AVR-Chat

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Thomas Keller wrote:

> John Samperi wrote:
> 
> > At 11:56 AM 21/12/2005, you wrote:
> > >John,
> > >By the way how old are you ? 50s or 60s ?
> >
> > 54 :-) now everybody knows.
> >
>   Aww...that ain't *OLD*.  Hell, *I* am 53.
> 
> tom

I am also 53.  My first contact with computers was in 1973 (IBM 360, DEC 
10, PDP-11). By today's standards they were monsters back then, even the 
PDP-11. I remember a buddy getting a free sample of the Intel 8008 back 
in the mid-70's.

My first microcontroller project was with a Z-80.  I wrote the program in 
assembler and converted it to machine code by hand using the Z-80 handbook 
and programmed it into a SEEQ 52B13 (which is an EEPROM using 5 volts as 
the programming voltage) using DIP switches and pushbuttons. I was amazed 
that it worked!

I guess we've come a long ways since then.  :)

Zack