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1982 personal computer ad.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...718#post206146
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...568#post201196
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...907#post171518
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...977#post179701
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...532#post177968
Missing photo or link, apparently.Quote:
Originally Posted by Altair
Fixed, thanks.
Right about that time, the department I was working in was buying 2Mhz Z-80 machines with 2 floppy drives by the boatload. $5,000 each.
I had one of these in the 1980's. DOS, not good for much. Heavy and slow...
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My youngest daughter now a teacher of 20 years won a science fair contest when she was in the 7th grade the prize was a Tandy Corp. TRS80 III with a 5 MB external hard drive LDOS operating system Think maybe 1988 was the year
I was taking computer science in the mid 80's on Tandy Z-80 Similar to the Commodore PET. A monochrome screen, green of course. A keyboard and a floppy drive. Upgraded to 64 killerbites. We programed in BASIC and Turbo PASCAL. A precursor to C I believe. I did it long enough to know that I didn't want to do this the rest of my life. Even though I was decently good at it. Back then everything had to be as short and as concise as possible. And yet there was a game called space invaders that mapped the entire screen in high resolution and you could play a high resolution game on that little Z-80 computer. We were not advanced enough to know how to pull that off. Our graphics were the good old blocks. You needed to be able to program in machine code to directly address the pixels. Still was pretty cool.
I remember setting up a LAN for a regional computer conference for our teacher. Myself and two other fellow Nerds. We were to stupid to know how hard it would be. And yet we managed to set it up and it never crashed.
"640 KB ought to be enough for anybody". Bill Gates, 1981. Now he is more interested in genetically engineered seeds!
How many seeds ought to be enough for anybody?
