Comments on: Classic tech gear from the 70s you wouldn’t buy today

By: CoreyBryant

CoreyBryant — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:09:05 +0000

I actually still have one of the 88 model Altair floppy drives in a factory enclosure!! It was modified to work on my old TRS-80 in lieu of the cassettes tapes. This is what I started on in the late 1980s when I found several TRS-80s and boxes and boxes of parts, books, tapes and program cartridges in the attic of my parents new house. At that time, IBM compatible PCs were already mainstream, and the TRS-80 was ancient history already – but it got me started. I learned Basic from the books that were in the boxes, figured out how to connect the 300BPS modem and eventually found Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes). I remember being restricted from many of them because 300BPS was just SLOW…since 2400BPS Hayes modems had just hit the market. LOL A guy named David Luong in Arlington Texas ran a board named “The Lost Cluster”. He saw that I was using a 300BPS modem with no ANSI graphics and felt bad for me. He knew I was dealing with limited technology that would not open the doors that I wanted to open for myself – career wise. He had a heart, and brought me an 8088 with a CGA graphics card, 20MB MFM hard drive, and a color monitor. I…was….amazed… I didn’t sleep for 3 nights… I loved it…. =) I never did get rid of my TRS-80 collection, and even bought more over the years. I even have the “portable” TRS-80 with the on-board mono screen and dual floppy drives. (See: http://www.vintagecomputer.net/tandy/trs80_4p/thm_TRS80_4P.jpg)

Thanks for the post. This really took me back! I’m even thinking about getting one of the TRSes down out of MY attic and hooking it up for old times sake.

By: Nanniejfaf1

Nanniejfaf1 — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:19:26 +0000

@iandavidcottam http://t.co/5Fdvu5GJU0

By: robinelvin

robinelvin — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:46:44 +0000

@jag4091 Them were the days!

By: marsh80

marsh80 — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:05:35 +0000

8k RAM! Get in. “@pingdom: Classic tech gear from the 70s you wouldn’t buy today http://t.co/rJsdoxI4 #classictech”

By: luebbert42

luebbert42 — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:44:21 +0000

In reply to Greg Kennedy.

@frankmayer_ I started with a TI 4A … and then my father bought a used 286, I always wanted a C64/Amiga http://t.co/CbSosliy

By: Marcieyz1l5arx

Marcieyz1l5arx — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:36:31 +0000

In reply to Greg Kennedy.

@frankmayer_ http://t.co/Cax1Y6Rq

By: frankmayer_

frankmayer_ — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:20:42 +0000

@luebbert42 @hartmann_p 😀 I still remember my VC-20, C-64 and Amiga 500, 2000 times and get carried away sometimes 🙂

By: BhatiaDipti

BhatiaDipti — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:24:20 +0000

@pingdom 🙂 This is neat!

By: paulmwatson

paulmwatson — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:23:34 +0000

Actually I’d really like a QKit sensor. That was an idea well before its time.

By: Sajal Kayan

Sajal Kayan — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:34:46 +0000

$5,160 Ought to be Enough for Anyone…