A trip down tech memory lane

In an age when the choices are one of three operating systems, in machines differentiated, for the most part, by shape and colour, it's hard not to get wistful about the 'old' days. I have the C64 cyan and blue main screen as my wallpaper on my Win7 notebook. A person's allegiance to any one of the older machines is usually defined by what they first started using. Entire online camps are devoted to the machines of those days; Timex Sinclair, Commodore Vic20 & C=64, Amiga, TRS-80, CoCo, Atari 400/800, Apple II. Some folks even had the Adam computer that attached to their Colecovision. Measured against our current expectations of technology, the old machines are utter dinosaurs, but in their time, what they were capable of was nothing short of mind-blowing. For those of us over the age of 35, that technology is the reason we're employed in IT now. it is only right that we honour our past by realizing that those early days set us on the career paths we're now on.

Ok--I AM an idiot! I wrote too soon and now I AM seeing captions with many of the pictures. Nothing like jumping the gun without having all the facts!

Sorry, history? That was only yesterday!!!!

I still have one of those. GX 20-1850-3. But does anyone have the GX 20-1850-4 (paper version)? Did you know that there is an error on page 15 (code tables)? Decimal 226 is listed as 1101 0010.
That should be 1110 0010

I also have a drum from a card punch and should still have a sorting needle.

I took 4 ceramic Pentium II and superglued them together to make a coaster for my coffee mug.

Locking the door to the computer room with a lookout at the window (just in case). Turning on the Commodore Pet with 1k expansion pack and running a 10 second digitized (in ASCII characters) scene from "Deep Throat". If you squinted just enough your eyes could just make out the pictures from 6 feet away. Oh! And we still managed to download data from an orbiting Russian weather satellite to prove to the teacher that we actually were doing something innocent.