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09/20/2007 11:40:32 PM · #1 |
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09/21/2007 12:28:02 AM · #2 |
| Yeah, I miss glasses like that too... :) |
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09/21/2007 12:34:44 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by Jason_Cross:
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Hey, is he on DPC? |
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09/21/2007 02:14:28 AM · #4 |
we are still using the abascus.
i guess really old "computers" never dies, lol |
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09/21/2007 11:23:47 PM · #5 |
| Cigarette, 2 boxes of 51/4 floppies, coffee, dot matrix printer, color monitor, a phone jack and a smile. |
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09/21/2007 11:36:28 PM · #6 |
| you call that old? where are the amber letters on a black screen? |
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09/21/2007 11:40:29 PM · #7 |
| Bet that had a blazing fast 300 Baud modem. |
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09/21/2007 11:41:20 PM · #8 |
| This guy always had the fresh equipment. My first machine was some sort of tape driven unit, Texas Interments I think. It pre-dated the apple IIe. Then I got an Apple IIe with dual drives and an orange screen. Good times. |
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09/22/2007 12:08:55 AM · #9 |
The keyboard looks like a TI 99A. I had one, and was writing games on it. Artillery was my fav. I would enter elevation and direction, and see a 10 pixel poof where the "shell' landed near a little shack. I actually learned a lot about how computers work with that one, working with TI Basic.
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09/22/2007 12:12:06 AM · #10 |
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09/22/2007 12:12:50 AM · #11 |
My TRS-80 owned all of you....
Go Tandy! |
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09/22/2007 01:12:48 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by JeffDay:
My TRS-80 owned all of you....
Go Tandy! |
Feh. I had an Atari 400 ... couldn't afford the 800.
Message edited by author 2007-09-22 01:13:37.
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09/22/2007 02:21:02 AM · #13 |
Does anyone remember the Timex-Sinclair? A little box that had keys so small that using a pencil to type was best for fat fingered people...memory/storage was on a cassette deck (ANY cassette deck) and it hooked up to your TV... no such thing as a monitor for it.
i hated it and because of it...I stayed away from computers for quite a few years till I got a Commodore. Then a Tandy with a whopping big 100meg hard-drive ("never gonna fill that one up" the salesman told me) had one meg RAM and a 100 mhz Intel processor. I was so up to date. :^)
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09/22/2007 08:47:11 AM · #14 |
| this was the first one i owned, a sharp pc-7000. looked like a portable sewing machine ;-) |
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09/22/2007 09:14:16 AM · #15 |
Osbourn I Luguable ... size & weight of a sewing machine ..
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09/22/2007 09:29:44 AM · #16 |
| That is a great photo. Nothing like the dinosaur computer, the 80's glasses and a cigarette in the workplace. LOL FUNNY |
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09/22/2007 10:15:33 AM · #17 |
Originally posted by JeffDay:
My TRS-80 owned all of you....
Go Tandy! |
Coco II :D
My daughter was 5... we had a book of games programs, and in no time she'd figured out enough to be able to make simple changes in the programming for different play effects.
It sat on an old kitchen table in our bedroom, used a cheap 12inch TV and a cassette deck. We had two or three ROMpaks for it, but couldn't afford many of those!
Ahhhh, those were the days..... can't believe it was 20 years ago this Christmas! :D
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09/22/2007 11:15:52 AM · #18 |
I'm sitting here at my fancy dual-core Dell, knowing that in 40 more years, my grandkids are going to be looking at a picture of it, and saying the same things about how primitive it is. I think that scares the hell out of me. :-)
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09/22/2007 12:00:15 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by Dantzr:
Does anyone remember the Timex-Sinclair? A little box that had keys so small that using a pencil to type was best for fat fingered people...memory/storage was on a cassette deck (ANY cassette deck) and it hooked up to your TV... no such thing as a monitor for it.
i hated it and because of it...I stayed away from computers for quite a few years till I got a Commodore. Then a Tandy with a whopping big 100meg hard-drive ("never gonna fill that one up" the salesman told me) had one meg RAM and a 100 mhz Intel processor. I was so up to date. :^) |
YES! I had something similar, but not that one.
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09/22/2007 12:34:08 PM · #20 |
My first:
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09/22/2007 12:41:09 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by eyewave:
My first:
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Still running after 11 years? Way Cool! Apple kicks butt, and for a long time without glitching out too.
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09/22/2007 12:42:21 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:
Originally posted by eyewave:
My first:
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Still running after 11 years? Way Cool! Apple kicks butt, and for a long time without glitching out too. |
Shouldn't that be 21 years! |
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09/22/2007 12:52:52 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:
Originally posted by eyewave:
My first:
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Still running after 11 years? Way Cool! Apple kicks butt, and for a long time without glitching out too. |
19 years, this one was built in '88. And it's still running, with external FDHD and all!
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09/22/2007 02:25:01 PM · #24 |
At the risk of aging myself, I remember all those coming out :-( I have also written code with hex boxes, punch cards and coding sheets and remember way too much of this stuff.
To REALLY age myself, I also have used that funny stuff you used to stuff in cameras before CF cards... I think it was called... Film :-)
Edit: I also remember putting up that wall board stuff when it was thought nice for a wall covering :-/
Message edited by author 2007-09-22 14:26:33.
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09/22/2007 02:27:07 PM · #25 |
My God! I thought I had the biggest black rimmed glasses in grade school! I was wrong!
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