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This Is What A $3,000 PC Was Like Back In 1984
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Doreen Kaundur
#1 - 2014-05-05 04:03:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Doreen Kaundur
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and here's a laptop from the 1920s Shocked


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Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2014-05-05 07:27:24 UTC
Doreen Kaundur wrote:
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and here's a laptop from the 1920s Shocked


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gotta love steampunk-themed computers.

all it needs is a tiny steam generator nowCool

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2014-05-05 07:33:13 UTC
I object to the steampunk laptop on the grounds of nerdom! The S should look more like an f P

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Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#4 - 2014-05-05 07:43:55 UTC
...fteampunk? Straight

C64 ftw!
But had an XT at some point. Then 286. Then 386SX laptop. Then etc etc

I'm in it for the money

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2014-05-05 07:51:07 UTC
Webvan wrote:
...fteampunk? Straight

C64 ftw!
But had an XT at some point. Then 286. Then 386SX laptop. Then etc etc


Couldnt find it on youtube, so we'll have to deal with a franklinator instead.

I started out on the Amiga 500 then the 1200. Good machines. But Commodore just couldnt keep up their success against Microsoft it seems. Sad

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Baneken
Arctic Light Inc.
Arctic Light
#6 - 2014-05-05 08:05:22 UTC
Graygor wrote:
Webvan wrote:
...fteampunk? Straight

C64 ftw!
But had an XT at some point. Then 286. Then 386SX laptop. Then etc etc


Couldnt find it on youtube, so we'll have to deal with a franklinator instead.

I started out on the Amiga 500 then the 1200. Good machines. But Commodore just couldnt keep up their success against Microsoft it seems. Sad


They could had but Amiga as computer was conceptually designed like consoles today and Commore just didn't care or dropped the ball completely when PC hardware started to get steam in the early 90's leaving Amiga far behind in pure number crunching and performance and the emergence of the first true 3D-games was the final nail in the coffin as cheaper Amiga's were already struggling with a vector based 3D games as it were.

In the end Amiga as a platform was difficult to expand and it costed a lot of money to expand it to match a far cheaper PC's that had begun to flood the markets.
I used to have 16mb ram 68060 a1200 with surfsquirrel expansion that allowed the use of SCSI-devices such as burning CD-roms drives, squirrel also had an unlimited parallel port speed (regular Amiga has severe issues of buffer over flow with over 14,4k modems ...) and I used it all the way till 1999's when I just finally had to give up and started using a PC full time.
Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#7 - 2014-05-05 08:31:42 UTC
Graygor wrote:


I started out on the Amiga 500 then the 1200. Good machines. But Commodore just couldnt keep up their success against Microsoft it seems. Sad
well yeah, DOS was actually pretty good, peaking at v6.22. I can't make a comparison though, at least against Amiga, but I programmed on both PC and Apple and liked PC much better. But C64 had an excellent sound chip (I have a VST based on it today). And graphics were pretty good especially compared to anything at the time. With the printer, I made some really nice PnP/D&D game modules with it, well for a dot matrix printer. Almost 20Mil C64's sold. How many single computer models now sell for over ten years? Got mine out of the first batch Big smile ...before the shortage hehe

I'm in it for the money

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12
Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2014-05-05 12:21:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Grimpak
Webvan wrote:
...fteampunk? Straight


/daffyduck mode
fteamy! *spits all over webvan*Lol

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Doreen Kaundur
#9 - 2014-05-05 12:27:10 UTC
Webvan wrote:
Graygor wrote:


I started out on the Amiga 500 then the 1200. Good machines. But Commodore just couldnt keep up their success against Microsoft it seems. Sad
well yeah, DOS was actually pretty good, peaking at v6.22. I can't make a comparison though, at least against Amiga, but I programmed on both PC and Apple and liked PC much better. But C64 had an excellent sound chip (I have a VST based on it today). And graphics were pretty good especially compared to anything at the time. With the printer, I made some really nice PnP/D&D game modules with it, well for a dot matrix printer. Almost 20Mil C64's sold. How many single computer models now sell for over ten years? Got mine out of the first batch Big smile ...before the shortage hehe



I loved DOS.

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