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I started on an 1802 but transitioned to 8080 at my first real computer job at Carterfone.
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mastodon 4.7.2Old retired IT geek
Sony/Carterfone*/Northrop Grumman
Programmer/Network Tech/DBA/Architect
Elf2/Apple2/IBM/Web
ASM/BASIC/C/Pascal/Java/HTML/CSS
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I really enjoyed the simple beauty of the CPU hardware back then. You could single step through a program and actually see the relationship between the registers and the state of the data, address and control pins on the chip. That simplicity is long gone.
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I did wonder a bit when that notification came up. Almost thought I was on Facebook for a minute there. 😄