Obsolete Technology: 40 Big Losers

Never had an Apple.

My first pc was an XT compatible with a small hard drive.

The first personal home business system was an AT compatible or 286. Bought the first laser printer for home in 1988. Previous were the dot matrix.

 

Our first computer had a 20MB hard drive... and when we bought it, my brother told me we'd NEVER fill it up!

 

Speaking of technology, I still have a transistor radio in the downstairs closet.

 

i remember those. my dad worked at a grocery warehouse here and that is what they had. you would be amazed what you can do with the old cards. my mom use to make christmas decorations with them.

 

heck i still have a box of transistors and ICs, and even the predicessor to the ICs. some kind of wafer pack. they had the components that you would find on a circuit board.
before trucking, i worked in electronics in a music store.
i remember the first computer chip called the 8080 processor.

 

Do ya'll remember when you had to let your black & white television warm up before the picture would go on? And when you turned it off, the picture reduced to a little dot in the middle of the screen before going blank.

Oh... and the stations went off the air after the late show? And they'd resume in the morning with the national anthem.

 

C prompt.....brought to you by old geezers.

Designed for aspiring young computer geeks the world over...to make their dads feel good when their #### goes down. And they never learned to operate from a command prompt...after 3 years of computer classes....with 4 to go.

Just call me the latest super hero for my 24 year old son...and his elite room mates at DigiPen.

I sure hope they teach them something there. Besides video games.

 

interesting.. maybe i'm something of an abnormality... but i have either used or know of the computers listed here..
even used Apple IIs in middle school for a typing class...

i also miss DOS. my uncle gave my dad a bunch of 3.5 disks with games on them that would only run from DOS.

 

I liked DOS, too. It was perfect for databases.

 

C prompt? Floppy disks? Vinyl records? *head explodes*