Mark -

Saw your post where you mentioned the NCR390 computer.
I have old pix, a simulator, and a compiler(!) for the old tan machine. If you're interested, send me an email at:
marspyrs at aol.com...

Dave



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Subject: RE: Tech: Windows XP
From: Mark Clark
Date: 27 Oct 03 - 06:42 PM

Don, A Kaypro II? Cool. The Kaypro was a knockoff of the Osborne I and I still have mine. Of course it hasn't been powered up in many years. The computing history exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry has an Osborne I along with a number of older computers I've used. The first computer I ever became adept on was an NCR 390; no disk drive, no operating system, no compiler or assembler, just real instructions on the bare hardware. It had actual core memory (one tiny ferrite donut per bit) and a 2nd generation CPU based on transistors.

Fionn, In helping to solve computer problems, I find it's often helpful to have many people propose solutions, even the same solutions explained in a different way. You never know which explanation is going to connect with the user's experience.

- Mark