1988 vs. 2008: A Tech Retrospective

[sazhig]

http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,142550/printable.html

An interesting look at how technology has changed in the last 20 years....although I feel rather old now as I remember when computers looked far worse than this one

[Don Hathor]

Dad was always surrounded by computers as long as I can remember, and they were huge things!! When you had to have a tape deck attached to load stuff in? And BBC micros, what were they meant to teach anyone?

And printers had hammers like like a manic typewriter

val xx
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[sajona]

[sajona]

oh and having to go to a special place in London to send a fax!
When we finally got a fax machine we all stood there amazed as we received our first one.
Caroline
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[sazhig]

[Islander]

I had a job as a telex operator in the mid 80s. I used to type the text into an electric typewriter with a wee box attached to it's side. The wee box converted my typing into miles and miles of punched paper tape which I then fed into the telex machine. I had to type lists of diesel part numbers and telex them to Detroit - all day.

The telex machine itself was the size of a large roll-top desk.

Probably the most boring job in the world and I can only thank the other women in the office for being the nastiest bunch of bitchy harridans and causing me to walk out in disgust after about a month and go back to school to sit my exams. Otherwise I might have stuck the job - blimey - I'd maybe still be there yet.

D x

[Kia Kaha]

[Don Hathor]

Dh has the Atari grandstand with Pong

val xx
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[Don Rodders]

I used to work on the systems programming and comms side of the big old mainframes (IBM, AMDAHL, ICL) - what took a whole massive room to house now sits neatly on one's lap

I remember seeing my first moving photographic picture on a terminal - a butterly. We all stood around gobsmacked!!!

We had BBCs at school, but I never really got very 'hands on' with them...my first PC that I was let loose on was an Apricot 286; great stuff! (Loving MS DOS...)

Was never really into games though...I now feel I missed out of a formative part of my youth!

luv R xxx

[almond]

In our hall, used as a dumping ground for gloves and hats, is a brown and beige computer from about 1988. The monitor for it is in the loft. It used huge floppy discs (5 inches?) and dh rescued it when Manchester University were upgrading.
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[Flopsybunny]

In our time we've had a 48k Spectrum, an Atari ST1040 and a whole museum of Apple Macs.

We (the business) currently has a 24 inch iMac

http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore.woa/wa/RSLID?nnmm=browse&mco=7B72369E&node=home/shop_mac/family/imac

and a 15 inch MacBookPro.

http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore.woa/wa/RSLID?nnmm=browse&mco=3587D03A&node=home/shop_mac/family/macbook_pro

DD1 has our old iBook but she's desperate for a MacBook Air. (In her dreams.)

http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore.woa/wa/RSLID?nnmm=browse&mco=916FC35&node=home/shop_mac/family/macbook_air

I remember using the most god awful BBC Micros with tape decks at school. (The school doesn't seem to have moved on much since then.)

[littlepurplegoth]

[Dun Lactating]

I had a ZX Spectrum plus in 1985. I thought it was the bees knees !
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[figgy]

mum still has our zx spectrum in her loft, complete with all the games. we used to copy them from a friend (who had more money than us!) my sister spent hours copying out the colour card thingy for jet set willy!

[Jeni]

i never managed to complete grannys garden at school, you dont have that do you saz???

i remember the first computer my mum and dad bought, a texas ti994a. some1 then spilt coffee on it and it never worked afterwards lol, i used to have to play parsec on my grandads!

we also had numerous ataris, started off with the 800xl and tape recorder, soon bought a disk drive, then another so we didnt have to keep swapping disks for alternate reality and other games i cant remeber the name of. it also made it easier to copy them lol.

after that we had a 520st, again, mostly copied games apart from a few, the main 1 i remember being dungeon master.

anyone remember a game called superfrog for the amiga?
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