Bringing My Amiga 500 Computer Out of Mothballs
73Dart273, few of us would appreciate that pic. I cut my teeth on an IBM 5120 that my dad saved from the can at his work. It was used to do their payroll and run their embroidery machine!
Those are 8" floppies there. bigger than a '45 record. It was so weak at processing that the screen would flash on and off when it was doing something, not a flicker but a 1hz flash. IT weighed about 50 lbs. and came with a dot matrix printer and a SCSI terminator block on the back that Dad had to go back to look for as the thing wouldn't work without this big block plugged into the back! It didnt even have a BASIC option so parents got me a 16bit Z8000 based "graphics computer" with a terrible chicklet keyboard but it came with the data-corder. As pointed out, it was a crap shoot to see if your program/picture would 'record' properly onto a cassette! Next class I took was using Apple IIc's with 5.25 floppies and a real 20MB hard drive that booted right into DOS or whatever Apple used that day. I paid $99 for the 256k memory module in the first IBM like 8086 (with its 8087 math co-processor chip!) PC I built. I got a screamin' deal on an AM386-40DX at a computer show so I had to build another one. I dont even use a desktop PC anymore, just this 17" HP G7 laptop. My 5 year old has taken over the desktop watching youtube videos of a kid named Ryan who's already worth 20M with his channels and his line of toys and clothes. Not bad for an 8 year old and his 2 parents.
73Dart273, few of us would appreciate that pic. I cut my teeth on an IBM 5120 that my dad saved from the can at his work. It was used to do their payroll and run their embroidery machine!
Those are 8" floppies there. bigger than a '45 record. It was so weak at processing that the screen would flash on and off when it was doing something, not a flicker but a 1hz flash. IT weighed about 50 lbs. and came with a dot matrix printer and a SCSI terminator block on the back that Dad had to go back to look for as the thing wouldn't work without this big block plugged into the back! It didnt even have a BASIC option so parents got me a 16bit Z8000 based "graphics computer" with a terrible chicklet keyboard but it came with the data-corder. As pointed out, it was a crap shoot to see if your program/picture would 'record' properly onto a cassette! Next class I took was using Apple IIc's with 5.25 floppies and a real 20MB hard drive that booted right into DOS or whatever Apple used that day. I paid $99 for the 256k memory module in the first IBM like 8086 (with its 8087 math co-processor chip!) PC I built. I got a screamin' deal on an AM386-40DX at a computer show so I had to build another one. I dont even use a desktop PC anymore, just this 17" HP G7 laptop. My 5 year old has taken over the desktop watching youtube videos of a kid named Ryan who's already worth 20M with his channels and his line of toys and clothes. Not bad for an 8 year old and his 2 parents.
