MarkO Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 WOW!! An Honest to Goodness TeleType Machine!!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 WOW!! An Honest to Goodness TeleType Machine!!!! I'll never complain again that my computer takes too long to boot up! Gawd, that was truly painful. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desiv Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Memmaker was fun! We'd run it on a PC, then see how much we could beat it by manually tweaking config.sys! Ah, good times! desiv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falconhood Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Back in the early days of computing TV's were the monitors, and data was stored on Cassette tapes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 back in the early days light bulbs were monitors, mercury tubes were used for ram, and data was stored on paper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 computers were ANALOG, not digital! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 My car is an analog computer and specializes in unit conversions. It converts hydrocarbons into spatial displacement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 Does that make me an analog 'converter'..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 I'll never complain again that my computer takes too long to boot up! Gawd, that was truly painful. It makes the C64 cassette interface look fast and imagine not having a monitor. The first hobbyists must have used a lot of paper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 We used cards (inked, not punched) for program input in high school. Funnily enough, I did work experience at a mainframe site and they still had a card reader in 1983 and it was in use. In 1993 I was on a disk tuning course - I remember someone excitedly announcing that one of the big government departments had just exceeded 1 Terabyte of disk storage space. Even by then, it would have taken probably 3 tennis courts worth of floor space or more. The site I worked on at the time had probably 150 Gig or less, and that took a lot. IBM 3380 workalikes generally had 4 physical disks in the space taken by a big fridge and that was only about 7 Gig. 2 generations earlier was the 3350, they generally came in twin units about the size of a large washer+dryer side by side with an overall capacity of about 1.2 Gig on 2 physical disks/4 logical volumes. The data transfer rates - I remember the wow factor in that a parallel channel ran at about 8 Meg/second - often a control unit would have 4 or more channel attachments though. Even a cheap USB flashdrive will often get double that speed on reads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudeslife Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Hacking wasn't really a big deal... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 Hacking wasn't really a big deal... So, if you don't mind me asking, how hard of a slap on the wrist was it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ripdubski Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 ARCnet, and binding IRQ's and IO addresses to the NIC driver or each computer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSA Starfire Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Ram-pack wobble on the ZX81, one touch and programme is gone, official Sinclair solution was Blu-tac! How far we have come, but never again will we have a mainstream computer for £49!!! Mastertronic 1.99 games, sold in newsagents and petrol stations, truly pocket money prices, great stuff. I have almost all of the Vic-20 games they released. Computer magazines worth reading, Crash!, Zzap! 64, Popular computing weekly, Personal computer news. Variety, how many systems were out there? now it's a one horse show. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 (edited) Ram-pack wobble on the ZX81, one touch and programme is gone, official Sinclair solution was Blu-tac! How far we have come, but never again will we have a mainstream computer for £49!!! We used some Velcro between the RAM Pack and the CPU.. That reminds me, I need to photograph my Sinclair ZX81/TS1000 collection.. I even have a Memotech 64K RAM pack in an Extruded Aluminum case... I guess I should photograph my Commodore collection too.... Variety, how many systems were out there? now it's a one horse show. Well, Two and a Half... Apple and Linux+Windows..... MarkO Edited February 14, 2014 by MarkO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariDude Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 I think some guy named Gates wants to talk to you about that paper basic and make sure that you paid him the $500 that he is asking for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 I think some guy named Gates wants to talk to you about that paper basic and make sure that you paid him the $500 that he is asking for it. Oh, come on... I'm sure it's legit.. It was right there in the desk drawer, next to the tape of Spacewar and Hunt the Wumpus... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almightytodd Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 he actually never said that BTW that "quote" popped up in the early 90's like a goblin fart and as a "quote" there is a hundred different versions and not a single shred of evidence outside of myth. I am sure he said something that involved 640K at some point in history, but whoever started this little meme at best was half drunk on a ultra loud convention floor looking at some other booth when it happened to hit their ear half sideways as it never existed before computers had multiple megabytes of ram standard And the other thing about that... ...in the early 1980s, the data that was stored on IBM Personal Computers was all text... ...not audio, no JPGs, no video. A typed page of text used about 2K bytes of data. To be able to store 320 pages of such text IN MEMORY would have been sufficient for most imagined scenarios. Remember, a Commodore 64 having access to 64K bytes of memory was sufficient to make that machine one of the best selling computing devices of all time. The first iterations of Macintosh and Atari ST computers did not have 640K of RAM, and those were computers with GUI Operating Systems, in contrast with the IBM compatibles which were text-based computers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 (edited) the first IBM pc's had 64 KB as well 640k didnt appear till the end of the XT era nearly 1/4 decade later and it was actually a meg with overhead Edited February 22, 2014 by Osgeld Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 A friend of mine would refer to that as casaba pixels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulBlazer Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Porn for the 80's. (And yes, I smuggled in a version of Strip Poker for the C64 as a kid.....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted February 26, 2014 Author Share Posted February 26, 2014 ... a simple word processor program could easily set you back $100.00.. OR MORE! This label was found on a TI-Writer binder I picked up yesterday... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 ... a simple word processor program could easily set you back $100.00.. OR MORE! This label was found on a TI-Writer binder I picked up yesterday... You really have to wonder about the thought process there. Word processing was one of the best reasons to own a computer. Want to sell more computers? sell a couple key applications cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 It's not like the industry was struggling. Word processors were in demand and sold regardless of price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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