On Saturday, Dec 13, 2003, at 10:24 US/Pacific, D. Jay Newman wrote:
>
> I just waited until college, and then I built my own computer with a
> 6502. But it was the 1802 that started my interest in low-level
> computing.
>
Ditto.  I had done electronic stuff: dice, lock, blinky lights, and so
on,
and I looked at the PE article and realized that it could implement
essentially every electronics project i had ever built, just by changing
the software.

For better or worse, I got distracted by mainframes, and it was quite a
long time before I got my own microcomputer (of any kind) actually
working.  My would-be CPM system that never quite worked got left in
the attic of a former employer, and I suspect it was thrown away when
they switched buildings (or it could still be there.  Somewhere.)
The first system I ever owned was an HP-150 "almost sort-of" PC clone.

BillW

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