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Lore Harp McGovern built a microcomputer empire from her suburban home

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551 points adrianhon | 2 comments | 08 Apr 24 15:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.444s | source
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nimfan ◴[08 Apr 24 20:11 UTC] No.39973224[source]▶
"Vector was late in moving from machines with 8K processing to 16K, which had become the new industry standard." I was interested in S100 bus machines, but couldn't afford one! If I'd only known, I'd have borrowed to buy a Vector Graphic S100 back then, just for the novelty of having an 8192-bit CPU! ;-)
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mkesper ◴[09 Apr 24 09:31 UTC] No.39977701[source]▶
The CPU was a Z80, that must have been RAM. http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/Vector%20Grap...
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1. buescher ◴[09 Apr 24 14:00 UTC] No.39979522[source]▶
No, it looks more like a misunderstanding. The Vector 3 was an 8-bit machine with 64K of RAM. https://web.archive.org/web/20110925031455/http://www.vector...

The arrival of the IBM PC (and PC-DOS/MS-DOS) in 1981 was an extinction-level event for the CP/M-based, mostly-Z80-based, 8-bit business microcomputer industry. Vector did not weather it.

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2. garius ◴[09 Apr 24 16:33 UTC] No.39981142[source]▶
Yup.

Downside of how much tech has changed is stuff gets missed in a copy edit because the numbers sound so silly (to modern ears) they assume I haven't screwed up a typo or find/replace.

I'll flag it.