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- ezweave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"See, I just don't get why people care about what people were talking about back in the 80's. And really, why would you scan a stack of old crap?
Lame."
You're so right. History is crap. Why should I read about people who are dead? Or things that aren't new? I routinely toss my "Tiger Beat" magazines after a week because that news is sooo played out. OMG... - Dhalgren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I love that Timex cover! I can just hear the headline now: "The family that programs together stays together". Seriously, that's the funniest crap I've ever seen. Who sits down as a family to write a basic program?
- kucing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I like this one: http://www.kmoser.com/computerhistory/timex-sinclair-user.jpg
Notice the whole family crowding around a tiny 9 inch monocrome monitor with a calculator sized keyboard and.... smiling!
What's frightening about this is that I remember being that boy! - Fantasmike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I still have my Commodore 64 with the external floppy drive and Star NX dot matrix printer. I also still have my Atari 2600 and about 40 games. I am feeling very old right about now.
- dorko72, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What about Texas Instruments? While they were not as successful as Commodore or Apple, i grew up using the TI 99/4 and 4A. They were great learning tools!
- Dhalgren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I also understand now why we owned a C64 back then. Hell of a bang for your buck.
- lbermude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Wow...takes me back to the C64 I had, I would write 100 + lines of code and mess up somewhere so the program failed to execute."
Some magazines had a checksum digit for each code line. You had to load an assembler program that every time you typed a line it would give you the checksum in the top left of the screen so you could compare and make sure you typed the correct info. That was on Atari 800XL. (tears are just coming to my eyes... that was so much fun... Man I'm old!!!).
Next lucid dream i will code in my atari 800xl again :). - romainemu, on 05/08/2009, -0/+1Great collection of sega genesis games online at Goldies Games : http://www.goldiesgames.com
- probegt93, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can remember typing in code for a couple of hours just to use one of the programs in an Atari Magazine.
- spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0PS: I can remember when my dad paid upwards of $6000 for a Pentium 200 with 32MB of Ram and a 2GB hdd
Ahhhh, those were the good days :) - spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Lmao.
That's hilarious.. Personally, being 15, I grew up on Windows 95 ... This makes me see what it was like when computers were *really* old :) - MrMysterious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Think that 800 number of Atari still works?
- chiefwahoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I can remember typing in code for a couple of hours just to use one of the programs in an Atari Magazine."
Wow...takes me back to the C64 I had, I would write 100 + lines of code and mess up somewhere so the program failed to execute.
+digg - zaders, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Love this kind of stuff... great find.
- fennec, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Neat. I remember the first ad for a 486 I saw in a magazine. It was a Compaq priced at $12,000
Makes me wanna go thru my stack of old Byte, Compute, and Computer Shopper magazines. Before I throw them away like the fire hazzard they probably are. - elfhat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Haha I still have my dad's old atari 800
- cusoman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There really needs to be a "nostalgia" category on Digg. Not to mention the ability to filter out all stories in a certain category if you want. Web 2.0 is all about the user being able to control their content right? Well I just don't see it here to the extent it needs to be...
- steve_s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thats pretty neat.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I also agree with cusoman.
- ender52, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i agreed with cusoman until he said "web 2.0"
- greenbriel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"See, I just don't get why people care about what people were talking about back in the 80's. And really, why would you scan a stack of old crap?
Lame."
Right - who would be interested in say, old pictures from the 1940's, or a story about the guy who invented IRC (both stories you dugg previously.) - ivanjs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice, definite digg
- sparty1969, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And thanks to the Internet (and Digg) you can play all of these games: http://game-oldies.com/
I DIGG!!! - kucing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The Osborne: "80 characters on a 7" amber display"
Wow! No wonder why a lot of people during that time wore glasses. - thepaulm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 Even at twice the price, you won't find the power
of a Commodore 64 in any personal computer. The
Commodore 64 has a build-in memory of 64K.
That fact alone would have sent computer critics
and analysts such as Shearson/American Express to
the typewriter for the kind of praise you read on
the cover.
The 64K mention is interesting, but I find it more interesting that it was the norm
to go to a *typewriter* to write about a computer. - snoopdawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i agree with cusoman-- there ought to be a nostalgia category.
i love the old stuff. - kronzdigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The good old days... When a computer always worked and couldn't do anything....
- fhportal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's funny to hear people say thing like "the first computer I built had a XX MB hard drive." I miss my ole datasette recorder.... man that thing would cause you to spend more time with the family... hit play... go watch tv.....
- lbdwag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0geeks who are pack rats... who knew?!?!? - I just pulled my 1st 468SX-33 out of the attic the other day.... I figured that I really need to clean out the attic.
Can't wait to see how much a 286 cost back then.... - Abydos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cool, I've dugg it
- absmith1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A total trip into the wayback machine. That newsletter really points out just how big an improvement laser printers were. Dot matrix was really painful to read!
