Chris
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Post by Chris on Jun 17, 2021 18:22:31 GMT
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Post by cats4jan on Jun 17, 2021 19:16:06 GMT
So interesting TFS
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jun 18, 2021 4:33:30 GMT
Thanks Chris . So neat! A tad difficult to carry in your pocket! Moore's Law stuff, eh? Amazing progress. My first external hard drive weighed about 3 kg and half the size of a shoe box. Cost about $400 as I recall. That was in 1984. One of these (below) but only 10 MB. Today, I'd need five to store one RAW image.  I was some cool dude back then!  Dot matrix printer. Scripsit ROM pack word processor that plugged into the CoCo2 computer. 14-inch color TV monitor. I was writing magazine articles back then and thought I had died and gone to heaven! This was seriously cool stuff. Pre internet.  |
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Post by hmca on Jun 18, 2021 13:39:40 GMT
Nice follow-up post, Clive!
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 22, 2021 6:29:59 GMT
It is hard to imagine personal computers without any Internet; how would one even learn of all the goodies they might need or troubleshoot their machine ? On a similar note, the railroads were using Barcodes long before anyone else knew what a Barcode was; they had Barcodes on every freight car and readers in all the big yards; of course, their Barcodes were as big as road signs. I can remember cereal boxes having Barcodes long before they were common on anything else. |
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Post by cats4jan on Jun 22, 2021 8:33:02 GMT
1982 IBM - two 5.25 floppy drives. You loaded DOS from a disk, took that disk out, then loaded Word Perfect. The second drive was for storing the files. I used to get a new computer every 3 years. $3,500 a pop. Dot Matrix printer, until I got my first Laser printer in 1990. As a secretary, I thought I had gone to heaven. No more erasing on 5 carbon copies. No more throwing out your work and starting over. I stuck with Word Perfect until I saw the writing on the wall and realized Gates owned the world. Don’t remember when we got our first dial up. Remember my son signing me up for AOL - maybe 1997. Probably that was when we got internet - AOL as the provider?? cats4vball morphed into cats4jan. (He was a volleyball player, we had cats) When I moved on to graphics -- another “heaven” moment. Eventually used my new found skills to make greeting cards - made 30 individual Christmas cards the year I found graphics designers. Was all about greeting cards until I found PSE4 and PE2 bundled at Sams. 2005? Struggled with PSE 4 - it was nothing like Digital Image Pro. A book, Digital Scrapbooking in Easy Steps, taught me scrapbooking and PSE 4 simultaneously.  Don’t get me started on digital cameras.
And now - a phone that does it all. |
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Dot matrix printer. Scripsit ROM pack word processor that plugged into the CoCo2 computer. 14-inch color TV monitor. I was writing magazine articles back then and thought I had died and gone to heaven! This was seriously cool stuff. Pre internet. 
