On 5/26/24 17:30, dwight via cctalk wrote:
I'm not claiming it was the first personal
computer but is was my first personal computer. It was within a year or two of just about
any other first personal computer.
It was a Poly88 with ROM based tiny basic. I had a keyboard, I think I got from Mike
Quin's as well as a Singer typing terminal that I converted into a serial printer.
I used a transformer powered TV as a monitor and used a cassette recorder as mass
storage.
It was more personal than other machine as it was my personal creation after several
modifications to enhance it. I learned a lot about computers and how they worked from that
machine.
I built a TVT and drove a hot-chassis all-tube Zenith portable TV. A
little tricky when it came to getting the AC plugs the right way. Back
then, US AC plugs were not polarized.