Computers in the 80’s : The best of worlds?
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May 30th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Waow, Cogip really has the best of tech, “a real little jewel”
May 30th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
And a great management team, and stunning secretaries.. I’d love to work for them.
May 31st, 2007 at 1:24 pm
that is my dream too
maybe in another life
June 1st, 2007 at 12:29 am
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.
June 9th, 2007 at 9:28 am
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.
June 10th, 2007 at 4:34 am
And notice too, how THIN everyone was!!!!!!!!
June 10th, 2007 at 6:47 am
I wouldn’t mind getting my hands on one of these ancient behemoths.
June 10th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Yeah, good old times… :]
June 10th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
what is with the kids in the 3rd picture????
June 10th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
lol check out the 4th picture down. This is what happens when cousins marry.
June 12th, 2007 at 2:36 am
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”
June 12th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Everyone was thin in the ’80s (gay-ties) because everyone was on coke…
June 13th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
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.
June 14th, 2007 at 3:31 am
The sixth one down eats children.
June 14th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
My dad used to work on one of those :) Nice collection
June 16th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Apparently smoking hot BABES used computers in the past…wtf?
June 16th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Don’t believe everything you see Max. They just sat next to it for the photo.
June 16th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Nothing like drinking on the job with your Equinox 100. Woohoo!! Gotta love corparate late 70’s america.
June 23rd, 2007 at 5:43 am
I remember taking spelling test on equipment like this in elementary school. Crazy.
June 25th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
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August 12th, 2007 at 8:16 am
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!
August 30th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
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 :).
September 11th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
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
June 13th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
My new watch has more ram than all of these badboys combined!
And why are the two kids starring at each other while playing missile command! The state of the free world is at stake and they are moon eyed at each other. It is not like they are playing that lame apple game where you are the bunny running through the maze to get a carrot.
The bunny game by the way was my entire grammar school education for three years in a row. How did they think that that was how you teach children about computers. Oh wow after my school spent 8,000 on 2 computers and after 100 hours of computer education over 3 years the children are now fully trained in the use of ALL the directional buttons!
Now my 6 year old niece uses the internet better and more efficiently that I do
June 25th, 2008 at 11:45 am
wierd
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:00 am
Nice collection and nice idea for a blog post. Thx
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Yep, I may be becoming senile now, but recognize ‘m.
I even remember changing the glass tubes every 6 months.
February 26th, 2009 at 9:05 am
I have seen the changing of glass tubes in History Channel. Definitely, It was tough those days.
June 12th, 2009 at 7:00 am
Oh wow. This gives me flashbacks of drawing geometric shapes using “Turtle” in grade one… thanks for the trip down memory lane!
June 13th, 2009 at 3:19 am
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