Standard Equipment And Options

[Muzhik]

Coss, admit it:

1. The 360 does NOT really count as a personal computer, so it's void for this subtopic;
2. You'd have a heckuva time fitting it in the Elio. The other PCs mentioned here, not so much.
3. How long before someone hooks up something to their display to play Zelda or Crystal Caves?

 

[Inigo93]

I was meaning things more geared towards our safety. The way I see it with a car that can react to the environment and not need a driver would eventually gain awareness as to what it is, and start gaining intelligence. Things like that. I don't know if I am explaining it correctly though

Don't get into any commercial aircraft made by Airbus.

 

[Marshall]

A RS T-4?? Never heard of them.
Do you mean a TRS-80?
And the i686 was an internal term at Intel, it was a term for P6 microarchitecture.
The first of the new P6 microarchitecture; the i686 or x86 based chip was a Pentium Pro that lead to the whole series of Pentium processors. (Geez I was a Pro geek for too long; I can't stop the flood gates of info on older computer stuff that I was in on the ground floor for)

So with that said

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Standard and Optional Equipment for the Elio.

I just wish the Elio would have been out 10 years ago, my custom shop would have made me a very rich person.

There was a brief time Radio Shack was selling both a T-4, a T-8 and a T-16 model computer before the Atari came out with it's first Pong video game. Of course, being in SE Texas, we may have gotten the advanced computers late in the game.

Of course, Radio Shack was selling them, but Texas Instruments may have been the manufacturer.

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

Atari 800XL with 300 baud modem.
Glacticom BBS

 

[bowers baldwin]

Timex/Sinclair 1000!

(Got you ALL beat!)

Bought one at a yard sale for $5 with accessories, the shape makes it a great door stop!

 

[bowers baldwin]

Atari 800XL with 300 baud modem.
Glacticom BBS

Still have my Ataris hooked up, using Atari APE on PC as a hard drive with 100's of games on tap..
P.S. ran Ace base BBS on an MPP 1000c modem for many years before switching to F.o.R.e.M.

-SysOp-

 

[bowers baldwin]

Don't be too sure:

**NOTE***
Reply moved to "All Things Geek" in the General Discussion heading.
I'm going to do my best to try (I said try) to keep really off topic replies to the areas they belong in; that's why I started the new thread.

I'm actually going to try leading by example because we all do it.

I'm just want to clean up current topics that are active a little cleaner.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Coss

 

[WilliamH]

Timex/Sinclair 1000!

(Got you ALL beat!)

Sorry, but with a TRS80 Model 1 Level 1 bought new in fall of 1977 I think I have you beat.
I was using it to design band pass filters optimized for cheap readily available components.
It was a lot easier to do the formula and keep running it substituting values than manually calculating each version.

 

[Chaz]

Timex/Sinclair 1000!

(Got you ALL beat!)

I had one too, also Apple one, Apple
Newton, and an Osborne portable computer.

 

[Chaz]

Cut my teeth on PDP-8s and PDP-11's
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We still were using the PDP-8s into the 90s in the Coast Guard. They were running some LORAN equipment.