23 Dec
2013
23 Dec
'13
2:16 p.m.
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:
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.
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.)