Old computer adverts
 

How things have moved on...

http://www.2spare.com/item_92760.aspx

Very nice seeing all them :)

Quality has gone WAY DOWN since then.. (Stuff was made MUCH BETTER back in the day)

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Erm, no.

Mean Time Between Failure is much better now that it was in the 80's, and disk storage and processing power is cheaper and faster.

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I'd have to agree with foreverwar. The speed at which technology progresses is so fast we now have a much better value for money.
As soon as Multimedia sound and video and the web hit the market it gave a standard too and computers all had to conform to basic multimedia requirements. This together with gaming pushed graphics and performance and really took things to a higher level.
There was a period where motherboards were being pushed out as everything onboard and that often lacked quality components....eg. onboard sound and video.
Look at individual components now. Sepearate graphics, sound, better device controllers, etc.

Ah, the days of when I had my 486 SX 33 without the Maths co-processor as it was too expensive back then.

It's funny when you look back and see that a computer in "Color" was a must have feature.

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have to disagree it was much better you set it to load a program and go and have a snack and coffee before having to do anything else ;)

now it expects you to use the program straight away ;)

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Yes, those "cassettes" were state of the art and so user-friendly, weren't they?;)

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especially when you had typed in the hex from a badly printed magazine page, taking hours, saved it to a cassette & then found 7 minutes later it didn't work & you didn't know if it was a typo, the cassette, or just a bug - happy days :erm:

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have to agree its easy to look back with rose coloured specs and when we do we only decieve ourselves :)

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come back find its not loaded and have to start again go for a walk come back if you are lucky its on

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Did that with a BASIC program when I was 8 - spent hours typing it in, the bugger wouldn't work, 10 minutes with mum fiddling a couple lines, it worked perfect.

Still, remember these?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNkhOgoiwww

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o72T8qQr7GE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q_qXlAJLiw

Funniest is the last one. :D

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Old computer adverts - Cable Forum

i loved my cassette loading Commodore pet 16 i still miss it learned how to code in 8086 machine code on that lol and used to love peeking and poking it ;)


http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/...mechanical.jpg

sigh

and this

http://oldcomputers.net/pet2001.html


i heaven now lol

as to user friendly it was a breeze to open up though was not much you could do to it once open ;)

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lol loss of data on one tape :(

or

loss of data on that 2 terabyte drive :bigcry:


OT ;)

http://oldcomputers.net/oldads/old-computer-ads.html

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My dad upgraded our ZX81 to this a Video Genie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Genie

IIRC he bought a 1MB (yes 1 megabyte) upgrade that came in a box that was bigger the unit it self and cost £250.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/04/30.jpg

What I remember was if the fridge motor kick in while you where loading it killed what you where doing and you had to start again.

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this is good lol

http://oldcomputers.net/oldads/wow/MDhd.jpg

i used to have one of these

http://oldcomputers.net/oldads/portables/trs80-pc1.jpg

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some of us are clever enough not to put all their eggs in one basket ;)

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we are in the minority i think though lol

me i go "love to afford two of those" most say "but it all fits on 1 now" lol

with thier permision i back up any computer i fix its amazing how many come back asking if i still have backups after they decide to reformat thier drive :erm:


came across a 3.5 floppy back up of my gunship 2000 saves to day doing just that plus a few dos set up disk lol its amazing what i find in my back up cupboard ;)

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got 5 hard drives in machine 1 and 4 in machine 2 none are bigger than 500 gig although id buy 640's now if I was buying I wont be buying terabyte drives untill they are so cheap the others are not made and I will still spread my stuff out. Anything I really do not want to lose is backed up multiple times

I sold all my old atari stuff a few years ago loads of memories lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePPJaC0h1RQ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM0gvwJisLc

these are for the 2600 looking for xl or xe ads

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s667x...eature=related here we go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pjf7...eature=related

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I loved this one Cobby........http://www.2spare.com/_media/imgs/articles/a155_a7.jpg

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I used to take one of these (Compaq Luggable) to/from Europe in the early 80's - I needed import/export documentation every time I went through customs (most weeks).

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/04/29.jpg

You try telling that to the kids of today! Tchhhhhhhhh! ;)

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Wow!! 10MB Hard Drive for only £3,695!! bargin:D