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- mazza558, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51The article itself has an age to live for ;)
- Matt-lars, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43Wow, that thing is older than I am.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+41It looks like they also found the oldest Person on Campus too, BAZING!!!!!
- zirtbow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25Its not older than me. Damn you digg.. I feel old now. :(
- sonicspike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19@ mazza558
"So tonight I'm gonna compute like it's 1999" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Did every1 read the above post?
Did it also hurt your brain?
Yes?
No?
Maybe?
Probably? - linksdeity, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Newer isn't always better.
That's why I typed this comment on my Model "M" keyboard :D - trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15"If this computer were a person, it could get a driver’s license."
And drink too. 2006 - 1984 = 22. - garrettnb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15man, the article is nearly older than me :P
- strictlybogart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14... all of the same things they did before!
- jasonsfakename, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13In ever group of geeks you will find one who always wants to talk about old hardware. This is the kind of stuff they live for. +digg
- leomyhero, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16please rename the post:
Oldest link referenced on digg, FOUND! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Wow you guys are young. I'm still older than it. Yay :-)
- theunderground5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10i submitted it because i thought it was cool and i had never seen it on digg before the article was written in '99 but we discovered it today
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11"June 11, 1999
Volume 36, No. 17"
lol - PDelahanty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9PARDON MY CAPS, BUT THIS OLD APPLE II WILL NOT LET ME TYPE IN LOWERCASE.
- savingadvice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I guess I can stop complaining about needing a new computer...
- Daniel591992, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Now that's what I call old!
- moylan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7still have a 286 with 1mb ram and a 40mb hd that's used a few times a year. once got a web browser on it. took 15 minutes to download and display slashdot.org.
- ptbarnett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Actually, the article says that his Kaypro was built in 1982. He bought it in 1984.
I still have a Compaq Portable that I bought in 1983. It's one of the first 2,000 to be built. I subsequently upgraded it to a Compaq Portable "Plus", which added a 10 megabyte hard drive.
It still works -- I bring it out occasionally to show it to people. It runs DOS 3.3. ;-) - toasterking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It was written in '99.
- grammarpolice, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10That computer is almost as old as me.
- theunderground5, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11it's not a dupe and by the way there was no digg 7 years ago
- HeyFergy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7That kicks a whole lot of ass. I have seen those things at the university surplus store before...I can't imagine trying to move one.
- shaolinpunks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6they are really easy to move.
it even comes with a handle - Canthros, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The mighty Model M is a wonderful piece of engineering. I've got three, although I've got a Das Keyboard II at the office.
- LordofShadows, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I use to have one of those, not in 1980 though, maybe 90, 91 or so I believe. It had dos and ran jump joe like a champ. ;o)
(I already had a 286 (or was it a 386? Dont recall) by then though, so it was already a relic.) - darkwater614, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5someone need to send then a newer pc or something i mean if they can used this old of gear and still get the job done.. just think what they could do with a pc of today with linux and openoffice......
- hyperfocal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4He submitted it as soon as he could... It just took six years to post using an acoustic coupler modem at 300 baud.
- MrDarkSim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4He must have paid extra for the rustproofing.
- megaloid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Outdated or not, it's interesting and amusing enough to post. If somebody should spot an article about antique computers still being relied upon for everyday use (such as the system used for airline reservations,) I/we would digg that as well.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@ollj
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/youare.php
Please watch and understand that this wasn't meant to be mean, but the Digg community thought you should know. - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I hunted the Wumpus on a Commodore PET. Before that, I adventured on a VAX.
- nicpedersen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Forget Hump the wumpus ha
my kaypro 2 had a game where you were the letter L and you climbed letter H ladders to ---- platforms in order to avoid the nasty M's
i think theres an xbox 360 port of that game in the making - PopcornDave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My guess is that it's older than a lot of people on Digg. Hell I remember playing load runner on one. Damn near as old as my Osborne 1 though. :)
- darwin22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I learned CAD on a Kaypro.
- bigtomrodney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I had never seen the Kaypro before. It's pretty cool. Reminds me of the Commodore SX64 which came out around the same time.
http://pocket.free.fr/html/vm2005/28.jpg
I had heard claims that it was the first portable but I'm not sure if this is true. Wikipedia says he SX64 was 1984, whereas that Kaypro was 1985. - CodePoet82, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Pshaw, the model M is for noobs, where's your model F?
- LastVisibleDog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I was a microcomputer tech in the early 80's and worked on KayPro's.
Many of you were not even born - wow. - Tonyisbad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Same age as me, at the ripe "old" age of 24!
- regeya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Those VIC-20s wll rust up on you just like that...
- PopcornDave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I took my Osborne 1 to college to work on programs between classes at the student union. That WAS a laptop back then. :)
- chandrab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I 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-in
Larry Tesler et al, you did an awesome job!
read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa - garrettnb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i've played hunt to wumpus on a faster machine! an ipod running linux
- zugu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's like the geriatric1927 of PC's!!!
- theunderground5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it came out in 1984 not 1994
- LastVisibleDog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2specv
"guess they didnt know about the commadore 64 they had at my school"
The KayPro I and the Commadore 64 both came out in the same year - 1982 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I learned Basic, Pascal and Fortran on on a Kaypro 2X.
I also remember playing Hunt The Wumpus on it. - dougmc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Strange ... MY Apple II would.
(My Apple II+ had the shift key mod (easy to do -- wire the shift key to joystick button #3) and I'd burned a new character set ROM so it could both enter and display lower case characters. No more upper case characters in BOLD in Apple Writer! My Apple IIe had lower case support stock ...) - theunderground5, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5i posted this story on my good old model M, i love old harware
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