{"id":11788,"date":"2017-02-07T20:22:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T01:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11788"},"modified":"2017-02-10T12:22:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:22:57","slug":"my-familys-first-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11788","title":{"rendered":"My Family&#8217;s First Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11790\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/img_20170207_135767.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11790\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/img_20170207_135767-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Ohio Scientific Superboard II\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11790\" data-wp-pid=\"11790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/img_20170207_135767-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/img_20170207_135767-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/img_20170207_135767-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/img_20170207_135767-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/img_20170207_135767-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/img_20170207_135767.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ohio Scientific Superboard II<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 1978 (or thereabouts), when I was in college, my dad bought this computer. It was made by Ohio Scientific and is a Superboard II, a.k.a., model 600 single-board computer. It came by default with 4k of RAM but dad knew that he&#8217;d need more than that so he doubled it to 8k. He initially built a power supply for it but the power wasn&#8217;t clean enough so he bought one. The computer was connected to a small black-and-white television set and a portable cassette player for program and data storage. I actually did more BASIC programming on this machine than on any subsequent computer I&#8217;ve owned, moving on to Pascal in 1984 when I bought my own NEC computer. Although this was the family&#8217;s first computer, Ralph had one sooner. I believe he bought it with a friend at school and it was a more powerful thing, using an Intel 8008 processor, if I remember correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1978 (or thereabouts), when I was in college, my dad bought this computer. It was made by Ohio Scientific and is a Superboard II, a.k.a., model 600 single-board computer. It came by default with 4k of RAM but dad knew that he&#8217;d need more than that so he doubled it to 8k. He initially &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11788\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11788"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11794,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11788\/revisions\/11794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}