I learned a lot of my word processing and presentation-generation (Harvard
Graphics) on a CP/M machine; it had a Winchester 10Mb drive attached. In fact,
my work on that machine got me promotion to squadron leader :-)
But I could do a lot more on an iPad, Ken. Send me yours and I'll prove it; I
don't mind if it has a US keyboard ;-)
Chris
On 2 Nov 2010, at 21:03, Ken Norton wrote:
>> I built the original H-89, which had a Z80 processor and ran their own HDOS
>> operating system, which was arguably a significant improvement over the
>> dominant CP/M operating system of the day. But I later switched to CP/M when
>> Heath dropped support for HDOS.
>
>
> I helped build one of those for a friend. Wow, it was great stuff at
> the time. It's sad to think that we could do stuff with that old beast
> which we can't today with our iThingies.
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