And one of the two must have originated that joke, it's about that old... ;-) On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Douglas Wood wrote: > Did you know that Adam and Eve had the first computers? Yeah... Eve had an > Apple and Adam had a Wang! ;-) > > Douglas Wood > Software Engineer > dbwood@kc.rr.com > > Home of the EPICIS Development System for the PIC and SX > http://epicis.piclist.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert A. LaBudde" > To: > Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 9:25 AM > Subject: Re: [OT]: IBM PC chip > > > > At 01:04 AM 4/22/01 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >Myke, maybe you'll remember what I have forgotten. I used to take field > > >service calls on one back in the early to mid-80s. I think it was 8085 > > >based, used what I believe was something *very* close to the PC bus -- > > >same connectors and similar layout. It was available in two versions, > > >"Data Processing" and "Word Processing". The WP version ran OS/6 > software > > >from ROM, the DP version ran BASIC. It looked to me at the time like it > > >had been the test bed for PC technology. My customers were havig one > hell > > >of a time finding software support, as IBM had pretty much orphaned the > > >product and didn't seem to want to admit it existed. Do you remember > this > > >animal? Some salesdroid in the Cleveland area sold a bunch of them, I've > > >never seen them anywhere else but a few small manufacturers and one > > >synagogue there. > > > > There was an IBM word processing computer powered by the 8085 in this time > > frame. Actually, it was reasonably popular and predated the IBM PC. I > can't > > recollect the name. Wang also had a competing system at the time. > > > > > > ================================================================ > > Robert A. LaBudde, PhD, PAS, Dpl. ACAFS e-mail: ral@lcfltd.com > > Least Cost Formulations, Ltd. URL: http://lcfltd.com/ > > 824 Timberlake Drive Tel: 757-467-0954 > > Virginia Beach, VA 23464-3239 Fax: 757-467-2947 > > > > "Vere scire est per causas scire" > > ================================================================ > > > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > > > > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > > --- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." -- Isaac Asimov -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads