15 Oct
2025
15 Oct
'25
10:27 p.m.
On 2025-10-15 3:48 p.m., Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
Hi everyone,
According to historians, and I consider myself one, let us consider what
classic/vintage computers were: The 1970s saw the three amigos: Apple II,
TRS-80 and Commodore PET and the OS was DOS and its ilk + CP/M. The 1980’s
saw the Dells, HPs and many others with MS-DOS & IBM PC-DOS from QDOS. We
saw this and behold ’bring on the clones’(I just had to say this!) The era
of old computers saw one generation building on the shoulders of giants who
designed these wayback computers(with apologies to Wayback Machine).
Today’s PCs and ARM machines are just the latest iteration of this
theory(by the way not mine).
Happy computing
Murray 🙂
I was thinking more "the Good, the bad, and the ugly".
The 70's saw the drop in TTL logic and memory prices, Cpu chips were a
product looking for a use. Only later did the 4 bit chips ran your
calculator,washer,microwave.
The EDUC-8, pronounced "educate", is an early microcomputer kit
published by Electronics Australia in a series of articles starting in
August 1974 and continuing to August 1975. Electronics Australia
initially believed that it was the first such kit, but later discovered
that Radio-Electronics had just beaten it with their Mark-8 by one
month. However, Electronics Australia staff believed that their TTL
design was superior to the Mark-8, as it did not require the purchase of
an expensive microprocessor chip. Wikipedia
Ben.