Click-bait works. It's evident by the article being shared on here.
Shame on the OP. Just stop it! STOP IT!
Our Admin Officer in S1 in the Marines bought one of these around 1982, god only knows what he spent on it.
Old Compaq, even had to look it up, I guess they were brand new then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq
Maybe he was reimbursed, we received something similar other than it being Green with a metal case and heavier duty for doing the Unit Diary entries not long after.
I was doing other things, but the WM that ran the thing was a good friend so I hung out and helped her with it messing around when not doing my regular S1 work. She knew more about it than I did, of course, but we collaborated a bit.
First real computer I bought besides a Commodore C64 was a little Packard Bell 386 I guess around 1989 at a Sears of all places.
Was the first I ever upgraded a CPU on too I guess
Don't like what I posted? See the door? Use it.
While you are on the way out, stop at a store and get yourself a new pair of panty and fresh tampon. ATOT becomes a "bitch and moan" place now? ^_^
I will continue to post and nothing you can do about it except whine and whine more.
I had a manager who decided he could do his job from home. Internet was just 10¢ per minute! He left his computer connected eight hours a day. Math time.**paying internet use as much as a phonecall**
now THAT was expensive.
20th Anniversary Mac
Here's Johnny Ive talking about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIFdBp8rbtA
:awe:
20th Anniversary Mac
Here's Johnny Ive talking about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIFdBp8rbtA
:awe:
Wow! I had a Dell Dimension XPS T600 and the MOBO gave out some years ago so I threw the whole damn thing away!
Not sure how many of you would even remember the company, but Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) came out with a personal computer in 1984. It was call the DEC Rainbow 100. The list price for the pc was $10,500. Columbia U says it came with 3 OS, but I only remember MS/DOS and CP/M 86. Each OS booted from a 5.25 in floppy.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/rainbow.html
http://www.oldcomputers.net/dec-rainbow-100.html
It won engineering awards for design. At the time it was released, it was the highest quality pc and best design. But the company started its design a year earlier than IBM and starting shipping it a year later than IBM at a higher cost. In other words, it was over-engineered, too expensive and was late to market. I used one at work for several years, and took it home to use for a few more, before returning it to my employer. Fine machine. Learned to touch type with it using Mavis Beacon software. The data center manager desperately wanted us off the site's mini computer, as our spreadsheets were overloading the processing. Worked out fine for us too. I thought it would be worth a lot some day, as a museum piece. Based on my search on ebay, it looks like it would be more valuable as a dust collector or boat anchor.
Dual floppy disk drive. Didn't come with a hard drive for about a year later. So you needed the application software in drive 1 and your data storage floppy in drive 2. The OS was already loaded from drive 1 into memory.WTH is that roll thing on the right. Is it some sort of piano punch tape LOL.
Ah, both Google and D-Link are giving that cylindrical-ish shaped hardware a comeback.
Not sure how many of you would even remember the company, but Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) came out with a personal computer in 1984. It was call the DEC Rainbow 100. The list price for the pc was $10,500. Columbia U says it came with 3 OS, but I only remember MS/DOS and CP/M 86. Each OS booted from a 5.25 in floppy.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/rainbow.html
http://www.oldcomputers.net/dec-rainbow-100.html
It won engineering awards for design. At the time it was released, it was the highest quality pc and best design. But the company started its design a year earlier than IBM and starting shipping it a year later than IBM at a higher cost. In other words, it was over-engineered, too expensive and was late to market. I used one at work for several years, and took it home to use for a few more, before returning it to my employer. Fine machine. Learned to touch type with it using Mavis Beacon software. The keyboard was amazing. Nothing today can even match it. The data center manager desperately wanted us off the site's mini computer, as our spreadsheets were overloading the processing. Worked out fine for us too. I thought it would be worth a lot some day, as a museum piece. Based on my search on ebay, it looks like it would be more valuable as a boat anchor.
Not sure how many of you would even remember the company, but Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) came out with a personal computer in 1984. It was call the DEC Rainbow 100. The list price for the pc was $10,500. Columbia U says it came with 3 OS, but I only remember MS/DOS and CP/M 86. Each OS booted from a 5.25 in floppy.
I worked in an office full of those. They were networked with token ring I think.
i learned 8bit machine code programming on a Commodore PET (4032) using the built-in machine code monitor.The Programma 101 was made by Olivetti and was pretty cool for it's time. It was the first computer I was exposed to as a senior in high school and it was programmed much like writing assembly language code by loading registers etc.