[OZAPRS] Was Small GPS - Now Old Computers if you can call them that

[Gordon Taylor]

And what about the big 8 inch floppies...they were floppy.

I used to program a National Semiconductors Scamp(SCMP) at Liddell Power
Station in the mid 80's that ran the Ash and Dust Plant.

You had to use the admin girls Northstar/Wordstar computer to compile the
code, then assemble it into HEX and finally burn Eproms in a big rack unit
with about 10 300mm x 300mm PC cards.

All this took a few hours and lo and behold if it had an error...ah well
have to chat up the girls again...

Regards,
Gordo VK4VP

-----Original Message-----
From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
Behalf Of Norm, VK3XCI
Sent: Monday, 10 January 2011 20:51
To: Australian APRS Users
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] Small GPS

And I have Rodnay Zacs "Programming the Z80" if you want it.... Glory be. I 
didn't think anyone remembered the microBee, let alone the keys :( I had 3 
complete units, Kitset Rom, 32K Rom and dual floppy, complete with one
green 
and an amber monitor. Ran Packet on it right up to 2002. Sadly the building
I 
had them stored in burnt to the ground. That happens in "The Bush"!  :(


Remember the OS (CP/M 80), Wordstar and all the files would fit on a single
720 
floppy. And multiplan was the father of Spreadsheets... I could wax on
forever....

73 de Norm, VK3XCI
Mildura, Australia
The Wintersun City
QF15bt.

On 10/01/2011 13:20, Ray Wells wrote:
> Dave,
> What disks would you like for your uBee?
> CP/M Sytem
> Multiplan
> Wordstar
> Mailmerge
> Spellstar
> Starindex
> dBaseII
>
> and one new keyboard key
>
> Ray vk2tv
>
>