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shponglefan:
--- Quote from: DaOld Man on June 29, 2013, 03:36:34 am ---Recognize any equipment in this news cast from 1981?
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TRS-80?
RoyalScam:
Yup, TRS -80 Model 1 at the home, and TRS -80 COCO at the office.
I started with a Vic-20, one year later to upgrade to a C-64. That was around 1982. I eventually got a 300 baud modem, joined Compuserve, learned too much about Telnet, and Tymnet, and ran a BBS on 4 1541 disk drives. My buddy Jim, had his BBS on a CoCo, other friends used TRS 80 Model 4's TI99 4a's Kaypros and Apples. We all eventually went to PC Clones, and FidoNet. I really miss the diversity, and the Computer Clubs.
Regards,
Scam
Vigo:
I love the tag:
Richard Hallorman
Owns a Home Computer
TopJimmyCooks:
OK, i'm 40 and my Dad was an early adopter of pc technology as an architect.
We had: TI 994A - with a radio shack cassette player. I remember a cassette based flight simulator game that came packaged in a ziplock bag and several text adventures. I remember typing in basic programs from magazine articles and running them.
Dad had: Kaypro portable computers - the ones with the tiny monitor and pc in the same chassis, and the keyboard was a lid that snapped over the display. Mouse? no mouse!
He had: pen plotters. they look like today's large format printers but actually wrote on the paper with ink pens. The paper zoomed back and forth for x and the pen moved for y like a vinyl cutter.
at grade school: apple II's with 5 1/4" floppies, later apple 2C's in high school. No mac's seen until college.
We had: an IBM PC and 8086 on down the line. I had my own 286 as a freshman in college (rare to see in 1991, more common by 1995). the first pc i bought right out of college was a 486.
There was a power mac in the electronic music lab ~1994 and I remember the instructor bringing and plugging in his $500 sampler card, and me asking why it worked without installing drivers.
We had: cassette tape answering machines. Caller ID started to be widely available while i was in college.
My roommate had: a laptop with two pop up floppy drives but NO hard drive.
We had: a bag car phone and I knew people who still had them in college.
I had: a numeric only pager and later, a sweet alpha pager.
I had: the nextel cell phone that looked like a walkie talkie with footlong antenna.
I never had a brick cell phone - although I saw one circa college.
I never had an acoustic coupled modem.
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