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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:47:52 -0700
From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno
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On 2/26/07, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> > [[ now all us old guys can contribute our "I used to compute with 1
> > bit" stories, right?]]
>
> Actually my first computer had 3 bits - when I was about eleven
> I had one of these wonderful machines:

I've still got mine. It taught me hardware design ... from what I
learned from this one, I built a relay computer with two bits. I went
backwards, but oh well.

The "howto" books were very useful.

thanks

ron