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by kghose 5098 days ago
We were taught on the 8085. We had these cute little kits that were hinged wooden boxes that you opened up. They had all the circuitry exposed which was awesome, a 4 or 6 digit 8-segment LED display and a numeric keypad. Sometimes the kits would go on the fritz and the most common solution was to press all the chips into the sockets. Did I mention it was awesome.

My proudest/excitingest moment with them was at the end of the semester when I implemented a long division program on them. It would take two numbers and output the decimal fraction to an arbitrary number of digits using long division.

Aaah!