Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Howdy,

As the handle indicates, I've been at this game a while. As in my first project's breadboard used real wood, screws, and Fahnestock clips. Back in the day when debugging a circuit meant poking your galena crystal in a different spot. Vacuum tubes? What, were you born with a rich daddy?

My first computer was built by wire-wrapping the RCA 1802 CPU to a few other ICs. I programmed it in machine code with toggle switches. Back then it was understood that "core memory" was a reference to...