[ale] When I was young

[Tom Freeman]

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
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> 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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