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[Zenith6S321]

I got one of these kits for the first computer I used in high school, over a 110 baud modem to the local college. Nothing more impressive than programming in BASIC on a state-of-the art (for 1967) ASR-33 storing your program on punched paper tape. Here is a link to a desktop PDP-8 recreation:

http://obsolescence.wix.com/obsolescence#!pidp-8/cbie

Dave

[cwmoser]

Originally Posted by Zenith6S321

I got one of these kits for the first computer I used in high school, over a 110 baud modem to the local college. Nothing more impressive than programming in BASIC on a state-of-the art (for 1967) ASR-33 storing your program on punched paper tape. Here is a link to a desktop PDP-8 recreation:

http://obsolescence.wix.com/obsolescence#!pidp-8/cbie

Dave

Ditto. My first PC was one I make myself from a Mos Technology 6502 uP.
Paper tape reader, Tom Pitmans Tiny Basic, and of course programming
Assembly by translating the hex codes manually and entering them one
at a time. I can't remember how many times I entered all 2,000
opcodes for Tiny Basic - from a few sheets of hex codes.
But this was the 1970's.
Ahhh, those were some memorable times.