<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>I wanted but couldn't yet afford a MIT's Altair 8800 with 256 bytes of memory and a front panel with toggle switches and a line of single-LEDs. :-p<br></div><div><br>my 1st system was Exidy Sorcerer with Z80 and 48K RAM and 4K cartridge ROMs... it had a audio tape interface with I/O to drive the record and playback input and S-100 bus which I eventually added a 64Kb 1-sided / 128Kb double sided Floppy Drive... I assembled a hand-coded bootstrap loader for DR DOS and had a bootable DOS system for many years.<br><br></div>I had many uP SBCs but none had 2MB or any MB :-p (6800, 6502, RCA Cosmic Elf (cpu?), 68000, 8088, 80186, etc). Most had at least a keyboard and display interface (some only 7-segment LED) some had only I/O with which you could add a hexadecimal keyboard (popular w hackers). Nothing like a PC and no real way to upgrade like the Exidy. <br><br></div><div>I had an Atari 800 (6502, 64Kb memory?) which I used with Basic, Assembly and Forth... and wrote an APL Terminal editor for work at University. :-D<br></div><div><br></div>I had an Amiga (68000 I think) with 3.5" floppy drives and I think 2/4MB and co-processors which did some very real-world stuff.<br><br></div>Never bought an IBM PC/XT or AT or Any even though they gave me plenty of opportunities... But eventually had Gateway 80286 80386 systems which were cheap and ran DOS + Windows + dual boot Linux :-D<br><br></div>Early computing took a lot more learning to do useful stuff, but;
was a lot of fun!!!<br><br></div>I'm still not nostalgic for older processors ... we have ARM chips which are kick-a$$ architecture compared to older processors and skills are applicable to higher end ARM systems... And you can alway QEMU some older CPUs (6502+68k) when you want. There's still some great games and good simulators for them that run great on a modern processor. <br><div><br><div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Scott Hall via TriEmbed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org" target="_blank">triembed@triembed.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_-5482560433330069708moz-cite-prefix">We had about 1MB possibly 2MB of RAM, a
20MB harddisk, and floppies for removable storage.<span class=""><br>
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On 03/16/2018 08:01 PM, Mike Lisanke via TriEmbed wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">In my nostalgic memory, we never had 16MB of
dynamic RAM or a CF storage. We did have video sound and
keyboard i/o.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 9:24 AM, Alex
Davis via TriEmbed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org" target="_blank">triembed@triembed.org</a>></span>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">I
finally found a *completed* 68000-based SBC which does not
break the bank: <a href="https://www.retrobrewcomputers.org/doku.php?id=boards:sbc:tiny68k:tiny68k_kit2" target="_blank">https://www.retrobrewcom<wbr>puters.org/doku.php?id=boards:<wbr>sbc:tiny68k:tiny68k_kit2</a>
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<div>You can <a href="mailto:hshen@spinn.net" target="_blank">email hshen@spinn.net</a>
and he’ll mail you a completed board for $31. For the
money you get a 68000 with 16MB of RAM (an FPGA replaces
all the support logic and provides DRAM refresh), a CF
card for storage, and a UART for serial. It boots from a
serial EEPROM.</div>
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<div>There’s no video, sound, or keyboard, it’s meant to
be used with a terminal or terminal emulator. You will
use kermit (or something like that) to transfer files.</div>
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<div>Alex</div>
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Scott G. Hall
Raleigh, NC, USA
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