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Post by Robin van Bergkamp on Aug 1, 2012 12:12:56 GMT
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Post by thehothead on Aug 1, 2012 20:13:46 GMT
Legendary !!! Amazing computer. Favourite games ... BMX Simulator .... Bruce Lee ... Summer Games (or was it called California Games ?)  |
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Post by Robin van Bergkamp on Aug 3, 2012 0:26:35 GMT
A firm of accountants I was an associate of back in the 80s were one of the first small firms to have a networking computer system. Our main office was not huge but larger than the one on the south coast. There were only 6 of us on board and three computers were linked together in the network and we usually gave our schedule of entries to an operator who keyed in the data for us. The main unit which was in his room had a gargantuan memory of, wait for this ....... 40 MB Yes, that's forty megabytes!!!!!  The 3 computers cost us around £11K if I recall correctly. A cheap PAYG cellphone has more memory than that. |
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Post by Bergkamp a Dutch master on Aug 4, 2012 15:55:41 GMT
what about the early COMPAQ 'laptops (suitcases) lugables - - cost about £6500 - about 1988?
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Post by thehothead on Aug 4, 2012 19:44:52 GMT
Bloody hell fire !! I remember them. I remember a Toshiba laptop that was like a bloody briefcase .. which had 45 mins battery life.
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Post by Bergkamp a Dutch master on Aug 4, 2012 19:47:57 GMT
some people thought that Tosh was the bees knees .... ;D
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Post by Robin van Bergkamp on Aug 5, 2012 22:07:18 GMT
what about the early COMPAQ 'laptops (suitcases) lugables - - cost about £6500 - about 1988? Yes the early generation portables were crazy money and to think that money then had a greater value than it does now!!! And I'll bet most of us balk at some of the prizes of the notebooks these days. Yet compared to the pioneering generation, their asking price must look like items from the special offer department. |
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Post by Jayramfootball on Aug 5, 2012 22:09:36 GMT
Legendary !!! Amazing computer. Favourite games ... BMX Simulator .... Bruce Lee ... Summer Games (or was it called California Games ?) I think it was Summer Games- remember days just blurring into each other playing that. Damn I can almost feel the pain in my thumbs and fingers ;D |
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Post by Robin van Bergkamp on Aug 5, 2012 22:15:41 GMT
I recall those awful screens of the early machines.
Ho Ho Ho even in 1998 ( coincidentally our first EPL title with Mr Wenger ), my top of the range Dell built-to-order notebook was a staggeringly-fast 400 MhZ. For the money I paid for it I would have a neat pile of change from the best of today's offerings!!!
RAM was 96K...... ;D
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Post by Jayramfootball on Aug 5, 2012 22:18:45 GMT
I recall those awful screens of the early machines. Ho Ho Ho even in 1998 ( coincidentally our first EPL title with Mr Wenger ), my top of the range Dell built-to-order notebook was a staggeringly-fast 400 MhZ. For the money I paid for it I would have a neat pile of change from the best of today's offerings!!! RAM was 96K...... ;D ZX Spectrum anyone? Atari tennis game with the simple dots and sliders? ;D |
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Post by Bergkamp a Dutch master on Aug 6, 2012 6:37:44 GMT
ZX81 - still got one.
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Post by Robin van Bergkamp on Aug 6, 2012 23:51:03 GMT
Anyone remember the Sinclair Executive calculator seen here with Sir Clive.  No self-respecting exec would be seen dead without one ;D £85 it was back in '73/74 I think. £85 could buy a lot then and probably around 20 calculators today!!! I seem to recall a Mini was around £500 back then. You could buy a house for 5K in 1974!! Now it'll cost 30K for a garage in Richmond.... |
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Post by Jayramfootball on Aug 7, 2012 0:25:00 GMT
...not a very big garage in Richmond...
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Post by thehothead on Aug 7, 2012 10:29:43 GMT
Daley Thompson's Decathlon .. what a bastard of a game, a joystick wiggling arm killer. When you got to the final event .. the 1500m, biaaaatch !!! Blisters on my hand and shit. didn't help using the original Atari joystick with the single red button, that joystick was nearly indestructible. I remember working on an IBM PC, the original, back in the 80s, (8088 processor) then the IBM AT that had a 16 bit processor (80286). On the course I was on we got some new Compaqs, (80386 sx processor). Our reference to how fast it was was to do a DIR command and see how quick the list flew up the screen .... good times |
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Post by Robin van Bergkamp on Aug 7, 2012 11:38:43 GMT
...not a very big garage in Richmond... Sadly, no  |
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