[Rhodes22-list] Old Macs & PCs

[Robert Skinner]

Robert Skinner here.

Joseph Hadzima wrote:
> Speaking of early computers, did anyone read "Byte"
> magazine in the 80's?  ...

Hadj, I sure did.  Also built an Imsai in the '70s,
wrote device drivers for the 8080 and Z80 in assembler
under CP/M, and a task dispatcher for MP/M during its
brief life.  Met Captain Crunch (phone phreaker) and 
also Ted Nelson of Xanadu fame (its linking concepts 
predated the World Wide Web, see http://xanadu.com/ ), 
and learned microprocessor concepts at a visceral level.

While I was programming mainframes and minis for a 
living, I was completely saturated with a 
microprocessor-enabled world view that is only now 
coming into reality.

It was a bubbling ferment of ideas and great genius,
stretching the mind and spawning aspirations the were
not only outside the box -- they were not in the same 
galaxy as the box.

Thanks, Hadz, for calling up the memories!

/Robert Skinner