My first computer!

South West Technical Products Corp.

SWTPC 6800

Anyone remember this machine? I still have

it and it worked the last time I fired it up!

My first terminal was a Teletype Corp. model 15.

Next came a ASR 32 with punch tape reader, Wow!

Then came a tube type terminal. ADM-3 That darn

terminal cost me $1200.00 from a store on S. Dale Mabry

way back when....

Just to see if there are any "old coots" out there that got into

the "computer revolution" early. After this system, I purchased my

first Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-11 mini-computer. It was

a PDP-11/10, next was a PDP-11/45 and finally a PDP-11/84.

Sorry, I do not have any photos of the DEC equipment. It is long

gone, but not forgotten. Worked with RT-11 & RSTS/E operating

systems from DEC. Had a blast with DEC Dibol language and

their assembler.

Chuck  W4CLL

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