Tandy for $8500....remember when!

[LynneSin]

[ewagner]

1. I used to sell those!

Hehehehehehe

If it's a Tandy, it's a DANDY!

Actually made a pretty good living off those things......

[Wickerman]

2. Sweet

and that was without the monitor and mouse!

[Mutley]

3. 16 MB capacity!!!

My mp3 player has more memory than that!!! :rofl:

We had a Tandy 2000 when I was a kid. The only thing I ever did on that thing was play DigDug and Wheel of Fortune!!!

[warrens]

4. Boing!

I bought my first PC, an Acer, in 93, and I think I paid $1,200. So things changed fast. No wonder I wasn't even vaguely interested in a PC before then.

[johnnie]

5. We had one of these

I took Basic in 1978 and learned a few things. I was indulging in other things back then and learning programming was a little too far out for me. I did come up with some pretty funky things on this thing though.


It took me many years later before I would get back into computers.

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[johnnie]

7. Yeah, that's where I got that pic from

I was way behind on the computer technology. Funny thing is..the man who invented the first computer has the same name as I do.


Oh, and welcome to DU.

[qnr]

8. My first and second

Followed by more than 50 others, all sorts of makes/models

Edit: BTW, the 400 is still going strong. A friend of mine that owns a photo lab over in Italy, still uses it daily in the lab (loves that chemical-resistant monopanel keyboard)

[RaleighNCDem]

9. My first was a IIe

I remember playing Jeopardy and Oregon Trail on this one.

[LynneSin]

10. My first was the old Compaq Presario with built in Monitor

It was a fricking box - all one unit (and a tiny monitor for that). I had just gotten a discover card and I saw they had this computer on sale which was normally $1200 for $999. What a piece of crap.

I've made up for all the expensive computers since my last 3 I've paid a total of $650 for all of them. Computers are like cars - they become out-date and depreciated as soon as you drive them of the lot

[Huckebein the Raven]

11. DL's first computer:

Apple IIgs

[Aiptasia]

12. WOHA! That blows my Timex Sinclair 1000 away...

[Aiptasia]

13. I ran a BBS on my Apple II/e

And on my old IBM xt computer. I payed $595 for my first 1200 baud modem in 1984 and I thought I was king shit.

[mark414]

14. "lightning fast 20 MHz"

hahahahaha

[Zuni]

15. I think my cat has more memory than that computer

and she forgets if she has eaten in the last 10 minutes

[LynneSin]

16. 10 minutes? Damn your cat is slow

Mine forget in about 5-7 minutes

[The Donkey]

17. Here's Mine - the cheapest computer ever . . .

Sweet Commodore VIC 20!

It didn't even have a floppy drive - it had a separate cassette deck. I do remember using it to write music and even wrote a few "Choose Your Own Adventure" stories on it though. I think it cost me $86 bucks of lawn mowing money.

And yes, that is Bill Shatner