Vintage Computer Advertisements from the late 1970s

The first computer I ever had my hands on was an HP 85 in 1983. No hard drive, no floppy. Ran off of a magnetic cassette tape. (I still have a couple of cassettes if any body needs one).

🖼Click to load external image (Posted Image)

The first computer I ever had my hands on was an HP 85 in 1983. No hard drive, no floppy. Ran off of a magnetic cassette tape. (I still have a couple of cassettes if any body needs one).

🖼Click to load external image (Posted Image)

Wow dude, yer hi tech now

Jimbo1

my first pc

bbc b around 1982 :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro

Hummm Tom, I think Terry has you beat.

My first home computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

And first computer I used (we had 3 in our "computer lab" at highschool…..cos we were so priviliged lol.) I think was one of these or very similar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K
We had to book to use them and in 2 years I got to the top of the list only once lmao!

My first home computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

And first computer I used (we had 3 in our "computer lab" at highschool…..cos we were so priviliged lol.) I think was one of these or very similar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K
We had to book to use them and in 2 years I got to the top of the list only once lmao!

I did service on both.

The C 64 was all board level repair mainly desoldering / resoldering RAM chips

The Mac repairs (if you want to call it a repair) was removing items from the floppy drive that the kids would stick in there.
Other repairs required replacement of the power board, some just required resoldering the hot spots.

When I got out of college in 1984, I went to work for a company that had a "real" computer. It had two floppy drives, and a text program of sorts. Letters could be "typed" like on a type writer (word wrap and all) instead of one coded line at a time in DOS.
[external image: Posted Image]

Don't have a picture, my first was a 286, 12 mhz, 32 megs ram, forgot the size of video card with a 5 1/4 floppy and a wopping 20 meg hard drive and dos 3.3, forgot the bard rate of the modem think around 300 bps, that was top of the line for me. Jimbo1

My first was a 1982 Timex Sinclair 1000 with 2k ram, with 16k add on pack you were rockin.

🖼Click to load external image (Posted Image)

Still have it, packed up with cassette tape recorder, tapes with programs like Visicalc, Flight simulator and others plus books and mags.
Bill
In Training at WTT Classroom

Commadore 64 (updated) is back!

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/artic…ommodore-64-nyt

OH WOW! How cool is that! I saved for years to buy my commodore64, I think I started with my first job at 14 and finally had enough at the age of 16 lol. Dont know if I would buy one now though hmmmmmm. I think it would be more of a gimmick than anything??

OOOOOHH Yeah!! Apple iie with 2 floppy drives [external image: Posted Image]
I was able to copy disk to disk….. and even cut a little square on the opposite side of the disk to make it double sided, or was that the Sperry computers at school I used to do that on.

Hey! Here's a picture of my first "word-processor" (lol!) that I used in 1970.

[external image: Posted Image]

I don't think they had PC's yet when I started out. I worked on the U of Marylands Univac 1108 via a Deckwriter circa 1976:

http://gunkies.org/wiki/DECwriter_II

The graduate students got to work on the PDP 11.

I still remember a bit of poetry hanging in the Deckwriter room. An ode to late night scrambles to meet assignment deadlines:

Late, Late at night
When the Deckwriters write
And the PDP hums its hum
The disks whirl away
In seeming dismay
And the system taps at its drum…