Jeez... How far we have come.. 5 hours to download text..
Posted by Dan Beach (Member # 9850) on :
That guy "Owns Home Computer" haha.
Posted by Mark Smith (Member # 298) on :
What a time warp!!! I started programming on TRS-80s. Thanks Glenn!
Posted by Jon Jantz (Member # 6137) on :
That's crazy. Reminds me of the old days of BBS's. Man, to me, those text based games back then were still the most fun games of all time. Solar Realms Elite RULED!
Posted by Deri Russell (Member # 119) on :
LOL I had that same hairstyle the reporter has in 1981! Didn't buy a computer until 1992 though. Man was I behind the times!
Posted by Jake Lyman (Member # 3280) on :
1981 was an amazing year. Especially in late August.
Thats interesting about the net though.
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
What's also interesting about the net...
...this same story was posted on dozens (if not hundreds) of blogs, and forums yesterday, and was even played on the news last night!
28 years that someone has had that video clip around & for some reason yesterday it pretty much traveled around the entire world, repeatedly!
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
Glenn, can I ask where you came upon that link?
I didn't follow it before, because I knew what it was... but I just saw it get posted on another sign forum a few minutes ago, and saw that it was a youtube link, so I checked the date & was surprised to see March '08.
The first time I saw it, yesterday morning, was when another signguy posted it on his facebook page. That link went to a TechCrunch blog post that was dated yesterday & has 168 replies already... which seems possibly related to the fact that it was on the news last night...
...so that's why I was surprised that the youtube link is close to a year old. This viral marketing through the social networking channels is pretty amazing stuff, so I thought I'd ask where you ran across the link out of curiosity.
Posted by DianeBalch (Member # 1301) on :
Ernie built his first computer in 1978. He soldered the circuit boards. It cost $1700 for the kit, plus a monitor and a tape recorder. That was before floppy drives and hard drives. The computer also had toggle switches on the front that you had to flip. The first "floppy" discs were 8" across and were floppy.
Diane
Posted by Jon Butterworth (Member # 227) on :
Newspapers were "hand type set" when i was a kid,
Si probably read the "news" on cave walls
Space Invaders was my first computer game .... still love it.
First compter was a 486. That plus Signus software and plotter cost $20,000 in those days!
Hard to convince the bank to loan me the money that would pay it out in less than a year. Which it did.
But that was before "competition" in the market arrived!
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
Doug, I ran across it via Breitbart.
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
interesting. It showed up there on the 29th also, and referenced techcrunch... a viral message if I ever saw one!
Posted by david drane (Member # 507) on :
Wow!! and you could even copy/paste.. Amazing what we now take for granted...LOL
