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Post by lib on Mar 3, 2011 21:29:28 GMT 1
Today I was 'forced' to start to spring clean ie clear out and throw out junk from a shippon. Amongst lots of stuff found two manky bags with two computers inside.
Anyone remember these?
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Post by lib on Mar 3, 2011 21:31:18 GMT 1
This was not the first "laptop" I had; that was a Compaq 'luggable' with a clip off Screen
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Post by lib on Mar 3, 2011 21:32:54 GMT 1
Rare Amstrad for its time, had a hard drive instead of two floppies.
A massive 10mb
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Post by lib on Mar 3, 2011 21:37:01 GMT 1
Had to be strong to carry this one about.
The slots are not speakers, just big cooling slots.
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Post by lib on Mar 3, 2011 21:38:31 GMT 1
Ready to open, need a big desk.
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Post by lib on Mar 3, 2011 21:40:05 GMT 1
All that for a little screen, and it was orange text. No graphics.
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Post by lib on Mar 3, 2011 21:42:49 GMT 1
For real nostalgia, remember when F Keys really had a Function.
When Word Perfect ruled, and Lotus Symphony were trying hard.
MS Office a while off.....
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Post by Ali on Mar 3, 2011 23:50:05 GMT 1
OMG you were posh!!!! At college we learned (as an option called 'data processing') on 'micros' with black and green screens, all programming was in basic - I still have a version of a calculation prog that I wrote in the early 80's for calculating the profitability on selling baked potatoes! - the Internet was unheard of then and certainly in school previously our best gadget was a calculator made by Texet (or something like that) and a digital watch that played 'Yellow Rose of Texas' Also did RSA I & II touch-typing at that time on old typewriters - something like this: mrtypewriter.tripod.com/IMAGES/OLYMPIAS/olympiasm9french/325sm9french1.jpg[/img]I still type with several fingers bugger when using fli's notbook tho coz the keypad is so compact I miss the proper letters coz 1/2 the time am not watching the keys! The first home PC I think I came across was a Commodore, I remember a friend had the comm 64 version which was very posh! I'd got a very basic version of the Comm 64 and can't think for the life of me what it was........ I also remember going to Telford Retail Park one day and buying an Amstrad 9512 package with printer! (dot matrix) This was somewhere in the middle/late 80's I guess. Didn't read the instructions properly and was supposed to have plugged in the printer before switching on and blew it up - back to Telford saying it was a dud and exchanged. I recall working for Hammerite as a Sales Rep at the time in the late 80s and I was one of the first to use a PC for work at home!!! It so impressed my boss at the time that he went and got one too. Couldn't have been much later than that when I remember Windows 2.1, and then 3 and then 3.1 I think and in those days it was still very much back to basics with autoexec.bat and config.sys, paths n stuff. I broke and mended so much then that I guess some of the basics and logical elements have stuck with me still today. We then moved down to the New Forest mid 1990's and by that time I was connected by dial-up to the Internet!!! This was with AOL at the time. I'll never forget suddenly seeing www dots on TV and screaming to Fli - looooook its a www dot !! In 1997 I wrote my first web site But that was the days of 800 x 600 screen resolutions ! Yikes/yack!!! In 1998 I wrote a web site that is still going strong today.......... OMG lib you certainly have brought back memories. Thank you so much and sorry for going on a lot but I got all excited
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Post by danceswithruskies on Mar 4, 2011 7:22:38 GMT 1
oh --my--playing the old tennis with the adjustable paddles --fantastic fun-- and then the first real games --hahah--had to buy a tape recorder with adjustable speed control cos the cassette tapes used to stretch a bit from over use --especially the space game Elite- And humming and harring about could we afford to upgrade from the 500 to the 1000 --does seem like half a lifetime ago --
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Post by lib on Mar 4, 2011 17:36:45 GMT 1
Just out of interest this is the blurb that Toshiba sold the T3200 on. I think it was about £3000 in 1987
Toshiba knows that in the PC world bigger isn't always better. And Toshiba proves it again with the Toshiba T3200. The Spacesaver. A fast portable with expansion slots. Full size keyboard. Separate numeric keypad. Mobility.
Power. Capacity. Speed. Full size desktop function in an elegant and compact package. And speed has never looked so beautiful. Inside the portable T3200 is a powerful, fast, and expandable full function computer. Not only a high speed 12 MHz 80286 microprocessor but also a fast 40 MB hard disk. And EGA graphics as standard. A high resolution variable contrast gas plasma display and optional memory expansion to 4 Megabytes - without using a slot. The full size keyboard has a separate numeric keypad. Two expansion slots are standard. Fit a network card. A bus mouse. Mainframe communications. Graphics processor. Or a modem. Or any other expansion board from a wide range. And the complete computer can always be folded and locked away to provide the complete security that desktops lack.
The Toshiba T3200. The Spacesaver. Another wonder from Toshiba.
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