Great thread… My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80 with a massive 4k memory, I double stacked the chips to get a 16k machine (woo hoo) Had a slot in the side for program cartridges and used a cassette tape drive to save files, took like 1/2 hour to get one file saved and was hooked up to my 13″ TV…LMOA. I thought I was hot S&^t when I got a 5 1/4 floppy and could notch the disks to get them to write both sides.
When I left the US Navy (we still had punch cards) I became a manager for Radio Shack, this was in the glory days of Radio Shack… Our store system used three 5 1/4 floppy drives and we would have to change disks for the application we wanted, payroll, orders and transmit disk. Dialed the modem phone number on the phone and shoved the handset of the phone into the rubber cups of the blistering 300 baud modem.
Graduated to our first hard drive with a whole meg of space and the size of a large briefcase! Think it sold for 2k at the time hahaha
The biggest advance was a 20 meg “hardcard” the 1st internal HD and sold tons of them for 799.00! What a diffference now….
Anyone recall the first laptop? It was the the Tandy 100… LCD screen (old school) display and 4k ram expandable to 8k. I think it was 1999.99 when introduced. Now I have 2 gig ram, 200 gig HD, 17″ true brite, DVD burner all for $549! I love it!
Who woulda thunk it