Batutta
Major Contributor
Amusing bit of 80's era reporting. How far we have come!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn4FljUQ&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn4FljUQ&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/
Imagine reading a newspaper from your computer!
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Man, there's a LOT of Tandy in there.
Capt Quirk
Veteran
Sure, you can read it, but can you line your birdcage with it?
Billy Pilgrim
Stye in my eye
Psh, who is "Richard Halloran" anyway? That technology will never catch on.
Nektonic
Veteran
Would be a great name for a retro electronica band.
Here is another good one. Found it in the related videos on the original link's page.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0pPfyYtiBc&feature=related
Richard J. Johnson
Joystick Member
I remeber saying "......No one will ever need 3 gigs of memory" back in the day.
Mark Harris
Pain in the ass
This thread proves one thing: Ya'll are some old-assed mother-****ers. Personally, I don't remember anything pre-Yahoo...
Capt Quirk
Veteran
Drugs will do that to you too... just saying
Richard J. Johnson
Joystick Member
rogar-Smoke(DBG):
Kirk Gillock
Rebel with a cause
We use to have one of those TRS-80 Model 1's . I think my brother still has it some where.
Good times.
Good times.
Richard J. Johnson
Joystick Member
I remember those. My old 2000 flip phone was more powerful than that.
Scott F
Pug Life
Batutta
Major Contributor
Yeah, I remember those old text based games on the TRS-80. State of the art back then. I just about lost my mind when I got an Apple IIc.
Matt Grunau
Adobe Demigod
Let's show Dick some respect.
BWAHAHAHAHA! Awesome!
I remember my first home computer, a blistering Pentium 60 Mhz, with 8 megs of ram and a 480 meg hard drive.
I even remember my first upgrade, $250.00 for 32 megs of Ram. 40 Megs total baby! I was how sh!t on my block!
And the computer itself was a bitchin bargin at only $1,400.00.
Now I have 4 computers, Terrabytes of storage, everything connected, wired and wireless, on my home network.
But I still would kick your ass on Hexen, to say nothing of Falcon! Woot!
Capt Quirk
Veteran
I still play Duke Nukem, but with no audio. It doesn't like my Sound Card... rather, the audio hardware on my MoBo. I actually got two AWE Gold cards pretty cheap, but I refuse to install anything until my other PC is up and running. Why take chances?
craigbowman
Veteran
I bought my first "home?" computer in 1981. I went to DEC and bought a PDP-11/23 mini computer with a VSV-11 Graphics subsystem that had its own backplane. 2MB of RAM for the graphics display and 256K of memory sliced into 32KWord blocks and running RSX11M (the M is for multi-programming or multi-user if you like) Operating System. RL01 and RL02 Drives which were huge disk packs that held a whopping 10.4 MB of drive space each. Huge tractorfeed printer. The whole system was $60K. I could have bought a house for the same money. A lot of the software I wrote had to be planned to work in memory overlays. The graphics system was raw thus a lot of the low level software had to be written in Macro 11 assembly code.
You practically had to shovel coal in the back to fire the thing up.
You practically had to shovel coal in the back to fire the thing up.