We had  a really old "thing" at work, we used it for various machining calcs.    It had a red led display and had cost a fortune when new. 

We were writing "G"codes manually.  Then enter onto a Beeb, which would compile them.  Fortunately by then we had a floppy drive to save them - all on 51/2" f-a-f.

By then we had gone all modern.  My personal one now is an FX361 which replaced the one bought for some post grad work, and then was stolen. 

 

Surprised no one has mentioned the BBC series.  32k ram - wow. 

 

Re the slide rules, I used a 6" one when I worked at Dunlop. 

Great for doing on the shop floor sums. (well, was better than the bit of chalk, literally on the floor, style some of the other guys used. 

I've got s Psion 5 somehwere and an Atari Falcon 030 in the loft too

I always had a soft spot for the old Archimedes acorn machines that ran risc-os, streets ahead of any other pc that was available at the time, in fact it's still thier microchips that power the iPad and many other devices today!

I had a 'BBC' Acorn Electron. It were rubbish. You couldn't even get games in John Menzies.

 

And that cartoon is totally wrong I bought a Pentium 1 with 133Mz, 32Mb Ram, 1Mb gfx, 2Gb hd and a 15" monitor for about £800 in 1996. I've still got most of in my parents loft.

I added a Voodoo 1, 2Mb 3D card.

 

It's the Wheezer track that always reminds me of it since that was build into Win95

I always had a soft spot for the old Archimedes acorn machines that ran risc-os, streets ahead of any other pc that was available at the time, in fact it's still thier microchips that power the iPad and many other devices today!

My school bought one of them - was amazing seeing the speed and power when compared to what else was around at the time. One guy managed to get Elite onto it (while the teacher was out. it looked awesome.

I had a 'BBC' Acorn Electron. It were rubbish. You couldn't even get games in John Menzies.

 

And that cartoon is totally wrong I bought a Pentium 1 with 133Mz, 32Mb Ram, 1Mb gfx, 2Gb hd and a 15" monitor for about £800 in 1996. I've still got most of in my parents loft.

I added a Voodoo 1, 2Mb 3D card.

 

It's the Wheezer track that always reminds me of it since that was build into Win95

 

I don't think the cartoon is wrong, I remember when getting a PC in 1996 and enviously eying up the Pentium 100Mhz but having to settle for the cheaper Cyrix 686 PR133+ which even with that pushed the complete system over £1,000.  

 

John

I don't think the cartoon is wrong, I remember when getting a PC in 1996 and enviously eying up the Pentium 100Mhz but having to settle for the cheaper Cyrix 686 PR133+ which even with that pushed the complete system over £1,000.  

 

John

 

You know I think my memory is a bit off. The more I think about it I'm starting to think it was about £1200 but that included an Epson inkjet that was about £200.

I know it was Simply Computers I bought it from. It was actually 200MHz with MMX. My mate had the earlier 133MHz.

 

Next Pc was a Dell P3 733MHZ with a staggering 128Mb of ram I upgraded later to 256Mb for £70. With a colossal 20Gb hd and a 17" monitor. That was the last PC I've bought I've built my own ever since.

Edited 13 November, 201411 yr by Aspman

We had  a really old "thing" at work, we used it for various machining calcs.    It had a red led display and had cost a fortune when new. 

We were writing "G"codes manually.  Then enter onto a Beeb, which would compile them.  Fortunately by then we had a floppy drive to save them - all on 51/2" f-a-f.

By then we had gone all modern.  My personal one now is an FX361 which replaced the one bought for some post grad work, and then was stolen. 

 

Surprised no one has mentioned the BBC series.  32k ram - wow. 

 

Re the slide rules, I used a 6" one when I worked at Dunlop. 

Great for doing on the shop floor sums. (well, was better than the bit of chalk, literally on the floor, style some of the other guys used. 

 

One of the guys I used to work with (since retired) had to put together a 'justification' for buying the office's first 'scientific' calculator sometime in the 70s - about A5 sized with a green LED display but it could do square roots IIRC which made working out highway alignment setting out info easier.  I think the cost was around £375!

 

He still had it when he retired many many years later...

In 1977 I flew as a passenger in a De Havilland DH89A Dominie - which was a 32 year old antique biplane

 

I thought I'd never fly anything older...

 

 

 

In 2011 I flew as crew on the last sorties in a De Havilland DH125 Dominie jet - which was 46 years old and still in service with the RAF!

 

Old tech doesn't need resurrecting - it's still here!!

I just posted this using an abacus

We used to fly in RAF Chipmonks when I was in the cadets in the mid 90s, I think they were 40ish year old then.

 

Also did my first web pages in Notepad in 1999.

When I worked at Dunlop in the 70's, some of the steam heated & powered presses had alledgedly come from HMV before the war.