This belongs to a museum.
Believe it or not but this is my first computer. This one, on the photo.
The year was 1988. Computers were not yet found in every home.
My parents wanted to encourage my dreams to become a writer and bought me computer to be used mainly as a word processor.
Computer and screen were one unit. It had no harddrive. The discs was 3 inches (3 ½ inches became standard later) and you had to take them out and flip them over to write on the other side.
Later, when I got what we today call a PC, and I was writing on this big novel of mine, I still stored the documents as one chapter per file.
My old computer didn’t leave other options. I don’t remember for sure but I think it didn’t permit files over a certain size. On the other hand, opening a file took it’s time, and scrolling to the bottom even more, so you kept your files short.
No need on my new PC with a 386 processor. It was fast as the wind. And it had graphics.
Those learning computers today cannot get how amazing 16 colors were then. And graphics, not just character-sized boxes.
Then I found out what a sound card meant. These were exclusive things, sold separately. And out from the speakers came music that sounded like real instruments, not a computer-beep in different frequencies.
And you know one of the most amazing things now is that this computer when it was bought was two years old. No, it was brand new. And it was not out of date. Not the most expensive high-tech, but it was still considered as modern.
A two year old computer in a store today would be a joke.
4 comments:
This post made me think about how old computers date a cop movie more than anything other than being made before computers sat on a desk.
You mean that computers and Internet affected cop's work so much?
No but they set a date when the movie is made more than clothes or the cars we see in movies.
:-)
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