[chris37]

That looks like 80’s gear. Early, before 1983, I’d guess.

[dhs12345]

1980? What’s on the screen, machine language or an early version of mine sweeper?

[Swordmaker]

Nostalgic wandering of tech gone past (some not so long past) in this slide show quiz from Tech Republic to test how well you remember when specific tech was introduced. See how well you did. I was mostly within one year of the introduction of most of them but a couple I did not even recognize, I must admit. — PING!

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[Red Badger]

1977.......................

[Delta 21]

I had the portable model for a while.

[Dr. Sivana]

Commodore PET, about 1978, Star Trek kind of game on screen.

[Rurudyne]

Ah, yes, the cash register style keyboard.

Trivia: the early all in one designs existed because the FCC wanted to fuss over every possible configuration of a computer and they also demanded to (expensively) control testing. Thus if you sold the monitor and tape drive separate from the box your costs skyrocketed,

Backlash led to the more reasonable proposition of letting manufacturers test their own equipment.

[TomGuy]

First desktop computer I ever used was a TRS-80, Model II from Radio Shack. It had a whopping 64k of memory and two 8”floppy disk drives [no hard drive]. The Department manager bought it for the department. That was about 1981 or 1982. I was the only one who would even touch it. None of the others showed any interest.

A couple of years later, I bought (for my own use) a Commodore Plus 4. It had a whopping 80k of memory.

My new LG smartphone I got a few weeks ago is so much more powerful it is scary to think how far we have come in a relatively short period of time.

[Robert DeLong]

0977

[Robert DeLong]

1977, rather. LOL

[Flatus I. Maximus]

Late 1970s. The PET had that stupid chiclet keyboard and a built-in cassette tape drive. By 1981 Commodore was making the 4032 and 8032, which had actual usable keyboards and could use an outboard floppy diskette drive that was about as large as the main CPU case.

[Swordmaker]

Here's a quiz for just Apple products over the years:

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Quiz: Can you guess this vintage Apple tech?
By Leslie Gornstein // March 1, 2016, 10:26 AM PST

Test your knowledge of Apple tech

Think you know your vintage Apple products? Put your knowledge to our ultimate test.

Jerry Seinfeld is cracking wise in front of a ... QUIZ

Image: NBC

About Leslie Gornstein

Leslie Gornstein is a senior editor with CBS Interactive. For the past two decades, she's covered consumer and B-to-B tech; biotech; entertainment and various other subjects that seemed interesting at the time. She's the author of The A-List Playbook... Full Bio. . .

[Riflema]

1977. I (my dad brought it home) had that one.

[BradyLS]

I’m going to guess 1974.

I remember the ‘64 and the Odyessy and the TRS-80 and a few others. This looks older than those by at at least several years.

And that is a tiny, tiny screen.

[ThunderSleeps]

A quick trip down memory lane - ANDROID PING!
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I had or used a fair number of the items pictured, and I think I've seen every one of the movies referenced.

[free_life]

1977 to 1980 have used same puppy.