uiowa.edu — These people at UI held a contest to find the oldest, most obsolete personal computer still in regular use on campus and applaud that member of the UI community who has held their ground against the march of planned obsolescence.
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theunderground5Oct 15, 2006Submitter
haha verry funny hyperfocal but the truth is i only have a 50 baud modem
chandrabOct 15, 2006
I have some real vintage machines in my basement...My First TRS-80 Model I, Commodore PET 2001 (8K RAM), Atari 800, Apple II+, KIM-1...the best of all has got to be the Apple Lisa (original from 1982 with the 800K twiggies)...I keep one at work to show the newbie programmers at work what we have today existed back in 1982. The Lisa was away head of it's time (yet a financial failure for Apple)- 32 bit 68000 processor (5Mhz)- 1MB RAM (Very expensive for 1982)- Virtual Memory and Multitasking OS- Integrated Applications (btw it also has cut & paste)- Screen Saver (Dimmer really)- Intelligent Power-switch (Puts all your docs away before shutting itself off)- Twin read heads on the 5.25 Floppy for redundancy and speed (but non-standard)- Diagnostics in ROM- GUI Based Operating System (Mac's QuickDraw based on Lisa)- LisaNet networking built-inLarry Tesler et al, you did an awesome job!read more here: <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa</a>
racazipOct 15, 2006
Also known as a joke...
Closed AccountOct 15, 2006
I used to have a TRS-80, would have been around '77 or so. A friend of mine had some kind of Epson, can't remember what model it was, maybe a QX-10? My boss still has his Heathkit, he has to hide it to keep his wife from throwing it away.
bitcloudOct 15, 2006
Model M! hardcore..are you amish?
moderngeekOct 16, 2006
Murray State University has them beat, we have a computer system that started in the early 70's that would keep track of schedules. They have been upgrading and patching on to it since then. Everything is terminal based, and for the web based applications, they communicate with it once a day to update everything and puts it into an SQL table for viewing on the web. It takes about four hours a day to update everything since it communicates with it through an emulated terminal.
xavieroddmonOct 18, 2006
I've got a commodore VIC20, but have no idea where to get a replacement picture cable (i'd call it a video cable, but it's basically a text computer.) It's kind of funny to read the box and learn about this great new technology where you can plug it into a phone jack with a special adapter, send electronic mail, and read stocks!