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History of Computers and Consoles
« on: August 17, 2012, 10:04:42 AM »
I no this is not pinball but I thought this vid was very interesting, computers and  game consols have come a long way.
Enjoy !!
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Re: History of Computers and Consoles
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2012, 07:05:39 PM »
Interesting... we had a Sinclair ZX80 at home... only had 8kb of memory. Each time you pressed a key it flooded the machine and the screen would go blank...LOL... funny to see the years go by like that.

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Re: History of Computers and Consoles
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2012, 07:13:40 PM »

Cool ! I used to buy the old "Zzap" magazine, which was a British mag - lots of cool stuff. It used to have programs you typed in (in basic) on the Commodore 64, and within hours you were playing text based games or a game with a sprite of two ! Peeking and Poking was a lot of fun back then.

I owned a Comx35, Commodore 64, Apple IIe clone and Amiga 500. Amazing gaming !

I remember catching the train into the City, buying a Commodore 64 and tucking it under my arm for the trip back home. Back then, no one hassled you. Try doing that today !
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Re: History of Computers and Consoles
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2012, 01:03:46 AM »
 #*# Yeah good times , owned Hanimex, Vic20, C64, Amiga500, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Vectrex, Colecovision, Many Game and watches, N64, Gamecube, Wii, PS1, PS3, Xbox, many-many handhelds up until now where I predominantly use the IMac G5  #*#and PS3 for gaming.
What did I learn from all that ? Nothing as I still don't know how to use a computer well and I really suck at pinball, but geez pinny's are much more fun.
Good link mate - wishiong I still had my C64 and Amiga 500 !!!
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Re: History of Computers and Consoles
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2012, 09:17:58 AM »
Cool link thanks for posting.
 
Stored away i still have a 1986 Atari 2600, a 1990 Sega Master system II and a Sega Mega Drive.

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Re: History of Computers and Consoles
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2012, 10:36:08 AM »
we had como64, was virtually useless for an 8 year old, was bought for us kids to learn computers, only usefull thing was the tape drive which would work sometimes lol, then we got our first pc, a 1x86 with no windows, just dos, then we got windows 3.1 wow, that was sort of better but still needed dos to get into window, and dos to run games, c dot dot dash windows, then type run, lol thats how a 8 year old me remembered to do it.
 we didnt have computers at school till i was around year 6 and they were useless apples, this was in the 90s still, but we had just got windows 95 at home. now that was cool.
when windows 95 came out the macs were no good and we then had 3 computers at school. then in year 8 the schools got the internet in the library, about the same time we got it at home, this probably around 97ish, crazy to think, that really wasnt a long time ago, then 2000 was still dialup for most of us, who weren't in a major city with cable. no such thing as adsl really even then. Im thirty and most of my schooling was with out computers except later high school when i finished in 2000, lol, really hasnt been a very long transition. My old man is cop, and i remember him in the police station with out a computer and everything was typewriter, crazy how fast shit has changed. but it really wasnt till the internet came around and available that computers where actually useful to any average old joe, one year no one knew what the internet was the next year every man and his dog was selling it, lol
all the sudden the consoles got put down and not played and every one was on a chat line lol, or creating a hotmail email account. lol
pc's were so useless for a time there, console was a case of putting the cartridge in and playing straight away with better graphics, lol none of this dos garbage.
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Re: History of Computers and Consoles
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2012, 11:02:44 AM »
1980 and im a 14 yr old boy at school. My dad being a computer engineer takes a Tangerine CPU and links it to an old monitor from work.. big bloody thing with green text. Dad even programs in a Space Invaders copy where the letter X would come down and you had to shoot them.
Dad donated it to the school and it was the first computer in a school for the whole of South London. The school were over the moon.. this was just fantastic!
After that we were subjected to writing arrays in Basic and Machine Code and running them on this super powerful state of the art computer...LOL
 My life after that was pretty much written out for me... i was destined for a bright future in computers.. something to which i vehemently stuck 2 fingers up at with a big F*CK YOU thrown in for good measure...LOL

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Re: History of Computers and Consoles
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2012, 11:06:30 AM »
Great link .

I remember 4th form 1978 in maths the school had a programmable caluclator (probably the size of a desktop PC today) that you programmed using punch cards .

Bought my 1st PC in 1991 with Win  3.1 .
How times have changed with the pace of technology .!
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Re: History of Computers and Consoles
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2012, 12:38:18 PM »
How good was the Atari 2600? Everyone had one, well almost, we never did! But I played a lot on friends' consoles. Clocking Missile Command was the highlight.

Missed my 8 bit microcomputer of choice being the VZ200/VZ300 as imported by Dick Smith Electronics from 1983 to 1987. I commenced collecting these a number of years ago and am quite happy with where it is at right now.

We had Microbees at school, and there was quite a few of us who knew more about computers in the Year 11 computing class than the teacher!

By about 1990 the writing was on the wall for the non-IBM compatible microcomputer (except for Apple) and the last few attempts probably didn't sell that well. The software became more important than the hardware and having a common platform became crucial (see 'failed' MSX attempt - sold 5 million in Japan but didn't take off in the important Western markets).

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Re: History of Computers and Consoles
« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2012, 03:11:34 AM »
Cool old stuff....

I met a dude years ago where i bought several microbees and VZ200/300s, he has the biggest computer museum in Aus (if not the world) down in Taralgon.

He has 1 of 2 "Commodore 65" (yes, i said "sixty-FIVE" !!!) computers in the original commodore display case....the "65" is in fact the prototype for what became the Amiga......betcha didn't know that  ;-)

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Re: History of Computers and Consoles
« Reply #10 on: August 19, 2012, 11:39:10 AM »
  !!!:I remember the commodore in high school ,(real basic) stick men games etc...back in 84".Then a mate said he was selling computers that was(early 90,s) 92 i think,& his "new" computers werent much beter than the high school stuff..,just silly block shaped car game etc,...I first saw the windows in 95" a mate had it set up with a business type software he was using ,all coloured & detailed (same as now)...now my 14 year old son has all the operating skills to make his windows 7 do anything....even the little apple i-pods are so advanced! :lol
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Re: History of Computers and Consoles
« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2012, 01:03:29 AM »
Cool old stuff....

I met a dude years ago where i bought several microbees and VZ200/300s, he has the biggest computer museum in Aus (if not the world) down in Taralgon.

He has 1 of 2 "Commodore 65" (yes, i said "sixty-FIVE" !!!) computers in the original commodore display case....the "65" is in fact the prototype for what became the Amiga......betcha didn't know that  ;-)

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Does this guy have a website??