[ale] When I was young

[Greg Freemyer]

All those computers came with an enclosure!  How can you call yourself
an early adopter?

I got my first computer by getting the plans to a radioshack color
computer and then buying parts from Delta Electronics on Buford
Highway.  (There also used to be an electronic store across the street
from Delta where I bought parts, but I don't recall the name.)

I bread boarded the whole thing the winter/spring of '80, but I never
got it to run. :(    But it was just a fun project to try and build it
anyway.

fyi: By '84 or '85 I had designed a intelligent 8-port uart card for
the S-100 bus.  It was Motorola 68010 based.  I got that working, but
by then I was charging for my time not just having fun.  I think I
built about 30 of those 8-port cards and sold them to Delta to link
there reservation centers together.  I had to write a SLIP like
protocol to get the networking to work.  (I don't think the SLIP
protocol existed yet, or if it did I didn't know about it.)

The main computer OS was UNIX of some flavor so half the SLIP logic
was in kernel and half was off-loaded to the intelligent uart card.
ie. It was what they call a TOE design these days.

Greg

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> 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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