Computer geeks - a moment of silence for a fallen friend. . .

[episodic]

Look at what I found sitting wet and dirty ontop of a trash pile today. . .

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/149/340443216_a60aeee8da_b.jpg

It is a tandy color computer 2 with 64k. . .

Underneath it was a dot matrix printer, and even the joystick. I grabbed it, and poured water out of the keyboard It had sat out in the rain. . .


This other one is just a gratuitous shot to highlight a walk I took today.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/143/340380680_67e77fa1a7_b.jpg

 

[Bootprint]

It's a Coco 3.

My first computer was a Coco 1.

Must've been a real late model 2 then, the 3 looked exactly like that.

In '89 I bought a Coco3, along with a floppy drive so I could run OS-9.
It was until this summer that I finally tossed out years of The Rainbow and Hot Coco.

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: episodic
Look at what I found sitting wet and dirty ontop of a trash pile today. . .

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/149/340443216_a60aeee8da_b.jpg

This other one is just a gratuitous shot to highlight a walk I took today.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/143/340380680_67e77fa1a7_b.jpg

wtf is that second one? a live-in sauna?

Nate

 

[Heisenberg]

/plays midi file of 'Taps'

 

[episodic]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/340441943_6868247ba2_b.jpg

See color computer 2

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Am I a geek for knowing what that is?

 

[episodic]

Originally posted by: NTB

Originally posted by: episodic
Look at what I found sitting wet and dirty ontop of a trash pile today. . .

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/149/340443216_a60aeee8da_b.jpg

This other one is just a gratuitous shot to highlight a walk I took today.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/143/340380680_67e77fa1a7_b.jpg

wtf is that second one? a live-in sauna?

Nate

It is an old office that distributed heating oil. It is currently for sale

Lots of old rusted buildings like that around here. . .

 

[episodic]

My first computer was a TRS Model III
http://oldcomputers.net/trs80iii.html

Then a Commodore 64

Then an Amiga 500

Then pc compatibles since.

Dang shame about Amiga's

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

/me presses the Break key

 

[Shawn]

since it has already been exposed to water take it apart and wash away all the dirt and crap. then let it completely dry and try to turn it on. might work.

 

[ThePresence]

Still have my Commodore 64.

 

[Cooler]

I still have my 8080 in my back room. I hate to think what would happen when it dies.

 

[apex32]

my first computer was a mac... im too young for this thread

 

[episodic]

Originally posted by: apex32
my first computer was a mac... im too young for this thread

I dunno, the original mac goes back pretty far - which mac?

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: episodic

Originally posted by: apex32
my first computer was a mac... im too young for this thread

I dunno, the original mac goes back pretty far - which mac?

My family's first computer was an Apple IIe, and some time after that we got a powermac 75LC. I bought a PC to take to college, and we've had PCs ever since - I build a new one every once in a while, and my family gets the hand-me-downs

Nathan

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Am I a geek for knowing what that is?

Yup.

 

[IGBT]

..I still have my Commodore Amiga 500 here on the floor.

 

[kendo26]

My Coco 3 died about 7 years ago Goodbye CoCo, I hope you served your master well:brokenheart:

 

[animalia]

where the hell do you live?

 

[marvdmartian]

So take the opportunity to gut the case, and mod it with a new computer system!!

 

[IEC]

Tandy 1000 with a whopping 30MB hard drive space
Dell i486/DX2 66MHz w/15" 1024x768 CRT @75Hz

My first computer "for myself" was a Celeron 300A OC'ed to 450MHz on an Abit BX6? BP6? BH6? Don't remember. Even had a Diamond sound card and voodoo Banshee-based vid card. That thing rocked back in the day. 64MB of RAM, upgraded to 128MB later. 8GB hard drive.

Now? The rigs in my sig, which have more power than all my pre-college rigs combined

 

[JujuFish]

Originally posted by: kendo26
My Coco 3 died about 7 years ago Goodbye CoCo, I hope you served your master well:brokenheart:

Are you not the master of your Coco?

 

[narzy]

Originally posted by: Shawn
since it has already been exposed to water take it apart and wash away all the dirt and crap. then let it completely dry and try to turn it on. might work.

that is exactly what I was thinking, we put PCB's in dishwashers all the time with no dish soap and a very mild dirt cutting agent to clean them, you can stick your keyboard in the dishwasher, let it dry and it works fine. so take it apart give it a good washing and let it dry, it might still work.

 

[alkemyst]

//e in 1983 here.

then PS/2 IBMs (hell I wrote the FAQ on them )

loved QSD, Lutz, Altgiers, tchh....groups like LOD, MOD, 8lgm...etc.

The world was magical then.