[Xastir] The ultimate editor...

[Lee Bengston]

I started out "editing" on a keypunch.  Oh well, at least that
mainframe had a hard drive.

Lee - K5DAT
Murphy, TX

On 4/20/09, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Richard Polivka, N6NKO wrote:
>
>> Altair 8080. Having to write the bootstrap loader in 32 bytes (may be
>> wrong
>> on that length) to set the serial port, initialize the disk controller and
>>
>> where to start loading the bios, that had to be hacked on for your system.
>> Of
>> course both had to fit in one track on a 8" floppy.
>
> I started out w/o hard drives, w/o floppies, w/o tape drives.
> Programs disappeared if you shut off the computer.  Input was 8
> toggle switches (one byte wide) and a pushbutton, plus a few mode
> switches.  Put it in load mode, start flipping toggles in binary and
> then push the pushbutton.  Make a mistake, start over.
>
> The entire memory was 256 bytes.
>
> Output was two LED hexadecimal displays.
>
> I still have it somewhere.  I should frame it.  Or let my kids try
> it.
>
> --
> Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo dot com
> http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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> Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U.
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