Posted on 09/20/2010 9:32:50 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Apple Lisa (1983) was the first successful computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) and a mouse. It cost $10,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at oldcomputers.net ...
I can’t possibly be old enough to recall when all of these were state of the art.
A nasty-looking troll, brandishing a bloody axe, blocks all passages out of the room.
Your sword has begun to glow very brightly.
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You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
I was educated with slide rules...I couldn’t afford an HP Calculator when they came out...sides I was doing theorem and proof math.
--and my first engineering job used those adding machines for log-sines & log-tangents to plot survey data.
And here I thought I was the only one weird enough to try that!
I remember those...
It seemed like a good idea at the time ................. FRegards
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I still have my IBM Convertible PC with it’s IBM Blue bag. It was HEAVY and BULKY, but in the day it was a very cool machine.
LOL! I haven't heard that word in years. Luggable it was.
Ah, such great memories.....
Oh, don’t hate it — celebrate it! I still have the very same old hand crank adding machine my grandparents used in their family business during the time when I was a kid. Just think of how many fabulous things we’ve been able to see over the years. There’s so much more to appreciate in today’s technology than the young people, who’ve grown up with it, can appreciate. We’ve watched a revolution. And, an amazing one, to boot.
Ahem. Sorry.
*gets off soapbox*
Thanks,
I didn’t appreciate how good life was with my Amiga 500... My kids would play Interceptor with me and they caught their love of technology from me and the Amiga. What an amazing machine it was, so far ahead of its time.
Wiki has it wrong. The brand name was REXXON.
What memories. My brother gave me that model (it was already out-dated). I bought a printer and it got me through college. It still worked when he gave me a new out-dated one several years later.
The dot matrix printer I had to go with it was so loud, and, of course, it worked forever. My cat finally put me out of my misery when he jumped up on the printer and it fell to the floor and broke.
That was bigger than the smartphones now...
Yeah, but you didn't have to write programs for it in Java... ;-)
Actually, I don't know what the smartphones have for a software platform, but I intend to find out.
“When I was a kid, may dad made me practive for hours learning how to crank out calculations on a slide rule. He told me that I would never get anywhere in life without good slide rule skills.”
If I added up the hours spent learning how to use the slide rule, added the hours spent learning how to use programmable calculators and added the hours spent learning how to use computers and software ....
Now I know where half my life has gone!
Sad. Nobody seems to have experienced the Amiga 1000, the best machine about 1986.
If IBM had bought the Amiga OS, they might still be in the computer business.
Just as Mac was ahead of IBM, Amiga was ahead of Mac. But business execs trusted the IBM name. And everybody else loved Apple marketing. Even then.
Commodore ran some of the dumbest ads ever for a great product.
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