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Anybody know of a computer "museum" site?
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by yalborap » Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:24 pm
Okay folks, I'm looking for some kind of computer museum site. You know, the places where you've got a few pictures of an ancient computer, some info, and if you're lucky they've got a link to some kind of emulator. So, anybody know of one?
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by gamer2 » Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:33 pm
i know of a Computer Emulation site.
www.theoldcomputer.com
it lets you download a Comodore 64 and a Apple II
or an ATARI 800
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by yalborap » Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:38 pm
I already tried there, unfortunately.
EDIT: Okay, I found a site, but not having much luck. Can somebody tell me if computers around 1987 or so had text editing programs and could print?
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by gannon » Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:18 pm
yeah, although it wasn't much
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by diggerdanh » Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:22 pm
ummm, yeah. (sarcastically)
Commodore 64 had text editing programs and it had a printer, too. Same with Apple IIc, Mac, etc.
PC's had their start at that time - IBM ATs and XTs (and the beginnings of the clones) - they ran DOS. They had text editors and printers.
HeHeHe - dot matrix printers. I forgot about those.
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by SpongeBuell » Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:29 pm
I'm not sure about its release date, but I know the Coleco ADAM has a printer. You need to plug the power into it in order to power the whole computer
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by Link89 » Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:48 pm
If this helps ABC was the first computer ever made. In 1940's or 50's.
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by vb_master » Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:02 pm
I'd suggest getting an STfm 1040.
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by RNS0504 » Wed Aug 25, 2004 3:29 pm
obsoletecomputermuseum.com
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by benheck » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:25 pm
Look up Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, which was the first modern-style computer but designed in the 1830's and meant to run mechanically off steam! Really! It even had a printout and a XY pen plotter! He never got the money to finish it.
And there's even an emulator for it!
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by gannon » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:27 pm
wow, an emulator for the analytical engine?
And yeah, if you accept ANY computers, the oldest one that comes to mind is the something mechanism from ancient greece.
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by Sparkfist » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:49 pm
gannon wrote:And yeah, if you accept ANY computers, the oldest one that comes to mind is the something mechanism from ancient greece.
It was Plato or Arastatal that made a computer that calcualted the revolutions of the planets around the sun.
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by gannon » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:52 pm
ah yeah, that's it, I just can't remember who actually made it. If only the Alexandrian Libraries never were destroyed we'd know a lot more about these things.