Re: FREE 386DX/40 !!!!

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From: Nick de Smith
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 00:00

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In article <4pmpl7$7j7@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk>, Nick Mason
<MASONNJ@boat.bt.com> writes
>:> My first computer was a VIC 20 with it's amazing ram capacity of 5K.
>:> (3.5K user, cos the basic nicked 1.5K). I wouldn't part with it for a
>:> gold clock.
>
>I built my first computer! 8 LED's 1k memory, loads of green wire and a 
>hex keypad. Can't for the life of me remember what I actually did with 
>it, although traffic light program springs to mind!

My first was a Texas TMS something or other. Looked damn impressive.
ISTR spending most of my time typing in a re-coded variant of Palo Alto
Tiny Basic (from DDJ?), and then watching it crash... (about 1978 this
was). SCMP was popular too.

>I went through 
>several 'home builds' before the ZX80 arrived. I thought I had died and 
>gone to....

We (at Soton. Uni. Computer Club) had the first Nascom ever shipped...
and we then blew it up. When I say "we then blew it up", I actually mean
Andy X (you know who you are).

> any way what did the romans ever do for us?

The roads?

-- 
Nick de Smith

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From: Nick de Smith <nick@nick01.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: FREE 386DX/40 !!!!
Date: 1996/06/13
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