Internet has come a long way since 1981!

[Baby Grand]

He should of used The Cone of Silence!
Get Smart - Cone of Silence (from episode 1) - YouTube

 

[TomSeller]

He should of used The Cone of Silence!
Get Smart - Cone of Silence (from episode 1) - YouTube

Glad they raised the cone of silence or it would have been awfully smoky in there. That is another thing that has changed, smoking in the office.

 

[Daver1963]

Sure has come a long way. When I got my first taste of working on computers they were quite advanced:
8" floppies with 128kB of storage
Hard drives that fit in 19" racks and used a special alignment tool - the hooked clothes hanger
Dual VGA monitors (had to use a X10 probe to measure the 14kVolts on the anode of the tube)
3ft wide Keyboards with 60 special function buttons that lit up when activated (because every one had it's own individual lamp)
A 3ft card cage to hold the power supply and stuff that today would make up the motherboard.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Not sure when the Internet became mainstream. I remember Bush Jr. talking about the information highway, and thought he was just babling on as usual! Next thing, it was here, amazing!

Remember when Computer **** was a picture printed on a dot matrix tractor feed printer in ASCII charactors? Actually, I used an ASR 33 teletype machine and acoustic modem operating at 110 baud for that purpose. Loved that hot oil smell!

 

[Soundguy]

remember the very early email addresses? huge... or the usenet. )

 

[TomSeller]

This one must have been before women had much say.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4i-5BfwnvY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[TomSeller]

And here is one visionary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsR8-RTEaqw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[Soundguy]

remebr 'bang paths'

 

[/pine]

remember the very early email addresses? huge... or the usenet. )

USENET is not dead...still lots of die-hards that don't care for a sexy interface (and they know how to make their own smiley faces ;-)...!)

ANSI lives too...!

 

[houstonscott]

I remember AOL, when I got on there were 60,000 on line. There was a button labeled, internet coming soon. HS

 

[caver]

I got online around 96 because I was tired of going to the library to use their interwebs. A couple of years later an older co-worker said it was just a fad.
Myself and another co-worker had a good laugh over that one when he wasn't around. I remember watching a movie were Sandra Bullock orders a pizza online. I though, that's just stupid. Well, I've ordered pizza online since then and it's handy.

 

[jerrybob]

The ole Commodor 64......now there was a beauty!!

 

[Midniteoyl]

And here is one visionary

Australian scientist predicts the impact of the internet ABC - YouTube

That guy was super close.. pretty much right on.

 

[Gunny]

The ole Commodor 64......now there was a beauty!!

Want to buy one? I've still got my old Commodore 64 (with the box) and the data drive that used cassette tapes. For some reason I just couldn't throw it away, so it sits in a corner of the attic

 

[Soundguy]

i probably have a vic 20, and a c64 with a few mods to get it clocked up, a fan, a reset button ( due to overclocking, stereo SID chips ( quite easy mod ), rs232 serial pack with data set, cassette drive, 2 1541 and 2 sd1001 drives.

ran a bbs on it back in the day.

also back then had a timex sinclair

remember having an old sperry with a monochrome green screen. we had a serial network in the office.

have an old machine int he garage that still runs CPM...

 

[houstonscott]

I have an Apple 512e, that I keep for nostalgia. Still works. Lol. HS

 

[Trails End]

I got my start in home computing with an Imsai 8080 (2 Mhz); upgraded to a Z80 (4 Mhz). It had
two 5 1/4" floppy drives and an msdos operating system. I still have it sitting on a shelf down in
the cellar! It used the S-100 bus!

 

[Soundguy]

mine was zilog.. which made z80




i remember have an old nec and a tandy laptop. tandy laptop have an 8088 in it and i upgraded it to a v20 the nec ironically had an 8086 in it which i upgraded to a v30

I had an olt tandy 1000 too.. the xt.. and grabed an upgrade daughter card that gave it a 286 processor on an 8 bit card using one of the cardslots. we joked and called it a 286 xt ( vs at )

reminds me of all the various overdrive processors and such.

I had a 286-12.5 ( panasonic? emerson? - some consumer electronics co ) , and I got a 486-25 adapter card for it. same deal as the tandy.. but at least with a 16b bus.

remember the slc / dlc processors. basically a 386 proc with a 486 reduced instruction set.

then you had the early on board multi function chipsets that had onbord video and audo and proc. nothing socketed. all surface mount.

cheap way to get a pc. board cost 1/3 of any other 486 md and proc.. even a sx33.. AND had video.. and you couple populate it with 8 megs ram.


wow.. nostalgia.

remmember before simms.. you had sipps with those horrible legs.. I preferred drams to sipps.

remember dip 16 300ns memory. ACK! fast page mode even. ;0

 

[Midniteoyl]

Co-processors..

 

[TomSeller]

I recall 1K memory boards in industrial computers that were about 9" x 12"