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

episodic

episodic

Lifer
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.
 
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
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wtf is that second one? a live-in sauna? 😛

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

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

 
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.
 
Originally posted by: episodic
Originally posted by: apex32
my first computer was a mac... im too young for this thread 🙁
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I dunno, the original mac goes back pretty far - which mac?
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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
 
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 😉

 
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.
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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.
 
//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.
 
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