« CONSTITUTION Home | Email msg. | Reply to msg. | Post new | Board info. Previous | Home | Next

Re: First computers ...

By: DueDillinger in CONSTITUTION | Recommend this post (0)
Sat, 13 Oct 12 11:18 AM | 110 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Constitutional Corner
Msg. 19831 of 21975
(This msg. is a reply to 19830 by monkeytrots)

Jump:
Jump to board:
Jump to msg. #

Yeh, I had one of them HP-35's...actually, I still have it somewhere. I was explicit, however, about my 'first computer with magnetic storage'. That was the Eagle II, which I helped to design and market in 1980-81.

Wasn't the first computer in my home, as I have an Interdata Model 1--an 8-bit minicomputer--that I bought in 1977. No disk drives...small drives didn't exist then...16k of ferrite core memory and a teletype interface. Boot loader and programs on paper tape. About the size of the original IBM PC, but weighs nearly 50 pounds!

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/interdata/16bit/brochures/Model_1_Brochure_1970.pdf

Uploaded Image

∆∆


- - - - -
View Replies (1) »



» You can also:
- - - - -
The above is a reply to the following message:
First computers ...
By: monkeytrots
in CONSTITUTION
Sat, 13 Oct 12 9:58 AM
Msg. 19830 of 21975

Well, the first computer I can remember ever seeing was the one my dad used ...

I believe this is the correct one - but will have to ask him.
Uploaded Image

As to the first computer I ever had - high school, of course ...
Uploaded Image

In college - first DIGITAL computer -
Uploaded Image

A veritable orgy of sins and co-sins (*w*)

Four MEMORY registers, reverse polok logic. Saved my butt in college. Paid $250 or so, in 1974-5? - USED.


« CONSTITUTION Home | Email msg. | Reply to msg. | Post new | Board info. Previous | Home | Next