8 Apr
2004
8 Apr
'04
10:11 a.m.
In message <01f701c41d68$85dacd90$4601a8c0@ebrius>
"Mark Firestone" <pdp11_70(a)retrobbs.org> wrote:
Heh. You're talking to the kid who got belted for
taking apart all the
radios, televisions, and other eletrical goods in the house when I was five.
You
did that too? Wow.
I meet
both kinds of service people, those who got into it because they love
computers and are interested in how they work, and everybody else.
I think I fall in to the first category, or at least I hope I do.
Same here. I
started with electronics - someone gave me an alarm panel
("Group 4" somethingorother) and an old PC. My Uncle showed me how to tear
down the PC and do something with it. IIRC I got the machine to POST, then
the PSU went bang and took out the motherboard. What did I do? I ripped apart
my 486SX PC, reseated all the connectors and ended up with a full wiring map
for it. That was fun :)
As for the alarm panel, I used that to learn how to desolder.
CALL -151
Hm. You used an Apple II then?
Personally, I used a BBC Micro and a Sinclair
Spectrum. I preferred the Beeb - 6502 assembler is more logical than Z80,
IMO.
Later.
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