OT: The things you find when you move...

[petrusbroder]

Lol!

 

[Soggysocks]

OK you Old guys....all pre-date my Tandy Color II. :|

So I won't even try to top you.





Anyone ever work on a Hughes System?

 

[Wiz]

TRS model 80 ewww...

 

[GeoffS]

lol... I meant the first PC I actually owned... my dad bought a TRS80 Model 1 Level 2 for about $2k... 8k ram... black & white screen... tape recorder for offline storage... lol...

 

[networkman]

I think the most redeeming value of the TRS80 was the game "Tombstone City" - I really liked playing that game in the K-Mart store.

 

[Smoke]

Apple //e with an Orange/Black screen monitor, circa 1983.

This was my first computer. I used it as a way to get away from hand drawn graphs and columns of figures calculated daily with a mechanical calculator. I remember subscribing to the Dow Jones News Retrieval Service to get my stock and index quotes each evening. I would print out each night on a track paper printer charts for about 100 stocks. The print job (three simple line charts with simple moving averages per page) took almost an hour to do. Then I would analyze the charts and determine my stops for the next day. I think my modem was a either a 7,200 or one of the new 14,400 bps models.

I carried this computer along with the printer with me on a trip to visit some relatives in Los Angeles. It took up the entire trunk of my wife's '85 Caddy Seville. The luggage went in a car topper and the kids and the rest in the back seat. Each night at various motels I would set all of this stuff up, get my quotes from Dow Jones, print the charts, do analysis, and place orders via telephone. Now that was a trip. lol

When I moved to my new home about 11 years ago I remember running across it when I was unloading the attic of my old house. For the life of me I can't remember what I did with it ... it's probably somewhere up in the attic of my new home. Pack Rats never get rid of anything ... right?

 

[Night201]

My first major one was $4,200!

 

[Wiz]

Not that anyone has asked, but here is the map of the twisty little passages in Adventure.

"You are in a maze of twisty little passages all alike, it is dark here"

U-E-S-S-S-N(PT)-E-E-NW
SE-N-W-W-W-E-E-W-U

Wish I could find that game again, and that it would run on a PC.

 

[Scott66]

I played Zork on the Apple IIe with a green monitor in 1983-84. I also had a hard time with it's maze and the robber. Loved those days. I found a widget for the mac OSX that has the entire zork game in it