OT: Who has the oldest computer?

dsi1 wrote:



dsi1,

I don't know if you're joking but Guy was the marketing genius who could
sell Mac computers to paws and claws! He was admired for his engaging
demeanor, knowledge and engaging brilliance.

Andy
 
On 4/17/2011 6:03 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:

The 1541 was pretty nifty. It held something like 147KB of data. I can't
think of a single piece of computer hardware that was more unreliable. I
had a couple of dead ones - who didn't? :-)
 
Re: [email protected]

[email protected] wrote:


Back on those days you had to drop a few grand just to get basic equipment.
You probably don't want to add it up.

Good luck recovering your "investment" on ebay and Craigs. And I mean that
seriously. I keep stuff way too long sometimes, old stereo equipment for
example, and it's a great feeling to find it still has value.

MartyB
 
"J. Clarke" wrote:



We got to use the APL/360 in the late 1960s. A cryptic language but at
least we got to instant message with the other schools around town!

No CRT screens, just lots of IBM golf ball type printed out on reams of
paper.

We had to manually dial the host and when their modem rang back, we'd
shove the phone into the modem coupler and wait for paper to to type
output:

You're Logged In!

:

Our success always freaked us out with laughter!

Andy
 
Sqwertz wrote:

Well then, where do you get "bastardized version of Windows on
non-PC hardware"? I'm running the same version of Windows
that came with this ThinkPad about 10 years ago, except for
a couple of Service Packs I installed.
 
On 2011-04-19, Krypsis wrote:


Fine by me. Call it whatever you prefer.

For some reason, I never strayed too far from CLI and like
environments. GUIs definitely have their place, particularly with
respect to graphics, but otherwise they and the mouse are jes wasted
movement, IMO. Being one lazy sumbitch, I hate reaching for a mouse
and do it under duress. ;)


nb
 
On 17 Apr 2011 19:57:38 GMT, sandi wrote:


Didn't you used to hang out in alt.cracks, too? (maybe still do?)
I haven't been there for years.

-sw
 
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:15:58 -0400, "J. Clarke" wrote:


I as well started with a 300 baud modem, I can remember starting a one meg.
file download just before bed and the download would finish just as I was
getting ready to leave for work (just shortly after seven AM).
As for the other modems, I upgraded to the 2400, then the 14.4, the 33.6 which
alot of times only connected at 19.2 until they changed the switches. It was a
big thing to get a 56,000 modem, the first was a Hughes and then a USR which
never let me down for connectivity. They changed the lines to fiber about 2001,
and now I can download the 1 meg. file that used to take me eight hours with
the 300 baud, I can now pull down a gig in just under four minutes, technology
has come a long way.
 
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:33:43 -0400, J. Clarke wrote:


That's what I used to run a chain of 4-5 bookstores off of for about
13 years - Xenix, then Unix, then Openserver. DOS's memory
limitations back then, when you add network cards, drivers, and
networking software, didn't leave room for any actual applications to
run.

-sw
 
Sqwertz wrote:

Starting in the Late seventies, TRS-80 Model 1, 4k ram, cassette storage.
Later Apple IIe, Apple IIc, Power Mac 7100/66, Power Book G4 and an iPad
model 1.

My favorite was the Power Mac 7100/66 was loaded and cost $5,000 for
hardware alone. It served me well for ten years before the operating system
truly became obsolete.

Right now, I love this little portable iPad that is now my favorite.

--
Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)
 
In article ,
Cheryl wrote:



I have mixed feelings about this:

1. I'll believe it when I see it.

2. Wait a minute! Aren't we just going back to what we had before?

I remember Oliver North frantically shredding all of his incriminating
Emails. Once he got them all shredded so nobody could find out what he
had done, he could safely let the investigators in, since he had
destroyed all the evidence. What he didn't realize, was that he had
been doing all of his Emails on a central IBM mainframe, and they did
backups every night and kept them forever.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
[email protected]
 
On 20/04/2011 12:23 AM, notbob wrote:

There were a few around at that time. I would have liked an Otrona
Attache but it was over our budget at the time.

http://oldcomputers.net/attache.html

A friend had a Commodore SX64, basically a commodore 64 in luggable
form. Its best feature was also its worst. The colour screen was a
fantastic item at the time BUT the resolution was woeful. At 5"
diagonal, it was hard on the eyes and it was difficult to make out
letters, in particular differentiation between U and V. It could be
equipped with an external monitor but that sort of defeats the purpose
of it being portable. I was in my early 40s at the time and my eyes
weren't so 'tired' but I still couldn't do much on it for long.

http://oldcomputers.net/sx64.html

Krypsis
 
In article , nunyabidnits@eternal-
september.invalid says...

Yep. The FAT-32 limit is officially 128 gig, with a 4 gig file size
limit. If you know what you're about you can go larger than that. I
have some PS/2 model 77s that run Windows 98 just fine with 10 gig
drives.

There used to be an 8 gig BIOS-imposed limit, this was nothing to do
with Windows though, this was something the BIOS providers did.
 
On 4/19/2011 4:38 PM, Cheryl wrote:

Good gravy! It's about time some folks round here were checked to see if
all their papers were in order. If you ask me, something's rotten in
Denmark. Make sure you insist on seeing their original birth certificates!

BTW, what kind of pens did you finally decide on? I just got burnt on
some cheap Chinese pens. The little click thingies would fly off
striking the users in the eyes causing temporary blindness and the ink
apparently contains something that's toxic to small house pets.
Unfortunately, I never got to test 'em first. :-)
 
"Stu" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

Probably 133. I remember spending the extra dough for the "huge" 20 mb disk
drive. Added like 200 bucks to the cost. And now I would need 2 and a half
of those drives just to download Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Paul
 
On 4/18/2011 2:27 AM, notbob wrote:

I'll have to check out the Windows Phone 7. My guess is that it's
similar to the HTC HD2 with Windows 6.5 OS - beautiful to look at but
aggravating to use. My daughter didn't like it - she's the expert. I
tried it but rather use my Samsung Behold II with it's simpler interface
even though it has a less integrated look. In the end, it got passed
down to my son who seems to like it fine.

Nokia used to be a player but is in the little leagues these days. HTC
is pretty much dominating the smartphone market currently and without
their support, WinPhone7 would be would be dead in the water.

Microsoft has been telling us that stuff for years but I have no reason
to believe that Windows ever left DOS behind. You might say that I
mistrust MS.
 
On 4/18/2011 2:33 AM, J. Clarke wrote:

My guess is that there's still some code in Win7 dating back to God
knows when. OTOH, you know more about this stuff than I. OTOH, I doubt
that anybody really knows Win7 in total - it's just too large.

I should hope that the smartphone OSes would truly be clean pages. I
don't see how it could be otherwise.
 
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