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
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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
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
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.
1987_Amiga_500_with_1084_Monitor
