Dave August wrote:
Senior in High School IBM360, honors claass took us to the "Naval Post
Graduate School" in Monterey and taught us BAL360, met Dick Hamming and
Grace Hopper there... Dick was on staff, they brought Grace in to give US
our nanoseconds...
WOW, I only heard her speak on an NPR interview shortly before her
death, but she was a great speaker, and of course, had the MOST AMAZING
experiences!

I spent $1000 (no typo, 1 kilobuck) to buy a Persi Dual 8 inch Floopy drive
and built my fiirst 8080 CP/M machine.
Yup, I actually visited the PerSci factory in the LA area while on a
work trip, and later bought one. I did have a lot of trouble with it,
as I never figured out how to make the single load solenoid work right
with my dual floppy drive interface board. I eventually just disabled
the head lifter mechanism and solved the problem.
Console was the ASR33 fro the 4004
dev system. 1 year later I salvaged a I/O selectric and that became the
console.
I got a thing that had an IBM selectric and paper tape reader and punch,
and figured out an interface to it. It was called a "Dura". I used
that as a printer for a while. I made my own glass TTY by laboriously
wire wrapping a clone of a commercial terminal we had at work.

Jon