[NTLK] Fact Check

[Jim Lee]

My first computer was one I built from scratch based on an article in  
Radio Electronics magazine (circa 1977).  It had an RCA CDP-1802  
processor (similar in architecture to the PDP-11's of the day), and a  
whopping 256 BYTES of RAM!  I soon upgraded the RAM to 1K, and I could  
then program a graphic of the Starship Enterprise that scrolled across  
my TV screen.  I had to hack into the video circuitry of the tube- 
based TV to hook it up, but it was a sweet setup when it was done!   
Every byte of the program was toggled into the RAM via discrete front  
panel switches.  I hand-assembled the code on paper first.

To steer this woefully off-topic post back in the right direction, the  
whole thing was about the size of 3 Newtons stacked vertically...

-Jim

On Jan 22, 2010, at 1:39 PM, Goodwin, Greg P. wrote:

> From: Frank Gruendel
>
>> (my first modem was a 1200bd modem built into my 80x24 column "CGA"  
>> laptop--a
>> Tandy, with a 10 meg hard drive)
>
> Hey, MY second computer did not even HAVE a hard drive. It was a  
> 2MHz Z80 computer with a whoopin'
> 64 kiloByte of RAM. ...
>
> Boy, must I be old...
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