[torontocbm] Re: Just wondering, has anyone in the group...

  • From: "Miraglia, Walter" <Walter.Miraglia@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:52:33 -0600

Did this trainer  play music and have goofy games on it?
And it looked kinda like et? If I recall correctly?

Played yankee doddle or oh suzanna  if I recall or
Was it a serious computer?



From: torontocbm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:torontocbm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
On Behalf Of STEVE GRAY
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 4:46 PM
To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [torontocbm] Re: Just wondering, has anyone in the group...

I have heard of the ELF but never used one.

My first "computer" was a Radio Shack "trainer" with hex keypad, two-digit LED 
and a 4x4 matrix LED "screen"...

My first REAL computer was an Ohio Scientific (OSI) C4P..... 6502 @ 1MHz, 8K 
ram, BASIC in ROM, cassette storage and 16-colour 64x32 character text-only 
video... Bought in 1981. It was closely based on the earlier OSI  "SuperBoard 
II" single-board-computer. That held me for a while, while I learned 6502 
assembly language. We used PET 4032's at school and a Wang system with 
card-reader.
Steve


From: "Miraglia, Walter" <Walter.Miraglia@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, January 21, 2010 1:20:19 PM
Subject: [torontocbm] Just wondering, has anyone in the group....
Ever messed around with COSMAC ELF?
RCA 1802 based micro computer chip.

I’m in the process of building an ELF 2000
From www.sparetimegizmos.com<http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/>    and wondered
If anyone shared my passion for these old so called “Single
Board Computers…”

I built an ELF II with pixie chip and 2K of ram when I was in
Grade 10.  In keeping with my interest in Early home computers,
I was wondering what everyone’s first computer was…

Mine was the above mentioned Elf that I built from scratch…

( Incidentally, I will have with me the circuit board and manual for the
ELF 2000 tonight at the meeting if anyone is interested in seeing it…
I just got it today so it’s totally bare….. )

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