r/nostalgiai • u/MoonSoul379 • 11h ago

Vintage Tech ☎️📻📠📟📷 I am :)

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u/Silver_River9296 8h ago

That is when they lost me. I am so old I had

Fortran: which led to
Basic: which led to Commodore 64
Which led to cartridges
Which led to floppy disks and FD player
Which led to IBM getting into the PC market
Which led to an unknown language and process becoming the standard,
Which led to all of us Amateurs being chocked out of the home computer market.

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u/damn-otaku 6h ago

You forgot Tandy

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u/SailorDeath 5h ago

That good ol' trash-80

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u/berfle 4h ago

CLOAD

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u/Rishtu 3h ago

Had one of those... I think it was the Tandy 1000 SL,.

Monochrome monitor, no hard drive, 300 baud manual connect modem. Oh, and no Video Card/Adapter.

Took me 30 mins to download a picture. So we had ASCII pics!

Went outside, rode my town and country board....

/sigh

I really miss those times.

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u/KittiesRule1968 3h ago

My first computer was a Radio Shack co-co color computer with cassette tape external storage.

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u/nahman201893 2h ago

I think my stepdad had a Tandy 1000EX??

I could only ever get a printing program to work on it, but I was a kid so that was fun. Printing on the dot matrix printer less so. Very noisy.

The next machine had Wolfenstein on it.

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u/Electrical-Fix1461 1h ago

My first computer!!!

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u/wolfmann99 6h ago

punch cards or not?

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u/RustyBrassInstrument 3h ago

Sperry 1100/60 was my first big gig

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u/Livid_Mechanic7894 3h ago

I used to test and repair the Sperry 1100/80s before they went to the customers.

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u/Old_Celebration_5950 27m ago

There anguish of dropping a set of punch cards you were to lazy to number

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u/AfanasiiBorzoi 6h ago

How about Trashy 80?

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u/Reality_Lies4 1h ago

I miss GW Basic

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u/white-blade877 5h ago

Do you remember the Vic 20 and Dosshell?
At school we used the Nimbus RM

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u/Workinforweekends 2h ago

Still have a Vic 20 with cassette tape drive.

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u/white-blade877 1h ago

Did you ever use pole and peek commands? I used them with an end function and loop to make a hypnosis program.

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u/M0byd1cck 4h ago

Commodore 64 j adore

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u/addys 4h ago

Vic20 /w a 2K RAM upgrade, for a total of whopping 6K !!!

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u/sttwolf 2h ago

Assembly

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u/fr3nzo 2h ago

My first computer was a Texas Instruments TI 99.

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u/stevesie1984 49m ago

Remember when floppy disks were floppy? 😂