The early days of home computing – in pictures
The early days of home computing – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...ng-in-pictures
Since we're all stuck inside, it might be fun to indulge in a little retro computing oogling. The Acorn A3010 we actually used at school at a fair bit, before the PC and Macs took over.
My first computer was the Commodore Amiga 600 which was just small enough to fit on my desk at the time! Might set it up again soon for a trip down memory lane.
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Now thats what you call computers :)
My first computer if you can call it that was a Mattel Aquarius :)
Followed up by a Tandy 1000TX with 3 and a half inch and 5 and a quarter inch drives, I was especially lucky as got a 20MB (yes you read that right) hard drive as well.
We had a Commodore Pet in school, that was a beast of a machine and I am sure could survive a nuclear war. After that we BBC Micro's and Archimedes.
I was next lucky enough to have an Amiga, though did have a Commodore 64.
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I still have my 600 on a shelf next to me!
Re: The early days of home computing – in pictures
Still have an entire c.1978/79 Apple II/e system, plus RAM cards, CP/M (Z80 card), colour unit and, of course, 5.25" disk drives.
Works too (last time I tried).
All this was after many years of access to academic mainframes and even some to commercial mainframes.
But the dawn of home computing was very exciting.
P.S. Had access to TRS-80 Mk.3, then Mk.4, then Sirius. Lovely machine that was.
Oh, and IBM "compatible" landed in my home in about '84/85 ..... and that was eye-watering expensive. Even now, 2020, without allowing for infkation, that PC cost me about as much as some small, modern new cars.
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First computer was the ZX81 with the wobbly 16k RAMpack. Hours spent typing in native machine code from a magazine (for a game) lost due to a small knock!
Then upgraded to a BBC micro - upgraded from a tape drive to a 5.25" floppy, made loading games so much faster and more reliable.
After that, it was early PCs - 286, 386 and 486 processors running Windows 3.0 and 3.1.