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A personal computer manufactured from March 1987 to October 1990, seen in a store window, Powell River, B.C.
Epson PhotoPC 700
5.5mm f/2.8 glass lens (36mm equiv.)
1.2MP CCD
From my analog archives, a Xerox 530 computer is in the foreground, the Sigma 3 is in the background. Thanks for having a look. The 530 uses solid state memory along with other more "modern" components than the Sigma 3. They used the same instruction set and operating systems, thus we used the 530 for software development. This was taken in Skokie, Illinois at a life sciences R&D facility.
I've been in the corporate programming biz since graduating from college with a degree in computer science in 1982. During my ten year tenure at Lever Brothers, I wrote at least 600 interactive and background CICS programs, most of which communicated with VSAM indexed files as well as TS and TD Queues and a 3270 emulator screen. I always found it somewhat strange that such a large corporation didn't use IBM's relational database DB2. Oh well... back to the Newsweek magazine.
A floppy disk from LEGO which I build in early 2014. Some may never seen this 3,5" floppy disk which was the grand dad of today flash disk, nowadays is known as the "Save Icon or Save Button". It's hard to believe that on a 1,44 MB capacity on this floppy disk would fit lots of files back then. Hope you like it :)
If you like to make one, see the tutorial on my Youtube channel here: KosBrick
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aspen, colorado
1982
power cords, cassette tape drives and a texas instruments calculator
aspen computer society
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This is just a portion of a much larger room. It has nothing to do with a radio station and isn't a computer room.
From my analog archives, the Sigma 3 was being used for real time data collection and analysis in life sciences R&D. It had 64k of IRON core memory. It was taken in September of 1978 in Skokie, illinois. Initially the Sigma line of scientific real time computers was used to collect and analyze telemetry data from early US satellites. On the far left of the frame, the papers are taped to a Xerox 530 which we used as the development environment.
A short reminiscence on the motion picture film
"WAR GAMES" from the year 1983:
A STRANGE GAME.
THE ONLY WINNING MOVE
IS NOT TO PLAY.
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THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS -AND WOULD HAVE BEEN- NOT TO PLAY.
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... lenses and bellows in the same age of manufacturing!
Equipment for photo TS-Bellows ....
I didn't mark my back properly and exposed for B&W film here, not remembering I was exposing color positive film. I go a stop (or two) darker on my B&W film so this set didn't turn out well. Provia calls for sunlight and there certainly wasn't any here! When I shoot B&W I go for a darker more thoughtful photo. My color photos always want to be happy and vibrant. This one would have been better B&W I think.
Either way, here's a 400k drive originally meant for the 512k and under - I think. It's paired with my Plus here because they hold the same design and look well together. The Plus is sporting a HD20 and the smaller (and more likable) keyboard. Oh, and System 6.0.8.
When I saw this in a museum of technology, it gave me a pang. This was almost exactly like my setup back in the 80s! I'd also put the old TV that I was using as a monitor on a fat book. Possibly even this very book. I don't remember for sure, but it could be. Everybody in Germany had this book back then.
Oh, and that TV. It wasn't particularly kind on my eyes. As soon as I could afford it, which was definitely not "soon", I got a monochrome monitor. And there was the great big blinking block cursor. My cat loved to sit on the TV and chase the cursor with its paws.
So most of the time I couldn't see what I was typing because there was an upside-down furry head with two triangular ears blocking the view. And when the cat was elsewhere, the screen was full of dirty paw prints.
What I don't see here is a printer. I also had a great big noisy matrix printer hooked up.
I remember starting the computer and watching it counting every bit of its memory, seemingly slow enough for me to follow, until it proudly announced that it was finally ready and all of 38911 basic bytes were now available to cater to my computing needs.
I owned a few games, but even back then, they bored me. Except for a flight simulator. But as I didn't have much money as a measly engineering student, and serious software was painfully expensive (if it existed at all for the C64), I had to write a lot of it myself. I wrote my own word processor and even a rather primitive numerical propagation tool for satellite orbits.
The computer took forever to compute things that the computers at my current workplace will do in a few seconds. I remember one particularly tricky computation that took all day and half the night. I had gone to sleep waiting for the results. At around 2 in the morning the dot matrix printer robustly sprang into life, waking up not just me and my cat, but also the neighbours to the left and right, as the computer had finally finished its job and was now printing the results on reams of paper, after which it lapsed into a sort of exhausted coma.
Ah, the memories. Can it really be that this happened over 30 years ago?
