Re: gEDA-user: Free Dog meeting report: Notes on the topics that should be avoided

[John Luciani <jluciani@xxxxxxxxx>]

You were in the lap-of-luxury if you had a hex keypad!

Why back in my days we used toggle switches to enter our programs.

(* jcl *)

On 9/21/05, Stuart Brorson <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sep 21, 2005, at 4:58 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > >>    Whatcha got?  I've still got some CP/M machines here too.
> > >
> > > Z-100.  Dual processor (8085 and 8088), S100 bus, 640x512 color
> > > graphics.
> > >
> > > The interesting bit is that CP/M itself runs on the 8088, while the
> > > application runs on the 8085, and there's some hardware for doing
> > > system calls between the two.  That gives pretty much all of the 64k
> > > address space to the application.
> >
> >    Sweet machine.  I've got a Kaypro II and an Imsai 8080 here, along
> > with a couple of TRS-80s.  The latter are not, of course, native CP/M
> > machines, but they'll run it if properly coaxed with the right boot
> > disk. :)  I'm still very partial to CP/M.
>
> Nuts!  Somewhere packed in a box deep in some closet I should have my
> old KIM-1 single board computer along with the home-brew power supply
> I made for it.  Real men don't need operating systems --  they just
> enter the program using a hex heypad and then throw a switch to run
> it!
>
> Stuart
>
>


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