I think the Apple II was ahead of the IBM PC, wasn't it? And I think Apple sold the crap out of them before IBM got into the biz, allowed Microsoft to put the oil in their anus and made the world a blue screen of death for all of us.

Tomorrow.

RabidDog: Tomorrow.

I know. I have a hangover and didn't check the date when I submitted

rancher: I knew there was a reason they ran into trouble. It seemed likely all along.

How did they know my PC is 25 years old.

Been after the boss for an upgrade for years.

I miss the Atari 130XE. Now there was a computer.

My first computer, the good old Commodore 64. Loved that thing. One night it drank a beer and died.

Get off my lawn

Dang! And I forgot to get a birthday card.

Cool. Headline fixed

The PC was for rich people. For the rest of us, the ZX80 owned. It was the first computer I used when I was a kid (circa 1983).



Mazogs was quite clearly the greatest maze game ever:


And Rocketman was the best action game.

BigTuna: Behold!

Ah, the infamous membrane keyboard. I had an 800XL myself.

10 PRINT "FARK!"
20 GOTO 10
RUN

That's odd, mine doesn't look a day over 20.

it'll probably have a "quarter-life crisis" the sissy.

\anyone remember ZORK on the Atari 800?

The PC is 25 years old tomorrow

Still hasn't moved out of his parents' basement.

I always wanted a Texas Instruments PC.

It was in color!!!

I think I have one of each of those in my basement.... I wonder if they have bred yet

Rembember when people used the phrase "IBM compatible"?

platypusjones

LMAO I actually still play zork when I get really bored, mainly for the snarky comments it makes

BigTuna: Behold!

I loved my Atari 400. Loved my 800XL even more and still have it somewhere. Along with 200 5 and a quater disks with a tab cut in the other side to make them double-sided.

Vic-20 for life

I had an Atari 800. Loved me some MULE, Load runner, Jumpman and Rescue on Fractulus. I still play those games via emulator.

Made by IBM, not quite IBM-compatible.

pandabear: Yeah, but guys in blue suits who sold "business machines" made it look less like a toy and more like a tool.

No suit on Earth could make these guys look like anything but tools.

No, the IBM PC is 25 tomorrow. The PERSONAL COMPUTER has been around since 1975, when the Altair was released.

'Nuff said.

It's been a rough 25 years

rancher: I think the Apple II was ahead of the IBM PC, wasn't it? And I think Apple sold the crap out of them before IBM got into the biz, allowed Microsoft to put the oil in their anus and made the world a blue screen of death for all of us.

You are correct. The Apple II was introduced in 1977. PC's just seem older, I guess. ;)

First PC was a Commodore Colt. No hard drive, had the luxury of swapping 5 1/4 disks around to play Leather Godesses of Phobos.

Man I feel old. Although it looks like some other farkers have me beat.

I also vaguely remember having a TI keyboard/computer that I could plug into the tv and write some basic commands. Spent two hours typing in code to make an "inch worm" crawl across the screen.

/the beginning of the end for me.
//disgruntled DBA

Ahhh, this makes me want to dig out my old C-64 from the basement and hook up the 1541 disc drive!

Load "Wishbringer",8,1

Every once in a while I whip out my Wang and play with it.



Mostly after Baywatch.

Apple IIe -> Apple IIgs -> 486/33, 486/50 -> ... -> Beige G3/266 AV Tower -> Quicksilver 733 -> Powerbook 17 1.0 -> MacBook Pro 15 2.16

You could all be running LSI-11 systems if DEC hadn't insisted that Heathkit price the operating system in the stratosphere.




Instead Gordon Letwin developed the HDOS operating system for the other Heathkit model:




We later got CP/M running on it and it outsold the LSI-11 systems about 100:1.

Letwin (the traitor) went to Microsoft and is in this famous photo:
Wikipedia: Gordon Letwin

Long live the Z-89! Long live the Z-100!

/Was there are the beginning.
//Gates wasn't even a millionaire then.

I had the Commodore VIC-20! Eat that all you 16k or 64k eletists. Back in my day we computed with 3.5k ram!

/was a BASIC wizard
//wrote my own text based football game which I saved on my AUDIO CASSETTE TAPE BACK UP!!!11!
///Lunar Lander > anything on XBOX

Teh PC's car insurance goes down tomorrow! BOO high car insurance! (HOORAY beer...)

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with
the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that
won't last out the year."
The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957

"But what ... is it good for?"
Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968,
commenting on the microchip.

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment
Corp.,1977

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Bill Gates, 1981, commenting on size of RAM in computers

My first PC as described in my post above.

Amen ignoramus

falser:

I would give anyhting to have my old Timex-Sinclair ZX-81 back. I had the 32 Meg expansion module and the normal keyboard chassis. I learned to program on that thing.

I really wanted one of these back in the day. Of course it was was waaaay to expensive for me then, as a young'un.

/still think it has a very nice design

Just imagine growing up in a time without computers...

No internet tough guys

A serious shortage of decent porn

Thanks to PC's we now have...

Fantasy sports leagues including internet tough guys and porn

Cheetoh swilling, opinionated loudmouths, whose odd rantings were confined to dungeons and dragons tournaments, but can now be shared with the world.

A whole new forum to express your religion or politcal leanings.

An easy way for bored, self-absorbed housewives to share their boring and uninteresting tales to people who are too polite to tell them they have no writing skills.

Thank you, Mr. PC!

Apple >