Re: Minimal CP-M SBC design

On Sun, 11 May 2008, Dave McGuire wrote:
>    I often suffer from the same problem.  I think very
few of us, even
> here, actually used stuff like CP/M and PDP-11s when
they were
> considered current technology.

What would we have used in those days?

Oh.  I guess that you're talking about the youngsters.

On May 11, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
>>    I often suffer from the same problem.  I think
very few of us,  
>> even
>> here, actually used stuff like CP/M and PDP-11s
when they were
>> considered current technology.
>
> What would we have used in those days?
>
> Oh.  I guess that you're talking about the youngsters.

   Yep.  There seems to be a big assumption (at least
elsewhere) that  
anybody who is "into retrocomputing" has just
gotten into it  
recently.  Here, we have at least quite a few people who
were into  
(say) PDP-11s  when they were current technology, and at
some point  
in the past that activity and interest automatically became
a part of  
the retrocomputing world.  How bizarre.

                  -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL