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Old 06-10-06, 08:21 AM   #3
Reece
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I was posting here last night & while I was ending off the post the damn computer just resets itself! Stuffit I said & went to bed!

Reminising the good old days of CP/M, Z80 machine language programing (Rodney Zaks) & my pride and joy, a MKII Exidy Sorcerer computer! I had that hotted up to 56k on board with 64k of paged memory in 2 blocks!! wow!!:rotfl: Well it was a big deal then, had a lot of fun making our own add-on boards for things like extra ports, A-D & D-A converters, 8" Floppy controllers (HD to 1.8meg). I even ripped the guts out of a mainframe train printer (large spinning print roller) and used a modified MK1 Sorcerer to run the whole thing, worked well, got it going 50% faster, you should have heard the racket!!:rotfl: I'm glad I lived through those pioneering days and I do miss them, not worth building the things anymore, you could build something at a cost of say $100 but could buy off the shelf for $15, and VLSI devices make it almost impossable as well (my sight aint what it used to be!!)
There I've rambled on enough I think!
Cheers.
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