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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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