Why do vintage computers from the 70s look like somthing an alien race would use?
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Why do vintage computers from the 70s look like somthing an alien race would use?
Why do vintage computers from the 70s look like somthing an alien race would use?
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because you didn't take your meds again
Another leftygoy
I'm not the one with 4 troony browser tabs open
God you're moronic.
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I dunno, seems kinda based
>I dunno, seems kinda based
don't forget to spam more made for bbc threads troony
>that gif
literally me
Because that was the trendy thing in the 70s.
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kek
Looks mad comfy
comfy
comfy
70s design is totally based!
You mean well designed?
>vintage computers
that's not a computer
that's not a computer, it's a terminal. in my pic: now THIS is a computer
It look more like a retro-futuristic cash register
Commodore made calculators before that, so it's to be expected. And yes, everyone says that keyboard was absolutely terrible.
That keyboard looks awful.
It was. Oh God it was.
Later revisions removed the tape drive and had a full size keyboard.
Terminals are computers, chud
A lot of those early glass TTYs are pure TTL and not Turing-complete.
>calculators aren't computers because they're not turing complete
>pure TTL can't be computers
typical chud
SOVL
>FF 4F
>33 34 35 12
>00 00 00 00 00 00
>FF FF FF FF FF FF
on fridays we kode
>Lear Siegler ADM-3A
terminal to first machine i ever used - Cromemmco Z2-D
I remember the ker-chunk it used to make turning it on, fun times.
wow. never seen this before. reading the wiki, seems like a very capable machine. interesting to see that the US airforce used them, but with a 68020 cpu instead of z80.
> The United States Air Force deployed 600 Cromemco Systems from 1985 to 1996 as Mission Support Systems for the F-15, F-16, and F-111 aircraft.[13][14] During this period Cromemco systems were used for the planning of every combat mission for these aircraft, including missions during the First Gulf War. These systems were based on the Cromemco Z-2 computer, but utilized the Motorola 68020 32-bit processor, and had a custom, removable hard drive to meet the Air Force need to be able to physically secure all flight plan information. Cromemco received a patent on this technology
oh aye, they were very capable 'serious business' machines - the nature of s100 bus made them very flexible. even had a unix-like os later with cromix.
The school my father used to teach at had it for handling all the pupil records etc. - he was head of maths and into computers, so he was writing all the database software for them, would bring it home over holidays to work on them so I got to play around with it.
>The school my father used to teach at had it for handling all the pupil records etc. - he was head of maths and into computers, so he was writing all the database software for them, would bring it home over holidays to work on them so I got to play around with it.
that's excellent. I know I would have enjoyed playing around with this machine if I had access to it. What was CP/M like on it? I only ever used CP/M on Commodore's 128 and it was hell slow.
>It look more like a retro-futuristic cash register
it does indeed, anon. same keyboards too.
>What was CP/M like on it? I only ever used CP/M on Commodore's 128 and it was hell slow.
I remember it being just fine - tho it was ~40 years ago so take that with a pinch of salt lol - very similar to MSDOS, came with assembler/disassembler etc.
First home machine we had was a TR80 Model I/II - great stuff.
trs80 was an interesting computer. i missed a lot of these machines back then. i only had access to commodore 64 and amiga. used apple macs and bbc micros at school and i thought the bbc was superior to the mac. i think that experience with macs was what really turned me off to ever getting into them until years later when they were all colour and didn't run at a glacial pace.
C128 CP/M seems to suffer from a combination of under-optimized firmware and bad system architecture that you wouldn't see at all on Cromemcos or really any other proper CP/M system. There probably was no better option unless you were ready to jump straight up to minicomputers.
I don't know about Europe, but US computers had to be built like tanks because of FCC regulations. They eventually added rules for unintended transmitters.
This were meant to be used by woman.
So they make them look nice.
Yeah, chad engineers dealt with punched cards and the mainframes, these were just terminals for the secretaries and other wagies.
God I wish I were a secretary from the '70s.
Because boomers are an alien race.
because alien races in sci fi in the 60s and 70s largely used technology reminiscent of the technology of the time and even when the technology updated the depictions of alien tech in sci fi did not
Because they ARE alien technology, taken from the Roosevelt crash.