Behold! A journey through silicon and plastic.Pic: 1977 Commodore PET
1960 PLATO V
1969 Honeywell 316 b
1977 Bally Astrocade
1977 Commodore PET_2001_Series
1977 Commodore PET_2001_Series_top_lifted
1977 Commodore PET_Datasette reader
1977 TRS-80 a
1977 TRS-80 b
1977 TRS-80 c
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1977 TRS-80 d
1977 TRS-80 e
1977 TRS-80 f
1978 ABC 80
1979 Apple II Plus
1979 Atari 400
Polish Odra 1305
>>5210274le insides
Why did old tech look much cool than new tech?
1979 Atari_800 a>>5211944I think one big reason is that components were big enough to be handled by a regular human with his own eyes. Noe components are so small that you need a microscope to work on them so they look the same.
1979 Atari_800 b
1945_ENIAC_First_General_Purpose_Electronic_Computer
1945_ENIAC_Programmers_Esther_Gerston_and_Gloria_Gordon
>>5214921How far this board has fallen... a zoomer purge will comeAll simps deserve a fiery death
1960_IBM_526_Card_Punch_Machine
1966_Control_Data_Corporation_Vector_Graphics_Terminal
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1970_Raytheon_SUPARS_Online_Search_Terminal
>tfw looking at pr0n on one of those bad boys
1981_GT1000_Graphics_Terminal_with_Joystick
>>5212034Man, I miss the Atari 800. Loved that system.
1983_Apple_IIe_running_Text_Adventure
1983_Apple_Lisa_Dual_Twiggy_Drives_and_ProFile
>>5231941E.T. phone home!
1983_IBM_XT_with_WordPerfect_and_Lotus123
1983_Osborne_Executive_with_7-inch_Amber_Screen
>>5234801I loved using WP. Lotus was great, but speaking from a tech support perspective Qpro was between because I could just copy it from machine to machine via Bernoulli and Zip drives rather than open every package and install.
>>5236499My memories were on a mid-90s Mac desktop with OS 8.5, I think I did a kindergarten project on MS Word for Mac. It was so intriguing to use it
>>5221219First computer I ever used was a DEC PDP-something or another with a Hazeltine 1500 terminal on it. Good times.
>>5234801Loved WordPerfect. From 4.2 to 5.1 for DOS. The Windows versions were terrible, however.
1983_TRS-80_Model_4_with_Dual_Internal_Drives
1984_Amstrad_CPC-464-Computer-With-GT65-Green-Monitor
1984_Apple_IIc_with_9-inch_Monochrome_Monitor
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>>5241862i had one of those. played a porn game on it -- some lady lying on the floor and you could use a vibrator on her i think.
1984_IBM_Portable_PC_5155_Amber_CRT_Internal_BASIC_C1-10
1985_Amiga_1000_running_Deluxe_Paint
1985_Atari_520ST_running_Time_Bandit
1985_Nixdorf_PC-08_running_GEM_Paint
1985_Sanyo_MBC-675_Portable_8088_Monochrome
1986_Apple_Macintosh_Plus_1MB_RAM_ED_Model
>>5216891that is sexy as hell
>>5223611i learned to program on one of these in 1982, as a freshman in high school. DI_ D0 would give a dir listing of the floppy in drive 0. we would poke random values into random memory addresses to see if we could make the screen go crazy. things like POKE 24352, 234
1986_IBM_6151_RT_PC_running_AIX_Operating_System
>>5247211>yes just sit behind the machine, pretend you're writing with the unopened pen and just point at the screen like you're seeing something really interesting, you know, like people do all the time.Ah marketing, never change.
>>5223764That thing cost almost $16k in today's money.
>>5247357And for a business-oriented machine with an integrated 13" color screen that even had pixel graphics, in 1979, that was pretty good value for money. Provided you wanted to shell out for the niche of color graphics to begin with, and didn't want a bitty box that pretty much only did games.You couldn't get an IBM PC with color capability plus monitor for it until 1983, and that would have been about $2500 all-in. So for a machine that debuted 4 years earlier, not a bad price, though I can't imagine the market for it was big (there's a reason industry stuck with monochrome for a long time). Seems more like a cool toy for an exec play with.
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1989_Atari_Portfolio_Palmtop_PC_80C88_CPU_with_Serial_Interface_Expansion
ZX Spectrum +2A
ZX Spectrum +3
>>5266218ZX Spectrum + 128K
Timex Sinclair 2068
>>5266970What a goofy goober. Late 90s/early 2000s really had some of the wildest PC designs while they tried to figure out how to make these things a fashionable part of your interior design rather than just a beige box.
>>5266978Haha yeah, they definitely looked funky, but I remember as a kid first seeing it in some catalog like Home Depot or somewhere like that and then suddenly it showed up in my house because my dad bought it. It came with a bundle of demo CDs and games. I thought it was the most fascinating thing in the world. I really think computers are still my absolute favorite thing ever.Games like this onehttps://youtu.be/VfQQoxqh3NQ?si=k-EfOc_U63VoZrlQ
You got any vacuum tubes?
Awesome thread. Really loved looking at all those old ass machines.I still love computers but they got a lot more boring.Wish I had something to contribute, usually I wouldn't just bump a thread for no reason.But seeing how this board devolved into coomer shit I might as well say thanks.
>>5268325I liked Apple when they still made stuff like this. I never bought any of it, mind you, but they definitely had a knack for design that made everyone want to copy them as soon as they made something. All their stuff now just looks boring as fuck with every removed port hailed as an innovation.
>>5268915>I still love computers but they got a lot more boring.Interesting how the more tech advances, the more boring it becomes
>>5262906Hi anon - that isn't a Centris 650, it's a Centris 660av. Just wanted to help.
>>5228787>>5230492Kaypro was the first computer I ever used.
>>5272708thanks!I'll update the filename
>>5272220Well as it advances it becomes more ubiquitous and needs to cheaply roll off an assembly line, so companies start focusing on streamlining and cutting costs -- hence you get boring stuff that's intended to just be used without being fancy in any way. Fancy and expensive are then added by the design and marketing departments, not the tech guys.There's a sweet spot for tech in the period after everything is completely unique and hand-crafted by pioneers but before it all comes from the same factories in Taiwan (or w/e) where you find the interesting stuff, made in enough quantity to be available but still with a strong need to distinguish itself. For computers we're long since past that period.
>>5233506I really should dig mine out again. Those old keyboards are better than anything today.
>>5233507The most amazing thing in that picture might honestly be the hair.Although the calculator watch is cool too.
>>5274938>Those old keyboards are better than anything today.why anon? I was too young to remember those, I was born in 87
>>5274968No problem. It was something about the tactile feel of the keys. They had more "travel" if that makes any sense. Most keyboards today depress a fraction of an inch. I find I can type way faster and far more accurate on those older keyboards vs the ones you see today.This whole thread is a trip down memory lane for me. I remember using some of these and few that aren't shown back in the day. I wish I had kept all of my Apple computers. The only one I have is my Lisa 2/10 which I hope to dig back out o fstorage this winter. The internal Widget HD finally died on me and I hear that there is an aftermarket fix for that.>>5274965I still have my black Casio calculator watch I got for christmas in '84. Also popular back then where calculators in rulers.There's an original Apple coming up for auction. A decent hi-res pic of the motherboard is shown.https://www.techspot.com/news/113730-apple-1-motherboard-signed-steve-wozniak-could-fetch.html
>>5222851>1979 harp MZ a.jpg>harp
>>5269043I know what you mean.
>>5278069love that mid 90s design language
>>5240504Grew up with this. Cursor key layout was always stupid...
