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Former Member
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Southwest Technical Products 6800
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1989:
386SX16 (everybody told me that I waste my money because I will never make use of the terrific 386 power :-D), 1 MB RAM, 30MB HDD, 5 1/4 + 3 1/2 FDD, Hercules Graphics (monochrom). |
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Sekerob
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Oh boy, Apple II... had the pleasure of working on an Apple Lisa [way too expensive then to privately own] It had Xerox technology ripped... the inventors of the mouse. That gui+interface was THE change in personal computing, light-years ahead of the rest.
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darth_vader
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Oh boy, Apple II... had the pleasure of working on an Apple Lisa [way too expensive then to privately own] It had Xerox technology ripped... the inventors of the mouse. That gui+interface was THE change in personal computing, light-years ahead of the rest. I also got to work on a Lisa for a while. You're right - it was a total rip-off of the Xerox Star, which had been demo'ed to us several times (we were near Xerox PARC). The Lisa was loaned to our company with the prospect that we might buy a few hundred. I wrote the technical evaluation which was positive. The finance people were not so happy about it and killed the deal. That turned out to be the right decision.- D |
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wplachy
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1982: IBM PC; 8088 @ 4.77 MHz; 64kB RAM ; dual 5 1/4 floppy; no HD; MCA display. I was a hotshot mainframe BAL pgrammer that quickly learned there was a very big difference in the PC assember language.
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first one to work on: IBM mini 64k ram (8 approx 16" square cards) "High" speed optical paper tape reader, no video, octal toggle pad to load tape reader, then read in os (basic, fortran 1.0) from paper tape. 8 users on ibm teletype consoles with standard paper tape readers (pin in hole type). ASCII art anyone ;)
first to own: atari 400 w/membrane keyboard, game port, and cassette tape storage. Still have: Apple IIc "Portable" ... this works but not using have carrycase, external 2nd floppy, mouse, "Cricket" sound box..... any offers, needs cga mono monitor..... :D |
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Radio Shack Color Computer 16K RAM
----------------------------------------1978 BTW, anyone remember those 12 inch Floppy Disks or record sized Bernoulli Disks? LOL  [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Apr 4, 2010 7:18:46 AM] |
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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first one to work on: IBM mini 64k ram (8 approx 16" square cards) "High" speed optical paper tape reader, no video, octal toggle pad to load tape reader, then read in os (basic, fortran 1.0) from paper tape. 8 users on ibm teletype consoles with standard paper tape readers (pin in hole type). ASCII art anyone ;) fredski, in which year was that?  |
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Hey Hypernova, I am the guy who worked on those paper tape readers! I used to fix them a long time ago.
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JmBoullier
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fredski, in which year was that? My guess, beginning of the '70s, or maybe even end of the '60s?  |
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