<div dir="ltr"><div>I'm happy with all the responses that my posting provoked. It seems that we're all a bunch of neckbeard Unix guys.. and no, I have no idea what "neckbeard" means..</div><div><br></div><div>So here's my reward to all of us who contributed our stories: <a href="https://youtu.be/PJtiPRDIqtI">https://youtu.be/PJtiPRDIqtI</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 22:25, Jonathan Poole via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.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"><div dir="auto">I had a ti99. And coleco vision atom/adam. I remember programming basic on it in early 82-83. Hunt the wompit was my game and apine climber. Maybe that was intellivison? Vision is foggy. No pun intended <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 12, 2021, at 1:33 PM, Ron Singh <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Nice<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> one! That was such an underrated vendor, it had little traction in Canada as I recall. Beautiful hardware.</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">My 1st printer was a Teletype 33 RO(sans keyboard, punch and stand), had to convert the current-loop interface to rs-232 to make it useful to my systems back then. Nothing like pip-ing a file to PRN and hear that lovely clatter that drove my siblings mad as they tried to watch Welcome Back, Kotter, haha.</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span></div><div><br>Ron S.<br><br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 11:23 AM Doug Moen <<a href="mailto:doug@moens.org" target="_blank">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>Hi Ron. We had a North Star Horizon with 32kB RAM, dual floppy drives, 16x64 character generator display with 48x128 graphics, and a daisywheel printer (which was a terminal with its own keyboard). All the important chips were socketed. This was a premium system, cost similar to a new car.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Plus a 300 baud acoustically coupled modem. At the time it was illegal to connect a modem directly to your phone line without the acoustic coupler. (You also could not own your own telephone handset. They could only be rented from Bell and only connected to your phone line by a Bell technician.)<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, Aug 12, 2021, at 10:15 AM, Ron Singh wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="gmail-m_5277773142765402364gmail-m_-6349548786431262271qt"><div dir="ltr"><div 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.<br></div><div 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.:-)<br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Which S100 beastie does/did he have?<br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Ron S.<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 9:54 AM Doug Moen <<a href="mailto:doug@moens.org" target="_blank">doug@moens.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><u></u><br></div><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_5277773142765402364gmail-m_-6349548786431262271qt-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><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" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</a><br></div></blockquote></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>
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