Date: 8 Jan 2002 15:01:42 -0000 From: Mats Lofkvist <mal@algonet.se> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981! Message-ID: <20020108150142.9158.qmail@kairos.algonet.se> References: <bulk.29853.20020108041954@hub.freebsd.org>
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Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> wrote
> In those days I built my own SWTPc/09 clone system, running TSC FLEX
> and later TSC UniFlex. I still have it! Started off with 2 floppys,
> later grew a Miniscribe 3012, 10Mb @ 155ms average access time. 1Mbyte RAM.
> Motorola 6809 at 2 MHz. 2 years ago it still ran (OK, it blew
> a electrolytic cap in the HD power supply but that was an easy fix).
Still have my SWTPc clone built around -83. Wire-wrapped from
xerox'd original SWTPc schematics (only problem was that the
schematics weren't always correct, took a while to figure out
why the floppy controller didn't work :-).
Never went beyond FLEX and a pair of floppies though, and cheated
by buying a second hand SWTPc ct82 terminal (that's 82x16 on a
9 inch crt). That terminal together with a 300 bps modem was
my usenet window for years.
_
Mats Lofkvist
mal@algonet.se
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