Re: My techno-archaology weekend...

From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2000 - 09:43:27 MDT


Doug Jones wrote:
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> Hah, I can top that- back in 1980, I was employee #2 at Otrona (Ron
> Lingemann & I working in his basement workshop), and I wirewrapped the
> prototype of the Attache portable computer. This actually got to market
> several months *before* the Osborne, but didn't have the marketing
> splash. I still have serial number 150, with a whopping 64K of ram and
> _two_ 360K floppy drives.

Ah, yes, 1980, a seminal year. I learned BASIC under John Fucci and John Kemeny
in night classes while in 7th grade, and wrote a football video game in BASIC on
the TI-99. The roulette and slot machine games made me some money, but got me in
trouble with the school administration... ;) I wish I still had those program
printouts... I still have the BASIC text book..



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