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From: steve@adam.com.au (Stephen White)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: One downsmanship (Was:Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist))
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Date: 18 Jun 1994 15:48:44 -0000
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Leigh Hart (hart@apanix.apana.org.au) wrote:
: Who first used CPM on a Fergusson Big Board (home-built-with-friend) 
: complete with an Eprom Burner on the motherboard :-)

Who first used a homebuilt 8080 S-Bus system which had a bare wire per key,
and you typed on it by touching a long ground wire to each "key". To start
it up, you toggled some switches in the right order to get it to load in a
small ROM monitor, and then "key"ed in a cassette tape loader in hexadecimal
then loaded in the OS from tape.

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  steve@adam.com.au