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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:56 pm Post subject: The good old days | |
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Was this really 40 years ago???
Sears Tele-Games Commercial 1977 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjX2gGz8NhM I remember this. Had one. |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:29 am Post subject: | |
I was just explaining a couple of weeks ago to my 16 year old granddaughter that I got my first home computer in 1982 and first went "on line" in 1985. She was amazed to find out that they had computers "back then". 
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:04 am Post subject: | |
Our first "computer" was the Atari 130XE. It played most of our Atari 2600 games. Learned BASIC when I was 9 years old. 
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:39 am Post subject: | |
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Our first was also an Atari, the 400 with the membrane keyboard. Then my wife got me the "ultimate"... a Commodore 64 and a cassette drive for $679.00. 38k of RAM, 1 Mhz operating speed, cartridge port for games... remember what those sold for in their last days? Later paid another $500+ for a pair of 5.25 floppy disk drives and almost that again for the 3.5s when they came out.
I was, at the ripe old age a 40, a confirmed tech junkie. I still have flashbacks now and again but luckily my present financial circumstances won't support the habit anymore and I'm left with constantly tweaking and tinkering with this one. I also had to learn BASIC (and Commodore BASIC at that with it's individual PEEKs and POKEs for each address) in order to have something to DO with the dadgummed thing because there was hardly any usable software out there for almost a year afterward. Later became part of the online music and telecommunications staff for Quantum-Link which later evolved into AOL. Called us sysops back then. I wavered when the "hotter" Ataris like the 130se came out but stuck with Commodore, even had a second hand PET for a while, until finally paying almost $3000 for my first 4.75Mhz, 640k RAM, 8086(  based "IBM clone" or "PC" with my choice of an orange or green screen monochrome monitor ( took the green one).
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:08 pm Post subject: | |
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That was my second computer... True IBM PS/25 8086 with 640K of RAM. That computer was FAST. Well, for 1990 it was fast.
Then I got a Packard Hell, 486 DX2 66MHZ, 640K, 8 MB on top of that, 4 spd cd-rom, 14,4 modem and I think it had a 1 meg video card. I use to do alot of BBS's with the PS/25 and the Packard Hell. I even had my own going for awhile. Back in 1987, my brother got the first Nintendo. You never did see us again after that.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:56 pm Post subject: | |
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Here ya go Nofs. This one's just for you. Grandpa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juH2qHYX9aI&feature=related |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:02 pm Post subject: | |
I'll have you know, I am NOT bald! Whippersnapper! 
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