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From: kludge@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What's a PC?
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Date: Fri, 22-May-87 12:52:27 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 22 12:52:27 1987
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In article <525@iscuva.ISCS.COM> randyg@iscuva.UUCP (Randy Gordon) writes:
>I vaguely remember working with a HP computer ( with core, nonetheless!)
>about the size of a packing crate that was a single user in the late 
>'60's/early '70's. Anyone else remember that?

     Was this an HP 2100 by any chance?  I learned assembly on this machine.
Clear the P register, put the starting address in the S register, internal
preset, external preset, put the paper tape in the high-speed reader, loader
enable, run, loader enable, run.  When the tape stops you get this nice
editor/assembler.  Or even (wow!) Fortran, where you get to compile your
program to an intermediate code, then load the second pass of the compiler,
then reload the intermediate tape, then load the object tape that the second
pass prints out and run it.  My high-school had one.  They later got a 
multiuser "Montana" BASIC that handled 4 users with 16K.  And you complain
about your IBM-PC only having 640K.
-- 
Scott Dorsey   Kaptain_Kludge
ICS Programming Lab (Where old terminals go to die),  Rich 110,
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Box 36681, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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