The Funny Pic Thread, Pt. 7

[HoughMade]

Youngsters. All of ya.

My first was a Commodore Vic20. That rights. 20K of RAM, with a 16K expansion module, and a cassette tape "drive". Took an hour to load my favorite game, which meant flipping the cassette after 45 minutes.

And now for the funny pic:

I wasn't talking about my first computer. My first one was a TRS-80 Color Computer with 16k of Ram. Dad later upgraded it to 32k. No hard drive. Programs stored on cassette tape. Tractor feed dot matrix printer.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

My first one was a TRS-80 Color Computer with 16k of Ram.

My computer geek friends called that one the "Trash 80".

 

[HoughMade]

My computer geek friends called that one the "Trash 80".

Indeed- it was between the TRS-80 Coco, Texas Instruments and the Commodore. The advantage to the TRS-80 is that every Radio Shack had games and peripherals for it, though from a technical perspective it may have been the weakest of the 3....not that there was a huge different between them.

 

[RustyHornet]

 

[CPE1704TKS]

Some of us are not that old...We just got started really early. My got my first computer in 1984 (6th Grade). It was an Atari 800 with 48K of RAM and a 5.25in floppy. I still remember getting my first modem in 1986 (300 BAUD) and used it to connect into several BBS, before CompuServe came along.

 

[rhino]

Youngsters. All of ya.

My first was a Commodore Vic20. That rights. 20K of RAM, with a 16K expansion module, and a cassette tape "drive". Took an hour to load my favorite game, which meant flipping the cassette after 45 minutes.

And now for the funny pic:

I wasn't talking about my first computer. My first one was a TRS-80 Color Computer with 16k of Ram. Dad later upgraded it to 32k. No hard drive. Programs stored on cassette tape. Tractor feed dot matrix printer.

You youngsters with your high end electronics gear!

I had a TRS-80 Model III with 16K. The coco and Vic 20 were way ahead of that!

Using the cassette recorder was such a pain that when I wrote a program, I'd just print the code and retype it when I needed it again.

 

[target64]

I started on a Trash 80 64kb with the cassette storage.

 

[rhino]

I started on a Trash 80 64kb with the cassette storage.

64K, huh? Big spender!

 

[target64]

64K, huh? Big spender!

Not mine, they had two of them in the science lab at school.

 

[Dead Duck]

They're playing my favorite game...

 

[rhino]

Not mine, they had two of them in the science lab at school.

Ah!

In 1980, the TRS-80 Model III was about $1000 with 16 K and nothing else. If you added a couple of floppy disk drives and 64K of RAM, you were talking big money!

My physics teacher has a Model I with 48K of ram in the lab.

My high school computer math class had a few Apple IIs by the time I graduated. High tech!

 

[historian]

Some of us are not that old...We just got started really early. My got my first computer in 1984 (6th Grade). It was an Atari 800 with 48K of RAM and a 5.25in floppy. I still remember getting my first modem in 1986 (300 BAUD) and used it to connect into several BBS, before CompuServe came along.

Ummmm...so you got your first computer the year before I was born....

Let me reiterate:

 

[HoughMade]

You youngsters with your high end electronics gear!

I had a TRS-80 Model III with 16K. The coco and Vic 20 were way ahead of that!

Using the cassette recorder was such a pain that when I wrote a program, I'd just print the code and retype it when I needed it again.

Those old TRS-80 Model IIIs were built to last.

In my first law clerk job, the partners at the firm was very proud of its computerized legal research system. It featured a TRS-80 Model III with twin 8 inch (yes, 8 inch, not 3.5, not 5.25) floopy drives. You clearly remember the good old days of booting up the computer from a system disk...and yes the 300 baud moden that you put the telephone handset on.

Mind you, that's what the firm had when I started there....IN 1997. They were so proud.

I didn't have the heart to tell them that my 486, 100 mhz machine that I got when I started law school in 1995 (and was not the fastest then) with its 14.4k modem ran rings around the old Model III. What I did not have, however, was a 32" long daisy wheel printer that did an great impression of an earthquake when it started printing. That's worth something.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

I remember my first TV I had in my first place. We had used it for a monitor with my buddy's computer. I could swear that after that, whenever that TV was showing a blank screen, you could just make out the moving colored diamonds from the game we played. That lasted for years after on the TV.

 

[Bill of Rights]

Anybody remember (without googling!) what the commands "PR#1" and "PR#6" did? Intentionally not giving context here. If you remember, you won't need it.

 

[actaeon277]

Pong

 

[Doug]

In an attempt to get us back on track...



As far as the trip down memory lane...

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Couldn't find the full GIF, so here's the video. I think it was a promo for one of the newer Planet of the Apes movies. A lot of people saw this afterward and thought it was real.

[video=youtube;74-WSM0xTyE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74-WSM0xTyE[/video]

 

[Dr.Midnight]

 

[Dr.Midnight]