Doing a rather odd product photo job at the moment. These are unprocessed photos form RAW->JPEG. Posting more for the nostalgia you might find from old machines of the past. I have a ton more to do, will follow up later on..
Enjoy this old gear, some are actually ancient old!
Man this is absolutely awesome...I wasn't even born at the time most of these were made. Really great you have put all these together, really shows how far we've come and where we came from!
I had one of several of those. I punched IBM cards as my after-school job in college, and my first "computer" was a terminal and an acoustic modem. Loved my Osborne, but 'bout went blind trying to write manuals on that tiny screen.
On the Atari I was running a DOS emulator that went faster that the fastest Intel based DOS machines available at the time. I ticked a lot of hard core DOS people off with that one.
Then I went PC based in the 80286 era forward.
I ran a BBS system on the Atari 1040 with a 20 meg hard drive.
Ran a BBS using TBBS The Bread Board System on the PC and also used WWIV. I remember when I turned my Meg HD into 30 by using an RLL controller.
My friend was Commodore I was Atari, can you imagine the disputes! Makes Apple versus Windows fans look weak!
I remember when you could type a program in from a magazine and it actually did something! Then storing them on a cassette tape, that I do not miss! Computers during the time I started seemed to have much more personality and simply were more exciting that today. Each one was very different in look, feel, and OS. They had style, today it is more of the same standardized stuff that just gets bloatier (is that a word) and the hardware faster, but never fast enough. Today you would need an army of programmers to churn something useful out that is not already done or has been commercialized into a download via paypal for $29.95.
Interesting shots of old gear I was thinking, until I got down to the last image - the Compaq. That stopped me in my tracks. I remember working with one. How time flies...
The first laboratory based computer I used in the late 70's required the following to boot (can not remember the model):
1) using toggle switches on the front panel, key in a 20-30 step 16 bit binary program that taught the system how to read paper tapes (Half inch wide tapes with holes punched in them with the program code)
2) read in a 30 foot long paper tape operating system/program and hope the tape did not break
Always keep plenty of backup paper tapes on hand. It did not have a hard drive but had a 5 1/4 inch floppy for data storage
Holy crap batman...Check out this stuff...Try surfin the net with those...Love the dual floppy drives and the old phone modems. Don't even have a home phone anymore...
20 meg hard drive... ...Remember how much those things cost new back then...
On the Atari I was running a DOS emulator that went faster that the fastest Intel based DOS machines available at the time. I ticked a lot of hard core DOS people off with that one.
Then I went PC based in the 80286 era forward.
I ran a BBS system on the Atari 1040 with a 20 meg hard drive.
Ran a BBS using TBBS The Bread Board System on the PC and also used WWIV. I remember when I turned my Meg HD into 30 by using an RLL controller.
My friend was Commodore I was Atari, can you imagine the disputes! Makes Apple versus Windows fans look weak!
I remember when you could type a program in from a magazine and it actually did something! Then storing them on a cassette tape, that I do not miss! Computers during the time I started seemed to have much more personality and simply were more exciting that today. Each one was very different in look, feel, and OS. They had style, today it is more of the same standardized stuff that just gets bloatier (is that a word) and the hardware faster, but never fast enough. Today you would need an army of programmers to churn something useful out that is not already done or has been commercialized into a download via paypal for $29.95.
I could go on but......Show more →
+1 ! I was almost the same ! Waouh, I want to cry...
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