Old Computers

[Robert]

Check out a random top of the line computer at http://www.old-computers.com/news/random.asp

I think the Whirlwind was pretty impressive.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1047

It weighed several tons and cost $708,909 !!

 

[Tone2TheBone]

The Commodore 64!

 

[SuperSwede]

I love old computers.. I wish I still had my trusty old Spectrum!

And my atari... amiga...genesis...486...

 

[sunvalleylaw]

I had my original '84 Mac for years. I kinda wanted to turn it into a fish tank, and light it from underneath so the fish would swim around in the light like some kind of screensaver.

 

[kiteman]

The Commodore 64!

Ah, the good ol' days. That was a fun computer and I learned basic and assembly languages on it. I wrote a lot of video games and sold one to Compute! magazine.

I was one of the diehards who refused to let go from the c64 and a friend bought me a 286 system to make me get off of it.

I lost interest in programming then.

 

[stingx]

All I did on my C64 was play Zork!!! I loved all those old Infocom word interaction games. I bought the Treasures of Infocom several years ago to preserve them all.

 

[KrisH]

I was one of the diehards who refused to let go from the c64 and a friend bought me a 286 system to make me get off of it.

That sounds familiar -- I "traded" mine up in 1995; gave the C-64 to the kids. I'd already given them the TI 99/4A. But I still keep an Apple IIc in the garage and fire it up from time to time just to reminisce . . .

 

[kiteman]

That sounds familiar -- I "traded" mine up in 1995; gave the C-64 to the kids. I'd already given them the TI 99/4A. But I still keep an Apple IIc in the garage and fire it up from time to time just to reminisce . . .

Heh, I started with the TI 99/4A. That's where I started basic programming and I went got a c64 when I kept running out of memory.

It was in the mid 90s that I gave up the c64. Might as well as there's no more interests in them.

 

[Katastrophe]

Ah... memories... Getting on the ol' Atari 800XL, attached to a black and white TV for a monitor, with the clackety clack of the dot matrix printer and the WHIRRRRRRRR of the old 5 1/2" floppy disk drive. With my 800 baud modem I had blazing speed to contact my buddies. It was great fun. My favorite video game at the time, F15 Strike Eagle, took so long to load that I could pop in the disk and go have lunch. It would be waiting on me, ready to go, when I returned about 20 minutes later. The whole shootin' match probably cost my parents what my Dell cost me 20 years later.

Did a lot of stuff in BASIC. That was what they taught in school. I'm so glad that I learned it. It's been SO useful in the real world.:thwap:

 

[stingx]

Old stuff still stored somewhere abouts:

Apple IIc
Commodore 64G
IBM AT

I missed the good old, early days when the internet wasn't graphical, overcrowded by any means, and had no spam. I think I preferred it much better when it was just geeks participating.

 

[SuperSwede]

All I did on my C64 was play Zork!!! I loved all those old Infocom word interaction games. I bought the Treasures of Infocom several years ago to preserve them all.

Ah yes the old infocom games.. I used to love playing those text adventures.
Do you remember "Colossal Cave" the grandfather of all text adventures?

I also have fond memories of the later "point and click" games such as Sierra games and Monkey Island.

 

[Tone2TheBone]

Ah yes the old infocom games.. I used to love playing those text adventures.
Do you remember "Colossal Cave" the grandfather of all text adventures?

....

Is that the one that Josh was playing in the movie "Big"?

 

[SuperSwede]

Is that the one that Josh was playing in the movie "Big"?

hmm.. I actually havent seen "Big" but I dont think that i´ve missed out on something special..