Icons of the last 25 years of computing?

[dr4g0nf1y]

Nuff said

 

[Sash]

Shudders. Apple imac. Brings back bad memories from my school. Stupid POS.

 

[gillywibble]

ZX Spectrum.

 

[Django x2]

Commodore 64 was where it was at if you must know.

 

[V4NT0M]

The start of the what was never to be "pocket PC" market

Confused by this statement.

 

[Cosimo]

Anyone else remember the absolute nightmare that was accidentally knocking over a full stack of punch cards? Or even loading up one of the vacuum fed tape-drives?

Or 5¼-inch/8-inch floppy disk drives?

 

[ac1d1ty]

Confused by this statement.

I think he was being Ironic.

Palm basically started the handheld business but basically went bust because it didnt take off then.




Its like microsoft and apple. Microsoft have repeatedly pushed tablet pc's over the years, but have not had much success.

Apple are starting it now and everyone is fawning round it. :/

 

[ac1d1ty]

Or 5¼-inch/8-inch floppy disk drives?

I found a whole crate of 5.25" floppies.



spindly flappy little things.



Into the skip!

 

[Ace Modder]

My first ever computer

 

[V4NT0M]

I think he was being Ironic.

Palm basically started the handheld business but basically went bust because it didnt take off then.

Its like microsoft and apple. Microsoft have repeatedly pushed tablet pc's over the years, but have not had much success.

Apple are starting it now and everyone is fawning round it. :/

But Palm, Pocket PC, Psion, Win CE manufacturers sold millions of "pocket pcs" I wouldn't say it was a "never to be" market, their functions have just slowly been replaced by better mobile phones and laptops. You only have to look at the variety of handled devices that used to be available to see that it was a thriving market.

 

[bledd]

BBC Acorn
Then a 33mhz PC (when turbo button was in, 8mhz without ) Windows 3.11
Then a 400mhz Dell (Windows 98SE)
Then I built my own and used XP+

 

[Mobius 1]

anyone ever have one of these??

 

[D.P.]

Anyone else remember the absolute nightmare that was accidentally knocking over a full stack of punch cards? Or even loading up one of the vacuum fed tape-drives?

Spilling the newly invented instant coffee on a fortnight's worth of punch cards which calculated the square root of 42 was a nightmare.
As was the debugging, I would post the punch-cards off to the US, being low on funds these went by boat and arrived 6 weeks later. Waiting a week for a slot in the machine schedule, then BAM, there was a bug. Back in a boat across the Atlantic for 6 weeks, lost in by the royal mail. Started punching away again.


A typo in a punch card is a real pain!

 

[Shadez]

[4] The Palm Pilot and Apple Newton - The start of the what was never to be "pocket PC" market

Wrong the pocket pc market is alive and stronger than ever. Most mobile phones are Pocket Pc's.

omg amstrad still remeber playing mine when i was about 5-6!

I Still have mine

 

[Cosimo]

anyone ever have one of these??

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Yup and a TT.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

Where's the love for these bad boys?

 

[Cosimo]

Where's the love for these bad boys?

[/QUOTE]

There’s still a fond memory. :)

 

[Mahnsikir]

Shudders. Apple imac. Brings back bad memories from my school. Stupid POS.

Indeed those Imacs were a POS, thankfully there where completly replaced within few years of them arriving at my old school.

 

[Ceryndrion]

ugg a BBC model B.. much preferred the BBC Master

 

[Iraklis F.C.]

my first ever was a CPC-6128