27 Sep
2001
27 Sep
'01
5:56 a.m.
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
I don't remember any talk about Larry Fish and a
Commodore of any
sort. Nobody wanted to spend the money that was required for a PET,
considering what it was. Larry's first 6502, IIRC, was JOLT, similar
in some ways to a KIM-1, and most of
The JOLT was Ray Holt's first computer kit (circa 1975, before the SYM-1).
He called it "JOLT" because his business partner, Manny Lemas, was a
Spaniard, and in Spanish the "J" is pronounced as an "H" in English,
ergo
JOLT.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org