[LINK] Role of IT in health, Canberra 9 March & Brisbane 17 March

[Darryl (Dassa) Lynch]

link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au wrote:
|| On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:05 AM, George Bray
|| <georgebray at gmail.com> wrote:
||| 
||| That's ZX-80, which had a Z80 CPU.  My first computer, the ZX-80 had
||| 1KB RAM and an audio cassette for storage. I used wet tissue on the
||| heatsink to keep it from crashing. Today, my computer has 7 million
||| times more memory.  Cardboard box?, you were lucky!
||| 
|| 
|| 
|| I still have on my shelves -
|| 
|| Intel 8080/8085 assembly language programming, Intel Corp,
|| 1977 William Barden "The Z-80 microcomputer handbook".
|| Indianapolis, Howard W Sams, 1978.
|| Willian Barden "TRS-80 assembly language programming", Fort Worth,
|| Radio Shack, 1979. 
|| 
|| I bought a TRS-80 in 1978 which had 4k of RAM which I
|| upgraded to 16k and it also had 16k of ROM which had all of
|| it's software. Mostly a Basic interpreter..

I have the 8086/8088 book on my shelf, the Z-80 and TRS-80 books are packed
away with the TRS I picked up years ago.  Along with the VZ 200 and 300
books although I don't have those first computers I used any more.

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch