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{ July 31, 2008 }

Those were the days

Posted by Baierman

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Commercial for a top of the line PC...in 1994.

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WOW - that reminded me of the Tandy 1000 my dad bought from Radio Shack in 1988...

said ConservaLiberCrat_08 on July 31, 2008 10:52 AM.

Wow. I had to replay that one just to pause a few times and fully observe all the numbers. 33MHz! A 340MB hard drive! 4MB of RAM!

Wow. My fucking cell phone is more powerful than that.

I think even they knew that 1MB of video memory was pretty shitty even in the context of everything else, because that number was just a rapid blur.

said Hoyt Clagwell on July 31, 2008 11:01 AM.

Luxury!

In my early programming days, I used to take my box of punch cards and go stand in line at the computer lab so that I could drop them off for compilation. We'd usually get our compilation report the following day, correct our programming errors, then repeat the process. God forbid one card was out of place!

We'd laugh our asses off when some poor sap would drop his cards on the floor and have to spend hours setting them back in order. When the PDP 11/70's came out, the party was over.

Yep, I'm an old geek.

said Tim on July 31, 2008 11:34 AM.

Not old Tim, seasoned. experienced. knowledgeable.

Who knows, those qualifications may one day get you hired as the high school technology history teacher.

said Baierman on July 31, 2008 11:42 AM.

Thanks, Baierman, I appreciate the boost of confidence.

High school tech history teacher, huh? Sounds like the geek-world equivalent of getting spit out the bottom of the porn industry.

I'll take it. Times are tough.

said Tim on July 31, 2008 12:14 PM.

Tim, keep on kicking it.

Ready?
Run.
Load,8,1

said Baierman on July 31, 2008 12:18 PM.

Ahhh, yes, it appears someone else had a TRS-80 (or a clone thereof).

Load,8,1

Awesome. I fear we have taken this thread to the point of no return.

said Tim on July 31, 2008 12:58 PM.

Tim, my first was a Commodore Vic 20. My first upgrade was the Commodore 64. It took 3 seconds to boot up and 10 seconds to load moon patrol and defender. It was fantastic.

said Baierman on July 31, 2008 2:19 PM.

i guess that my question might show my young age but: what kind of multimedia could they run on those specs?

said etantao on July 31, 2008 2:50 PM.

I still have an old Timex Sinclair 1000 computer that saved all programs on cassette tape. It took about 3 minutes to load, and then you were treated with checkers, chess AND backgammon!

I splurged and bought the 16K RAM expansion cartridge.

I think that the value of the system has now come around to the point that it is worth more than I originally paid.

estantao: Let's put it this way ... those are the very same specs for the computers used to create the multimedia. Early on, it wasn't multimedia as much it was simply media.

said Tim on July 31, 2008 4:00 PM.

Does anyone remember Turtle Point and the Olympics game?

said Jeni Gump on August 11, 2008 2:33 PM.

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