<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Oh man! I feel dated now...I had a Cromemco Z2(S100 running CP/M 2.21) back then, and later a Ferguson Big Board and the requisite Apple ][ Plus with a Microsoft Z80 Softcard.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">A real close friend of mine had beaten me to the punch though, an Imsai 8080, which he still has and boots up once a year in the winter to heat up his basement fast.:-)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Which S100 beastie does/did he have?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron S.<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 9:54 AM Doug Moen <<a href="mailto:doug@moens.org">doug@moens.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u><div><div>My dad got an S100/CPM/Z-80 system in 1977, which was a milestone in my life.<br></div><div>We skipped the IBM PC, and he got a Macintosh in 1984.<br></div><div>It was the Mac that was lifechanging for me. The PC with DOS (which I never used) was not that different from CPM.<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, Aug 12, 2021, at 8:54 AM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="gmail-m_5154752171107205969qt"><div dir="ltr"><div>Our lives were irrevocably changed forty years ago this month:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/40-years-of-the-pc/" target="_blank">https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/40-years-of-the-pc/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>(I started on a Vic-20, tbh... long live 4k RAM!)<br></div><div><br></div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>kwlug-disc mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a><br></div><div><a href="https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org" target="_blank">https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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