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Old 22nd May 2020, 11:05 pm   #44
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Default Re: Early personal computers - what for?

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I programmed an assembler routine that was then installed in one of the spare EPROM slots used for downloading ambulatory ECG recordings off a tape recorder, summarizing the data and making it available for the clinicians to use
You may as well be talking Swahili. No disrespect meant to you my friend of course! just once again, telling it like it is! I'm the fool. And yet I don't feel I've missed out on anything? I mean, you can only do so much in a lifetime and I guess I didn't have 'time' to do programming and coding. But.. I've done a lot of other stuff that maybe others would be envious, especially in the 'vintage audio & visual equipment' field. We're all different.
Wow! Bit abrupt Steve.

Not the greatest reception to our new forum member. Swahili?

Matherp is recounting interesting vintage technology of, I guess, 40 years ago. Up to you if you’re not interested in grasping it, but this is how today’s processor based electronics began. I guess that this will constitute an increasing proportion of forum content of the future - no doubt alongside continuing interest in grid leak detectors, tuned circuit Q values and output transformer ratios.

Electronics is always moving on. We’re a broad church.

Martin
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