I remember paying almost a full month of US Navy E-4 pay for a VHS player in 1983, was around $800.00. I paid more for my sony walkman than I did for my iPhone.
Below is my very first computer:
With the dock-printer, cassette interface and 8k ram upgrade it ran around $500.00
My first computer was a C64. I had stacks and stacks of games on 5-1/4" floppy disc.
I remember paying almost a full month of US Navy E-4 pay for a VHS player in 1983, was around $800.00. I paid more for my sony walkman than I did for my iPhone.
Below is my very first computer:
With the dock-printer, cassette interface and 8k ram upgrade it ran around $500.00
Ahhh memories!
My first computer:
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I remember playing a game on our first computer that you had to type out detailed instructions to. Like turn right, go east, open the door, go up the stairs, walk to the table....you walk through a house and woods. That's about all I remember of that game. LOL!
But that would have been late 70's.
I remember swatch watches were big. Hair was bigger. And leg-warmers were everywhere.
I remember playing a game on our first computer that you had to type out detailed instructions to. Like turn right, go east, open the door, go up the stairs, walk to the table....you walk through a house and woods. That's about all I remember of that game. LOL!
But that would have been late 70's.
I remember swatch watches were big. Hair was bigger. And leg-warmers were everywhere.
I remember playing a game on our first computer that you had to type out detailed instructions to. Like turn right, go east, open the door, go up the stairs, walk to the table....you walk through a house and woods. That's about all I remember of that game. LOL!
But that would have been late 70's.
I remember swatch watches were big. Hair was bigger. And leg-warmers were everywhere.
Ah yes, text adventures, Planet Fall and Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy were my faves
My first computer was a C64. I had stacks and stacks of games on 5-1/4" floppy disc.
I considered both the C64 and the TI99 at the time, the biggest factor that influenced me to the TRS-80 handheld was the portability issue, I needed something I could take on patrol as space is limited on a submarine.
Then a year or so later a buddy of mine bought one of these to bring along, the 1983 compaq portable:
Set him back like $4000.00, I was indeed green with envy.
I considered both the C64 and the TI99 at the time, the biggest factor that influenced me to the TRS-80 handheld was the portability issue, I needed something I could take on patrol as space is limited on a submarine.
Then a year or so later a buddy of mine bought one of these to bring along, the 1983 compaq portable:
Set him back like $4000.00, I was indeed green with envy.
that Compaq luggable was my pride and joy from 1985-86. Westinghouse had just introduced their APL (advanced Program loader) where you could actually use a portable computer as interface to Programmable Logic Controllers. IT WAS Da BOMB!
Our PLC's were playing catch-up but our program loader rocked the PLC world and was a users best friend. Overlay software was somewhere around a whopping $1100.00---ouch!, and very cleverly encriypted to only allow an installation if some kind of electronic fingerprint got moved off one computer --back onto the floppy and then you could install the software on a different box.
I hurriedly had to catch a plane and the airlines wanted me to check that miserable heavy thing into the luggage rather than have to study what this thing might be able to do in the seating area. Talk about the horror of seeing a dear work friend abused, I looked out an airplane window and saw some baggage handling monster grab and jerk the case off the transport cart and sent the keyboard swinging around the tarmac by its little acordian connector cable...then they were clueless as to how to place it back into position so it arrives with rope and tape holding the keyboard onto the case.
Even though I apologized to my Compaq luggable all the way to the hotel, I doubt it ever could forgive me.
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that Compaq luggable was my pride and joy from 1985-86. Westinghouse had just introduced their APL (advanced Program loader) where you could actually use a portable computer as interface to Programmable Logic Controllers. IT WAS Da BOMB!
Our PLC's were playing catch-up but our program loader rocked the PLC world and was a users best friend. Overlay software was somewhere around a whopping $1100.00---ouch!, and very cleverly encriypted to only allow an installation if some kind of electronic fingerprint got moved off one computer --back onto the floppy and then you could install the software on a different box.
I hurriedly had to catch a plane and the airlines wanted me to check that miserable heavy thing into the luggage rather than have to study what this thing might be able to do in the seating area. Talk about the horror of seeing a dear work friend abused, I looked out an airplane window and saw some baggage handling monster grab and jerk the case off the transport cart and sent the keyboard swinging around the tarmac by its little acordian connector cable...then they were clueless as to how to place it back into position so it arrives with rope and tape holding the keyboard onto the case.
Even though I apologized to my Compaq luggable all the way to the hotel, I doubt it ever could forgive me.
. Talk about the horror of seeing a dear work friend abused, I looked out an airplane window and saw some baggage handling monster grab and jerk the case off the transport cart and sent the keyboard swinging around the tarmac by its little acordian connector cable...then they were clueless as to how to place it back into position so it arrives with rope and tape holding the keyboard onto the case.
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