[CBQ] Totally OT - "Hackers"

[John Willis <willisjc@zebra.net>]

Jonathan,
Go to the library or get it from a bookseller- "Hackers" , by Steven 
Levy. I would suggest reading the original before getting the new 
edition with the updated material .
I knew a few of those guys. I built my first cludge computer from advice 
from a couple of gurus from that era.It used soldered boards cabled to 
wirewrap boards and commercial display and keyboards with an interface 
that I designed and built using a couple of Intel chipsets for drive 
coontrol ( long before  the processors available in the 90's ). This was 
in the mid seventies and used an Z80 Zilog processor and had a huge 512K 
memory board.
It took a huge power supply that weighed over 50 lbs.
Anyway I come from an era before that. I learned tube theory from my dad 
who was into radio in the late 20's thru-40's and 50's. The stuff I 
worked on in the Navy originally used tubes and then we went to 
germanium transistors and finally silicon ones. Electronics has 
progressed a long long way from the devices that Istarted with. thank 
goodness.To keep it train related. When I was a distributor selling to 
the railroads in our area The radios they used were all tube Motorola's 
Or Ge's
John

John C. Willis
Mobile, Al


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