[ale] When I was young

[Richard Bronosky]

My first computer was a Heathkit H-89 also!
http://oldcomputers.net/heathkit-h89.html My father and I "assembled
it" ourselves. That was back when "assembling" meant soldering every
single chip onto the "mother board" (not what they would have called
it then).

I don't remember how it felt. I will never forget how it smelt... when
I grabbed the soldering iron by the WRONG END! I was 4 years old. My
hand was just barely big enough to wrap around the barrel.

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Tom Freeman
<tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
> I'm late to this one, but I had a lab to teach.
>
> My first (personally owned) computer H-89, with 2 (count 'em) Z-80
> eight bit processors at 2 MHz, eventually 64K Ram, 3 100 Kb hard
> sectored disks, tape interface (used twice). You could get a hard disk with
> a _whopping_ 5 Meg capacity for $2K (as I remember). Built the
> thing myself and still had it last some 10 years. Ran CP/M.
>
> With regard to OS's of the past, did anybody here use the Heath DOS (HDOS?)?
> I'd like confirmation of my memory that it had dynamically
> loaded device drivers (from floppy!) on an 8 bit machine with
> 48K of Ram.
>
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Chuck Payne wrote:
>
>> When I was young this was in the early 80's, I remember my first
>> computer cost $2000 it was Atari 130XE (8 bit 128K), with 5 1/2"
>> Floppy Drive with daisy wheel printer. Using DOS 2.5,with Atari Basic
>> on my home tv as the monitor. I was also the odd ball because all the
>> cool kids have C64 and TI99, but I was still cooler that the Apple IIE
>> kids.
>>
>> Pup
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:20 AM, SimonTek <simontek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I remember using SLS, and thinking how modern, sleek and wonderful
>>> Slackware
>>> was. Ironically enough, this was in the late 90's for me. i wanted to
>>> learn
>>> the roots, so i used SLS.
>>>
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