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To: Bikkuri

I built a computer from a kit back in I think 1976 and an 8k (That’s 8 kilobytes!) memory card cost $440. And I had to solder in the 64 2102 chips.

Here’s the instructions I found online.

http://bytecollector.com/archive/digital_group/documentation/hardware/dg_systems/system_cards/memory/8k_mem.pdf


28 posted on 09/02/2011 2:10:39 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Right Wing Assault
I can't get to that link, for some reason :/  something is blocking it..

Anyway, yeah, my first was a TRaSh80 MC :p  (had to buy the 300 Bd modem and cassette recorder separately ;^) ) Was 1980..



https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/TRS-80_MC-10



At at least it got me into computers :) The one before my HD PC was called Apple Laser with 128KB of ram.. I could be way off.. it has been decades XD



https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Laser_128


I do remember the 5.25 floppy drive and the first sim I got on it though.. Was Chuck Yeager's SR-71 flight sim... AWESOME at the time (stick graphics lol).

31 posted on 09/02/2011 3:50:46 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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