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Howdy

Welcome to VCFED.

You don't tell us where you are. You can add that information if you like to your profile.

Dave
 
Welcome.

It'd be a good idea to show your location just in case there is someone close to you and help out with any issues.

Enjoy....
 
Thanks, I added some location info to the profile.

I guess I should add some experience level here. I am in awe of some of the expertise I see on the board and the collections thread is pretty darn impressive. I am nowhere near that level and am more than ok with that. I am not an EE or SE or a collector (as many of you are) or a historian, amateur or otherwise.

I started out using a few computers at school....there was a PDP-9 and in a closet there was a SOL-20 (which I did get to boot up but it would crash every 10-20 minutes, which explained to me why it was in a closet. Next up was a stat course where we had to use punch cards and JCL...I greatly resented the lack of control.

Bought a KIM-1 (from a tech whose brother worked at MOS). It was absolutely intriguing and I still admire the 6502 and its instruction set, even if it was erm,, related to Motorola's.

Next a TRS-80 M1...then M3. In between there was a Dynabyte Basic Controller and some scattered Pet/Atari/Apple experiences.

Then some more serious VAX and PDP-8e and 11/73 experiences [yeah, FORTRAN]....those coincided with the IBM clone invasion [and the introduction to C which just made better sense to me than BASIC). In between there was a healthy dollop of C-64 and a smattering of some PIC chips and a smattering of the odd piece here and there, e.g., Timex-Sinclair.

Nowadays, I enjoy embedded controllers and sensors and making stuff just because I can and have "earned the right" to do what I want, when I want, regardless of what anyone else thinks, says, or does (an illusion, I know, but, so what?).

Still curious after all these years....not a bad way to be, I think.
 
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