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
>>5206119
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
The Omnissiah approves of this thread.
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
1984_Apple_Macintosh_First_Generation_Manufacturing
>>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