Commodore 64 rises from the ashes.

[Jambo]

I remember these old things. We used to notch the other side of our diskettes so we could flip them over and get double the storage.

Spent too many summer vacation hours in front of the Magnavox playing Zaxxon or Questron. I could only hook it up to the main house TV, which was color, when my Dad wasn't home because he was sure it would burn up the TV.

 

[basstracker89]

I was already an adult by the time these things were invented. I'm glad I grew up without them. However we do have some old outdated equipment we saved just for the fun of it. The equipment we work on now are light years ahead

 

[spencer60]

Being in IT, I think it was perfect that I got to start with the early systems.

On one hand they were extremely simple compared to todays PCs, but on the flip side you really had to understand how they functioned. There just wasn't enough of anything (CPU, memory, disk space) to have any real 'user interface' or even a built-in help system.

I work with a lot of Gen Z-ers that can tell you all about cloud architecture and AI, but have no clue about the basics of how a computer works.

The early systems like the C64 guaranteed you knew how they worked because if you didn't you really couldn't do anything with them.