John Hasler wrote:
I had a homebrew system built around a Zilog Z80-MCB in the late
seventies. Tape storage (I never did get the head-per-track 1MB drives
from Newman Computer working right), a surplus OCLC terminal, and a
Selectric printer with homebrew electronics. The first computer I
programmed was an IBM 1620 in the mid sixties, though. An odd machine.
Ahh the Z80 - I remember that chip fondly - a buddy and I built a family
of machine control boxes around it (for photo processors), back in the
late 1970s.
It continually amazes me that the devices are still in production and
widespread use.