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| January, 1975 |
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I was already a subscriber of Popular Electronics Magazine when MITS Altair 8800 computer is featured on cover - To be honest, I was more interested in the Scientific Calculator kit also featured in that issue. I wish that I had saved these old issues. |
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| 1975 | Started reading Creative Computing Magazine sometime about 1975. KiloBaud Microcomputing Magazine, Interface Age Magazine, and ROM Magazine too. I still have many of these old magazines. |
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| 1975 Summer |
First real paying job - Cycle Scene Bicycle Shop (Chicago). |
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| 1976 |
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My First Microprocessor - Motorola 6800 "D-2" Evaluation Kit (I built it about 1976?) - The MEK6800D2 consisted of Two-circuit boards, connected by a ribbon cable. One board provided an LED hexadecimal readout / keypad and a cassette interface. The other board contained the M6800 CPU and RAM. It had to be programmed in hand-assembled machine code. |
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| 1976 -1977 |
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My First "System" - Processor Technology Sol-20 Kit (Terminal Computer) - I used it as my high school science fair project. I've still got it and it still works. I built it from a kit. Originally, I had 8K of RAM. Later, I've got 64K of RAM, lots of S-100 boards. I never had the "HELIOS" disk drive (8 inch) unit or floppy diskette unit. I just used a Radio Shack cassette tape recorder. Mine has SOLOS monitor. I played TARGET and TREK80 for months and months. I wrote countless programs in "BASIC/5" & "Extended Cassette BASIC". The BASIC/5 only required 5K of RAM, although 8K was recommended. I've still got a shoebox full of cassette tapes. |
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| 1976 |
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Start reading BYTE Magazine from issue #13, subscriber soon after that issue. (I've still got that original #13 issue) Subscriber for over 20 years, until Byte Magazine ceased publication in 1998. For the longest time I was saving all these issues. I had them packed into dozens of boxes. But, they are gone now. |
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| 1976 | I remember when I was shopping for a Single-Board computer. This was around the time that "Apple I" (single board computer) was first introduced. I considered the Apple I, but I bought the Processor Technology SOL 20 Kit (Intel S-100 Bus) instead. (see itty bitty machine company) |
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| 1976 -1978? |
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My buddy, Yannis Arvanitis, and I hung out at itty bitty machine company (a very early hobbyist computer store) in Evanston, IL. We met a lot of cool people and played with all the computers. (May 77) We spent hours learning about micros, programming, and we played with a Compucolor 1 (model 8001) color computer. A group of friends was organized and we went to see Star Wars as a group. Attended First Sci-Fi convention. |
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| 1977 - 1981? |
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I built a bunch of MicroP systems for my friends - what can I say, I was good with a soldering iron - SWTP 6800 Kits, IMSAI 8080, Cromemco Z-2. Countless S-100 and SS-50 (SWTP) boards. Built several 300 baud modems too. |
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| 1978? | Build (from a kit) a Lear Siegler ADM-3A video terminal. |
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| 1978? | Used 300 baud modem to connect to CBBS, and soon after met Ward Christensen and Randy Seuss, inventors of the "Bulletin Board System" (BBS) and XMODEM protocol. Yannis and I rode our bicycles over to Randy's house, saw the CBBS system and played with a Diablo letter quality printer. |
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| 1977? | Yannis and I met Ted Nelson, author of Computer Lib/Dream Machine. We brought along our copies of Computer Lib/Dream Machine for Ted's autograph. I still have my copy on the shelf. | ||
| 1981 ? |
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I played with a Sinclair ZX-81 - Mine had color, so it must have been a ZX-Spectrum. I guess I thought it was junk. I threw it away. In hindsight, I guess I should have kept it. |
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| 1980 - | First CP/M since 1980 (Cromemco Z80A). |
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| 1982 - | First UNIX since 1982 (Cromemco Cromix
operating system) First MS-DOS since 1982 (Victor 9000 - MS-DOS 1.0) |
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| 1982 -Present |
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Bought a brand new Sharp PC-1250 Hand Held Personal Computer in 1982. I still have it, and it still works. Update: The LCD display went all black. (update: tossed it out). |
