Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for January 25, 2011

Timex? I’m no stock broker but I think they’re still around… I took one to Iraq on my last go-‘round that I’m still wearing.

“No Japanese!” LOL, you can tell this one is dated!

Was all this before Commodore?

@rumplesnitz: Timex and Mattel and maybe some of the others are still around, but they don’t make computers anymore.

And, yeah. I was thinking about the bleeping Upper Manglement at Commodore as well.

I’ve been wearing Timex ever since they came out with Datalink in about ‘97. Although for the last several years I’ve been wearing one of their Flix watches. In night mode, you flick your wrist to activate the light. Comes in handy on a bike.

He forgot Atari - yes they are still around on the software end but not making computers - still think they were better than the pcs and commodore

Commodore’s OS fit on a floppy disk. Windoze 7 would take up a complete 2gb hard drive from less than 5 years ago. And don’t forget the 1gb of ram needed to install it.

And let us not forget the Sinclair computer. It was one of the early very small computers.

Goodwill Industries has a computer store here and next door is a small “computer museum” with all kinds of once and former personal computers. It is somewhere between fascinating and depressing to walk among all these old computers and remember that you may have even owned one or two of them at some time. It is really quite an intersting place.

I owned a Timex-Sinclair in 1983. With the extra memory module!

RIP to my Commodore Vic 20, Coleco Adam, Apple IIe and Atari 1040ST

Curse you Bill Gates and Windows for elevating crummy PCs above the rest of the pack

I still have the Timex/Sinclair in the garage. Along with a few, still working, Apple IIs and GSs.

I love how the computer’s monitor says “sniff”

My first, and favorite, computer was the TRS-80 Color Computer 2 COCO. Dad got all the fanciest stuff for it, including a magazine called Rainbow. It even came with free software inside, just like newer PC and gaming magazines. The only difference: The software was in print form. You had to type it in line-for-line. :-)

forgot the first real big seller the Altair. also cromemco,

Gates didnt kill off those machines. bad management/business plans killed them as well as no compatibility between machines. Gates would do an operating system for any machine, so he cant be blamed. try dong todays internet, multi media with 30 different OS’s

Hmmm … I’m on the internet, and not using a windoze machine. Last I checked, the internet was a standards based design that didn’t CARE what OS you connected to it with so long as it passed along the right protocols …. I could be wrong … but I don’t think so.

Out of reverent respect for the recently deceased Banana Corporation, let us all sing a few verses of “Turning Japanese.”

BTW, I own a truly old-school computer: an abacus.

No Japenese? Maybe one could say that during WWII but not anymore.

The Commodore is back: http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx

While not my first, my all-time favorite was my Coleco Adam - which I still have packed away with all its accessorie and peripherals (I was an ardent NIAD member, if anyone remembers them}…

Timex is back as well

I liked my Victor 9000. First “serious” computer I had, MS-DOS 1.25 – bought in a liquidation sale which sort of proves his point.