You aint gonna believe this here sheet

[never_retreat]

You aint gonna believe this here sheet.
http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_TronVideo.aspx
I never had one but I think I want one.

[Monkeyleg]

Funny. I had one of those. My late mother (would have been 93 last month) used a Commodore 64 to print mailing labels for her women's club up until just a couple of years ago.

I'm glad she could use it, as I never found anything particularly useful about it.

[never_retreat]

This first functional computer I had was a Tandy something or other with a 8086 chip.
I remember other various piles of hardware my dad had drug home and hooked up, He did field service for Digital back when computers were repairable.
I also remember some of the crap dimming the lights in the neighborhood when fired up. That was back when computers did not have plugs and were hard wired.

[bedlamite]

A friend of mine still has an original working C64 set up in his basement.

[Jamisjockey]

Anyone else remember saying "wow!" when 386's were trumped by 486's?

[slugcatcher]

I think I still have my C64 up in the attic.

[French G.]

Anyone else remember saying "wow!" when 386's were trumped by 486's?

I was never a computer geek much to my parent's dismay since they thought I was smart, but I remember when a 286 was the tits. My first box was a Kaypro. I actually did school reports on it when I wasn't playing space invaders. Green CRT screen, two 5.whatever floppy drives. One of them would act up, make noise and not read, I'd just whack the top of the metal case with a solid object and it would commence to reading. I remember the 3.5 floppy as state of the art.

[AZRedhawk44]

Anyone else remember saying "wow!" when 386's were trumped by 486's?

I had a friend in junior high who's dad was an engineer for Digital back when Digital was teh awesome.  He had 486 DX prototypes at home when the 386's were the latest and greatest.  We played MechWarrior and Falcon3.0 on those prototypes on the weekends.  I learned DOS driver configuration and BAT scripting on those computers.

That was back in 7th/8th grade.

5 years later I bought a used 286 for word processing needs in high school.  The first Pentiums were just coming out and the 486 DX2/DX4 processors were the defacto cool-guy standard.

I ended up with a 486DX4-120mhz system my freshman year when I went away to college, and I think the latest and greatest $2000 computer at that time was a Pentium MMX 133mhz system.  I was jazzed because my 486 system had PCI slots and I could run a Voodoo 3D card in it to play Quake in the dorms.

[TechMan]

This first functional computer I had was a Tandy something or other with a 8086 chip.
I remember other various piles of hardware my dad had drug home and hooked up, He did field service for Digital back when computers were repairable.
I also remember some of the crap dimming the lights in the neighborhood when fired up. That was back when computers did not have plugs and were hard wired.

Tandy Radio Shack (TRS) - 80 ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80

[Azrael256]

The Trash-80 was a Z80 processor.

If it was a Tandy 8086, it was one of their 1000-series machines.

[Perd Hapley]

http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=29150.0

He had 486 DX prototypes at home when the 386's were the latest and greatest.  

Were those the type with a math coprocessor?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos

[Brad Johnson]

TRS-DOS for teh win! (with dual 8" floppy drives, thankyouverymuch).

Brad

[Scout26]

I had Commodore, I think it was a C128 that I used to play games on.

I had a Kaypro that I used to write reports/forms on when I was a LT in the Army.  I was the shiz because of it.

When I worked in the Baumholder Provost Marshals office, I managed to get the Zenith computers networked to a SUN Microsystems server and MP reports we able to be passed from the desk to the clerk/typists for finalization, passed to the PM for signature and then to the necessary section, Investigations, CID, Traffic, Physical Security, etc.  I also managed to get it to send the blotter and SIR's to HQ, V Corps and USAREUR each night. 

We were the only station that managed to make it work.  That was the last time I really put my Computer Information Systems degree to work.

[RocketMan]

Anyone else remember saying "wow!" when 386's were trumped by 486's?

I still remember saying "wow!" when the 8088 trumped the Z80.  Sigh...

[lee n. field]

http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=29150.0

Were those the type with a math coprocessor?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos

Nope.  My recollection is that the math chip (80387) was separate.  It was integrated in the 486, unless you had a "486sx", in which case you had to buy an extra IC.  (The difference between the 486 and 486sx was quite different than between the 386 and 386sx.)

[Hawkmoon]

I remember one year my (now) ex-wife gave me a Commodore Vic 20 for Christmas.

Totally useless.

[never_retreat]

So Let me see if I can remember my computer history.
That Tandy thingy
A 286 something or other
A 386 something or other
A 486 33mhz w/ math co processor chip, 110 mb hd, and 16 megs of ram. <-- This thing was complements of digital. Kids in high school bowed before it opulence. I think this was 1994 I believe.
A 486 66mhz, first one that was MINE
A 486 100mhz I think this was the first one with a cd drive
A P1 66mhz
A P2 233 mhz
A P3 133 mhz

Plus a few more in recent history, funny I don't remember the more current ones.

[birdman]

This first functional computer I had was a Tandy something or other with a 8086 chip.
I remember other various piles of hardware my dad had drug home and hooked up, He did field service for Digital back when computers were repairable.
I also remember some of the crap dimming the lights in the neighborhood when fired up. That was back when computers did not have plugs and were hard wired.

My dad had the same job!  Both he and my mom left in the big layoffs in 90/91.

[never_retreat]

My dad had the same job!  Both he and my mom left in the big layoffs in 90/91.

My father made in into the 2000's I believe. He has a friend he worked with all those years that just got axed over the summer. Talk about going down with the ship. I don't even know it they still used the same company name to this day.

[birdman]

My father made in into the 2000's I believe. He has a friend he worked with all those years that just got axed over the summer. Talk about going down with the ship. I don't even know it they still used the same company name to this day.

Yeah, for federal systems.  When compaq bought dec, they kept the dec name for the Feds, for a few reasons, but l thought it went away after HP bought them.  Hmm.

[never_retreat]

I just read the wiki article about digital. It jogged my memory of another couple of computers I had.
An alpha workstation.
And unrelated to the article a Sun Sparc workstation.

Also the modems
300 baud
1200 baud
2400 baud
4800 baud
9600 baud
14.4 baud
19.2 baud
33.6 baud
56 baud

[birdman]

Alpha's were the bomb when they came out, we had one in the lab at school, it flew.

Weird ones I've had:
Next station (pizza box, not cube)
SGI oxygen
SGI octane

My first experience with any computer was dialup terminal access using a one-piece VT220 dumb terminal to the vax at my dad's office...talk about old-school

I just read the wiki article about digital. It jogged my memory of another couple of computers I had.
An alpha workstation.
And unrelated to the article a Sun Sparc workstation.

Also the modems
300 baud
1200 baud
2400 baud
4800 baud
9600 baud
14.4 baud
19.2 baud
33.6 baud
56 baud

[never_retreat]

Yep forgot about the dumb terminal, but it was dialing into al gores new Internet.

[birdman]

Yep forgot about the dumb terminal, but it was dialing into al gores new Internet.

Ooh! ASCII text online games!  Oh, memories....

[never_retreat]

My friend claims he still has a disk with our bulletin board on we ran back in 96-99. At one point we were up to 3 nodes. 
We will have to try and run that some day. Worth a laugh at least.