31 Jul
2013
31 Jul
'13
9:34 a.m.
On 31 July 2013 17:18, <schoedel at kw.igs.net> wrote:
My memory tells me the card was contemporary and from IBM, but I'll have to pull
out the machine tonight to check. The machine is definitely the 16K version with
cassette port. I assume it was part of the first of the systems described in [1]
(probably paywalled) and in badly muddled form at [2].
[1] Sandra Ward, Personal work-stations at the University of Waterloo, SIGUCCS
'84 Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services,
pp37-43 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=800573
[2] https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/40th/Chronology/1982.shtml
OK.
Perhaps I should clarify: I was not doubting you or questioning your
machines, merely expressing my own first thought.
I guess it would be possible to have some kind of terminal emulator
for the PC in 16K, one which talked directly to the NIC, but if so,
how would they have loaded it? From cassette? That seems implausible
to me but then I was not using PC tech in 1981. I was 13 and saving up
for my Sinclair Spectrum 48K. :?)
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