Seen in the Technoseum, Mannheim, Germany
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Camera: Zeiss Ikon Contarex Special (built between 1960 and 1963)
Lens: Carl Zeiss Planar 1:2 50mm Contarex Mount
Kodak Portra 400 professional grade colour negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
This is not your grandma's computer. A 1.023 MHz processor with 128kb of RAM. 1-bit sound and a handsome 5.25 floppy drive, and another 5.25 external as a sidekick. It's playing SSI's "Computer Ambush", a tactical turn based strategy game that's squad vs. squad. You can buddy up with two people in front of this 9 inch screen or play the computer at your own leisure. It actually takes some really good reading to figure this game out as you don't necessarily see your enemies. It's a line of sight scenario, you never know where the enemies might pop up!
I'm a goof, computers always fascinate me. About the only one I'm not interested in is a branded Windows box. I love building new ones from New Egg though.
And you gotta love the green monochrome display or you have no heart!
Just removed and replaced this "popped" Rifa capacitor from an ACT Apricot Xi c.1983/5 computer's power supply (Astec PSU).
Canon's first portable (handheld) computer, Z80-clone-based.
Microprocessor Intel C8080A
The 8080 can be regarded as the first of the early fully functional
8-bit microprocessors and was introduced by Intel in 1974.
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Predecessor of the later Z80 / NSC800 processor family
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Tilt-/Shift-Bellows-M with E.Leitz Tele-Elmar 4/135mm
... lenses and bellows in the same age of manufacturing!
Equipment for photo TS-Bellows ....
I've always enjoyed the retro-ness of classic Macs but this Atari is cool enough to sway me away at times. I'm an old fan of the movie Cloak & Dagger with Dabney Coleman and Henry Thomas. In the movie, Davie's (played by Thomas) buddy at the local video game store finds government information in an Atari 5200 cartridge. Also on his desk is this Atari 800. Since seeing the movie as a kid I've always wanted one of these. I ended up getting one together late last year but as life goes, I haven't had much of a chance to use it yet.
I'm hoping for some better shots of the system but I really need a nice '80's set to make the picture complete. The printer is brand new from Best Electronics in California. It was pretty cool to open that one up.
I know I'm pretty much a geek but I'm not alone. There are tons of Atari fans still out there and there's even a tangible homebrew group still writing games for the sake of Atari.
I want you to play along. Visit collageretreat.wtf for instructions, and resources to get you started.
My Mobius One Page Display is finally paired with my SE. The cable was lost for quite a while, then hunting down the software, then what SE had the card in it again? I wasn't sure it worked even. The Mobius is an eBay purchase from a few years back. I wanted a one page display after seeing the desktop publishing episode of Computer Chronicles where they had a Plus paired with a Radius display. It just looked so sweet - and I'd still love to have a Plus hooked to a Radius.
It's awesome next to the SE. Tons of room, and the SE has an upgrade in it I noticed. It's quite zippy with System 7. I'd really like to get a LaserWriter II and get my Apple Scanner in the mix. I've got a copy of PageMaker 3 I've wanted to try on this monitor so I'll finally get to do that too - when time allows.
My 512k with Hyperdrive came today too, followed by a sad Mac at boot. I think the drive is shot. An awesome eBay week though, SimCity unopened for $6 and Civilization for $18, complete with manual. I was a bit bummed to see MicroProse didn't update the manual for Mac - it reads for IBM PC.
The LC80 is a single board computer designed for educational purposes. The "Lerncomputer" is enclosed in a ring binder to facilitate easy transportation and storage.
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Women Holding Parts of the First Four Army Computers. 1962
ENIAC and successor Army computers, 1946-62. From left: Patsy Simmers (mathematician/programmer), holding ENIAC board (1946); Gail Taylor, holding EDVAC board (1949); Milly Beck, holding ORDVAC board (1951); Right: Norma Stec, holding (mathematician/programmer), holding BRLESC-I board (1962).
"U.S. Army Photo", number 163-12-62.
Found on
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An 8085-based single-board microcomputer and trainer.
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Rechenknechte I8080 / C8080A, Z80-CPU, NSC800 mit
Intel C8231 / C8232, AMD AM9511 / AM9512, Motorola MC68882;
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NUR Tilt-/Shift-Balgengerät-M mit E.Leitz Tele-Elmar 4/135mm
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Number cruncher I8080 / C8080, Z80-CPU, NSC800 with
Intel C8231 / C8232, AMD AM9511 / AM9512, Motorola MC68882;
Processors and arithmetic coprocessors with 8-bit data bus. (Configurable on MC68882)
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Tilt-/Shift-Bellows-M with E.Leitz Tele-Elmar 4/135mm only
... lenses and bellows in the same age of manufacturing!
Equipment for photo TS-Bellows ....