I remember the TI-99. Did any of you have the speech processor where it would talk to you? lol. That was the first pc my father bought. Man, that was so long ago I think my father was working for Burroughs (sp) before they switched to Unisys. Now we have two 2.8 Ghz and a 1.6 Ghz networked together running through cable.
I had one of those too. Don't remember the exact model number, but know it was bought around 1981. I used it on my 13" black and white tv.:laugh: I had a couple of Basic classes in college, but can't remember much about them now. So, glad I have this operating system.:Brow:
Hey I graduated it 83. Does that mean I am slow and outdated? I know my memory isn't very good. Hmmmm. Something to ponder.
Just to show you how far we have come during my senior year in engineering (1972) I saw the very first hand held calculator that would compute a square root. I believe that was an HP 35. The assistant Dean of the School of EE who was my professor had it. The cost of this new device was about $450.00. All of us students used either a K&E or a Post slide rule to do trig functions, square roots, etc. When we wrote programs we had to punch our on computer cards on a keypunch machine and feed them in a hopper to run them. Insofar as I know the internet was not even in the theoretical stage. When I was in the Attorney General's Office in the 1970s there were no electronic word processors yet. You typed on a IBM typewriter and used carbon paper to make duplicates. There was was one room sized mag card machine that also used keypunch cards to accomplish corrections like today's modern word processors. That one machine cost so much and was so large that it served the entire department of 100+ attorneys. It would not do nearly what one handheld Blackberry will do today.
My father was working at a company in the late 50's thru early 60's. He was approached with a job opportunity there to work on their new computer. They took into a room to give him a little knowledge on what a computer was and showed it to him. I don't remember what he told me it did, but he did say it was huge. Roughly 4 ft. tall, 4 ft. wide and about 10 feet long!!! He declined the job, thinking this machine was a joke (regreted that one since they added many more later on). It probably had less capabilities than my old Atari game back in 81.
Hehe I read an article a while back that said that if you wanted to build one of the current high end cell phones using 1945 technology it would be the size of the Empire State building.
