Did anybody here buy one of these?
Jun 1, 2022 14:14:38 #
Jun 1, 2022 14:19:38 #
No, but I thought about it. Instead, I purchased an Apple IIe. I still have it and it still works.
--Bob
--Bob
Jim Plogger wrote:
Came across this ad recently.
Jun 1, 2022 14:20:03 #
Nope, that was before I could afford one.
My first computer was the Radio Shack Color Computer (AKA CoCo).
My first computer was the Radio Shack Color Computer (AKA CoCo).
Jun 1, 2022 14:36:25 #
Greg from Romeoville illinois
Loc: Romeoville illinois
rmalarz wrote:
No, but I thought about it. Instead, I purchased an Apple IIe. I still have it and it still works.
--Bob
--Bob
Do you still have the box and manuals? They are worth a lot more than the IIe!
Jun 1, 2022 14:36:40 #
Just Shoot Me
Loc: Ithaca, NY
I had a Texas Instruments computer. My back up hard drive was a cassette recorder. I programed in BASIC.
(Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) Still have some of the programs I wrote on a paper adding machine tape.
(Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) Still have some of the programs I wrote on a paper adding machine tape.
Jun 1, 2022 14:48:04 #
Just Shoot Me wrote:
I had a Texas Instruments computer. My back up hard drive was a cassette recorder. I programed in BASIC.
(Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) Still have some of the programs I wrote on a paper adding machine tape.
(Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) Still have some of the programs I wrote on a paper adding machine tape.
Oh WOW! How did you get the program into the computer to run it, after you wrote it on adding machine tape? Did you have some sort of OCR device & software to use?
Jun 1, 2022 14:50:26 #
Yes, I do. I realize their value, but money would not replace the sentimental aspect of that machine. I few years after I purchased that system, I learned I was indirectly related to one of the founders of Apple Computer Corp. So, that's the sentimental part.
--Bob
--Bob
Greg from Romeoville illinois wrote:
Do you still have the box and manuals? They are worth a lot more than the IIe!
Jun 1, 2022 14:53:23 #
I went sort of the same route as you, but with the aforementioned Apple. Apple BASIC and machine language. I rather enjoyed assembly programming.
--Bob
--Bob
Just Shoot Me wrote:
I had a Texas Instruments computer. My back up hard drive was a cassette recorder. I programed in BASIC.
(Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) Still have some of the programs I wrote on a paper adding machine tape.
(Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) Still have some of the programs I wrote on a paper adding machine tape.
Jun 1, 2022 15:22:29 #
I believe both my Commodore 64 and Tandy 1000 are still in the attic?
Jun 1, 2022 15:29:07 #
rmalarz wrote:
No, but I thought about it. Instead, I purchased an Apple IIe. I still have it and it still works.
--Bob
--Bob
I used an Apple IIe with ClearLight SuperStar card and their AMPL/M software to program multi-image slide shows. It was souped up with a 3.5 MHz 65C02 and one megabyte of RAM. We wrote our scripts and managed our budgets with AppleWorks 1.3!
Jun 1, 2022 15:35:28 #
Jim Plogger wrote:
Came across this ad recently.
What a flashback. However, the ad here is from much later in the evolution of the MITS/Altair which was available as early as October of 1975 and for only $439 for the kit. (https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/70s/1975/Poptronics-1975-10.pdf)
It was this ad or one like it that triggered Bill Gates and Paul Allen, then undergrads at Harvard to chuck it all and write a Basic compiler for this computer. Gates wrote in in his dorm room, then he and Allen quit Harvard and moved to Albuquerque to get a closer relationship with MITS and to start Microsoft.
I met Gates in 1979 when he had just moved his company from Albuquerque to Redmond, Washington. At the time he had around 30 employees and two products: the Basic compiler and a Fortran compiler. We met because my company had developed a full-scale commercial DBMS using the Microsoft Fortran compiler. We had it running on some Xitan computers (a New Jersey early PC startup called TDL, http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/TDL/History/TDL%20History.htm).
Jun 1, 2022 15:56:44 #
RichKenn
Loc: Merritt Island, FL
I seem to recall I purchased my first computer in 1978. It was a North Star Horizon, a screamer with 64k of RAM and a Z80 processor. No hard disk. It had a beautiful walnut case with a brushed aluminum front. It was a work of art. It cost $3,000. My second computer was an IBM PC with a 10MB hard drive. It also cost $3,000.
Jun 1, 2022 16:32:18 #
Just Shoot Me
Loc: Ithaca, NY
twowindsbear wrote:
Oh WOW! How did you get the program into the computer to run it, after you wrote it on adding machine tape? Did you have some sort of OCR device & software to use?
Typed the program into a keyboard and printed them out on a 4 color Dot Matrix printer that used adding machine tape. No printing of documents unless you wanted to read them like a scroll on the tape.
Jun 1, 2022 19:36:59 #
PoppieJ
Loc: North Georgia
i didn't buy that one but I had one like it. 10 meg hard drive and I wondered what I would ever do with all that space
Jun 2, 2022 05:26:24 #
I had a Kaypro II, no hard disk but two eight inch floppy drives. My first hard disk was a five megabyte monster. What was I ever going to put on that behemoth?
~Lee
~Lee
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