Now this is old skool, a front page from a BBS no-less http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000430055334/ Hippo
Wow that does take you back, I just sold my first nintendo a year ago and I sooooo remember those huge cell phones. Dang I feel old now.
Bwahahaha, that was awesome. I didnt know cellphones were originally like that. I love that flat panel PC bit though
"One day in the future we’ll all work at 200MHz tower desktops with 9600 baud modems, but until then we’ll just have to keep dreaming." haha
Wow, people really did think that technology couldn't be as advanced as today! I wasn't around in 1985, but this article has made me realise that Apple could've been the market leader today, rather than MS. Imagine what this would would be like with the designs of apple all over the place? EDIT: And this sooo made me laugh!
That flat screen quote made me laugh out loud. I guess they didn't realise then how fast we'd really move on...
I was, in fact, I was a high school senior in 1985 (graduated in '86).. In the 80's, all I knew was Apple gear - learned on Apple IIe's and graduated to Mac SE and eventually Mac SE80 (Mac SE with an 80mb hdd). It was exceedingly rare to find IBM or MS equipment in any schools because Apple had fantastic deals with schools and students. One of the jobs I had when I graduated was selling Macintosh computers at a retail store and my job was specificaly to handle Syracuse University and Lemoyne College student purchased. Apple had a fantastic student discount and payment plans which kept them in the lead for many years. It's only when I think Windows 95 was released that MS decided to start their educational program and pushed Apple out of the classroom with more discounts and incentives.
Yeah we had apple's too back then. Great times not knowing which to turn on first, the box or the monitor... Couldn't kill them though...
The ES-1 can snap 640 x 480 pixel pics with its 2/3-inch digital sensor and then save the images to 3.5-inch floppy disks (if only those things didn’t cost so damn much, anyone have a hook up on cheap floppies?)
Yup, in fact it was relatively easy. All you needed was an eeprom writer and blank cartridges for the NES.
I started with the IIe at work too, but I think IBM-PC cloning and cut-throat competition between the cloners killed Apple - we moved to Tandon's Target 286, (TAN)DOS 3, long before even Win 3.0. Apples were very expensive for what you got. Most UK schools (and many home users) had the BBC Acorn/Archimedes, 6502 and much cheaper than an Apple system.
