Original IBM PC only had floppy drive(s). If you sprang for a hard drive it was the XT. The drive was 10 meg and went for about $500. And no one thought you’d ever be able to fill the drive!
Reading all these comments makes me very happy that I didn’t get my first computer until about 1999 (an eMachine desktop, IIRC) and missed all the “fun” of the earlier models.
Long before computers, I worked in an office on Capitol Hill where they used IBM Selectric typewriters that were hooked up to another IBM device that cut holes in a long strip of paper as they typed a letter. They would then load that strip into another Selectric and it would auto-type letters by the hundreds. You just inserted a clean sheet of paper, typed the name and address and pressed a button and the letter would type itself. Very high-tech for 1967
Templo S.U.D. almost 8 years ago
oh, those sure were the days
Adiraiju almost 8 years ago
“Welcome… to… the world… wide… w…e…b…” (from a ’90’s Foxtrot strip)
bkybl Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Jason wants to be sure he can restore the hard drive after his father messes it up.
linsonl almost 8 years ago
The first computers I worked with didn’t have hard drives. We had to back up our work on floppy discs. Real big floppy discs.
derdave969 almost 8 years ago
Original IBM PC only had floppy drive(s). If you sprang for a hard drive it was the XT. The drive was 10 meg and went for about $500. And no one thought you’d ever be able to fill the drive!
tygrkhat40 almost 8 years ago
Back in HS in the late 70’s, my school’s computer was so primitive that if you turned off the lights in the room, the computer crashed.
Guilty Bystander almost 8 years ago
Reading all these comments makes me very happy that I didn’t get my first computer until about 1999 (an eMachine desktop, IIRC) and missed all the “fun” of the earlier models.
BiggerNate91 almost 8 years ago
What computer are they using anyway? Oh yeah… an “iFruit.”
Just Me almost 8 years ago
I’m so old my first cell phone had a rotary dial.
Calvin almost 8 years ago
I still have some 8" floppy discs. I’m a hoarder!
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 8 years ago
Dad is a positive destroyer of computers.
zippykatz almost 8 years ago
Anyone watching “Halt and Catch Fire” on AMC? It’s a drama set in the 80s about early computer geeks. Third season now; great show!
Just Me almost 8 years ago
Long before computers, I worked in an office on Capitol Hill where they used IBM Selectric typewriters that were hooked up to another IBM device that cut holes in a long strip of paper as they typed a letter. They would then load that strip into another Selectric and it would auto-type letters by the hundreds. You just inserted a clean sheet of paper, typed the name and address and pressed a button and the letter would type itself. Very high-tech for 1967
gammaguy almost 8 years ago
I started out with pencil and paper. Still use it, sometimes.