A flashback to the old days of computers

[Scott P]

The wife`s grandparents were packrats and gave us a bunch of stuff when they sold thier house. I have boxes of Jim Beam, Grenadier and other assorted decaters, old car parts and Lionel trains (I`m keeping those). I`m in the process of puttin gup the decanters on ebay, and found some old newpaper that they were packed in.

The paper is dated 9/22/86. Check out the prices!

[norahcrv]

Thanks, Scott - that really brought back memories!!

Our first computer was an Apricot (no, not Apple!) F10 which we bought in 1985 for over $3K. It had 512K or RAM, 8086 processor which galloped along at a whoppin 4.77 Mhz! Best of all, it had a 10MB hard disk! ( http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?st=1&c=493 )

Yeah, we`ve come a long way, baby!!

Norah

[JaredPointer]

Hey! We still use those here at my office!!!!















Seriously...our computers are crap, but management says we don`t need anything newer because what we have works fine (programming on the mainframe).

[sgo]

My first computer was a Radio Shack T1000. One of their first IBM models. It had 640K of RAM and one 360K floppy drive. I souped it up and put another 360K floppy drive. That drive was from an old WANG computer. Before I got rid of it I put a 10MB hard drive in it. Boy, I was in seventh heaven!

[wifehatescar]

hahaha, WANG computers.........

[sgo]

hahaha, WANG computers.........

Yeah! I looked at Ataris and Commodores and Sinclares and couldn`t make up my mind.

[awd330]

I was an early adopter too. I purchased an IBM PC with 256k RAM, dual 5 1/4" floppy drives, and a green monochrome monitor. It came bundled with a software package containing DOS 2.0, Kermit, Mince, and Scribble. The Hayes modem (300 baud, I think) and Epson (FX80?) dot matrix printer were extra. This was pretty much state of the art at the time. I got a great discounted price through school so it ONLY cost me a little over $4000. My husband (boyfriend at the time) had a Commodore 64 with cassette tape drive backup. He used a 9" color TV for the monitor. A two computer family was unheard of in those days. We were quite high tech!

[OI812]

Do you remember the old Commodores 64`s. Man those where lighting machines :hah . My first was an epson 80286 dos 3.3 and 40 Meg hard drive. Actually I still have that one, fun for old games.

[Jngrbrdman]

Let`s not forget the most expensive table weight ever. :lol



Notice that the monitor and mouse aren`t included in that smashing deal. I wonder how many houses you had to mortgage to get those parts? What about a printer? Its amazing to me that we have computers that are ten times faster, probably 100 times smaller and cost ten times less. My pocket PC has more RAM and ROM than that thing has. lol

[JeffBruce]

wow..memories....expanded and expended memory...Xt clones that had a "turbo" button......Word Star..EGA and CGA..Mono chrome..monitors, wow..good old days..30 megs hard drive for our server..Netware 2.15.......5 1/4 floppies...
jeff