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| 1983 -Present |
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Bought my first Radio Shack (Tandy) TRS-80 Model 100 Portable Computer in 1983. I purchases it especially for the purpose of mobile computing "Time / Speed / Distance" for Auto Rallies. (I've had a bunch of M100 systems since then- and I modified a few. Added backlights, etc. I've still got some around.) |
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| 1980 ? | Interviewed for US Robotics when they were upstairs from a Army Surplus Store (Chicago). I think they were making 300 baud modems then. |
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Used a Epson HX-20 was probably the world's first "notebook" computer. |
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Worked for Victor Business Products - Makers of the Victor 9000 Computer, which was introduced before the IBM-PC. The Victor 900 was far ahead of it's time, and much better than the IBM PC. I had 2 complete Victor 9000 systems. First Winchester disk drives start to appear on the scene. I think they were 5 MB. |
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| 1983 - | First PICK-OS since 1983 |
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| 1983 - 1988 |
Designed and developed applications on PICK OS, Ultimate OS, and Revelation OS. Learned PICK-BASIC. |
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| 1985 - 1987 |
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I carried around a Compaq Portable PC. Mine actually had a Hard Disk!!! and I was a early adopter of "Work At Home" and "Telecommuting". |
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| 1987 - 1992 | Worked for Interactive Systems Corporation "ISC"
(formerly Lachman Associates Inc. "LAI ") UNIX, TCP/IP, NFS, and Interactive 386/ix, and all that UNIX stuff. |
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| 1991 | First Microsoft Windows since 1991 (AT&T 6300 Plus - Windows 3.0), |
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| Jan 16 1991 | My First PC ("IBM Compatible") - Clone - Intel 386-33, 40 MB RAM, 210 MB IDE Disk. Brought it home on the day that the Gulf War broke out. |
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| 1986 - |
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I had bunch of ATARI 520ST and ATARI 1040ST systems, running UNIX and GEM OS. They each died a bitter ugly death. |
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| 1993 - | First Windows NT since 1993 |
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| Present | Now, I've got too many computers to list...All home built "clones". 386. then 486, then Pentium, then Pentium II, then Pentium 4. Dozens of video cards, dozens of disk drives... |
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| Radio | History of Radio Amateur (Ham) Radio Short-Wave Listener since about age 10 Packet Radio (AX.25) - Digital modes Digital Radio Networks -Wireless networking Satellites, Satellite Imagery GPS Technology |
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| Electronics | "Hobby" Kit Building Communication Technology Extreme Technology - High Voltage - High Current Amateur Robots / Robotics Nano Technology |
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| Technology | Technology History - How "Tech" inventions came
about Lasers - Holography - Laser light shows |
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| Computers | Microprocessors - "PC" - Single Board - BasicStamp
- PIC High Performance Computing - Multi-Processor Computing Cluster "Beowulf" Computing The Chicago Connection Collectible microcomputers |
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| Computers | History of Computers & Electronics |
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| Computers | Early Computers - Antique Computers - I've still
got my original IMSAI 8080 and Processor Tech Sol-20
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| Telephones | Antique Telephones and classic Telephones History of the telephone Everything you ever wanted to know about Payphones |
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| Time / Clocks | Timekeeping Technology Building Clocks Unique Clocks - Desk Clocks - Wall Clocks Clocks with LCD displays - Clocks with NIXIE Tube displays Radio-synchronized Clocks |
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| Science Fiction Science Fact |
"Star Trek" TOS, TNG, DS9, "Voyager", "Enterprise" "Star Wars" "Back to the Future" "Twilight Zone" "X-Files" "Sliders" First season only "Quantum Leap" "Outer Limits" Stories about Time Travel |
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| Bicycles | Recumbent Bicycles and Trikes - My first job was
in a bicycle shop Human Power Technology |
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Telescopes Apollo Space Program US Space Shuttle Program Mars Missions - Mars Pathfinder MOON RELATED SITES: |
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