I did not know what to with all that space!
Lord, that takes me back! My first 'computer' was a build-it-yourself kit from Texas Instruments. After that was a series of Ataris; 400, 800XL, and finally the Mega-4!
The Mega-4 was actually a surprisingly capable machine, and the Gem OS was rock-solid. And if, like me and most of my friends at the time, you tended to write your own software, it could run rings around most anything else then available that wasn't a mainframe (remember those?).
(Much pointless rambling of days-gone-by edited out by poster after deciding nobody here needs that much boredom)
Ah, memories!
--OB
Here's my first computer (September 1981 iirc).
An AVL Eagle II - it ran CP/M, had 64Kb RAM and two single sided 5¼" 384Kb floppies. It cost about £1,600. I used it mainly to control slide projectors (and other devices) in multi-screen audio visual presentations.
HERE you can find out about the first computer that I owned, and yes, I bought it in 1977, when it first came out.
RoyReed said:n multi-screen audio visual presentations.
Haha Roy,
The eagle from AVL we used to program 18 projector panorama shows on it. My wife used to operate the Rostrum Cameras and do all the darkroom. The graphic computer I described was from Eagle as well, the Eagle 2000 running DOS1 (which AVL ripped of MS and subsequently got sued) we used it to make speaker support slides, it had a really nifty 3d function. I remember when they upgraded the motherboard to put a maths coprocessor on it, it was the first and only time I have seen a chip burn a hole through a motherboard. ahhh memories and 100hr weeks LOL
It's been a long time since I spoke to anyone who even remembers what multi-screen AV shows were! Our standard size was 9 projector wide-screen, but we once did a 27 projector plus movie nine screen show for British Aerospace at the Farnborough and Paris airshows. I can remember when we bought our Forox rostrum camera which cost us just over £40,000. I've still got a page on my website about the AV work I used to do.
RoyReed said:It's been a long time since I spoke to anyone who even remembers what multi-screen AV shows were!
So much fun just a small niche of people doing this all over the world. We used to use Forox and Oxberry cameras, remember lightbox burn from retouching lith until the early hours of the morning? The staging of the events was the most hectic I remember having to change codes 30seconds before the speaker live... I was grey at 30. LOL
Chris Wills said:So much fun just a small niche of people doing this all over the world. We used to use Forox and Oxberry cameras, remember lightbox burn from retouching lith until the early hours of the morning? The staging of the events was the most hectic I remember having to change codes 30seconds before the speaker live... I was grey at 30. LOL
Luckily I hardly ever did live events - the one big one I did do ended in a 72 hour stint. Most of my shows were either for visitor centres or exhibitions. We did have very tight deadlines, but very few of those last minute changes.