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Ads from 1988 Radio Shack: Tandy 4000, 32-Bit Technology 16 MHz only $2599 (w/pic)
Maj.com ^ | 11/2006 | Maj.com

Posted on 11/26/2006 10:31:43 AM PST by MotleyGirl70

*Monitor not included


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: antiques; computers; jurassictechnology; stoneage; thefrserver
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To: Old_Mil

21 posted on 11/26/2006 11:04:19 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
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To: martin_fierro
I've always wanted one of these to set in the corner of my home office. The sound still raises chill bumps on my arms. Music to the ears of a true news junkie...
22 posted on 11/26/2006 11:05:45 AM PST by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: MotleyGirl70; Mr. Brightside; Cagey

Blurb from Feb. 1998:

http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=942

IT'S NOTHING, REALLY

O.K., so how many of you noticed the new addition to the cast of Seinfeld during this, the show's last season? I'm speaking, of course, of his new Mac. Always a fixture, but never a player in the plot, Jerry's Mac (one of the elderly LC types, if I'm not mistaken) sat comfortably within view by the window (behind the table behind the couch). Then, several weeks ago, I noticed a brand new Mac in its place. Comically, for a character never seen actually using his computer, Seinfeld's Mac is one of the top-of-the-line $7,000 upright, thin-screen 20th Anniversary edition Macintoshes, much like the one used by Batgirl in last year's Batman and Robin.


23 posted on 11/26/2006 11:06:05 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

I also got my first computer in 1994 and it also was a Packard Bell, 100MHz. Cost: $2800. Less than four months later it was out-dated. They had already came out with 500.


24 posted on 11/26/2006 11:06:47 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
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To: Libertina; MotleyGirl70

They also called those phones "bricks", for obvious reasons...


25 posted on 11/26/2006 11:06:55 AM PST by THX 1138
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To: rxgalfl

Heck yeah! That was so cool!

I sometimes wonder whether I may have stumbled once or twice on the early FR compuserve bulletin boards, since I browsed a lot of conservative boards. I found the current FR in 1998 looking up something on the Teamsters.


26 posted on 11/26/2006 11:07:51 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: MotleyGirl70

The funny thing is that I had a DOS-based 486 w/ 8 meg of RAM in the mid-90s that outperformed anything since as far as my work programs like AutoCAD and Lotus are concerned.


27 posted on 11/26/2006 11:09:53 AM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: MotleyGirl70

I loved my Tandy. Played a lot of games on them.


28 posted on 11/26/2006 11:10:32 AM PST by LdSentinal
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To: MotleyGirl70

My PB actually lasted a couple years (was way faster than the crap the school computer labs were running) before I had a 133 mhz 586 with a gig hard drive built for $1300.00. $1500.00 is actually the most I've ever spent on one system, and two I had built in 2000 and 2001 are still going strong in my office, with no upgrades, running Win98. I think I replaced a fan motor on one.


29 posted on 11/26/2006 11:11:46 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido
Imagine, all this, thanks to Al Gore :)


30 posted on 11/26/2006 11:13:43 AM PST by rxgalfl
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To: MotleyGirl70
8086, blazing speed that is almost unconprehendable!

LOL!

31 posted on 11/26/2006 11:13:45 AM PST by EGPWS (Lord help me be the conservative liberals fear I am.)
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To: LdSentinal; MotleyGirl70

Could never afford a Tandy. I bought a "Tardy" from a guy off the street for $100.00, but I ended up leaving a $200.00 tip at a restaurant. I was ruined!


32 posted on 11/26/2006 11:13:50 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: MotleyGirl70
I'll fess up.

Bought a used TRS 80 (portable) for, I think, $1500. Probably never even sold for that much new.

Bought my first Cellphone (hump-mount) for $1250, installed. $0.40 per minute.

Bought my first house (Crystal Beach, FL) for $72,500.

Circa 1987-1988 -- back when a buck was a buck!

33 posted on 11/26/2006 11:21:17 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (* nuke * the * jihad *)
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To: MotleyGirl70; Dashing Dasher; al baby; EveningStar; Finger Monkey; rattrap; teenyelliott; ...

Hey where did you find that pic of the FR main server? Do the beebers still connect to that one?


34 posted on 11/26/2006 11:24:02 AM PST by JRios1968 (Tagline wanted...inquire within)
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To: MotleyGirl70
Believe it or not...all those Rat Shack phones from the late 80s and early 90s were made by Nokia. They were a Royal Pain to program numbers into.

My how far Nokia has come.

35 posted on 11/26/2006 11:49:00 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Do I really need to include the sarcasm tag?)
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To: rxgalfl
mine = PC jr. - 1984
Long Live "Zell"
36 posted on 11/26/2006 11:52:58 AM PST by stylin19a ("Klaatu Barada Nikto")
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To: rxgalfl

Lol! I love it.


37 posted on 11/26/2006 12:07:12 PM PST by MotleyGirl70
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To: MotleyGirl70

Coolness is having a Bag Phone.

38 posted on 11/26/2006 12:13:52 PM PST by Cagey
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To: MotleyGirl70


My first adventure into telecommunications was when I installed this into my Apple II+, dialed up a local BBS and connected at 300 baud. It was unbelievable how slow - and neat - that was.
39 posted on 11/26/2006 12:36:12 PM PST by Old_Mil (http://www.constitutionparty.com/)
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To: MotleyGirl70
Earliest Computer........


40 posted on 11/26/2006 12:44:49 PM PST by Cagey
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