Comments on: A Reminder About How Things Change http://tammybruce.com/2007/03/a_reminder_about_how_things_ch.html Independent. Conservative. Unruly. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:19:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: PatrickP http://tammybruce.com/2007/03/a_reminder_about_how_things_ch.html#comment-103742 PatrickP Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:41:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2007/03/a-reminder-about-how-things-change.php#comment-103742 <p><i>Mouse support included.</i></p> <p>Hahaha. </p> Mouse support included.

Hahaha.

]]> By: SLABBOTT http://tammybruce.com/2007/03/a_reminder_about_how_things_ch.html#comment-103741 SLABBOTT Sun, 01 Apr 2007 08:31:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2007/03/a-reminder-about-how-things-change.php#comment-103741 <p>Wow! 84 large for a Tandy! I was carrying a GRiD laptop back then running Word Star, Lotus 123 and CC Mail all based on DOS. Hadn't even seen Windows yet...</p> Wow! 84 large for a Tandy! I was carrying a GRiD laptop back then running Word Star, Lotus 123 and CC Mail all based on DOS. Hadn’t even seen Windows yet…

]]> By: Kimj7157 http://tammybruce.com/2007/03/a_reminder_about_how_things_ch.html#comment-103740 Kimj7157 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:42:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2007/03/a-reminder-about-how-things-change.php#comment-103740 <p>It's coming...</p> <p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2007-01-31-flying-car_x.htm" rel="nofollow">Flying car seen as solution for rescue</a></p> It’s coming…

Flying car seen as solution for rescue

]]> By: Ed Driscoll http://tammybruce.com/2007/03/a_reminder_about_how_things_ch.html#comment-103739 Ed Driscoll Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:41:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2007/03/a-reminder-about-how-things-change.php#comment-103739 <p>"Remember the Tandy's with the external cassette drives? Click the mouse and watch it start scrolling. And wait. And wait. And wait."</p> <p>My first PC was a TRS-80 around 1979 or '80 with an external cassette drive--and very much pre-mouse. Lots of fun learning Basic and playing games, but programs definitely took forever to load. Not to mention the risk that the tape would get corrupted and fail.</p> <p>And we had to walk 17 miles in the snow to use it...</p> “Remember the Tandy’s with the external cassette drives? Click the mouse and watch it start scrolling. And wait. And wait. And wait.”

My first PC was a TRS-80 around 1979 or ’80 with an external cassette drive–and very much pre-mouse. Lots of fun learning Basic and playing games, but programs definitely took forever to load. Not to mention the risk that the tape would get corrupted and fail.

And we had to walk 17 miles in the snow to use it…

]]> By: tinkerdad http://tammybruce.com/2007/03/a_reminder_about_how_things_ch.html#comment-103738 tinkerdad Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:44:00 +0000 http://tammybruce.com/2007/03/a-reminder-about-how-things-change.php#comment-103738 <p>In 1988 my employer bought one station to run AutoCAD. It was a 386/40MB HD. ("WOW! 40 MB! it will take forever to fill that up.") Including software, the total was $13,500. I had to share it with another engineer, we booted AutoCAD up out of DOS but I was impressed. (At the time I was taking basic computer classes at the local community college on 286's with dual 5-1/4" drives. Had to learn those DOS commands!) </p> <p>Remember the Tandy's with the external cassette drives? Click the mouse and watch it start scrolling. And wait. And wait. And wait. </p> In 1988 my employer bought one station to run AutoCAD. It was a 386/40MB HD. (“WOW! 40 MB! it will take forever to fill that up.”) Including software, the total was $13,500. I had to share it with another engineer, we booted AutoCAD up out of DOS but I was impressed. (At the time I was taking basic computer classes at the local community college on 286′s with dual 5-1/4″ drives. Had to learn those DOS commands!)

Remember the Tandy’s with the external cassette drives? Click the mouse and watch it start scrolling. And wait. And wait. And wait.

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