128k Tandy Color Computer 3
Now, I have a custom tower with a six-core processor and 10 GB of RAM. It's astonishing to think of how far we've come in a short period of time.
You’ve got to be kidding me!
Kids are kind of obnoxious.
I’ve seen these same kids on other videos with the same kind of cutsey-coolkid reaction to old phones, walkman, etc. They’re obviously acting and are picked for their coolness/diversity factor. They sure have zilch for technical aptitude or intuitiveness.
My dad had an Imsai 8080 when I was a kid. A casette tape stored a program something like 1 or 2k in size. You entered each byte by manually setting 8 switches to the bits of each successive byte, and then hit a button for “enter.” This was in the early 70’s, IIRC. That was the cutting edge of technology at the time, and we were one of a very few to have a personal computer at all at that time.
ZX81 was my first hand me down from my pops. This was the first computer I had that wasn’t made from a plywood frame.
128k Tandy Color Computer 3
Now, I have a custom tower with a six-core processor and 10 GB of RAM. It's astonishing to think of how far we've come in a short period of time.
When I was those kids’ age (8/9), that Apple computer was state of the art (around 1982/83). We actually had to write programs back then if we wanted to do anything (I just played a floppy of “The Oregon Trail” repeatedly). Just to have access to such a computer was a privilege.
I had a Texas Instruments computer at home which used cassette tapes for disks (for storage). Shocking how primitive that all is now, and how spoiled those kids are today. We may be better technologically speaking today, but we certainly aren’t in other cultural and moral categories.
Reminds me of an old New Yorker cartoon of a guy changing a flat tire on his station wagon, looking up at his kids and saying, “Don’t you understand? This is really happening! I can’t change the channel!”
I would give the kids a slide rule and see if any of them can figure out what to do with it.
Do kids even know how to use a ruler,compass, and protractor these days?
This is to balance the daily “Average Freeper Reacts to New Technology and Pleads for Technical Assistance” thread.
Reminds me of my old Commodore.
Back in our day, WE had to TRUDGE UPHILL BOTH WAYS in -500 KELVIN TEMPERATURES just to get a computer to DO ONE REGISTER LOAD.... and we LIKED IT THAT WAY.
"It's a dinosaur" ********************************************************************** Han Solo from "Star Wars A New Hope" 
"Where did you did up that old fossil?"