Hi Avery, > Some good advice. For my curiosity, what is a Wang Z-80? > I haven't been "doing" computers for 25 yrs.! :-) Z-80 is the type of CPU chip (with its own set of instruction codes). The Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I and Model III were more popular Z-80 machines, if that helps put it into perspective. Our Wang (at my high school) had a whopping 16 KB of memory and a digital tape drive. We were also blessed with a dot matrix printer! High tech stuff! I later did computer modeling on my own 48 KB, 1.2 MHz (?) TRS-80 Model III, which was my first research computer. When I went to a "real" machine, a 5.77 MHz XT-clone (8088 chip), I ported all my source code from the TRS-80 to the XT via a hand-wired 110 baud null modem link. I watched on my screen as the letters and numbers were transferred -- like a someone was typing at the computer with a good caffeine buzz. How far we've come! ;-) Peace, Sarah
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