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That was the first one I worked on as well. We had it hooked up to a teletype 33 so that we could load a 4K basic from the paper tape reader. That was allow us to load a basic program that then let us use a modified TV CRT for video. output.
From that I went to a challenger c1p home-built unit from a kit that was a 6502 4K basic machine I upgraded to 8K and also added an rs232 interface so I could use a teletype for input output and storage to papertape.
My first store bought machine was a MD2 64k dual floppy, CPM based machine. It came with some built-in applications like word star a spreadsheet and a version of basic to write your own applications with. I learned to program in assembler with that machine.
That led tp a MD3 luggable I used at work to write Turbo Pascal apps.
When the IBM clones came out I started building my own systems as well as learning to set up and administrate the LANs at work. From that, I started writing network database apps in Pascal and later Clipper.
From there we started using an early GIS engineering propram from Intergraph that was based on their version of UNIX called CLIX. The local office servers were networked in a separate Ungarmann/Bass LAN to 486 based workstations with 20inch CRT monitors!. Everything then was linked to the mainframe servers at headquarters where the continuing property records were stored.
Fun times...
From that I went to a challenger c1p home-built unit from a kit that was a 6502 4K basic machine I upgraded to 8K and also added an rs232 interface so I could use a teletype for input output and storage to papertape.
My first store bought machine was a MD2 64k dual floppy, CPM based machine. It came with some built-in applications like word star a spreadsheet and a version of basic to write your own applications with. I learned to program in assembler with that machine.
That led tp a MD3 luggable I used at work to write Turbo Pascal apps.
When the IBM clones came out I started building my own systems as well as learning to set up and administrate the LANs at work. From that, I started writing network database apps in Pascal and later Clipper.
From there we started using an early GIS engineering propram from Intergraph that was based on their version of UNIX called CLIX. The local office servers were networked in a separate Ungarmann/Bass LAN to 486 based workstations with 20inch CRT monitors!. Everything then was linked to the mainframe servers at headquarters where the continuing property records were stored.
Fun times...
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