Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 09:08:01 CDT 2007
In the immortal words of my cherished friend and colleague Dejan Sunderic, "You had ones? In Serbia we were so poor we had to program everything in zeroes!" A. On 6/25/07, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: > > Back in the day I fixed electronics and built my own computers from kits. > My CPM machine was a single board computer (as they were called back then) > with a 16 mhz 80186 and 512K of ram. I had dual 8" floppies which set me > back $800 for the pair of floppy drives. I built that in 1983 and it was > the fastest machine I owned until I purchased my 20 mhz '386 in 1988. I > gave the CPM machine away when I bought a PCXT. The XT was slower but it > ran DOS and had a hard drive and could use a ram board that I stuffed with > 4 > mb or ram. I used that for a ram drive. > >