[DUG] [DUG-Offtopic] new PC

[Stephen Barker]

Hi Steve,
 
As much as I didn't want to continue this thread, I had to pick up on the
Osborne 1. In one of my first jobs after Uni (81/82) I introduced one of
these to NZI so they could do stuff outside the DP Dept.
I recall setting up a Supercalc spreadsheet to do branch budgets, but the
twin 380kb floppies could only hold about 3 branch files, so I wrote a
program in Basic to read these Supercalc files 3 at a time, prompting for
disk changes etc to consolidate the budgets for regional/NZ/Group totals
(about 50 branches from memory). What used to take them several days at each
regional centre took only minutes and they were sold.
The tiny screen wasn't the best though for large spreadsheets.
 
Shortly after that I bought dBase, then Turbo Pascal (1) on 8" floppy....
 
And I still have a piece of core memory from the Uni Burroughs B6700...it
was a throwaway as too many of the fragile core rings were broken.
 
I keep it in a shoebox in the middle...
 
Steve


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From: Steve Peacocke [mailto:steve at peacocke.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, 31 March 2009 12:57 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] [DUG-Offtopic] new PC


Oh dear Phil, you sound as young as I do.

How about the Commodore Pet in 1979? then a soldered together computer from
a kitset and resembled a ZX80 and had a whole 1kb of memory to play with.

A couple fo years later I remember a discussion with someone telling them
for a serious business computer you needed at least 16kb of memory and even
a disc drive.

I still have an early Osborne 1 computer - anyone with the old 8 inch floppy
Panasonic lying around in a back bedroom?

Steve Peacocke



On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Phil Scadden <p.scadden at gns.cri.nz
<mailto:p.scadden at gns.cri.nz> > wrote:



> ok, here we go then.......  who had a a ZX81 then eh??  better stil
> who had a ZX81 with a 16kb expansion pack ??   (apart from me)
>
Nah, my tape-drive only TRS-80 was way cooler. :-)


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