Computers in the 80’s : The best of worlds?

The wonderful world of Computers, before the internet.

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25 Responses to “Computers in the 80’s : The best of worlds?”

  1. RD Says:

    Waow, Cogip really has the best of tech, “a real little jewel”

  2. JFB Says:

    And a great management team, and stunning secretaries.. I’d love to work for them.

  3. RD Says:

    that is my dream too
    maybe in another life

  4. Rob Says:

    Wow, those pictures do bring back memories! (All of them under 64K, lol!)

    I wouldn’t call this “before the internet”, but “before the IBM PC”. That’s when computers turned to homogeneous toasters.

  5. Mike Says:

    This is also before Microsoft dominated OSes (MS-DOS and Windows). Back when there was an different OS for almost every hardware platform like CPM, TRDOS, GEM, AmigaOS, GeOS, and many others. Sigh.

  6. Greg Says:

    And notice too, how THIN everyone was!!!!!!!!

  7. m Says:

    I wouldn’t mind getting my hands on one of these ancient behemoths.

  8. zhao-zhuxi Says:

    Yeah, good old times… :]

  9. j Says:

    what is with the kids in the 3rd picture????

  10. auximines Says:

    lol check out the 4th picture down. This is what happens when cousins marry.

  11. SK Says:

    4th picture down….
    “It’s important when playing Missile Command to not actually watch the screen. Instead, make googily eyes at your 8th grade sweetheart and hope for the best”

  12. Heman Says:

    Everyone was thin in the ’80s (gay-ties) because everyone was on coke…

  13. Joe G Says:

    I used to like that game in the 4th picture, i cant remember what it was called, but those streaks were bombs coming down to blow up the cities that are on the bottom of the screen. It was a sort of WW3 type game. You had to basically shoot those streaks before they came and destroyed your cities.

  14. zach Says:

    The sixth one down eats children.

  15. Gadgets Geek Says:

    My dad used to work on one of those :) Nice collection

  16. Max Says:

    Apparently smoking hot BABES used computers in the past…wtf?

  17. JFB Says:

    Don’t believe everything you see Max. They just sat next to it for the photo.

  18. crashed4u Says:

    Nothing like drinking on the job with your Equinox 100. Woohoo!! Gotta love corparate late 70’s america.

  19. Michael Yates Says:

    I remember taking spelling test on equipment like this in elementary school. Crazy.

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  23. Christine Says:

    OMG, I remember using the one the boy is using near the top. I was in Grade school and we were learing how to write simple programs. LOL!!! Thats too funny!

  24. Paul Says:

    That first picture blows my mind. Computers in the 80s were still a little bit before my time and boy just look how quickly things have progressed :).

  25. Patrick Says:

    LOL!!! im doing a report on computers from the 80’s and they look so funny and BIG! im only 15 so this is so odd compaird to my computer (MacBook Pro) sooooo it think that ill buy one of thoughs computers on ebay.com

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