VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:53 am Post subject: Old School Copy

Thought you'd appreciate this prompt:

For support on a Dot Matrix printer in a Windows environment press 1.

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Lizden · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:15 am Post subject:

For support on changing your typewriter ribbon, press 2,
or since you are probably using a rotary phone, please stay on the line.

Wink

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todd ellis · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:23 am Post subject:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/14/the-500-gsm-rotary-phone/

gots to get me one of these!
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louzucaro · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:29 am Post subject:

Good one Liz...nicely done!

This post reminded me that in 1982 or so, the first hard drive I saw advertised was $2000 and it held 5MB I think.

Technology is so frickin cool.
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Lizden · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:34 am Post subject:

Hey!
I remember when I bought my first computer (1987/88 I think) I had the choice of a 20MB or 40MB hard drive (yep, no more 2 floppies!)...I went with the 20MB 'cause "I'll NEVER need 40MB! What are they nuts!?"

I think I paid $2500 and I got the really cool Amber monochrome monitor too, not green! VERY cool! Rolls Eyes

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TDAVID · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:51 am Post subject:

I've got you guys beat. My first IBM PC was in 1982. It had dual 360k 5 1/4" floppy disks and 64K,, That's 64K of memory. All for about $3,500. At the time I was working for a company that even had a 'Durango' computer. It was CP/M compatible with a built in floppy, monitor, keyboard and monitor. It looked like an IBM selectric with a monitor and dual floppy drive attached. It ran at 1.78 Mhz processing speed. You could upgrade it to a 3Mhz and a 10 MB winchester hard drive for about $2000
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TDAVID · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:55 am Post subject:

And then there's the museum piece that I have, a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100. The first laptop with 8k of RAM, a 4 row 40 column video screen and an external 'cassette' tape for data storage. It makes you appreciate random access hard drives. If you didn't keep track of the tape counter, you'd never see your data again.
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Deirdre · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:07 am Post subject:

I learned FORTRAN on a keypunch machine in the early '70's.
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SoundsGreat-Elaine Singer · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:10 am Post subject:

My first was a CPM machine in 1984 I think - KayPro 4. When I think back to what I managed to pull out of that machine with only 2 floppy drives (5 1/2") I amaze myself. Intricate tables and Gantt charts. Sheesh dunno how I did it. Oh and it was hooked up to an Olivetti daisy wheel electronic typewriter. Ah yes, those were the days.....
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Frank F · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:20 am Post subject:

I still have my Sinclair, and my first 'real' computer; a Radio Shack Color Computer. Somewhere in my "treasures of trash" is one of the first "desktop computers" ever made... the Altair. I wonder if I could sell it on eBay?

The first computer I worked with was an IBM 6040. This computer was the size of a small house, had card punch machines for programming; used Cobol, RPG I and II, and Fortran as programming languages, and eventually moved to 1" reel-to-reel tape.

The 6040 was the school districts, and I was helping program it (I was in high school at the time)... no wonder I recieved "A's" in all my classes that year.

"Do you speak RPG? Join our team and catch the wave of the future with computer programming at XYZ Systems."

Just a blast from the past.

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chriswagner · Contributor IV Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 114

The first computer I worked on was an HP 2000A, 32 port mini computer. We dialed into it via the phone and an acoustic coupler. We were hot shots running at 110 baud, single duplex. It was connected to a dec-writer 132 column terminal.

We had to use the paper 4 times, work on what you want, turn it upside down, continue, turn it over, then flip it again.

Hey, it was 1977 I was 12.. Writing programs, hacking around security, learning how to pull a memory dump... I spent a lot of time in detention that year.. and I'm still grounded Wink

When I was 13 I worked at Computerland for a year, in trade for an Apple II+ computer. No monitor, no hard drive, floppy drive.. hooked up to the TV, and had to buy a cassette recorder to save programs or load them.

By the time I was 15.. I was writing programs for a Stock broker.. but that's another song and dance.

Frank F · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:26 am Post subject:

You had to say you were twelve, didn't you? Makes me feel old and decrepit.

I will stick with the "original computer": the pencil and paper.

No error messages, no "blue screen of death", and no compatibility problems. Ahh, those were the days... I digress.

Toodles

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Tdavid-
I loved those old Trash 80s. I installed about a million of them for a client all over the midwest at cattle future brokers.

Donovan · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:24 pm Post subject:

I do remember the family having a Commodore 64. Here Frank, this should make you feel better... I was born in 1979! Sticking out Tongue

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Lizden · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:29 pm Post subject:

Oh JEEZ...thanks for that Donovan!!!!!! Rolls Eyes

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