Dirtiest Desk To Monitor Elio Progress!

[Ty]

Yep, no hard drives, just dual floppy's. One for the OS, the other for the program.
Ahh what nightma errr memories that brings back.
Like accidently grabbing the wrong disk and overwriting something you worked on for 3 weeks.

My Texas Instruments TI99-4A used a cassette tape to store programs I would write...

 

[Coss]

My Texas Instruments TI99-4A used a cassette tape to store programs I would write...

How many tapes did it eat?

And AriLea mentioned the Intel guy in his post; how did we all end up with him? Better yet, why do we still have him?
Yes, I still have mine too :

And of course my Original Furby

But I don't know how many still have the 100% crash proof Hard Drive and Word Processor:

These are all within 6' of my desk / work area

Ari, I can understand the books for a footrest, but a concrete block?

 

[bowers baldwin]

How many tapes did it eat?

And AriLea mentioned the Intel guy in his post; how did we all end up with him? Better yet, why do we still have him?
Yes, I still have mine too :
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And of course my Original Furby

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But I don't know how many still have the 100% crash proof Hard Drive and Word Processor:


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These are all within 6' of my desk / work area

Ari, I can understand the books for a footrest, but a concrete block?

Nice Underwood word processor, when I get home I'll post a pic of mine..

 

[AriLea]

And AriLea . . . Ari, I can understand the books for a footrest, but a concrete block?

lol, As a creative problem solver, I use what works. At least for internal use tools! Did any one guess my VB was replaced by C#. Hey, the pay is better!

BTW, per the suggestion as shown below.. . . .A conundrum for you Philosophical English Grammar Specialists, is this image self descriptive or explicitly so?

PS, I had one of those TI99-4A's, that's spelled TI99%^&*(@! by the way. Actually I kind of liked it. I also had s Sinclair $100 Computer.. And a C64, C128, and That other one, what was that... then there was the Z80. With ! LED ! readouts no less!

 

[Coss]

One of the oddest beasts I had was an Eagle PC <l----- Link
It ran the Eagle OS
The keyboard had the one thing I've never seen on any other; it had 24 F-keys (F1 - F24) you could program in subroutines with them, so a simple keystroke could make life wonderful or the biggest headache because you missed a line I the sub.

Ari, you mentioned something about punch cards; ever write a program, and then drop the pile of cards on the way to the reader?
I did once; working at Standard Oil I had written out a new program, picked up the pile (loose of course) and dropped it.
Spent 3 hours resorting out the pile of cards. Thought I had it right, fed it into the reader and sent the main computer into a loop so bad the only way to stop it was to shut the entire system down. Took 1.5 hours to get it restarted; they were very unhappy there ......

 

[AriLea]

One of the oddest beasts I had was an Eagle PC <l----- Link
It ran the Eagle OS
The keyboard had the one thing I've never seen on any other; it had 24 F-keys (F1 - F24) you could program in subroutines with them, so a simple keystroke could make life wonderful or the biggest headache because you missed a line I the sub.

Ari, you mentioned something about punch cards; ever write a program, and then drop the pile of cards on the way to the reader?
I did once; working at Standard Oil I had written out a new program, picked up the pile (loose of course) and dropped it.
Spent 3 hours resorting out the pile of cards. Thought I had it right, fed it into the reader and sent the main computer into a loop so bad the only way to stop it was to shut the entire system down. Took 1.5 hours to get it restarted; they were very unhappy there ......

Ouch! lol, for some reason I never did drop any. I can still hear the shuffling of cards in my thoughts just thinking about it! Didn't you have card sorters? pop-pop-pop-poop-ooops! But I definitely was a bit worried about all that.

It's possible too, my mind chose to forget that! We did whole boxes. What is that, several thousand cards? Zowee!

 

[AriLea]

I think so far, Eric's is ahead, since I can't vote on myself and no one else said anything about a leader (BTW, nice to see a kitty food dish in it's proper place above your monitor! ). Unless we can count Ty's dual Floppy system with a cut and paste Screen ( good gamer move by the way! ).

I would definitely have designated JEBar's feet as in the front of the pack (for now), but I can't see his screen!

Dig deep people, submit your friends anomalous cave to public scrutiny ! 'co-mon! gimmy some character!

 

[bowers baldwin]

How many tapes did it eat?

And AriLea mentioned the Intel guy in his post; how did we all end up with him? Better yet, why do we still have him?
Yes, I still have mine too :
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And of course my Original Furby

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But I don't know how many still have the 100% crash proof Hard Drive and Word Processor:


View attachment 6393


These are all within 6' of my desk / work area

Ari, I can understand the books for a footrest, but a concrete block?

With added data storage.

 

[AriLea]

That intel guy has the same suit that Star Trek used for their first space suits in the TV series. IMHO.

 

[Ekh]

OK, I got that beat. We used to use 5meg 20inch hard disks on our IBM 360 back in 1976. Yes, punch cards were the way.

We are very populated with monitors in this group! The top one is mine. The next one I crossposted for UserExec.
I think I'm a little ahead on uclectic, having Star Wars items and even the Intel Guy, who happens to be in Blue by the way. If you know why blue matters, you ARE a geek!

Ari's ucelctic Workstation: Yes that IS a mouse to the right. Go ahead, make my day, just ask why!
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UserExec's World of Wonder Technical Workstation: ( yes you may rename it, I promise )
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Ari, at least yours looks as if a human used it.