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On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:41:10 +0000, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
declaimed the following:

>On 12/02/2014 04:14, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 11 February 2014 23:13:33 Roy Smith did opine:
>>
>>> In article <b2db52b0-d7f7-43dd-9ddf-86feb109ebc8@googlegroups.com>,
>>>
>>>   ngangsia akumbo <ngangsia@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Please i have a silly question to ask.
>>>>
>>>> How long did it take you to learn how to write programs?
>>>
>>> I've been working on it for 40 years.  I'll let you know when I get
>>> there.
>>
>> I started, on an RCA 1802 board in '79.  I'm damned sure not there yet.
>>
>> Cheers, Gene
>>
>
>Snap :)

	My college digital electronics course never did get up to a working bit
of hardware, though all of us had sent off for Intel's $20 package... I had
that box at work last week, where the chips in it were older than some of
the programmers.

*	Intel 8080
*	5 8212 8-bit buffers (most needed to create the "system controller" as
the 8080 used the 8 data pins for the half the address -- it presented the
address which had to be latched, THEN set the data pins for I/O).
*	8 2102 static RAM (1kB)
*	4 1702 UV EPROM (1kB)
*	8224 clock chip
	And the 8080 series reference manual.

	I added an 8228 system controller, a UART chip, a 20-key decoder, a
2-digit LED controller, and some more efficient memory (some 4-bitx1k
static RAM and an 8bitx1k UV EPROM).

	An S-100 wire-wrap board.

	I hand assembled a monitor program with, as I recall, 0..F, High, Low,
Store, Go functions for the keyboard/display.
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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Python programming ngangsia akumbo <ngangsia@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 16:21 -0800
  Re: Python programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 12:17 +1100
  Re: Python programming Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-02-11 21:06 -0500
  Re: Python programming Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 18:46 -0800
  Re: Python programming Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-11 22:02 -0500
    Re: Python programming Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2014-02-11 23:14 -0500
    Re: Python programming Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-12 13:41 +0000
    Re: Python programming Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-02-12 21:00 -0500
      Re: Python programming Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-13 02:57 +0000
        Re: Python programming Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-12 22:04 -0500
          Re: Python programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 14:13 +1100
            Re: Python programming Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-13 15:13 +0000
          Re: Python programming William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> - 2014-02-12 22:56 -0500
            Re: Python programming Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2014-02-13 05:18 +0000
          Re: Python programming Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 03:30 -0500
  Re: Python programming Asdrúbal Iván Suárez <asdrubalivan.listas@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 20:01 -0430
  Re: Python programming Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-02-12 15:09 +1100
  Re: Python programming Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 08:55 -0500
    Re: Python programming Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-12 09:13 -0500
      Re: Python programming Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 11:43 -0500
      Re: Python programming Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-02-12 21:13 -0500
  Re: Python programming Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 08:02 +1100
  Re: Python programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 08:34 +1100
  Re: Python programming Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 09:57 +1100
  Re: Python programming Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-02-13 15:30 +0000
    Re: Python programming ngangsia akumbo <ngangsia@gmail.com> - 2014-02-14 12:29 -0800

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