Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: The lure of retro computing Date: 7 May 2014 07:10:28 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <87k39yy8yx.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net sSmzHgX8EsRkxz/8NX1zkgV2xnTrWjIzG6wfW0IEWWZi10QtUZ Cancel-Lock: sha1:OsnrIZqW0zS+S4S+WdbRmYvrRDE= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2669 On 2014-05-06, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > RS Wood : > >> What's the best computer you ever owned? > > I did a lot of fun stuff with my father's office computer: a Xerox > desktop computer with 64 kB of RAM, two 8" floppy-disk drives, a Z80 > processor running at 4 MHz IIRC, the CP/M OS, a CRT display with > memory-mapped character display (ASCII + graphics characters) with a > scroll register for super-fast scrolling, a Diablo 630 daisy wheel > printer. That'll be a Xerox 820, then. -- Today is Boomtime, the 54th day of Discord in the YOLD 3180 “Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”