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24-Jun-2008, 11:19 AM #1
IBM in the 19th Century and other Dinosaurs
There is an exhibition of old and extremely old computer and electronic equipment at my local Town Hall, and I thought you guys might get a kick out of seeing some of the equipment that laid the groundwork for the cutting-edge technology we swear at today.






















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24-Jun-2008, 11:27 AM #2
and I thought my Comodore VIC20 was old.
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24-Jun-2008, 11:31 AM #3
I remember the good old days with the C64, learning to write simple code in BASIC at school and then trying it out at home on the TI-99/4A.
If I didn't feel old age creeping in before, I sure do now. Apparently my childhood is now qualified for museum exhibition.
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24-Jun-2008, 11:40 AM #4
I never had a C64, I made the big jump form the VIC20 to the C128. I went for broke. Had the printer & 2 floppy drives. That was the cat's meow.
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24-Jun-2008, 11:54 AM #5
My external USB floppy drive sorta reminds me of the drives from the Commodore, and the Apple IIe, which I also used to use "back in the day." Of course, today's outboard A: drive is probably less than a quarter of the size of those old units. If I ever find a USB 5 1/4" drive, I'm buying it just for the novelty of it. And for my crates and crates of obsolete floppies

We used to stack one 5 1/4" drive on top of another to save desk space. I can't even imagine how they used to get on with the 8" floppies. I've seen 'em in person, but I've never seen an 8" floppy disk _drive_.

A printer for the C128? Did you have the gigantic paper with the spool holes on the sides and those alternating white and green bands?
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24-Jun-2008, 12:04 PM #6
Yep. It's a model 1526 by Comodore, I still have the whole setup. I used a black & white TV for a monitor.
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24-Jun-2008, 12:06 PM #7
Many PCs of the day wouldn't have suffered a bit from being used with a B/W TV thanks to the green-on-black displays. If you had a good TV set, the loss of the green pigment might actually have been an improvement!
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