Forgotten PC History

On Friday 08 August 2008 13:03, Jim Brain wrote: An interesting read. One thing that jumped out at me when I got to the second page of the article was how wide that screen was compared to its height. Do you know offhand what the screen was, in terms of characters? The other thing that I took some notice of was mention of an 18-pin chip package as "recently developed" at one point in the story, and later on the mention of the 40-pin package as being then available. When I first started to take notice of chips at all, most of them were 14 or 16 pins, and those were mostly op amps. This was around 1970, I think. And it was only later on that I started seeing different sizes, but I never really knew all that much about which sizes came out when, or how limiting some of the earlier package restrictions were. What was up with that, anyway? Why were the earlier chips so limited in terms of packaging? -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin