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Title: The PC is 25 years old today
Post by: Manicminer on August 12, 2006, 10:05:54: http://www.orange.co.uk/news/topstories/pics/946_1.htm?linkfrom=Today&link=link_title&article=heronewsupdate1000twentyfiveyearsofthepc110806
Title: The PC is 25 years old today
Post by: wing nut on August 12, 2006, 10:15:46: i used to have the sinclair spectrum 128 k with built in tape player ,having to rewind the tape everytime you wanted to load a game was a nause :D
Title: The PC is 25 years old today
Post by: boycarp on August 12, 2006, 10:21:24: Quote from: "wing nut"
i used to have the sinclair spectrum 128 k with built in tape player ,having to rewind the tape everytime you wanted to load a game was a nause :D

i just got my old spectum 48k out the other week the one with the rubber keys
Title: The PC is 25 years old today
Post by: wing nut on August 12, 2006, 10:27:47: cool a blast from the past :D
Title: The PC is 25 years old today
Post by: barmiebrumie on August 12, 2006, 10:28:53: How old did you say you were Matt :?: :wink: ,

John.
Title: The PC is 25 years old today
Post by: wing nut on August 12, 2006, 10:48:54: im 40 in november :D :D i know i only look 21 :D
Title: The PC is 25 years old today
Post by: dave_2A_2.25Turbo on August 12, 2006, 11:42:08: Remember typing the code in for a game from one of the magazines? And then spending hours trying to find the mistake.........
Title: The PC is 25 years old today
Post by: robpark on August 12, 2006, 11:58:08: Hmm...you'd have thought they could have found a picture of the correct PC :?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC

The first PC I worked on, in 1980, was a Tandy Model II - which used huge 8" floppy discs, BASIC, and CP/M as the O/S. There were loads of different PC's around before IBM & Microsoft dominated the market in the early '80s. In 1977 there were the Tandy TRS-80 Model I, the Commodore PET and the Apple II.
Title: The PC is 25 years old today
Post by: Terminus on August 12, 2006, 11:58:17: Quote from: "dave_2A_2.25Turbo"
Remember typing the code in for a game from one of the magazines? And then spending hours trying to find the mistake.........

:lol: :lol: yep and I remember writing pointless little programs in 'basic' that made some dot move about the screen and finding it fascinating (oh the joys of childhood).

Still got a Commodore 64 plus tape and disk drive and thousands of games up in an attic somewhere :)
Title: The PC is 25 years old today
Post by: Rangie3.0LtrDan on August 12, 2006, 12:39:57: Quote
The PC is 25 years old today

You would have thought you would have updated it by now then!
Title: The PC is 25 years old today
Post by: BrumLee on August 12, 2006, 13:49:41: I still have a ZX81 in the loft, 1k of memory with no expansion pack MEGA FAST NOT :lol: :lol:
Title: The PC is 25 years old today
Post by: bezzabsa on August 12, 2006, 16:20:10: Quote from: "wing nut"
im 40 in november :D :D i know i only look 21 :D

hahaha beat ya.. 40 in just under 2 weeks ;)
Title: The PC is 25 years old today
Post by: bezzabsa on August 12, 2006, 16:21:30: my school used to have TRS80's and when i left school i workd on DEC PDP 11-44's.. with the disk spools and about the size of a 110.. all for about 5 meg of memory!!!