Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, Working at a government installation, my computer choice was made by others. My first computer that they provided was a Xerox, model forgotten, that used two 8-inch floppies, one providing the CP/M operating system and the second handling the application software and data. It provided a good introduction to spreadsheets. Their next generation purchase was a Zenith 286 PC, which I was able to get with two 20MB hard drives. IBM PCs were only available to those who could justify them on the basis of some particular project need. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small" <marcsmall@comcast.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] First computer > At 02:16 AM 3/20/2007, Adam Bridge wrote: > >TRS-80's were ROM based, Marc. They had a BASIC in ROM. Their mass > >storage was to cassette. There was a 2nd generation (and beyond) that > >had a DOS but I don't remember what it was. I don't think it was CP/M. > > Thanks, Adam. > > The "laptop" that Radio Shack marketed in the early 1980's was a CP/M > machine. I went from a Sinclair to a Commodore 64 to one of those laptops > (model number forgotten) to my first PC. > > Marc > > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >