On 03/11/2019 11:59 AM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
On 2019-03-10 12:19 p.m., James Knott via talk wrote:
Forgot to mention, the first editor I used was SCELBI's "ED", a simple line editor, which was better than that Pr1me editor. I used ED on my IMSAI 8080.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCELBI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSAI_8080
Very nice. Do you still have the IMSAI? I didn't know that SCELBI was a computer. I just know, and have, some of their books from back in the day.
No, unfortunately, I gave it away, after I bought my XT clone. For some reason, my wife seemed to think I had to much stuff! ;) The first personal computer I saw was a Scelbi H a friend had. In addition to a couple of books, I bought the Scelbi editor, assembler and monitor, along with SCELBAL Basic. They came with paper tape, but I had no way to read the tapes, so I hand entered the octal code and saved to cassette. Later on, I bought a used M35 ASR teletype from work and was then able to read and punch paper tape.