28 May
2024
28 May
'24
1:38 p.m.
On May 28, 2024, at 9:23 AM, Bill Gunshannon via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 5/26/2024 2:50 AM, ben via cctalk wrote:
That reminds me of an even more primitive personal computer, a 4004 based one designed and
built from scratch by a college classmate of mine in 1974. It was a wire wrap board, with
perhaps 100 chips on it (about the size of the S-100 motherboard I built from a kit some
years later). When it was just about complete he took it with him on his summer intern
job at one of the US national labs, where apparently they liked it enough that they asked
him to built a couple of copies for them to use.
He got honors in independent study for his work.
paul
I think the most important thing for a Personal
Computer,
is the average Joe, can afford and use it. The second thing is
to have ample memory and IO to run useful programs. The basic Apple I,II does not count
as many others as it had BASIC in ROM and tape IO.
Why not? I have seen some very serious research done on Apple][
systems at the University where I worked. I even have two of
them that I saved from the dumpster.