My first PC was a Heath/Zenith Z-100, dual cpu and OS, ran both DOS and CPM. Yup, I'm a dinosaur.
IÂve got you beat Rich. I still have my Heathkit digital VOM. I did the Heathkit 80 in CP/M only. Learned to program in 8080 assembler and Z80 assembler. Bought a Microsoft FORTRAN 66 compiler and fully implemented RATFOR (Rational Fortran). I wrote a tic-tac-toe program that never lost and could reduce 5 year olds to tears. That was before I learned PL/1 and Cobol and turned Pro. Also built the dot matrix printer kit. DT __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com
I loved those 8 inch "floppies" (what was their density again?) and the CPM operating system. Towers of Hanoi without a hi-tech graphics card was awsome to program and watch it solve itself... B) 73 de n7zi Gary "Why buy something for ten bucks when you can make it for a hundred." JR ----- Original Message ----- From: "daniel turner" <outwest112@yahoo.com> To: <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Quote of the Day
My first PC was a Heath/Zenith Z-100, dual cpu and OS, ran both DOS and CPM. Yup, I'm a dinosaur.
I've got you beat Rich.
I still have my Heathkit digital VOM.
I did the Heathkit 80 in CP/M only. Learned to program in 8080 assembler and Z80 assembler. Bought a Microsoft FORTRAN 66 compiler and fully implemented RATFOR (Rational Fortran). I wrote a tic-tac-toe program that never lost and could reduce 5 year olds to tears. That was before I learned PL/1 and Cobol and turned Pro.
Also built the dot matrix printer kit.
DT
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