computer museum … not as pretty as eye candy but
on 09/04/2011 at 09:44 AM
I love that site.. I like running around and seeing the computers I had and the ones that I couldn’t afford, eye candy indeed. :D
We had an Coleco Adam - great little deal to hook the average person into the pc world. I loved the word processing and the games were a hoot. We then moved to the Apple IIe - got a Apple IIc from a family member moving onward - thought we were the coolest people to have two computers. Hubby went to Germany and got turned on to IBM - I could only think - why a business computer. Quietly and piece by piece built a system and brought it home. We were hooked in no time - the Apples got sold. Now everyone has a pc and we have two laptops and the tv has it own computer.
Good times for all!
I’ve used a Zenith system. Heck, I remember when AT&T made computers; they had a blazing fast 80286 that ran at 10mhz, and had a hi-res monitor that could do VGA 640x480 resolution in 4 whole colors!! About that time the TRaSh-80 machines from Radio Shack started to fade away. 1984 or 1985 IIRC.
It all fades away so quickly, but it wasn’t until the mid-90s that a standard PC could run faster than 66Mhz; the first generation Pentium didn’t impact the market until 1994 ... and it wasn’t until Windows 95 and NT came along that really usable office networks could be hooked up. 0.5Ghz CPUs arrived in 1999. So the whole modern end of the digital revolution has been in the 16 years since 1995, most of it since 2000.
We had a Zenith repair shop in the back room of the Tool & Die Supply house I worked at just out of college. The Tool shops oldest son ran the Zenith shop, we had a lot of work out at Wright Patterson Airbase back in the late ‘80s.
Funny story: We had a Dr. come in and order (2) 600 MEG! hard drives from us. The son was amazed, he said something to the effect of “What the heck is he going to do with all that space?” LOL! They were roughly $1200.00 each, so he gladly sold them to the Dr.
Good times!
1n ‘85 I had a small Xerox mainframe I bought surplus from NASA. It was about the size of an end table, which I used it for. It had a mouse and an early windowed interface. I loved it. 12 1200 baud modems and 6 8 inch drives as well as a pair of 5MB Winchester HDs. I sold it to a friend later who turned it into a BBS.
If I remember correctly, our best selling drive was the 40MB Winchester. It was about the size of a small loaf of bread, and weighed a ton!
09/04/2011 at 10:50 PM
