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11-13-2011, 02:22 PM
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  |  30 Old PC Ads
I don't know if this was ever posted here before, but somebody just sent it to me today, and I thought it was fun. 30 Old PC Ads That Will Blow Your Processor |
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11-13-2011, 04:19 PM
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I had an Atari 2600 in the 80s , I got one of the Timex Sinclair zx81 s as a kit. For the time they worked ok. All thoes used a regular t.v. My sistor had a I.B.M. 286( mid 90 s maby ) with a 16 mega bit h.d. at the time she thought it was a big drive . Its wild how the processor speed has gone up , memory size has gone up and price has gone down . desert rat p.s. Atari 2600 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ZX81 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Last edited by desertrat; 11-13-2011 at 04:22 PM. |
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11-13-2011, 04:35 PM
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The friend who sent me that link said he had a Timex Sinclair too. I can hardly imagine that Timex was ever even in the ball game. The first computers I worked with didn't look a whole lot different than PCs did up until fairly recently -- but they did work off the two floppy drives rather than a hard drive. I also worked for a company that had one of those Macintosh computers with the tiny screen and teeny screen print. |
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11-13-2011, 05:45 PM
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Thanks for that link, gave me a few laughs! There's a few things on there I nearly bought way back when! As a young teacher, I ran the after school computer club - it was all ZX81 s and the really rich kids had..... 1kb add on memory packs  |
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11-14-2011, 03:06 PM
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As I remember that zx81 used a audio input to load programs you could save on audio tape . I remember it was a pain in the *** to get them to load right . My next one was a Coleco Adam , it used a modified casset tape , you could make your own by drilling little holes in a tape , it worked ok Coleco Adam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . I think I payed around $300 for mine . desert rat
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11-15-2011, 02:54 AM
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The Coleco came with basic , you could get cp/m . As the story goes when I.B.M. needed a new operating system they went to the guy that had written cp/m , he would not sell it to them. They asked Bill Gates to make them a system that worked the same , he wrote dos . That Coleco would run the game cartages , soft ware on tapes , or you could get a 5 1/2 " floppy drive . I got a 300 buad modem for mine , late 80s some where . That was before the net , b.b.s. boards around then . desert rat
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11-15-2011, 07:46 AM
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My first computer was a Tandy (Radio Shack) Color Computer, with a cassette drive. And my second was a Commodore 64 (I was such an enthusiast I even had a floppy drive, which was external because there was nowhere in the console to house an internal one). Amazing the stuff you could do in an 8-bit system, with >64K of memory (because a good portion of that memory was taken up by the OS!). |
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