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- kevlar21, on 10/15/2008, -3/+19I'm too young for this *****… I got a 3.
- stephhicks68, on 10/15/2008, -0/+12I remember these from... (well, I won't say when). I can't be that old!
- Jolly81, on 10/15/2008, -2/+14LoL, that looks like a microwave oven
- PappyPapillon, on 10/16/2008, -0/+11Oh man, I really am getting old as none of this stuff even seems old to me.
- raydeen, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1110 out of 10. I need to get out more often.
- llamarama7, on 10/15/2008, -1/+11There have got to be some good new uses for those giant old floppy discs.
- pentiumii, on 10/16/2008, -2/+10dam i am old then
9 out of 10 - inactive, on 10/16/2008, -1/+89/10
I got the IBM/Compaq Portable wrong. The Compaq Portable had multiple different designs so I guessed it.
/pretends people care what score i got - hopefuel, on 10/22/2008, -1/+7Some things haven't changed though:
Apple II Price List (June 1977)
RAM Complement Apple II System Apple II Board Only
4K $ 1,298.00 $ 598.00
8K 1,398.00 698.00
12K 1,498.00 798.00
16K 1,698.00 978.00
20K 1,778.00 1,078.00
24K 1,878.00 1,178.00
32K 2,158.00 1,458.00
36K 2,258.00 1,558.00
48K 2,638.00 1,938.00 - inactive, on 10/16/2008, -0/+6the first Compaq Portable looks pretty similar to the one in the photo and was released in 1983
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7 ... - inactive, on 10/16/2008, -1/+66/10. I missed the European based ones.
- reddikilowatt, on 10/16/2008, -2/+77 out of 10, but I live on the other side of the pond.
- alexkorova, on 10/16/2008, -0/+58/10, got the computer ones but had troubles with the consoles...
- Myztry, on 10/16/2008, -0/+5I fluffed on the same question. I was sure Compaq bought out the first portable of the two. Maybe they did, but it was irrelevant to the question...
- crazyhorse1972, on 10/16/2008, -0/+4Yes I remember it. I'm dating myself. I was a computer nerd since before then. Started with a trs-80
- expert01, on 10/16/2008, -0/+4I swear they have that picture wrong, I had one of those a few years ago (with the black/green monochrome screen). It has a hard drive cage with quad rubber shock mounts. And it was compaq branded.
- flagg85, on 10/16/2008, -0/+4I remember hacking into my schools harddrive using ecconnect on the bbc micro, good old days of computers, we were called wizz kids back then, I think there was a tv show called wizz kids about hackers in the 80's. Anybody remember this show?
- inactive, on 10/15/2008, -0/+4LOL I remember them too.
- pbrooks100, on 10/16/2008, -0/+4video game console != computer ...
- chlorinekid, on 10/15/2008, -1/+4same here... :-)
- melies, on 10/16/2008, -1/+4No abacus?
- PedoRcketSrgeon, on 10/16/2008, -2/+5WTF where's the Amiga 1000 / 2000? fail!
- Godlike, on 10/16/2008, -1/+4Heh really? I picked IBM because I didn't believe Compaq had a portable that early.
- brickbat, on 10/16/2008, -1/+4man I can't believe I actually remembered the zx80 and the Amstrad - and the Apple II was like yesterday - Swashbuckler was awesome!
- DreamVsPs2, on 10/16/2008, -2/+5PONG :(
- flygirl62, on 10/16/2008, -0/+3The expression was "Apple II forever!"
- graemee, on 10/16/2008, -0/+3Had, actually still have the Pet. Love the days when you loaded a game, went into the kitchen made a sandwich and then came back to finish waiting for the load.
- inactive, on 10/16/2008, -1/+4what if it was a tranny but she looked convincing enough. would you still hit it?
- Myztry, on 10/16/2008, -0/+3I started on a Tandy Coco with the 8/16 bit processor, then went backwards in a manner with the C64 8 bit processor.
Then onto an Amiga with it 32 bit (though 16bit databus) processor then backwards to the 8086 PC with it's 16 bit processor.
Weird how 'moving forward' in computing often means going backwards... - graemee, on 10/16/2008, -0/+3Same, but I shame I got the IBM/Compaq portable one wrong. The other two were console fails. I played PCs in the 80's not consoles.
- adikt, on 10/16/2008, -1/+36 out of 10..... mediocre geek
- Myztry, on 10/16/2008, -0/+2That looks disturbingly like the Tandy Model 4P my father owned.http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/trs80- ...
Don't remember much about it except it had an office suite had 4 file columns for the different office products.
Oh, and it had filenames in the format of "filename:password". With the added bonus that you could use "on error goto" to crack the password by brute force reiteration. - Myztry, on 10/16/2008, -0/+2Okay, the Tandy/TRS-80 Model 4P was 1983 as well...
http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c ...
Only question now is the IBM release date... - Godlike, on 10/16/2008, -0/+2Tough sell.
- bitbytebit, on 10/16/2008, -0/+2yes ..the main kid had a timex sinclair. Thats what 'almost' prompted me to get one, however I ended up getting a coco II thank god. wonder where I'd be today if I had to learn to program on a membrane keyboard!
- Godlike, on 10/16/2008, -1/+3WTF where's the vector graphics PROM powered 1337ness? fail!
(thinking about it twice I guess that might not come across as sarcastic to some people) - graemee, on 10/16/2008, -0/+2The Amiga used a Sidecar board to provide 8086 support, it had one on it. It bridged the Zorro slots (Amiga) with some ISA (PC) slots. and allowed for a 5 1/4" drive in the Amiga so you could play, I mean use Lotus 1.2.3
- SteveMax, on 10/16/2008, -0/+2What the hell are you doing on Digg?!
- inactive, on 10/16/2008, -1/+3its ok i got 9/10 too only because im pretty good with computer and game console history and im not that old.
- rdldr1, on 10/16/2008, -2/+4I got 8 out of 10. Its sad that I got the computer questions right and the gaming consoles ones wrong, and I'm not old enough to remember any of them. Computer nerd!!!
- inactive, on 10/16/2008, -0/+2Back in my day, a hard drive was somethin' you did on a golf course, and computin' was done in yer head.
- Godlike, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1Probably.
- inactive, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1Wheres the commadore 64 or Amiga questions. Amiga OS ftw!
- someology, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1For that one, I'd never seen that model, but that sure looked like an IBM keyboard, so I guessed correctly.
- Godlike, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1As long as she has money.
- richduper, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1I got it wrong too. I worked for an accounting firm in the late 80's and we had three of those behemoths left, but I'm pretty sure they were Compaqs, not IBMs, but they looked just like the picture.
- NiyazK, on 02/04/2009, -0/+1not that good at this thing :D btw i saw many gadget related articles here too - http://techb.net/category/gadgets/
- kaosethema, on 10/18/2008, -0/+1i thought i would ace this... apparently i'm too young. who woulda thunk it?
- iandflp, on 10/17/2008, -0/+110/10, in the 5th try.
- westyvw, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1I wish another technology that would go away is using flash where it is absolutely not necessary.
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