Internet has come a long way since 1981!

[jaotguy]

ahh daughter boards

 

[jerrybob]

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

That's probably worth some money....especially if you have the box!:thumbsup:

 

[bulldogshotgun]

first computer was a Coleco ADAM then Atari, IBM ps/2 in a 286, then 386, then built my first with a midwest micro kit 486 33mhz.
remember buying single sided 5.25 floppies and cutting the notch in the other side because they were cheaper. lol

 

[Soundguy]

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

one of the last commercoial computer repair jobs i worked was a call to install a memory module on a wang mainframe. was a 256k module.. and yeah.. came in a box a wall hanger picture would fit in.

 

[Soundguy]

first computer was a Coleco ADAM then Atari, IBM ps/2 in a 286, then 386, then built my first with a midwest micro kit 486 33mhz.
remember buying single sided 5.25 floppies and cutting the notch in the other side because they were cheaper. lol

yep. we had a 5.25 and 3.5 floppy notcher. neat.

had an eprom burner that ran on a c64. we could burn up to 64k eproms.

back in the days some companies had both 2400 and 9600 modems. the 2400 were cheap and in a small case.. but the board was the same..

you could copy the prom off the higher end model and dupe it to the prom on the sub model and then poof.. it worked.

that ended with 128k proms on larger modems.

 

[TomSeller]

Remember the EEPROMs you could erase with light and re-write?

 

[texasjohn]

Geez....I remember all that stuff....and even go back to punched cards, chads, even paper tape with round holes and punched cards with round holes and 90 columns from Univac. Good times!

But not as fun as sitting on a tractor...apparently some of you might agree, although all those bits and bytes bought the tractors

 

[TomSeller]

How about loading the processor with a tape drive?

 

[Daver1963]

How about loading the processor with a tape drive?

Worked on an in-building phone system both active duty and ANG that used tapes to back-up and reload.

 

[Soundguy]

How about loading the processor with a tape drive?

my timex sinclair used a microcassette recorder as a tape drive. my commie/vic stuff had a cassette drive too.

used plenty of later tape drives for backups and mass file storage in the late 80's and very early 90's