OK, who remembers these?

[DavePa]

It's amazing to think all the brand names that have disappeared now... Tulip Computers anyone?

 

Wow, that's a thread in it's own right!

 

Are Gateway still around?

Tandon

Ti-ko (I think that was the name)

Commodore (who made IBM style computers as well as the Vic-20, 64, Amiga style computers)

 

I'll have to see if I still have my old (about 1985) copy of 'The Microcomputer Handbook' which had tests of a whole range of them

[pcstru]

I've used paper tape and punched cards. I've written COBOL programs that relied on data coming from one tape spool while being written to another. I've felt the floor shudder as discs the size of washing machines span up to offer less storage than a cheap disposable mobile phone. All that technology lost in time, like tears...in...rain.

[Dos_Box]

Wow, that's a thread in it's own right!

 

Are Gateway still around?

Tandon

Ti-ko (I think that was the name)

Commodore (who made IBM style computers as well as the Vic-20, 64, Amiga style computers)

 

I'll have to see if I still have my old (about 1985) copy of 'The Microcomputer Handbook' which had tests of a whole range of them

 

Agree, I'll set one up now

[Dos_Box]

Here you go: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/general-chat/168623-computer-brands-graveyard.html#post1443332

A place of mourning for hardware past.

[DavePa]

I've used paper tape and punched cards. I've written COBOL programs that relied on data coming from one tape spool while being written to another. I've felt the floor shudder as discs the size of washing machines span up to offer less storage than a cheap disposable mobile phone. All that technology lost in time, like tears...in...rain.

 

What a good film that is

[HarryMonkey]

My IT world began at the Oxford Regional Health Authority back in the '70s, writing macros for an ICL 1903T running GEORGE III, on punch cards, followed by reams of COBOL coding sheets input manually be me on a terminal or buy the Key To Disc girls in data control. My first home computer was a Spectrum which I soon got fed up with those rubber keys and moved to an Amstrad CPC 6128 and eventually to a PC1640.

[SpuffMonkey]

I left school in 1977 - I did an optional extra Computer Programming course where we filled in OMR cards with 2B pencils and then cycled to the local tech with them and returned for a print out the next week. Went off to college to do Industrial Engineering and had a few brushes with the Teletype consoles and 200 baud acoustic couplers, wrote a Space Invaders type thing that printed off each iteration of action on a band printer! Alas by graduation the industry I had studied (steel & coal) had mostly gone.

Had a ZX81 and Spectrum to play around with then went back to college to do a post grad conversion to Unix & C programming - never looked back - moved to PCs and Novell in the 1990s and then MS in the early 2000s

[mrbios]

I remember having a bbc micro in primary school, although...my only memory of it is sitting infront of it, stabbing my friend in the eye with a pencil (not on purpose of course) and then not being allowed to play on it....and shortly after the same friend set off the fire alarm by sticking a crayon inside one of those massive gas heaters. Good times.