12 Aug
2010
12 Aug
'10
noon
If a
'party' is what I think it is, I'll jsut stick to fixing my classic
computers ;-)
In those days, parties were much more varied than they are now.
The first time that I played Adventure (see! we don't know how to stay
off-topic!), the first time that I saw an 8080 or Z80, my first hands-on
with S100, flight simulator (pre-release?) on an Apple, were all at
parties in the San Francisco area in the mid to late 1970s. Building a
machine that runs a graphical browser using only stock chips
doesnt sound totally tivial/.
Surely a graphical browser, (if NOT done in a High Level Language) could
be written to run on a 5150 with CGA. Even thoguh I am pretty fast with a soldering
iron, Isuspect I could
read that centence rather quicker htan I could solder in a 40 pin DIL chip...
I'm not as good with soldering. I could read that sentence in less time
than a single pin of the 40 pin DIP. But, I could finish soldering the 40
pin socket (marginal soldering skills) before this dial-up would be
displaying the page.