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Category: computers
The Commodore 64 computer was announced on 1/7/82
The first tweet reminded me of the Commodore 64. I didn’t have one. I had an Atari 800. The Vic 20 was a less powerful computer from Commodore. I had a cassette recorder with my Atari.
A computer ad with wrestler King Kong Bundy
CNN on the evolution from :-) to emojis
The Japanese government still uses floppy disks!
PC Magazine on the 20 most influential computers of the last 40 years
The inventor of the GIF has died of COVID-19
Remember Gateway 2000 computers?
Gateway 2000 was a computer company originally based in Iowa. They had very clever cow-based ads.
I bought my first Windows-based computer from them. It was in 1992. The CPU was a 486 DX2/66. The chip was so new it wasn’t even in their ads. I ordered over the phone. The computer had 4 MB of memory and a 120 MB hard drive. It had an internal modem. I am guessing it was 1200 baud. I paid $199 to upgrade from a 14″ monitor to a 15″ inch monitor. The best thing about it was the case. It was a huge tower – big enough to hold four hard drives – and it was made of metal, not plastic. It had two floppy disc drives. It didn’t have a sound card or CD-ROM drive. They weren’t standard then and I installed them myself later. I paid about $3,500 in 1992 dollars.
Gateway 2000 was cool. A friend and his family took a cross-country trip and stopped at the plant. They got a picture with Ted Waitt, the founder of Gateway 2000 who was in some of their ads.
I later got another desktop and laptop from them. The company moved to California and was later sold.
Sad! 