Subj : Re: Introduction ...
To   : AKAcastor
From : Niels Haedecke
Date : Mon Feb 26 2024 20:25:00

AKAcastor wrote to Niels Haedecke:
A>  NH> Hello, my name is Niels and I'm from germany.
A> 
A> Hi Niels, welcome to fsxNet!  I just joined fsxNet a couple weeks ago 
A> myself, this seems to be the right place!

Thank you very much. Feels very pleasant to be here.

A> 
A> I am sure I'm not the only person interested to hear more!  Sounds like 
A> great fun.  I have a KIM-1 Clone (6502) but haven't taken the time to do 
A> much with it.  Someday I'd like to run a BBS on it. :)  I'd love to hear 
A> more about your CP/M setup too.

Well, when I was about 13 years old (in 1987, go figure) I learned about CP/M
because a friend of mine had it shipped with his C128D and so we took a look.
Not impressed. Back to colourful games. A year later I found a german book
which led you through the whole process of building a Z80 based, text-only 
CP/M
 capable computer. Very imperessed! To realize that you could actually build a
computer yourself insted of buing it from some company reall struck me. But I
was too young to understand the complex stuff in there. But the amazement
stayed.

In the early 2000s I heared about those "breadboard" computers by Grant Searle
and thet he build a Z80 machine running BASIC on a breadboard. Wow!! But it
wasn't until 2020 and the COVID lockdowns when I bought a RC2014 kit and dug 
up
 what little I remembered from my training in tech-college (for a lack of a
better translation) where I learned how to solder and the basics of digital
microelectronics. I also learned 8085 assembler back then, some 30+ years ago.

What can I say?! Once I had my first "Classic II" model showing me the BASIC
prompt I felt very proud and a little like the big Woz or Jerry Ellsworth.
Until now I have built four different variants of that kit, incl
different expansion modules (lockdowns tend to be very boring). So from that I
built "RC-BOX BBS" (rc2014.ddns.net:2014). You can read all about how it came
together technically on the system itself, in the textfiles section.

    Greetings, Niels Haedecke

--- MBSE BBS v1.0.8.4 (Linux-aarch64)
 * Origin: Wintermute BBS - Duesseldorf, Germany (21:1/168)

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