The first PC I ever had was a used Tandy 2000 that my father purchased for us when we were around 12 or so. It was a slow machine that had a hard time handling even such games as the first War Craft by Blizzard. Oh, those were the days!
Despite what everyone else and their neighbour say about the seventies and eighties, that was a great time to grow up and experience the upcoming of technology what is so huge right now. :-) Kind of witnessing a slow but steady revolution. And it has not stopped, either. :-)
Hey, I had a t2k! Years after a TRS-80 Color Computer, but still, it was the bee’s knees. Of course, it had been designed in between the IBM AT and XT, so it was technically before the notion of PC compatibility, but you love for the faults, right? An 80186 with a standard 80286 math coprocessor, 720K DSDD floppies, woefully non-standard graphics… That was the life. Ah, yesteryear...
It was an amazing time to grow up because we as kids truly had the opportunity to experience both sides of the fence, or in other words analog vs digital! Kids these days are practically born into tablets, smart phones and screens everywhere, there is just so much that pulls for your attention and so little you can do to get away from it. I can't imagine how brutal high school must be now, with all the drama being practically feed right into social media.
Reminds me, toward the end of the Reagan years, I finally got Windows 2.1.1 running on it. That was before Apple won their infringement suit against Microsoft, so superficially it was very Mac-like, before Microsoft made everything cockeyed relative to the Mac. Only then did I finally get my hands on a Fat Mac with a hard drive. Ah, memory lane.
The first PC I ever had was a used Tandy 2000 that my father purchased for us when we were around 12 or so. It was a slow machine that had a hard time handling even such games as the first War Craft by Blizzard. Oh, those were the days!
Despite what everyone else and their neighbour say about the seventies and eighties, that was a great time to grow up and experience the upcoming of technology what is so huge right now. :-) Kind of witnessing a slow but steady revolution. And it has not stopped, either. :-)
Hey, I had a t2k! Years after a TRS-80 Color Computer, but still, it was the bee’s knees. Of course, it had been designed in between the IBM AT and XT, so it was technically before the notion of PC compatibility, but you love for the faults, right? An 80186 with a standard 80286 math coprocessor, 720K DSDD floppies, woefully non-standard graphics… That was the life. Ah, yesteryear...
I would have to agree with you!
It was an amazing time to grow up because we as kids truly had the opportunity to experience both sides of the fence, or in other words analog vs digital! Kids these days are practically born into tablets, smart phones and screens everywhere, there is just so much that pulls for your attention and so little you can do to get away from it. I can't imagine how brutal high school must be now, with all the drama being practically feed right into social media.
Reminds me, toward the end of the Reagan years, I finally got Windows 2.1.1 running on it. That was before Apple won their infringement suit against Microsoft, so superficially it was very Mac-like, before Microsoft made everything cockeyed relative to the Mac. Only then did I finally get my hands on a Fat Mac with a hard drive. Ah, memory lane.
The ram in the t2k was a whole 2mb. Man oh man and that 58mb drive, oh the possibilities!