Hi all,
from the first moment on I wondered if
there is a place to introduce myself to this group.
Now after the detection
of Waynes' introduction, I'll also try to say hello (although I have
already caused some threads before..)
I'm : Norbert, living in Aachen in
Germany, 58 years old, systems engineer, and interested in electronics
from youth on.
Play the guitar, interested in astronomy, scuba diving.
In the late 70th I builded my first
computer, a 6502 Junior Computer from Elektor, a electronics magazin,
originally from the Netherlands.
After that I got interested in the world
of the Apple ][ . I had not much money and so I decided to wire wrap my
own. Good job, it worked.
Now much programming in Pascal, Basic and
Assembler followed. I built a 256K ramcard
with 16 x 16k bank switching and still some other stuff for Apple ][.
Running CP/M was possible! Then - after
long doubts - a IBM PC Clone followed. In a moment of mental darkness I
gave away all my old computers to a friend of mine.
Now, after many years, I'm back again. My
first project was a Micro-KIM of Vince Briel, again a 6502 system.
After building a cassette interface, a 16Kand
a 6532 card,
I came in contact with a australian
hobbyist (also member of this group I suppose). He told me about N8VEM
and from the first moment on I
thought:"That's it!" .
Now I have builded 'my' Zeta SBC. There
are still some problems, but I hope I will get it running with your
friendly help.
A MUST to say: this project is very
interesting, thank you for its existence and your good and hard work
for it!
Best to you!
Norbert
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: [N8VEM: 13801] New sucker...er Builder
Welcome Wayne,
This group is a huge amount of fun. I have written thousands
of lines of code
for my N8VEM SBC's in the last year and a half.
It is both the trip through memory lane, and a chance to learn
a lot about various
aspects of the homebrew experience.
Since I have been here, I have learned to...
1. Locate and purchase parts from various distributors
2. Carefully stuff and solder PCB's (sockets recommended).
3. Debug digital logic using various inexpensive tools
4. Think creatively about bootstrapping embedded software
5. Learned a lot about getting along with different kinds of
people.
It is a GOOD Hobby, and we help each other a lot here.
Have fun, and keep us informed of your progress, we care.
Douglas Goodall
On Jun 11, 2012, at 2:54 AM, opticpow wrote:
Hi All,
I'm not sure on the protocol for the group in regards to new users, but
I thought I'd introduce myself.
I'm Wayne, 36 from Newcastle Australia. I ran across this great little
community a few weeks ago, and since then have been engrossed reading
as much as I can. It has brought back memories of my youth playing with
CPM and those early 8bit micros. A few years back while I was off
seeing the world, my mum decided that those old computers were taking
up space and to my horror, gave them away! Alas I do not know how the
Amstrad, Microbee and my 2600 have ended up, or even if they are still
alive :(
I need another hobby like I need a hole in the head, but what the heck.
The attraction to that golden age from when I was a kid is just too
strong, so hobbies +1 it is. I'm hoping to build the SBC v2, with the
Disk IO V3 board so that I can connect up some 5.25 floppies. You can't
have an old computer without the disks, IMHO.
I'm sure this is going to be a lot of fun. I'm keen to do some
programming in CPM, something that was a bit beyond me first time round!
You never know, if all goes well, I might end up graduating to Sergy's
XT so I can reminisce with GEM!
I look forward to getting my hands on this stuff.
Cheers,
Wayne.
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