Ah, the good old days. Printing out on greenbar. Black and Green screens. DOS programing to do simple calculator work. Swell.
Posted on 08/14/2011 3:23:55 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Ah, the good old days. Printing out on greenbar. Black and Green screens. DOS programing to do simple calculator work. Swell.
Seems like in tech it’s never good to be first, you always want to swoop in later once the market has been defined. Also IBM seemed to have a talent for getting the key strategy wrong, for the most part.
IBM always made the best keyboards — computer or typewriter. The click was as perfect a typing tool as ever invented.
When God was President. That use to drive my lib father crazy, I would call Reagan God, and it would drive him nuts. lol. Hey, I was proven right.
And how long was it before Al Gore invented the internet?
IBM also gave us Ross Perot.
That is stretching things a bit....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80
TRS-80 was Tandy Corporation's desktop microcomputer model line, sold through Tandy's Radio Shack stores in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The first units, ordered unseen, were delivered in November 1977, and rolled out to the stores the third week of December.
I had a PC Jr. also, it was a choice between that or an Apple Macintosh, whatever that was. I figured IBM was a safer bet, they would always have software for their computers. Did I ever get screwed on that one! Not only did they quit making software for it but when I got it I got it with a word processing program on floppy disc. They said to make a back up copy of the program right away and when I did I accidentally copied the blank disc onto the program disc. IBM told me that was my problem and refused to send me another disc. You can guess how many IBM products I have bought since then. It’s been nothing but Apple ever since and I couldn’t be happier.
$5000? I recently bought a new laptop for work. For that same $5000 I could buy a computer with 6 GB of RAM, 600GB Hard Disk and an i5 processor. Then I could buy another 7 of them.
When I look at those prices I am even more impressed that my high school bought a dozen of them for computer programming classes.
I had a PC class on college on a 5150. The textbook came with a single floppy disk that had a word processor, spreadsheet and some other program on it. No hard drive. Needed to save everything on anotehr floppy, hence, two disk drives
I still have one of those printers if anybody needs one. The ribbon might be a little dried up by now though.
Looks like the same keyboard as on IBM Selectrics.
That picture has been around for a long time too!
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