dawson Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Funny song about lots of things from that era: >http://youtu.be/HeEWtNaW6KE Jd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 What about children of the 50's and 60's then?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catman161 Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 When? ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Watch it Felix! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest devil74 Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Yeah this before J...absolutely brill. Tames me back to days when i had a Commodre 64. That stupid buzzing noise it used to make while the tape was loading and then it got to the end and it had failed to load the game...grrrrrrr . I just googled the C64...released en mass in 1982 and were $595 (and with only 64k RAM)...how mad is that!!! Ahhhhh the good old days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kheldar Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Yeah this before J...absolutely brill. Tames me back to days when i had a Commodre 64. That stupid buzzing noise it used to make while the tape was loading and then it got to the end and it had failed to load the game...grrrrrrr . I just googled the C64...released en mass in 1982 and were $595 (and with only 64k RAM)...how mad is that!!! Ahhhhh the good old days. 64K? Luxury!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Could be worse Damian, I had a Vic 20 !! 4k RAM, cost me £35 for another 4Kb RAM pack!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawson Posted February 6, 2014 Author Share Posted February 6, 2014 BBC Model B for me. 32k I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peepshow Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 What about children of the 50's and 60's then?? What about children of the 30's ??????.......... .......Horse and carts. Slates to write on in school. Wireless. No TV. Tin toys. No Supermarkets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catman161 Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 I had a Commodore 64 and I'm not that old! My favourite game was called "street beat" where your character walked around the street with a boom box on his shoulder and you had to direct the musical notes to hit people so thy started dancing. Your aim was to get from one end of the street without bumping into "jumping Jack flash" who shorted your boom box out! I still remember the tube the boom box played! Ha ha! Memories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Graham Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 (edited) I still have my Commodore 64 + 4 Was supposed to be the business version. Edited February 6, 2014 by Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red dwalf Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 (edited) i had the Dragon 32, played asteroids on it for hours Edited February 6, 2014 by red dwalf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brantuk Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 I had the Texas Instruments one - can't remember the model - but it was the first one with a proper keyboard - about the size of a net book keyboard nowadays - but no screen so it had to plug in the tv. I landed a summer job selling them in Dixons when I was at college - students were the only ones who knew anything about computers in those days (and 7yr old kids ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toymaster Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 What about children of the 30's ??????.................Horse and carts. Slates to write on in school. Wireless. No TV. Tin toys. No Supermarkets. Don't forget the 40s and 50s life was much simpler - Wish I still had my 0 gauge clockwork train. ( no batteries to worry about ) Ah and the Proper Meccano - my first engineering projects. Had mains voltage motor with a slightly frayed cable showing the red and black rubber? Food came from the grocers around the corner. A treat was a bottle of lemonade and some crisps with the salt in little blue twists that you had to search for... First computer was a Sinclair Spectrum in the 70s when I was married and then I was hooked and became a Techno Geek. Ade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kheldar Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 ZX81 for me, where it all started to go wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 (edited) this was the first non play computer I had http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/photos/Compaq_Portable386_Running_s1.jpg the play one was a bbc portable but weighed a ton Edited February 6, 2014 by Sheila Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xanthic Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 My first proper computer was a Speccy. Also what probably lead me down the slippery slope into IT It's funny how we've all used computers as a focus point for the time, though given the effect on our lives, perhaps not. Being born in the 70's, our generation was the last to not have a processor somewhere in our daily lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toymaster Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 this was the first non play computer I had http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/photos/Compaq_Portable386_Running_s1.jpg the play one was a bbc portable but weighed a ton Sheila, Photo is of a Compaq luggable (almost) - My first company potable when I was in systems - could actually take it to other sites and home - the slippery slope to IT management.... Microsoft Windows 3.1 if my memory is correct. We did use BBC micros and Comadore 64s mainly in the Laboratories for analytical work. Humm.. flash from the past Adrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stash Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 (edited) My first computer (not mine Hawker S really ) was a Leo made by Lyons (tea cakes- true) had no disks - hand wired boards & Hollerith cards (advanced) and about 8K of memory made of ferrite core rings about the size of a wardrobe and that was just for the memory! Then we "Upgraded" and had tape decks,5mb disk,paper tape i/o - all in room about the size of a bungalow( 2bed) - Never cold even in the coldest of winters - When UK had leading edge tech http://www.leo-computers.org.uk/leo3-photos.html# Edited February 6, 2014 by stash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 ZX81, Spectrum and then the incredible Amstrad 1640 with GEM desktop graphical file manager! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 My school had a quarter share in a PDP 8e with 4K of memory and we had to load programs with paper tape. That was in 1970. In many ways life is better today with 24 hr TV and the internet, both useful on cloudy nights. On the other hand, if you had a degree you could get a "proper" job within a year of leaving and most of us had jobs lined up before we graduated. There was mass unemployment but (fortunately for me) it didn't affect jobs in computer and technology fields, like today. There's less sense of community these days, as people didn't tend to migrate far from where they grew up. Also (TBH both plusses and minuses) the generation between mine and my parents discovered both sexual liberation and divorce. I think each age and each generation has its own rewards and challenges. My dad remembered people queueing up at a workplace on Mondays to see if anyone had been sacked on the Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brantuk Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 My first computer (not mine Hawker S really ) was a Leo made by Lyons (tea cakes- true) had no disks - hand wired boards & Hollerith cards (advanced) and about 8K of memory made of ferrite core rings about the size of a wardrobe and that was just for the memory! Then we "Upgraded" and had tape decks,5mb disk,paper tape i/o - all in room about the size of a bungalow( 2bed) - Never cold even in the coldest of winters - When UK had leading edge tech http://www.leo-computers.org.uk/leo3-photos.html# Well that's "The" Leo is it not? One of the first full business computers ever created? That's a pretty historic computer to have worked on if it's the one I'm thinking of...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stash Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Well that's "The" Leo is it not? One of the first full business computers ever created? That's a pretty historic computer to have worked on if it's the one I'm thinking of...... It was pretty "old" by the time I worked on it - had been replaced with ICL 1900 kit - Multi programming - i.e. run more than one stream at a time - IBM said that was impossible. The tech advantage the UK has given away/lost - sad really Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 (edited) Sheila, Photo is of a Compaq luggable (almost) - My first company potable when I was in systems - could actually take it to other sites and home - the slippery slope to IT management.... Microsoft Windows 3.1 if my memory is correct. We did use BBC micros and Comadore 64s mainly in the Laboratories for analytical work. Humm.. flash from the past Adrian yup thats the one..... they bought it me so i could take work home at night although it was just a MS dos machine when i had it and then upgraded to 3.1 then windows for workgroups i think Edited February 6, 2014 by Sheila Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xanthic Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Mono plasma screen too. I haven't see one of those for a long time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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