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11-19-2009

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What was your first computer?

Hey, the What Do You Do for a Living thread got me thinking about this.
My first "computer" was a Timex Sinclair that I built from a kit. I also spent many hours painstakingly programming a Commodore Vic20 to display graphics and sound (and save them on that slooooow tape drive). My first "real" programming was in QBasic on a TRS-80 in high school. And as I said before, my first "dial in, on call" technology was a Compaq Lunchbox that I did IBM Mainframe support on for a manufacturing plant. Oh, and I took my first programming course in college with a Telex machine (I kid you not!) Getting a program listing on that crappy thermal paper was a pain in the butt.......

Tell us some stories, reminisce a little. Bring back some memories...

Later,
David

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kcemu

KCEMU(1x)																 KCEMU(1x)

NAME

       kcemu - The KC 85/4 Emulator

SYNOPSIS

       kcemu [-123478sthdlvLW]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the kcemu command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the orig-
       inal program does not have a manual page.

       kcemu emulates various versions of the KC85 homecomputer series which was quite popular in the former east germany.  It already runs  quite
       some original programs and even boots an special old CP/M version.

OPTIONS

       -1     Emulate Z9001 / KC 85/1 computer.

       -2     Emulate HC-900 / KC 85/2 computer.

       -3     Emulate KC 85/3 computer.

       -4     Emulate KC 85/4 computer.

       -7     Emulate KC 87 computer (KC 85/1 with color expansion).

       -8     Emulate LC 80 computer.

       -s --scale
	      Scale display (only values 1 and 2 allowed).

       -t --tape
	      Attach tape on startup.

       -h --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -d --datadir
	      Set data directory (for ROM images).

       -l --localedir
	      Set locale directory.

       -v --version
	      Show KCemu version and configuration.

       -L --license
	      Show license.

       -W --warranty
	      Show warranty.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Torsten Paul <Torsten.Paul@gmx.de>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

																	 KCEMU(1x)