Well, Sarah, My first computer (15+ yrs. ago) had a 10 mg. hard drive and a 640 K ram with one of those yellow screens with black letters and a dot matrix printer, of course! It's still chugging away, though. I STILL have all my business ledger stuff on it and do my income tax on it every year! :-) Gonna have to change sometime soon, though. Avery At 07:41 PM 06/04/03 -0400, you wrote: >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 > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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