Old computer ads

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http://www.technospot.net/blogs/9-old-computers-ads-you-did-not-see

Takes me back. I remember designing a 2400 bps modem for a hand held computer and adding 6MB of memory to the same system.

My favs:

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1. 16k of RAM... damn. That's enough to let you run ANYTHING.

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2. I remember expanding my roommate's TRS-80

from 16K to the maximum allowable 48K. The Z-80 microprocessor had a 64K address space and 16K of it was reserved for ROM.

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3. We were a bit behind the times, first computer we ever owned was a Tandy 1000.

One of the first ones to just have the 3 1/2 inch disk drive and not the 5 1/4. :) We ended up upgrading the RAM from 640 to I believe 768k, if I recall correctly. And it had a tremendous 40 megabyte harddrive... so big that the version of DOS it came with couldn't handle it. It had to be partitioned into two seperate drives.

I miss that computer. :(

*edit* While looking at old pictures, I'm seeing that both the tl/2 and the sl/2 look like my old one... I don't know which it was for sure. Wikipedia gives some specs but it glosses over the differences between the two for the most part, so I'm not sure which I had.

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4. Chicks with Penrils are one thing. NOTHING beats one of these:

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6. Cutting edge

Here's one from 1983: The Compaq fits under a standard airline seat!

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7. One of my rich friends in college had one of these - - I was so jealous

You had one floppy to boot up, then you had to remove that floppy and load the program you wanted to use, and save any of your work on a third floppy.

As I recall the dang thing had a habit of crashing without saving.

But I thought it was the coolest thing EVER and couldn't imagine ever having a computer of my own. I think I've had eight computers of my own since then...

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5. Old calculator ads

I still have my original college calculator:



And the one I graduated with:



And the one I still use:



"Life is a series of calculators...."