On 5/6/22 19:16, John Hasler wrote:
James H. H. Lampert writes:I started with a TRS-80 Model I myself (and with high school programming classes on an IBM 370/135 at the District Office, with terminals connected over a pair of multiplexed phone lines [and a maximum terminal speed of 300 Baud]).Punch cards and an IBM 1620 at university. The first computer I owned I built using a Z80 SBC demo board. Cassette tape mass storage, modified Selectric printer, OCLC crt terminal, homebrew OS.
I starting in college with punch cards an IBM 360 and a PDP 11/15 that actually let me sit at a terminal. After I graduated I got a TRS 80 Model III (Z80) with cassette tape for mass storage and 16K of RAM.
Marc