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How about some old computer pics? ...
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Neat stuff. I don't have anything going back that far, but I can break out my collection of old Macworld and Mac User mags.
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Oh please have radio shack be that good again some day.
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Originally Posted by brassplayersrock²
Oh please have radio shack be that good again some day.
You mean Radios Hack?
Heh, $3400 for a 10 Megabyte Hard Drive. Almost $9000 when adjusted for inflation (assuming the drive came out in 1980).
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My very first computer was a radio shack color computer. That brings back some memories. Heck, I remember running OS-9.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
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Neat, but didn't some web site just post all of these last week? I know I saw them all in that same order somewhere.
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This space for Hire! Reasonable rates. Reach an audience of literally dozens!
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It's funny to me how sexist some of those old computer ads are featuring women. They really have a strong "our computers are so easy to use that even a woman could operate them" vibe, an attractive one at that
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Yeah, now we have pics of women using a computer in the kitchen. Where they belong.
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Originally Posted by starman
Neat, but didn't some web site just post all of these last week? I know I saw them all in that same order somewhere.
At least a couple are from here:
DAVES OLD COMPUTERS
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
Here're some awesome Cray super computer and mainframe pictures. Now THESE are proper computers. They just look so intimidating and freakin' cool.
This one looks like a strange coffin or something. With a gold anvil on top to keep something from escaping.
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Originally Posted by Person Man
This one looks like a strange coffin or something. With a gold anvil on top to keep something from escaping.
If you've seen I.T. Crowd, it all makes more sense.
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Wow, thanks for posting these. Somewhere I have the Byte 10th anniversary edition, it's got lots of cool ads in it too.
The TRS-80 PC1 is a Sharp Pocket Computer. I still use mine occasionally.
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I used to have a Commodore-64, as a matter of fact, I still have it, along with the floppy drive, joysticks, and software I broke it out a few years ago, hooked it up to an old TV, and played Kings of the Beach (volleyball with Sinjin Smith).
My friend's father worked for a company that dealt with computers years ago, and he brought home all kinds of cool stuff, including a "portable" Compaq. My friend had a TRS-80 for years. I remember him purchasing a 20MB hard drive for $670 when he was in college
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Originally Posted by besson3c
It's funny to me how sexist some of those old computer ads are featuring women. They really have a strong "our computers are so easy to use that even a woman could operate them" vibe, an attractive one at that
I really don't see anything sexist in those pics.
I also don't get that "our computers are so easy to use that even a woman could operate them" vibe.
*shrug*
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Originally Posted by Doc HM
Back in high school, we still had a few of these in the computer lab. A friend and I made this simple program to do random POKEs and ran it. Within about 30 s the computer started to smoke.
That day I learned that BASIC can destroy a computer.
P.S. Speaking of BASIC:
Somebody please refresh my memory. What was this Apple BASIC program called? Woz wrote a program way, way back that I thought was uber geek cool. It stored data in the code itself. Everytime a piece of data was changed, the program changed it's own code to reflect it. So every time you used the program, the program itself changed. I don't even remember what the program did, but I thought the concept was rather interesting.
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Eug, The very early stages of time machine?
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Originally Posted by Eug
Somebody please refresh my memory. What was this Apple BASIC program called? Woz wrote a program way, way back that I thought was uber geek cool.
Integer BASIC, ran on Apple DOS (later ProDOS.) The only programming language I ever learned.
10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10
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Heh.
Actually, what I was wondering about was the specific program that Woz wrote in Integer BASIC that modified itself. Basically ( ), think of it like a mini-database storage that used the program code to store the database data within itself. Very odd. If you ran it long enough the program would crash, IIRC because it would screw up the program code or at least the integrity of the data within the program code.
To put it another way in today's terms, if you were to say do a CRC check on the program, it would be different every single time you ran the program, and different for each person who ran the program, because the program was constantly changing itself. Then it would go too far and corrupt itself.
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Too soon?
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Not given the recent announcement.
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Originally Posted by Maflynn
Still using mine for now.
Running Leopard and Safari 5, with a PPC 7447A and Core Image capable GPU.
I'm still running a couple of these too, again with Leopard:
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Originally Posted by Eug
Back in high school, we still had a few of these in the computer lab. A friend and I made this simple program to do random POKEs and ran it. Within about 30 s the computer started to smoke.
That day I learned that BASIC can destroy a computer.
Ah, yes. The infamous "Killer POKE."
Killer POKE
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
Integer BASIC, ran on Apple DOS (later ProDOS.) The only programming language I ever learned.
10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10
RUN
Do you mean Applesoft BASIC? Integer BASIC never ran under ProDOS. By the time ProDOS came out, Applesoft was standard in ROM.
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Originally Posted by Person Man
Wow. There's even a term for this. Didn't know that. Or at least I didn't know that. Perhaps my friend did.
We didn't actually specifically target the video though. We just wrote it so the POKEs would be random but within a specified range.
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Originally Posted by Person Man
Sounds like sex gone very wrong!
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Originally Posted by Maflynn
Not given the recent announcement.
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Originally Posted by Eug
Still using mine for now.
I was up till recently. Office space is a bit tight and so I had to pack away the computer. I was thinking of selling it, but I'm not sure I'd get enough to justify the hassle of selling it.
Its a non-souped up stock G4 cube.
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You could ship it to me and I'll pay shipping.
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Originally Posted by Maflynn
I was up till recently. Office space is a bit tight and so I had to pack away the computer. I was thinking of selling it, but I'm not sure I'd get enough to justify the hassle of selling it.
Its a non-souped up stock G4 cube.
I'm definitely keeping both of mine. My souped up one, and my stock G4 cube. Well, it ain't actually stock. The ATI Rage 128 is painful with any modern version of OS X so I got a better GPU for that one too. Makes a noticeable difference for general OS usage, even with a G4 450.
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Apple 1 expected to fetch over $200000 at auction
Along with the other printed material that comes with the computer is a typed letter from Steve Jobs which appears to be in answer to the original owner's questions. The letter simply says "yep."
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