- lbermude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I got an atari 800xl with the 1050 disk drive that came with DOS 2.5 in a 5.25 disk (I think). The first thing I do is, well that 5.25 disk is new so it needs to be formated... I formated the disk that has the operating system... It took me like 6 months to realize that the disk drive was not broken, and that it was only that i did not have a dos. (freaking BOOT ERROR BOOT ERROR BOOT ERROR)
The atari 800xl cost $200 - Jozer99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The first PCs I used were a built-from-scrap (not scratch) 286 that used an original IBM AT monitor and keyboard, I don't know what brand the CPU box was. It was great, I think it had a 10-20MB hard drive that had to be monthly chkdsked for bad sectors (that was not unusual then). It was a text only box, but for a short while I had a monochrome VGA ISA card in it. I have fond memories of playing ZZT on that machine, back when you had to mail order games. I don't even know how much ram it had, but I believe the CPU was 11MHz, with a 20MHz turbo option. At that time, I was in awe of my dads brand new 486 with upgraded 20MB of RAM, SVGA!!!! color monitor, a 1X CDROM, and Windows NT 3.51!
- topper24hours, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"PS: I can remember when my dad paid upwards of $6000 for a Pentium 200 with 32MB of Ram and a 2GB hdd "
No you can't. A 15 year old trying to add insight to 1980s PCs? Just be quiet and learn dude. Trying to brag about a PC you in NO WAY remember just makes an ass out of yourself! Pentium 200 was almost win95 era and certainly wasn't a $6k+ PC in the config you described - half that mayme. Or perhaps you are telling the truth and your dad is just as stupid as you are... - ajpegg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I posted this flickr set of pictures from my first Acorn Atom brochure ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91764962@N00/61840590/in/set-1335936 - John184, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's so cool that 20years ago 16Kb Ram and a 40Mb HD was top of the line.
- aerius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thud - haha thats crazy... stuff like this almost makes me wish i were around back then (or at least coherent). I think I would appreciate computers more if I had gone through all of that =p
My first computer was a Gateway pentium pro 180 w/ 32mb of RAM and a 2 gb hard drive - ran on windows 95. Cost around 4 grand if I remember correctly. - Thud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We had an Atari 400, with a bunch of games that could be loaded from audio tapes on the Atari data tape drive. The "index" was written on the cassette cover, so you'd know what tape counter to fast forward to for each game, then type LOAD or something in Atari BASIC, and then press "PLAY" on the tape drive.
5-10 minutes later, assuming nothing went wrong, your game was loaded! - avgbody, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ah man, I wanted to read the timex magazine's "Ten Tip for being a better programmer". Actually, I have a timex, haven't used it in a very long time.
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A small collection, but it needs more!! :)
- mateo60, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love this stuff. There's a book for people who like this stuff. I got it used on Amazon for a couple of bucks, it's called: Digital Retro : The Evolution and Design of the Personal Computer
It has every major personal computer of the last 30 years with specs and brief histories of each system. - Rekkid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I still play PacMan on my Atari 400 and Looping on the Coleco... using an 8' projection screen and Pro Logic surround sound. It's more fun then you might think.
- einsteindesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Fairchild?
I thought I was well versed in all the games of my youth. I can't remember seeing a Fairchild anywhere.
Proud owner of a C64, Apple IIe, Odyssey2, Atari 2600, and Colecovision. The Odyssey was total ***** tho; playing it was only marginally better than staring at the wall. - cusoman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol @ ender52 ... I knew that would push some people's buttons :)
- Buelldozer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My first computer? Commodore VIC-20, with tape drive even! w00t!
- skooma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0that's WKRP, and im getting tired of these old tech brochures and radio shack scans.
this topic is going the way of 80's video game commercial stories on the front page, outta here.
btw no digg - snuf42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love the old stuff. It reminds me of how far we have come. Complain all you want about modern computers, but we have audio, video, high res pictures, 3D gaming, movie editing, music making, multitasking, fast and cheap local area networking, broadband internet access etc.
I remember the first time I saw a photo digitized on an Amiga in an astonishing 4096 colors - I was blown away.
First computer: Commodore PET 4032, 40 column built in green screen monitor, 32k RAM, 1MHz 6502 CPU, tape drive for loading and saving programs. - nzeeshan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0awesomeee ..
and you're the top user on digg - pixelwerx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can still remember the excitement of bringing home my first computer, a Commodore Vic 20 with a tape drive when I was twelve years old. Later I upgraded to the C64.
"Press play on tape"
Damn, I loved the old days. - mateo60, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Man, that stuff makes my first 386sx (no math co-processor) 25mhz w/ 2mb ram and 100mb hd look like a speed deamon. :)
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