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Wed 2021.10.13

'This is what we used to use in the late 1970s when those first computers first came out.'
Try telling that to the kids of today and they wont beleive ya.

Try believing monochrome lime green phosphor!!

The first consumer PC 1978 I used pre-dated the Comodore 64 and Timex Sinclair by four years and I built as a kit:

The Heathkit H89

https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=135
see H89   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathkit_H8

I paid over $1500 USA dollars which was a third of a years salary (electronics tech) then. With Yes Fragile and Rush Fly By Night albums playing still took six weekends to build, along with parts to wire wrap the additional 16K board (to save the $150 for a new board) so that I had the maximum amount, 64K!!

It had an amazing single color lime green phosphor 80 char output. Yeah I was top kid on the block back then!! I still have it, fired it up a could of years ago and was amazed at the blazing speed of 6 minutes just to boot off the 100K hard sectored 5 1/4 floppies.

Incidentally, NASA has offered me ~$1000 just for both the Z80 and 8080 processors inside as they are much needed for repair stock and no longer manufactured.

I challenge your 1970's claim @HughB as that would have had to have been early / mid 80's ;-)

Commodore 64 Date introduced: August 1982
The Timex Sinclair 1000 was introduced in July 1982
The first Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984

. . . and I thought I was dating myself!