"Vintage" computers (http://www.ebaumsworld.com/vintagecomputers.html)

Wow, these were really big! I love the "portable" in the last picture. :killingme:

:lol:



We had one of these (http://oldcomputers.net/ti994a.html) when I was a youngster.

Ah, that brings back memories. :lol: I remember taking some programming classes on Tandy TRS-80's like in the third picture. They were a step up from using punched cards like my first courses. :jet:

Ah, that brings back memories. :lol: I remember taking some programming classes on Tandy TRS-80's like in the third picture. They were a step up from using punched cards like my first courses. :jet:

I remember having the TRS-80. It was known as Trash-80. My parents bought it at a Radio Shack-probably paid way too much for it too. I remember them getting me a Poltergeist game cartridge that always seemed to lock up- what a piece of sh**!!

I remember having the TRS-80. It was known as Trash-80. My parents bought it at a Radio Shack-probably paid way too much for it too. I remember them getting me a Poltergeist game cartridge that always seemed to lock up- what a piece of sh**!!

Hence the name of this thread. :lol: They were definitely pieces of crap, but back then, they were da bomb!

Everything you always wanted to know about the TRS-80, but were afraid to ask... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80)

Hence the name of this thread. :lol: They were definitely pieces of crap, but back then, they were da bomb!

Everything you always wanted to know about the TRS-80, but were afraid to ask... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80)

Yes, it definately is fun going down "memory lane." However, I don't recall them being "da bomb" back then- only being worthless crap...

Yes, it definately is fun going down "memory lane." However, I don't recall them being "da bomb" back then- only being worthless crap...

Well, after taking programming courses using punched cards, they were like heaven. :jet:

Well, after taking programming courses using punched cards, they were like heaven. :jet:Tell Fred and Wilma I said hi...:howdy:

Tell Fred and Wilma I said hi...:howdy:

Don't forget Barney and Betty!! :yay:

I remember them (TRS-80) in my middle school programming class. They DID WORK and do what they were designed to do.

I loved the Donkey Kong game with the B&W blocky graphics.

Tell Fred and Wilma I said hi...:howdy:

They were a little after YOUR time, weren't they? :neener:

Anybody the have commodore 64 back in the early 80's? If you did, do you remember the tape drives and that ultra high speed 2400 baud modems?

Anybody the have commodore 64 back in the early 80's? If you did, do you remember the tape drives and that ultra high speed 2400 baud modems?

I still have mine and also a vic-20. :-)

Never had the modem though.

My first computer was a vic-20. Also had a tape drive with it. I then upgraded to a comm. 128. with a 300bps modem. Upgraded to an Amiga and I think at that point I got a 1200bps modem.

My computer lab in middle school was a room full of commodore Pets. in high school, the lab was apple II GSs, and one Mac.

Anybody the have commodore 64 back in the early 80's? If you did, do you remember the tape drives and that ultra high speed 2400 baud modems?
:howdy: I don't remember a modem with it though; but I was only 10 or 11. I had a couple game cartidge thingys that went in the back ... that's about all I remember.

Damn, that was 20 years ago. :jet: :faint:

My first computer was a Timex/Sinclair ZX-81. I was able to write small programs in BASIC and get it to plot things on a B&W TV screen. I saved the programs on audio tape.

My second was a Zenith, a great big thing with two floppy drives (one for program and one for data) and a green-and-black monitor. I could do documents in WordStar and spreadsheets in Lotus 1-2-3.

When I got my first REAL PC (a Packard-Bell 386SX running Windows 3.1.1), I thought I was pretty cool! I remember my Internet access consisted of the Hollywood News and Information Service (HNIS) Bulletin Board Service. I had a screamin' fast 9600 baud modem. To connect, I had to set up Procomm Plus to execute something like:

ATDT, 301XXXXXXX

And I'd wait - very patiently, for sometimes several minutes - for the terminal window to show the query from the HNIS server asking for my username and password. :lmao:

The first one I worked on was a 1401 with 16K of storage. That was a K not an M.

The mainfram was 5' high and 3' wide and the expansion to make it a whopping 16K was another 3' wide.