Test.... > >From: STEVE GRAY <sjgray@xxxxxxxxxx> >To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Sent: Thu, January 21, 2010 4:51:54 PM >Subject: Re: [torontocbm] Re: Just wondering, has anyone in the group... > > >BTW, anyone know why my username is all in uppercase?????? Golan, was it you >that added me to the list? I don't want to be shouting my name all the time >;-) LOL > >Steve > > >> >>From: STEVE GRAY <sjgray@xxxxxxxxxx> >>To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>Sent: Thu, January 21, 2010 4:45:40 PM >>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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>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 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….. ) >>>