Re: OT: For computer nerds of the 80s

On Apr 17, 2:54 pm, "Atheist Chaplain" <abu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> I still have my first Microbee :-)
> it started out life with a tape drive and I eventualy bought 720 and 144
> floppy drives for it. oh and it had a whopping 16k of ram :-) I even
made an
> EPROM writer for it complete with my own UV light cabinet to erase them.
I
> still have a box full of old floppies full of games (any one remember
> Colossal Cave) and apps (Word Star anyone) ahhh CP/M.............

I was not cashed up enough for OEM disk, so designed and built a
WD 1771 based controller that ran an operating system I wrote.

Yep, I've got my UV light box and EPROM programmer.

I can find the UV box, however the rest of it is packed
away in boxen. I think I built an Electronics Australia kit
for the programmer.

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