From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-)
Oldest I've owned is a Commodore-64. My first IBM PC clone was a CompuAd 12 MHz 286,
with a full 1MB of RAM, 20MB hard disk, and dual 5.25" floppies. Cost me $2000. It was a
fairly hot system, because 10MHz 286's with 640K were still most common. And then I later added a 287 math co-processor to increase performance for my raytracing graphics programming class. The 16 MHz 386 had just debuted around that time, but was untouchable at over $5000!
Oldest stuff I've actually used:
- a DECWriter terminal for a VAX. (This thing had no monitor, it was a printer with a keyboard attached, where your keystrokes and "display" output went directly to the printer.
- countless other VAXen
- Apple II
- Tandy Co-Co
- Commodore Pet.
- Trash-80 Model III
- CDC Cyber mainframe.
- VIC-20
- Atari 400 and 800
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