Anyone remember the Commodre 64 of the 80's
What do you have now
I also remember the Sinclair Z81 with 1Kb of memory.
Prior to that, the first computers also had 1Kb of memory but it was about the size of a table - the memory that is - the computer needed a very large room to house it and special climatic conditions!
I remember when a 1.4 Mb floppy disc cost the best part of a weeks wages.
Wellhiem wrote:
I remember when a 1.4 Mb floppy disc cost the best part of a weeks wages.
You were very modern - I had to use about 25 x 8" (really) floppy disks to reload the system!
The early domestic computers used cassette tapes.
The first floppy disk drive I had took 5" floppy disks.
I worked on some computers in the 70's They
had large electrolytic filter capacitors and used
crossbar switch's . some times one of the capacitors
would blow due to a miss wire. These computers
filled up a large room. Not sure how much memory
they had.
My first computer was a Texas Instruments TI 994A. Loved it. So much better than all the others of its time.
I had a Atari 800 and upgraded to the Atari 1040ST. I ran a BBS (Bulletin Board Service) and needed more disc space so I bought a 300MB (megabyte - see that?) and it was $300.00.
My modem at the time was an Atari 300baud and with more subscribers I had to upgrade to the Atari 1200baud and then a blazing fast 14400. It was years before the 56K baud modems were out.
I had to pay for a separate phone line for the BBS or we would never have had time for personal calls.
Sarge69
sarge69 wrote:
I had a Atari 800 and upgraded to the Atari 1040ST. I ran a BBS (Bulletin Board Service) and needed more disc space so I bought a 300MB (megabyte - see that?) and it was $300.00.
My modem at the time was an Atari 300baud and with more subscribers I had to upgrade to the Atari 1200baud and then a blazing fast 14400. It was years before the 56K baud modems were out.
I had to pay for a separate phone line for the BBS or we would never have had time for personal calls.
Sarge69
Ah, the good old days. :-D
Carl A wrote:
Anyone remember the Commodre 64 of the 80's
What do you have now
I still have an Atari 400 with a membrane keyboard running basic.
My first use of a computer was with the ATLAS computer at London University. It was housed in air-conditioned rooms. Communication was with punched paper tape. Turn around time for a program submitted was 1 week! Language used was EXCHLF and I cannot recall what those initials stood for. For old times sake i still have some of the paper tape programs that I submitted during the Masters course I was following. Prior to moving to Apple Mac I built my own PC's.
I graduated to the Comadore 64 from a tiny Casio that fit in the palm of your hand. It had to be hooked up to a TV. I took a class to learn to use it, which you couldn't do unless you knew how to write your own programs. I had lots of fun with it but it was really only a kind of toy. The Com. 64 had a Geos operating system and I remember "chatting" with folks way before AOL came into the picture and started charging for something that was free.
Carl A wrote:
Anyone remember the Commodre 64 of the 80's
What do you have now
I had an Amstrad PCW 8512. Everything was stored on floppies.
BboH
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And the Tandy - was it the TRS80?
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