On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, David Koski wrote:
> I would have been delighted to have such a luxury.  My first computer
> was an 8080 that I bought from Radio Shack.  It wasn't long before I
> figured out that it needs more than a CPU chip!  The first version had
> one kilobytes (I think they were 2114 4 bit wide chips) of RAM and no
> ROM.  Heck, I never had a programmer to program them.  That is what I
> was building!  A hand assembled program entered in binary dip switches
> enabled a hex keypad.  It took seven tries to enter an eprom programmer
> routine before I had an EPROM to boot from.
>
> Then I wrote a BIOS for generic CP/M that I bought on an 8 inch floppy
> for a S-100 pieced together workhorse.  Then I had an assembler for the
> first time.

And there was me feeling chuffed about my flashing LED...

Respect.

:)

Tim

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