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1981 Personal Computer Catalog
edibobb writes "I just fired up my scanner and uploaded the 35-page 1981 (+/- 1 year) personal computer catalog from American Small Business Computers. 16K RAM for $22; 10 megabyte hard drive, 5 meg fixed and 5 removeable, with 14-inch platters; 25-character per second printer. Things have changed a bit since then!"
Watching it die. Didn't finish the index, so I decided to let it load one image. 33% and it seems to be decreasing exponentially.
funny munging
The phone number given is now the phone number for Upperspace. They make CAD software.
You must be the last guy on earth to believe he actually said that. He didn't.
Support the First Amendment. Read at -1
I'll take it down if he wants me to, of course, but I thought it would help.
Your reality is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever. - Baron Munchausen
Er...that would be John Conway's Game of Life. Less fragging.
Parent is indeed a troll. Shot of goatse man instead of catalog page. (Blurred for your protection) It appears he is rotating the goatse man. Please mod down parent. Seems as though someone has way too much time on their hands and absolutely no life.
So... what would you expect the 6509 to be used for? It didn't have the math instructions of the 6809, but it (and the 6510) did have certain useful features when it came to making "personal computers" of the day.
Arcnet was a whopping 2.5mbits not 4mbits. I worked on some in the early 90's.
A quick google search for:
arcnet glossary
Arcnet
Slighty off topic, but related:
the classic computer magazine archive at http://www.atarimagazines.com/ has the text from some issues of Antic, STart, and Creative Computing magazines.
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looks like someone offered a mirror and when someone said it was goatsex, they didn't even check before modding you up and the poster down.
Did anyone else bother to check before moderating this guy up?
Says the RIAA: When you EQ, you're stealing bass!
Wikipedia is amazing -- it even has an entry for The Magic Wand word-processing software advertised on one of the catalog's pages:
Magic Wand (software)
It is definitely there. He's been turning it off and on, off until it's modded up, then on until a bunch of people complain, then he turns it back off to make the people who are complaining look stupid.
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I completly agree with that. I had my credit card since i was 18 and put almost everything on it and then pay it off almost every month and every few months get points to turn in for free stuff. I personally hate cash because I find that its so easy to spend and will even avoid places that don't take credit cards.
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Thats nothing, check out the Corvus ad on page 23 --
"This corresponds to a conservative baud rate of 1.1 megabaud...."
Megabaud? WTF? Is that some arbitrary unit of measurement that they invented to sound like this was wicked fast?
In it's defense, 100 megabytes of removable storange in 1981 was like 2 terrabytes of storage today.. so that was pretty cool.
"The Wright brothers were the first to fly with a heavier-than-air machine, but boy did they have a lousy plane"
Check others' comments as well. The grandparent poster (that I originally responded to) is changing the linked-to photos to be either goatse.cx or the correct photos as needed to get moderator points. If you go there at the wrong time you will definitely get a nasty photo. People who do this are socially retarded.
They offered a mirror, yes. A very special mirror.
This one.
Baud: Pronounced bawd, the number of signaling elements that occur each second. The term is named after J.M.E. Baudot, the inventor of the Baudot telegraph code.
At slow speeds, only one bit of information (signaling element) is encoded in each electrical change. The baud, therefore, indicates the number of bits per second that are transmitted. For example, 300 baud means that 300 bits are transmitted each second (abbreviated 300 bps ). Assuming asynchronous communication, which requires 10 bits per character, this translates to 30 characters per second (cps). For slow rates (below 1,200 baud), you can divide the baud by 10 to see how many characters per second are sent.
At higher speeds, it is possible to encode more than one bit in each electrical change. 4,800 baud may allow 9,600 bits to be sent each second. At high data transfer speeds, therefore, data transmission rates are usually expressed in bits per second (bps) rather than baud. For example, a 9,600 bps modem may operate at only 2,400 baud. (Definition from webopedia)
-- Qu'est-ce que la propriété intellectuelle? It is thought control.
Yes, they did that. Till the media found out that most of those 'American Made' goods where made overseas and ChinaMart was lying about it. 20/20 I think was the one that broke the story and did a primetime story about it.
One bank of 8 chips would have been 64K or 256K, not 128K.
The Mac Plus was the first one with SIMMs; four slots, you had to put SIMMs in in pairs (they were 8 bits wide, and the Mac had a 16-bit data bus), and you could put in 256K or 1Mbit SIMMs.
I have, in my attic, an Apple II computer with a little over a Meg of RAM (1 MB RamWorks card, plus 64K on the motherboard, and another 64K buffer on the printer card), and a Mac Plus with 2.5 Mb of RAM. I should plug them in and see if they still work...