10 Sep
2025
10 Sep
'25
10:30 p.m.
On 2025-09-10 8:51 p.m., Carey Schug via cctalk wrote:
when the PDP 11 first came out, that was the first
time I wanted a computer
for myself at home, the earlier ones that I knew of had too cockeyed and
limited instruction sets, after my programming experience being on
mainframes with CISC instructions. I actually thought about how much
sacrifice it would take to buy one.
You still have cocky and limited instruction sets,
but $1.99 will get you a 16 bit chip micro controller in quantities of one.
I drooled at the Heath-kit H-11 when it came out,but when I had money
it was gone.
I just picked up a cheap Laser cutter/engraver and you have a tiny hand
sized usb box controlling it. To think, it was not that long ago it took
a whole rack box to do the the same thing.
Ben.