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Was it the Imsai 8080? For some reason I seem to remember it being a Northstar Horizon. Haven't seen that movie in a looong time though.

Back when I was in elementary school we had dozens and dozens of Apple II's and IBM PC XT's (with the original clackety-pop keyboards that were awesome to type on, no less!) Oh the joy of swapping 5.25" floppy disks.
 
Took a minute, but there's the Trash-80 model 1. My family owned one in the early 80's. I remember playing 'Haunted House'. :)
 
Couldn't beat the trash 80's, pretty good PC's. All I've got left of the bygone days is a Sanyo MBC-1250 & a Kaypro II, both being CP/M machines.
 
I don't remember the specific show that used the Imsai - but I do remember the old Sci-Fi movies that used the old discarded Univac stuff and scopes with Lissajous patterns on them to make them look high tech.

Was it a movie or a TV show?
Didn't the orginal space shuttle use an S-100 based computer?

DH

ZebraBlvd said:
a walk down computer memory lane. Without looking can anyone remember the show that one of these appeared in. Hint: A whopper of a Tic-Tac-Toe game was played.

http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-2788-1.html
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My sweet spot. :)

While I cannot afford a 8080, I do have a few vintage computers.

Of about 25, includes compaq portables I, II, III, Kaypro IV, Osborne Executive, Apple II, TI PPC and more.
All of them can be seen at http://ubertech-museum.com .
 
I remember my first PC. I couldn't wait to bring the girls over and show them my big 5 1/4 inch floppy.
 
I remember the IMSAI 8080 and all the CP/M machines. Remember the Osborne 1 portable? I cut my teeth on the tiny Timex 1000 (AKA Sinclair Z81) with the same Zilog Z80 processor that ran CP/M, but this thing had a membrane keyboard with BASIC command words built into the keyboard. I then moved to the Heathkit H-100, one of the early proprietary MSDOS computers before a hardware standard had materialized. It had an S-100 bus. In those days, it was common to stay loyal to your machine for as long as you could before abandoning it for the PC.
 
ZebraBlvd said:
a walk down computer memory lane. Without looking can anyone remember the show that one of these appeared in. Hint: A whopper of a Tic-Tac-Toe game was played.
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"Shall we play a game?"

Ah yes, I remember WarGames well. That website was interesting and was fun to see some models I had as scrounged hand me downs back in the late '80s.

Let's see, I had a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I with the monitor from a Heathkit H8. Later changed it out for a Tandy T-1000, iirc., with the same monitor. Switching to a TV adaptor from the TI-99 providing color was a revelation of sorts. Somewhere I still have a Texas Instruments TI-99 packed away in storage with a lot of my other childhood mementos. That model was endorsed by Bill Cosby, so you know it's good. I remember using programs with that one that were manually typed and recorded onto cassettes.

Shame they don't have one that I had a long time ago and can't remember the model. It supposedly was an old "business mainframe" with four large units using two 8.5" floppy drives each interlinked to be one system and an associated daisy wheel printer. It was quite the system and all together the size of a compact refrigerator.

Amazing how far technology has come. My toaster has a more sophisticated microchip in it than any of these systems.

- JP
 
ZebraBlvd said:
a walk down computer memory lane. Without looking can anyone remember the show that one of these appeared in. Hint: A whopper of a Tic-Tac-Toe game was played.

http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-2788-1.html
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:lmao::lmao::lmao:

Matthew Broderick!

And Dabney coleman, Ally Sheedy and Michael Ensign!


Gave me quite a laugh there with that "Tic-Tac-Toe" reference!

To think, that was 1983- Hip Hop and Breakdancing was just gaining popularity.


What a trip!
 
Charivari, you probably had an old Wang computer, there were a LOT of them floating around.....

I put together an old IMSAI system, INCLUDING the infamomous front panel (a bitch) the guy I knew wasn't as good at soldering and assembly so he "let" me put it together for him...

Later I built a really s##t hot system, a 4 MHz Z80 s-100 with 64k DRAM and a PAIR of DUAL SIDED DUAL Density 8 inch floppies. Then they HAD to come out with hard drives.... :gigglemad

I had it all mounted in a 19 inch rack (an old 6 foot tall, welded construction DEC PDP-8 rack, which I STILL have, now chock full of rack mount signal generators, a ups and scopes.

Whenever I fired that thing up, it wiped out TV on the VHF channels for the house, that's why I got cable in ther house, cheaper than shielding the whole thing or having my ma make scrap metal out of it with her bare hands!!


BUT... back to Wargames....
 
I cut my programming teeth on an Apple-II at high school.
That cassette interface for data storage wasn't missed when floppy drives came out :no:
 
What, nobody had a Commodore? For some reason I kept my CBM Vic20, the CBM 64, the monitor, two floppy drives, a tape drive and boxes of software many of which are plug-in cartridges.

I will venture to say that they were the first mass market success in computers. They sold bajillions of them!
 
I still have a 128 around in a box somewhere with the 5 1/4 disk drives. My first computer job was for a Kayro dealer. Had to constanly re-allign the floppy drives. We were also HP, the 150 touch screen was the bomb! :yes:
 
Aage said:
What, nobody had a Commodore? For some reason I kept my CBM Vic20, the CBM 64, the monitor, two floppy drives, a tape drive and boxes of software many of which are plug-in cartridges.

I will venture to say that they were the first mass market success in computers. They sold bajillions of them!
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Yes, but that webpage is devoted primarily to late '70s computers. Mine never worked right (abused by previous owner) and was pretty old by the time I had it. A friend of mine has owned one since new that he amazingly still uses on occasion for actual spreadsheet purposes and not just the novelty. Good luck finding a newer computer that will run more than 3-5 years without a motherboard failure or the like.

- JP
 
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