1980s personal computer ad - photo

**Altair** · Jul 11, 2022, 08:13 PM

1982 personal computer ad.

Previously:

1970s hard disk drive advertisement - photo
Floppy disk case - GIF
Taking screenshots in the 1980s - photo
1982 Seiko TV watch - photo
Omega Speedmaster space watch - photo

**WmRMeyers** · Jul 11, 2022, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by Altair

1982 personal computer ad.

Previously:

1970s hard disk drive advertisement - photo
Floppy disk case - GIF
Taking screenshots in the 1980s - photo
1982 Seiko TV watch - photo
Omega Speedmaster space watch - photo

Missing photo or link, apparently.

**Jon** · Jul 12, 2022, 06:16 PM

Fixed, thanks.

**bob47907** · Jul 12, 2022, 08:32 PM

Right about that time, the department I was working in was buying 2Mhz Z-80 machines with 2 floppy drives by the boatload. $5,000 each.

**IntheGroove** · Jul 12, 2022, 11:20 PM

I had one of these in the 1980's. DOS, not good for much. Heavy and slow...

1980s personal computer ad - photo-dsc06206.jpeg

**Frank S** · Jul 12, 2022, 11:59 PM

My youngest daughter now a teacher of 20 years won a science fair contest when she was in the 7th grade the prize was a Tandy Corp. TRS80 III with a 5 MB external hard drive LDOS operating system Think maybe 1988 was the year

**mwmkravchenko** · Jul 17, 2022, 10:10 AM

I was taking computer science in the mid 80's on Tandy Z-80 Similar to the Commodore PET. A monochrome screen, green of course. A keyboard and a floppy drive. Upgraded to 64 killerbites. We programed in BASIC and Turbo PASCAL. A precursor to C I believe. I did it long enough to know that I didn't want to do this the rest of my life. Even though I was decently good at it. Back then everything had to be as short and as concise as possible. And yet there was a game called space invaders that mapped the entire screen in high resolution and you could play a high resolution game on that little Z-80 computer. We were not advanced enough to know how to pull that off. Our graphics were the good old blocks. You needed to be able to program in machine code to directly address the pixels. Still was pretty cool.

I remember setting up a LAN for a regional computer conference for our teacher. Myself and two other fellow Nerds. We were to stupid to know how hard it would be. And yet we managed to set it up and it never crashed.

**mansworld** · Jul 19, 2022, 10:05 PM

"640 KB ought to be enough for anybody". Bill Gates, 1981. Now he is more interested in genetically engineered seeds!
How many seeds ought to be enough for anybody?