G'day
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 8:18 pm
I'm Peter Hewett, although my friends call me 'Sig'. I'm an Australian expat living in the US.
My first time in the US was in 1977 when my Father was sent over by the R.A.A.F. (Australian Air Force) as an electronics engineer. We stayed until 1980, and while over here he bought a Superboard II. It was my first computer, and at 11yrs old, I took to it pretty quickly. We took it back to Australia with us and continued to use it until around 1984. Surprisingly, considering my Fathers profession and great interest in hobby electronics, the only expansion we made to it was populating it to 8k, and I was the only person who really used it. By the time I'd progressed to teaching myself assembly the C64 had come out and I spent my time mowing lawns and cleaning pools to buy one.
Recently I've been looking back at programming the old systems I used to own, and thought back on some of the things I wanted to do on the SBII but kind of 'ran out of time' an moved on from. So I've been collecting documentation and a couple of emulators - I doubt I'll be able to get actual hardware to use again, although I'm interested in some of the kits that have come out (the L-Star and Superboard III) and might look into them at some point.
My first time in the US was in 1977 when my Father was sent over by the R.A.A.F. (Australian Air Force) as an electronics engineer. We stayed until 1980, and while over here he bought a Superboard II. It was my first computer, and at 11yrs old, I took to it pretty quickly. We took it back to Australia with us and continued to use it until around 1984. Surprisingly, considering my Fathers profession and great interest in hobby electronics, the only expansion we made to it was populating it to 8k, and I was the only person who really used it. By the time I'd progressed to teaching myself assembly the C64 had come out and I spent my time mowing lawns and cleaning pools to buy one.
Recently I've been looking back at programming the old systems I used to own, and thought back on some of the things I wanted to do on the SBII but kind of 'ran out of time' an moved on from. So I've been collecting documentation and a couple of emulators - I doubt I'll be able to get actual hardware to use again, although I'm interested in some of the kits that have come out (the L-Star and Superboard III) and might look into them at some point.