home-brew. The backplane was a
PC board I laid out myself. The CPU board was a Z80 board I
scrounged from somewhere. I had a memory board with 2K of ROM
(eight Intel 1702A 256x8 UV EPROMS) and 1KB of RAM (8 1Kx1
SRAMs). The I/O board was a home-brew wire-wrap board with two
Western Digital UARTs (40 pin DIPS, IIRC), and an 8 bit
parallel port.

It was housed in a discarded Motorola Exorcizer rack-mount
chassis to which I had added toggle switches and LEDs that were
intended to be used to load programs into RAM. I got the
serial port working with an assembly language monitor program I
typed in out of a book. I had access to an Intel MDS-800
"blue-box" where I could assemble the monitor and burn the
EPROMs. I never bothered to hook up the front panel switches
(other than the reset button).

I think that was about 1980.

The plan was to trey to save up enough money for a big RAM
board (64K!), a floppy disk controller board, and a couple 8"
floppy drives, and a copy of CP/M.

Before I was able to save up that sort of money, the IBM PC
came out, and I ended with the aforementioned 8MHz IBM-AT.
Author:  larrybpsu [ Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:35 pm ]
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Ok gang....this went way off topic, but I'll just add to the list.

I still own and RUN a Pentium-Pro PC that has an original IBM Monochrome board in it. ;) Hercules cards...I remember ordering one of the 'plus boards'...just to run MS-Word for DOS in graphics modes and see the italiacs and bolds on the green screen. It would run MS Windows 3.x, too! Wow!

I never did tinker with the S100 systems, but there was a class at the university that would build and program the eeproms.... I ended up learning enough to re-burn the eprom in my RLL controller in my IBM PC to recognize a Seagate ST-277 so I could get 65 MB out of the bugger.

Anyone remember the AST Six-Pack Premium? I had one...fully decked out with all the ports, and 1.5MB of EMS. Add to that a NEC V-20 chip!

Too bad those systems can't run Myth these days. :(
Author:  mogator88 [ Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:52 pm ]
Post subject:  My stoneage computer experiences
My first computer class in high school we programmed in BASIC and FORTRAN on punch cards. Our "graphics" were displayed on roller-fed paper. A CRT monitor was a big deal at my school. We'd have drooled over something like a VT100. This was early-mid 80's Chicago.
Author:  BluesBrian [ Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:47 am ]
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tjc wrote:
Anybody else remember working with the original Commodore 6502 based PET, or the SWTP 6800 based machines, or the original IMSAI 8080? Or remember when "Byte" was still stapled rather than glue bound?

Yep. my brother and me got a SWTP 6800 in 1978. wow, when memory was counted in Kbytes! I also wire-wrapped an RCA 1802 cpu.. with 8 toggle switches to enter the code! .. later, I added a hex keypad to make it easy! It could even pulse-dial a phone! (we've come a long way to KM.. but that was the whole idea!)
Author:  jmckeown2 [ Wed Dec 12, 2007 4:59 am ]
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My first computer was a Franklin "Ace 1000." The Ace was a clone of the original Apple ][+; the company was sued by Apple for cloning their ROMs. Apple won that one.

I initially subscribed to "Computer Shopper" because I was ticked off at my mail carrier. Anyone remember "Computer Shopper" from the days before the internet?
Author:  cameraready [ Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:51 am ]
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I had one of the Commodore PET systems. The one with the chicklet style keyboard and the tape cassette for saving your basic programs. I remember getting our first 5-1/4" floppy drive for the C64 and thinking how much data we could save on those. :shock:
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