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April 03, 2006
Think Different
Yes, I'm a big geek. If you didn't know that, you also probably didn't know that my favorite computer company just celebrated their 30th. I personally thought that their anniversary being on April 1 had something to do with this giant iPod in Australia, and then it was refuted. It does exist, it just happens to look like an iPod.
So my oldest computer was a Radio Shack Color Computer, which was obviously a huge step above the TRS-80 computers. It had a whole 16K of RAM to begin with, but I managed to hotwire it up to 64K.
What a sexy beast it was. I remember typing for HOURS on its stupid chiclet keyboard, then trying to save the programs to a cassette player. Its processor clocked in at less than 1 Mhz, but through software commands, I could double it.
Yes, I was that sad.
Once I got my first Mac, everything else paled. I've owned Macs since they first came out. My family even had a Lisa, which was the predecessor to the Mac. I've owned a Mac Plus, a Mac Classic, a Power Mac 6100, two iBooks, and one Powerbook. I've seen the great design, the bad design, and I've seen what happens when you plug an American Apple Imagewriter II into a UK electric socket.
What do I want next? I'm lusting for the new Macbook Pro with the new Intel processor.
I've already seen the workaround that will allow me to start it up as a PC with Windows, as I've been dying to have a PC game machine. Now I'll have them both in one sexy package.
Yes, I said it was sexy. Mock me.
Posted by G at April 3, 2006 09:40 PM
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I'm so sad. I remember the TRS-80. We commodore affcionados used to called them "trash 80s".
Posted by: myke at April 3, 2006 11:37 PM
mock you for calling it sexy? never! i'm the guy that surfs the mac rumor sites like they were porn. you have trained me well obi-wan.
Posted by: brian nesbitt at April 4, 2006 07:33 AM
OMG...I also had a TRS-80 color computer, but mine was the color computer 2, which had a slightly better keyboard. (Also with a tape, drive by the way.) Oddly enough I had it hooked up to a b/w TV, so how lame is that.
Since getting rid of that machine, I've been Steve Jobs' bitch. A Performa, an iBook (tangerine, with the orignal clam-shell case), and several powerbooks (not to mention, an unmentionable number of iPods.)
Having been burned with the Classic-OSX transition, I'm going to wait a while on the new Intel machines.
Posted by: Alan at April 4, 2006 09:47 AM
I miss my Commodore 64.
I used to waste HOURS uploading
programs from cassette tapes.
Cassette tapes for Pete's sake!!!
Posted by: Mike P. at April 4, 2006 11:32 AM
I used to love my Commodore 64...
Posted by: Foxy at April 4, 2006 01:04 PM
Mmm. Sexy. I want one too! You're a total geek. Geek on!
Posted by: goblinbox at April 4, 2006 03:29 PM
I have the new MacBook Pro, and I have to admit that I'm a bit disappointed. There are a few glitches, and I have to send it back in, though some of the glitches I think may be software related and nothing they can fix just yet. Don't get me wrong, it's a sexy machine. But I'm just a wee teeny bit disappointed.
And yes, Commodore machines. Ah, the games. Ah...
Posted by: PatCH at April 4, 2006 03:53 PM
"...I was that sad." ?
Not at all.
Geeks, especially bald geeks, are hot.
Posted by: circleinasquare at April 6, 2006 03:00 PM
Well, I had a Commodore Amiga 500. We bought a "mini-meg" apparatus to plug into the side which gave it a whopping 1MB of memory. However, the thing just wasn't the Apple IIC, which I had begged for. I'd been programming and taking apart the Apples at my school for three years. I've always said that if we had gotten the Apple, I'd be an IT professional today.
Sigh.
Posted by: MzOuiser at April 7, 2006 12:51 PM
My first computer was a Commodore 64C.
Ah, good times.
Posted by: Randy McDonald at April 8, 2006 10:53 PM
A comma-wha?
But if you want to 'PC game', I recommend getting a PC.. the money/performance ratio is a lot better.
But then again, that this is definitely sexy.
Posted by: jase at April 9, 2006 12:34 AM
I remember my Commodore 64! I got it for my 10th birthday. I lived in a house with a large closet that had built in shelves. I would spend hours in the closet (ha ha) writing programs in BASIC and saving them to cassette tape as well.
I was so excited when I upgraded to the Commodore 128 and my parents bought me a 5 1/4" Floppy Disk Drive with it.
Remember --> Load "ProgramName" ,8
:-)
Posted by: Jeff at April 22, 2006 11:23 AM