CharlieB
Junior Walker and the Allstars
- Location
- Therivermeadowatthepileofstones
Wot's one of those, then?
the good old days before iPad
- Thread starter ayceejay
- Start date
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Correction...
Computer = the metal cabinet
Drives = drawers
Folders = hanging folders
Documents = documents
I have solid mahogany filing cabinets.None of that cheap tin can rubbish in my office
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
I started with one of these for Christmas in 1983, a 16k Sinclair ZX Spectrum:
It got me into programming and games. Bad idea then!
Oh, and I remember doing the 32kb upgrade which turned it into a massive 48k computer!
It got me into programming and games. Bad idea then!
Oh, and I remember doing the 32kb upgrade which turned it into a massive 48k computer!
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Not for much longer, I have fibre to the box and hopefully full fibre will be along shortly
+1 Fibre optic arrives for me next Tuesday
phil_hg_uk
I am not a member, I am a free man !!!!!!
+1 Fibre optic arrives for me next Tuesday
Fibre is great, I have had mine for just over a year and I now watch nearly all my TV over it as well.
SteCenturion
I am your Father
- Location
- The Dark Side of the Moon.
Oh how I miss those rubber keys.I started with one of these for Christmas in 1983, a 16k Sinclair ZX Spectrum:
It got me into programming and games. Bad idea then!
Oh, and I remember doing the 32kb upgrade which turned it into a massive 48k computer!
Had it's predecessor the ZX 81 - had to hit those keys with a lump hammer.
Never got past Frogger on a tape recorder & the 10 go to 20 - 20 go to 10 thingy either.
Can do more (not much) on a smartphone now.
The times they are a changin'.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Eee by eck that takes me back... what were they? £125.00 ?? I'm still not sure how M&D managed to afford it.I started with one of these for Christmas in 1983, a 16k Sinclair ZX Spectrum:
It got me into programming and games. Bad idea then!
Oh, and I remember doing the 32kb upgrade which turned it into a massive 48k computer!
I loved those rubber keys, although it went through a fair few membranes in the 5 or so years i used it for.
SteCenturion
I am your Father
- Location
- The Dark Side of the Moon.
About that £ yeah - my dad near dropped dead @ the thought of paying for it.
Found it & an Atari games console in Dad's garage after he died - all matted in dust & spiders living in it etc.
Melonfish
Evil Genius in training.
- Location
- Warrington, UK
My first home pc was a toshiba MSX or varient there of. came with a load of games of that toshiba design drawn guy doing various things like chess and whatnot, there was a really good one where you were running around inside the computer dodging angry IC chips etc. 
in the early 90's i got an Amiga 600 (and i now own 4 a500's a 600 and a 1200 and more disks then i know what to do with) anyway an obsession started then
i remember i got an internal hard drive for my 600 about 93/94 it was 150mb and was tiny, about the size of a laptop drive is now, people marvelled at it, some years later when i started work a friend brought in what looked to be a brick, turned out to be a 70mb hard drive he'd dug up, it was about 1 foot across and the same deep.
in the early 90's i got an Amiga 600 (and i now own 4 a500's a 600 and a 1200 and more disks then i know what to do with) anyway an obsession started then
i remember i got an internal hard drive for my 600 about 93/94 it was 150mb and was tiny, about the size of a laptop drive is now, people marvelled at it, some years later when i started work a friend brought in what looked to be a brick, turned out to be a 70mb hard drive he'd dug up, it was about 1 foot across and the same deep.
Kestevan
Last of the Summer Winos
- Location
- Holmfirth.
It's a puncture repair kit......
It was used to repair paper tape. You cut the tape, applied a sticky patch over the torn bit and repunched holes in the patch tape to replace the damaged section. Then you re-spooled the tape and fed it into the reader.... and waited for the next breakage
Most of the data was held on mag tape, but the paper was still in go for some of the older data... Working storage was a bank of 5 40mb 14" disk drives, with removable disk packs, each holding 5 or so platters (they weighed a bloody ton), which were loaded in for each job.
The system filled a very large, secured semi-clean room, staffed by a team of 5 .....The whole room probably held less computing power than my current phone.
Leaway2
Lycrist
- Location
- Manchester (Sale)
It's a puncture repair kit......
It was used to repair paper tape. You cut the tape, applied a sticky patch over the torn bit and repunched holes in the patch tape to replace the damaged section. Then you re-spooled the tape and fed it into the reader.... and waited for the next breakage
Oh yes been there done that. I used a PDP8. To start it, key in 20 or so codes in octal to start the bootstrap loader
Load the paper tape which loaded the operating system.
That paper tape flew through the reader.
