Oldest Computer

[Dash800]

There was an Oldest Computer survey a few months ago that was a lot of fun, so lets try for another http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

I got an Apple ][e with the Added Text Card (I think it changes from like 40x25 to 80x25, I never really read about it), got a color monitor and the dual disk drives for it too. I still fiddle around with programming on that thing sometimes...

Anyone here have an Apple Computer Lisa?

[KillerBug]

Ah ya, the Lisa, his kid. Macs, apples, all that stuff sucks. Anyone see those orriginal calculators the size of a TV?

[skywalker[TSG]]

i have a commodore vic20

[Bazango]

I had a Sinclair unit that plugged into the TV. Does that count?

Speaking of old calculators, I remember an old Texas Instrument calculator that didn't even have buttons on it. It had a wand wired to it and you touched contacts for the numeric digits. $75 in about 1972 or 1971.

[zodwell]

Back in the late 70's my dad bought two calculators from his engineering firm. They weighed around 70 lbs each, and had a tiny CRT. One even had a square root button on it. I think they paid around $7000 for them when they were new. I'm not sure when that was......but I'll bet the farm that at that time slide rules ruled.

Zodwell.

[bringspeed]

how about an oddesy 2? does that count?

[Dash800]

Never heard of that, But MMM Sinclair, like the one in the Pirates of Silicon Movie (i thought that was a good one http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif