Throwback Photo: A Blast From The Past

[Ivan Seeking]

While digging around through my old funny pic files, I came upon this:
http://img106.echo.cx/img106/57/tandy19896je.jpg

I thought that you all might appreciate the humor.

 

[Math Is Hard]

This is great, Ivan. I am going to share this with my co-workers. They'll love it!

 

[robphy]

That was funny.
Check out this IBM portable:
http://oldcomputers.net/ibm5100.html
This one has a handle:
http://oldcomputers.net/ibm5155.html

http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.html

Supposedly, the first laptop
http://oldcomputers.net/hx-20.html

 

[Janus]

Okay, here's a blast from my past. This is the first computer I used.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=950

 

[Math Is Hard]

Videotel

I used to "surf the net" in 1989 on one of these:

There's a little movie about the short-lived Videotel phenomenon at this site:

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/movies/digibarn-tv/minitel.html

I didn't realize this was just the French Minitel technology that they were hoping Americans would warm up to. Anyway, I happened to be in one of their test markets (Houston) when these first came out.

 

[brewnog]

Not as good as some of yours (I love Janus' entry!), but I first used one of these bad boys back in 1989. I just love the row of red F keys across the top, a true 1980s design classic.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Okay, here's a blast from my past. This is the first computer I used.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=950

Hey, I had an earlier version of that!
http://img106.echo.cx/img106/7614/hp11di.jpg

 

[Yank]

16 MB capacity.

 

[Danger]

16 MB capacity.

If you thought that was funny, http://oldcomputers.net/ads/80s/atari.jpg was my first. It eventually died and I replaced it with an 800XL, which I still have.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Same here, except I had the 400.
http://oldcomputers.net/atari400.html

Although I did work with the...was it... the 8080A, and I think the Z80 microprocessor in a home made computer, in high school.

 

[robphy]

This was the first computer that I used http://oldcomputers.net/trs80i.html
... and I used to love that Star Trek game on that screen.
Play it here: http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/level1/entry6.html
From the same site, here's http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/level1/simulator.html , a TRS-80 BASIC emulator.

A few years later my dad bought this http://oldcomputers.net/trs80iii.html .