Anyone know of a good computer/internet history website?

[Capmaster]

Or a mainframe that takes up several rooms.

IBM 1701 anyone? Or a newer one like the 360-20 or 370-145?

I worked for Sears as a computer operator (a looong time ago before going back to school) and they still had a "whirling garbage can" in the back room (magnetic drum storage)

[BJ_M]

Who Wants a Computer Called WANG? Give Me a Apple Lisa Any Day :

cost $9,995 in 1983

[lordsmurf]

Another tidbit of information.. the 8" floppies had a capasity of 100k and in those days 1979 or so that was huge .. so big infact that they use to partition them upto 4 times. 25k each lol.. go figgure.. no wonder Bill gates was quoted as saying no one will ever need more than 640k memory.

Hello,

Ahh.. 640k! The nemesis of old dos gaming! I remember the battles well. You know how hard it was to always have the right amount of virtual memory available? Thank god for boot disks!!!

Kevin

This used to piss me off to no end. Some games never cooperated. I often had a stack of 25+ bootdisks laying around.

[BJ_M]

a G5 and an apple II look remarkably the same

[Capmaster]

Check out these specs:



Commodore PET 2001 (Personal Electronic Translator) was Commodore's first computer after purchasing MOS Technologies. Featured chiclet style keyboard and built-in cassette recorder. Designed primarily by Chuck Peddle. First version had only 4Kb RAM and subsequesnt models increased RAM to 8Kb, 16Kb and 32Kb repectively.

SPECIFICATIONS: NAME Commodore PET 2001
MANUFACTURER Commodore
TYPE Business Home Computer
ORIGIN USA
YEAR 1977
OPERATING SYSTEM Commodore BASIC v1.0
CPU 6502
SPEED 1MHz
RAM 4Kb
ROM 14Kb
TEXT MODES 40x25
GRAPHIC MODES Mono
I/O PORTS IEEE488, parallel, 8-bit port, cassette port

These were pretty popular. Since it's a Motorola CPU, does that make it a Mac predecessor?

Got the info here:
http://www.thepcmuseum.net/

[Rookie64]

Google has Usenet (text groups) archived from the time the Internet started to present...so this is probably one of the best sources for the info you're seeking.


http://www.google.com/grphp?hl=en&tab=wg&q=


Took me a long time to get into computers and 'net life...1995 for me.
I'm 39...approaching 40 but not quite yet

[yoda313]

Hello,

Thanks for the link Rookie64! Wow all this old tech stuff is bringing back a lot of memories - some more painful than others!!! But seriously all the old computers were excellent in their time.

Kevin

Edit -

"whirling garbage can"

Was it round, silver/blue and whistled??? Could it be R2-D2???

Kevin

[Capmaster]

Hello,

Thanks for the link Rookie64! Wow all this old tech stuff is bringing back a lot of memories - some more painful than others!!! But seriously all the old computers were excellent in their time.

Kevin

Edit -

"whirling garbage can"

Was it round, silver/blue and whistled??? Could it be R2-D2???

Kevin

I didn't see a mouth or eyes on the drum ...no