Obsolete Technology: 40 Big Losers

[srkruzich]

... now I feel dumb...
It's okay, I don't need to know that anyhow. I just need to know someone who knows it; and looks like I do!

Don't tell my boys though, they still believe I'm the smartest woman in the world. 

Well Joanna, don't feel dumb. Most people have no interest in that stuff. I was a techno geek and I also loved physics and chemistry in highschool. That led me into electronics. 
Its harder for me these days but i can still fix electronic stuff.  The only problem now days is i can't see some of the components their so small. grrrr

[srkruzich]

Oh BTW The first computer I ever played a game on was the University of Georgia computer in 1974 i think hmmm maybe yeah it was around 74 i think.  My dad brought home a teletype machine with a built in accoustic modem and the game i played was golf.

Also My dad used to work for SBC corp in atlanta and used to take me into the computer room.  They had a Univac i think it was, and it was one that you programmed with a pegboard and wires instead of writing code like we do today. 

It was nothing more than a big calculator. 

[flintauqua]

Steve,

Here is a subject area where you are definently more knowledgeable than I and I respect your opinion without question.  So I have a question to ask.  I started my computer era with Atari DOS running on an Atari 1200XL.  I have been told that this dos had the same origin as what Gates & company supposedly sold to IBM before they had legally obtained it from someone in Oklahoma.  (and why did my Aspire just start going slower than said Atari )

Your thoughts?

Charles

Uhm i never saw atari have a DOS. I seem to remember it was cp/m or something like that. CP/M was much faster than DOS aka IBM Dos because it was true multitasking software.  CP/M Was doslike except that it A. Was a port from Unix. The commands are similar in it  and B. CP/M was true multitasking long before OS/2 and windows attempt at multitasking.

Kaypro was a big manufacturers of CP/M's back in late 70's early 80's.  Then came the IBM Pc which was a 8086 processor i think or was it a 8088. Hmmm i forget.  Sigh  My memory bites!  Anyway, pc jr was the first one.  Then came the 186 processor which was kinda wonky so they quickly went to a 286 processor.  The IBM AT.  That puter sold for 12,000 and it included a RGB monitor, okidata u86 printer, and two floppys and a mountain backup tape a 1200 baud modem, and 40 mb hard drive.  THe memory was 512k but you could expand it to 2 megs with a expanded memory card.

I don't know what the processor on the second machine you had was. But i suspect it was a 186 or something like that and it was slower because it did not multitask. The Atari if i remember right was a moterola processor and it had two buss's one for incoming data and one for outgoing data.  The 186 and 286 only had one buss that input and output.

Thanks, Steve.  Now I'm going to have to get the Atari out and see what the components inside are.  If I remember right, AtariWriter, the word processing "cartridge" had pull-down menus.  This was in like '83?  Anyway the Aspire is my Acer, Intel Core 2 Duo.  It was having a Vista moment .

Charles

[srkruzich]

Steve,

Here is a subject area where you are definently more knowledgeable than I and I respect your opinion without question.  So I have a question to ask.  I started my computer era with Atari DOS running on an Atari 1200XL.  I have been told that this dos had the same origin as what Gates & company supposedly sold to IBM before they had legally obtained it from someone in Oklahoma.  (and why did my Aspire just start going slower than said Atari )

Your thoughts?

Charles

Uhm i never saw atari have a DOS. I seem to remember it was cp/m or something like that. CP/M was much faster than DOS aka IBM Dos because it was true multitasking software.  CP/M Was doslike except that it A. Was a port from Unix. The commands are similar in it  and B. CP/M was true multitasking long before OS/2 and windows attempt at multitasking.

Kaypro was a big manufacturers of CP/M's back in late 70's early 80's.  Then came the IBM Pc which was a 8086 processor i think or was it a 8088. Hmmm i forget.  Sigh  My memory bites!  Anyway, pc jr was the first one.  Then came the 186 processor which was kinda wonky so they quickly went to a 286 processor.  The IBM AT.  That puter sold for 12,000 and it included a RGB monitor, okidata u86 printer, and two floppys and a mountain backup tape a 1200 baud modem, and 40 mb hard drive.  THe memory was 512k but you could expand it to 2 megs with a expanded memory card.

I don't know what the processor on the second machine you had was. But i suspect it was a 186 or something like that and it was slower because it did not multitask. The Atari if i remember right was a moterola processor and it had two buss's one for incoming data and one for outgoing data.  The 186 and 286 only had one buss that input and output.

Thanks, Steve.  Now I'm going to have to get the Atari out and see what the components inside are.  If I remember right, AtariWriter, the word processing "cartridge" had pull-down menus.  This was in like '83?  Anyway the Aspire is my Acer, Intel Core 2 Duo.  It was having a Vista moment .

Charles

Ohhh if your aspire is running vista then theres your problem!   Uhmm
Those cartidges on the atari were quite possibly pascal programs. I can't remember exactly.  The atari processor though was a gaming chip so it would have been built for video output. That sounds like a moterola processor much like what they used in the apples back then.
But in 83 that was when cp/m was around, and dos was making a debut.