Our loft is full of old computer bits and pieces. Commodore 64 anyone? We still have an external 3.5 inch floppy drive "just in case".
Commodore 64... my first computer, back in the 1980s. It's said to hold the world record as the best-selling single model of computer ever released with as many as 17 million sold. A great little machine!
@Kili I've never had trouble with the batteries or adapters, on work or personal laptops. It was main chip wot blew this time. No fixing that . We tried several things that cost nowt (reseating the heat sink etc) but at 10 yo and most of the software unsupported, it wasn't worth spending money on. Better put towards the new one. OH has a big desktop that's about 15 yo, maybe more, and I think has had just about everything inside it replaced (often because he wants bigger, faster etc, and enjoys the tinkering with it) but we don't have room for two of those and I like a change of scenery anyway.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Well, if we are all determined to show our age.....BBC Micro B was my first one, with a massive 32kb of ram!
I wont count the mainframes but I can offer the Acorn similar to the BBC micro as one of the early machines I worked on. You could only run the programs from a floppy disk . No multitasking processors in those days
I once paid £300 for 256kb of ram for an early 286 PC that hurt at the time but, it got me on my way to a career in IT.
Now I'm a retired crap gardener but who cares, not me! each days a bonus if you make it to retirement.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
I remember all of that! (Unfortunately not retired yet though, career is not IT other than as a reasonably well-informed user). These days memory chips are cheap as chips by comparison 😁.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I visited a computer museum whilst in California and was horrified to see that most of the machines I had worked on (except for the Babbage difference engine), my brother tried to make me feel better by saying that 'history' and 'museums' have a different time frame in the USA.
Still felt like a dinosaur
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Do you remember the mating signals while you waited to get on the internet and then they charged you per minute and no one could phone you while you were on the net? And then came Freeserve. Whatever happened to them?
Do you remember the mating signals while you waited to get on the internet and then they charged you per minute and no one could phone you while you were on the net? And then came Freeserve. Whatever happened to them?
Ahh, the sweet song of a US robotics 14k4 modem carrier signal, lulling you to sleep.
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(extra points for anyone correctly identifying that!)
I remember acoustic couplers and BBS before the internet really became a thing in the 90s.
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A great little machine!
I once paid £300 for 256kb of ram for an early 286 PC that hurt at the time but, it got me on my way to a career in IT.
Now I'm a retired crap gardener but who cares, not me! each days a bonus if you make it to retirement.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
Still felt like a dinosaur
+++ATH
(extra points for anyone correctly identifying that!)
I remember acoustic couplers and BBS before the internet really became a thing in the 90s.
No 56k modems for us...
He always thought it sounded so full of promise...