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Windows 1 (first Windows released in year 1985 running on Tesla SMEP PP06 (IBM PC XT Clone) with 640 KB RAM 2x360 KB 5,25" FDD, 42 MB MFM HDD (Seagate ST251) and Hercules Graphic Card.  For all those who are making fun of this,  it was an awesome thing of its time.  The graphical representation of tools like calculator, clock,  notepad etc.  was something people had never seen before. Show some respect.  People worked their asses off to get pc to where it stands today.  I never used this os, crazy how primitive it was haha.  First version I've used is windows 3.11, then 95  Our first computer actually had 98 on it so that's the one I spent most time using... I knew how to reinstall that OS practically blind folded lol. Strangest Computer Designs of the '80s

OMG Mr. LGR!!! You made my day showing the Seiko computer watch series. I collect these things and Have almost  the entire lineup up including the weird UC-2200. The only one I'm missing is the "wrist mac" which was essentially a Seiko RC4400 but marketed and sold for Apple. It could be considered the first apple watch! That design for the Elwro-800 actually seems pretty good and I wish I had it for the C64 back in the day. That wire holder could have been used for holding a computer magazine with a user made program which they always had in the magazines back in the day. Even now it would be good for data input from a written copy, or even writers who like to get their pre-writing done on paper. They were the machines we were taught Turing language on -- and compiling even a tiny Turing program on them was unbelievably slow.  I really liked the GUI on them though, but we never really used the GUI much; all the programming we did was in a text file run through a compiler ...

The Xerox Alto absolutely FASCINATES me. Everything about it, just... HOW? HOW do you run an OS with a foldered file system and a windowed GUI, with Ethernet networking capabilities, driven with a mouse, all on nothing but 7400-series TTL ICs from 1973?!  The CS1 professor I had last semester actually worked on the Xerox Alto. He would always go on about how frustrating it was that the Xerox execs just didn't understand how innovative the machine was. He was there the day Steve Jobs came to visit. He's still a bit bitter over the fact Steve got most of the "innovative" idea that the Macintosh was applauded for from the Alto, a computer which existed 10 years prior to the Macintosh. I was a computer tech for Data point back in the 70's and CTC 2200 ( and later 5500 and 6600) formed the score of their commercial systems.  No way were these a candidate for personal computer use.  These ran a sophisticated programming language, could support about 16 async terminals ...

This game was the first I played till sunrise. I rented it from a video store for the OG Xbox after hearing about it on Toonami. Once I wrapped my head around it I couldn’t put it down. I played all Friday night from maybe 8pm till 7am straight. When I realized the sun was up I was too tried to go to my bedroom and just clunked out in the game room to some Spider-Man cartoons. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is fifteen years old. Although for me, I didn’t actually play the game until a couple years after it launched, and it was with this Game of the Year Edition that I first experienced the land of dark elves and silt striders. And it’s a nice enough box I suppose, but I much prefer the massive collector’s edition, clad in matte black and embossed glossy artwork.  Definitely a centerpiece of any PC game collection, but good luck finding a complete copy of this for less than $200,   along with the standard manual and fold-out map poster, but there’s also the phenomenal ...

Man, when I saw that code listings I was blown back to my childhood when my mom and grandmom, who are now both long gone, did me a favor and typed in a code for a pacman clone into our Atari 400. I guess it took hours and we didn’t even knew how to save it to a tape. They just wanted to cheer me up. It worked and I was so happy. We left the computer running for a few days to not loose the game but eventually we had to switch it off and it was gone. What a time. And what a sacrifice by them just to make me happy.  Greetings folks, and right here we’ve got a lovely computer system from times long gone. Give a warm welcome to the TRS-80 Color Computer, frequently referred to as the CoCo. With “TRS” standing for Tandy Radio Shack, of course, and this video in particular being an entry to SepTandy! A collective YouTube celebration of all things Tandy through the month of September. And Radio Shack’s first Color Computer here was a cause for celebration indeed, costing just $399 upon hit...

In 1995 I trained using SGI computers and it wasn't just the hardware that was outrageous, it was also the software and support. At the university that I attended, a SGI super computer about the size of a household refrigerator replaced a Cray super computer that took up a huge space in a building designed for it. Years ago, I found one of these in a storage room at my employer's warehouse, which they once used for their R&D department. They let me take it home and it sat in my living room until 3 years ago when I moved. Probably should have kept it, (like that Commodore PET computer that sat in my garage for a long time) but I ended up giving it away because I was tired of looking at the damn thing and not knowing what to do with it. Back in the day, around  1995 , I worked at Bungee software.  We used an indigo for much of our character creation and animation stuff for the Myth series.  I hated Unix shell but loved the machines capabilities and render features....

It was suppose to revolutionize teaching, I think the Apple company was even involved,  it got a ton of media attention, stories in the local paper, even made the nightly news. In the next two years, I only saw one teacher even turn the machine on and she just used it to play games while the class was taking a test or working on assignment. By my senior year, ever Mac was sitting on a shelf or filing cabinet gathering dust. Hello, and welcome to another episode of The iBook Guy. I’m often criticized and called an Apple fan boy, told that I’m biased or not objective in regarding Apple products, and that’s just not true. In fact, I’m often critical of Apple products, and including Steve Jobs as well, who I do respect but, he most certainly didn’t do everything right. So, I thought I would create a little miniseries showing some of the things that I think Apple has done that are mistakes, and I’m going to start with a big one, all the way back in 1986, which is the Macintosh. Okay, so...