Ramdisks

[RSoles]

My first machine had 16k EPROM, 2k of static RAM, and 16k dynamic which didn't work until I discovered what decoupling capacitors were for.
Added two 8" floppy drives, more RAM, ported Intel's ISIS-II operating system to it, instant(not) Intel-MDS (compatible) for 1/10th the price(still a fortune in today's money).

Sad old git qualification, priceless.

[RSoles]

Did I mention it had a Coral-66 compiler?

[anonymouse]

Thread now renamed "Your oldest computer memories"

Small stuff :- Nascom, Commodore PET, Apples 2e, Tandy (Don't think it was the TRS80, but think it had 10inch floppy drive), Apple Macintosh, IBM PC (and Apricot clone), ICL OPD. BBC micro, Atom, ICL DRS300, ICL DRS6000
Language :- Pascal, Assembler on Z80, 8086, 6502, Basic, Microfocus Cobol/2. Still got Windows 95 install discs.

Bigger stuff :- ICL ME29, ICL 1900 (naked in West Gorton)

[Scruff]

My UNIVAC was shared by over a 1000 students. Punch cards, no monitor (only the Prof. had access to a green screen). RAM disks were a thing of mystery in '83.

[anonymouse]

Stone me, a fellow

And one who knows what ISIS-II is.

And might have seen a Blue Box with an 8080 in it.

I wrote a cross assembler for the 8080 that ran on a GA 16-220 minicomputer.

Then they introduced macros to the source code & I couldn't be arsed to add that bit so stopped using it.

Which slowed stuff down no end until we got some Z80 cards to plug into the pc to run the ISIS assembler & linker.

Gosh:

CP/M Blue thunder card

Had to look up ISIS-2, but remember CP/M, also DR/Dos, and later Wordstar, Supercalc, Lotus 123

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISIS_(...ystem)#ISIS-II

[anonymouse]

Orange VDU, before the boring beige arrived.

[AtW]

The first computer I've programmed was HAL 9000

[RSoles]

The first computer I've programmed was HAL 9000

Somehow that comes as no surprise.

[woohoo]

I'm so old I remember when technical was about answering technical problems, not a stroll down memory lane.

[DimPrawn]

I'm so old I remember when technical was about answering technical problems, not a stroll down memory lane.

Memory lane.