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the alpha geek - we are not worthy

what amazes me are not his technical acheivements (although impressive)

its the cleanliness and organisation of his workspace.

and the amazing attention to detail in his designs.

the lacing cord on his wiring looms is fantastic (a lost art).

as is the design of his facias.

though i was a bit disappointed he used microcoded eproms to run the instruction decode in his home built cpu.

but i love his 'special projects lab'
 
david ellwood said:
what amazes me are not his technical acheivements (although impressive)

its the cleanliness and organisation of his workspace.

and the amazing attention to detail in his designs.

the lacing cord on his wiring looms is fantastic (a lost art).

as is the design of his facias.

though i was a bit disappointed he used microcoded eproms to run the instruction decode in his home built cpu.

but i love his 'special projects lab'
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Lacing cord! Probably the best thing about studying for an OND rather than A levels was that I learnt how to lace!
 
hard or soft sectored?
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I'm pretty sure that all 8" floppies were hard(!).

I have an actual S100 bus (only 3 slots though) CP/M machine that uses hard sectored 5.25" floppy discs.

Paul
 
sounds like we need a new vintage computing thread.

I started out in 1979 with a trs80 model 1 and was programming professionally on dec by 1983. all burnt out by 1985 when I turned to electronics.

still love the old stuff though. There wasnt anything you couldn't understand ,take apart and rebuild.

what is the s100 machine you have?

I always hankered after a nascom/gemini 80bus machine.
 
I think it is an 'HTE'. It's fitted with a single board (IIRC) with a Z80, 64k, serial/parallel, floppy and a port that is close enough to SCSI. Might be the precursor 'SASI'?

I remember using the floppy drives with a BBC micro. All quite a long time ago, more than 20 years...

Paul
 
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