G'morning David, 

 DW> I *sold* my 1980 PET...
 DW> Apart from the 386, I also have a couple of 1980's
 DW> Macs, including a "Classic", which fully deserves the name.

Mmmm ... I cut my teeth on early bureau IBM machines (plug-board 
accounting machines through to 360's) and Fortran before getting 
into Casio programmables, PETs, TRS80's and then the Big Board.  
None of that survives here now.

In `82 I converted a newspaper distribution department from 
Address-o-graphs to Mitac XT's,  and still have the home one that 
I drove the others with.  The family then started on a set of 
Intels, some of which linger...

I still hanker after the Casio Pro101 - it had 256 steps and its 
memory registers,  requiring really streamlined proggies that 
often had to crash in order to extract useful outcomes... ....

:-))
 
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