>Same feeling here when I dragged the whole TRS-80 Model III
>(the one with the built-in monitor) back to the U.S. to get
>it upgraded (from 16k) to 48k -- fully decked out!!!

I fondly remember my own TRS-80. Model 1, Level 2 (16K RAM).
I built my own interfaces and was using it as my first home
automation controller back then.
The development cycle was horrible: Load EDTASM from Cassette,
then load the source code from another cassette, Edit, compile,
save Source to cassette, save object to another cassette,
reboot, load object and run. Reboot and repeat cycle from above.

>Later, there was the dual disk-drives.
I never had that luxury.

>Since my original posting of this thread, I've found some
>floppies from my Commodore Amiga.  The original 1000.  But
>that was MUCH later than the TRS-80.

I still do most of my "desktop" development for Amigas.
I find them much more stable and programmer friendly than the
various windows offerings. Once a program is complete, I
usually move it to one of (many) Amiga 1000's that I have
on hand, all with Kickstart in ROM and most with hard drives
attached.

Not just home automation, I have also installed a few Amiga
1000s for industrial controls or user interface. Even systems
that boot from floppy are very reliable.

I'm just hoping that one day we'll get the Amiga OS ported to
a more common hardware platform. It's still the easiest, most
reliable OS I have ever written for.


Lyle

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