On 12/23/2013 11:49 AM, BE Arnold wrote:
On Dec 23, 2013, at 1:33 PM, "Ethan
Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
wrote:
lots of S-100 machines in the hands of middle-aged
engineers who could afford them, but the younger crowd was more
likely to
zoom in on a machine with BASIC
Valid point.
In the late '70s I would drool over the ads in the mags for S-100 bus
machines, but on a sailor's pay, no way.
(One of the chief's on my boat paid for his Heath(?) by selling
Amway. I couldn't prostitute myself that way.)
I wanted the H-11? Heathkit's PDP 11 rather than the 8080, but the
price still scares me. I have a DE1 FPGA board now, so one I figure
how to format and dump disk images to a SD card, I am all set to run
classic computer, PDP 11 or Z80 CP/M comes to mind. At the moment
I am planing a few 16 or 18 bit CPU's but I/O still needs work.
Ben.
FWIW, an un-built H11 in original carton with several extra cards just
went for a single bid of $500 on EPAY over the weekend :(
s2