Man-Machine 80s and early 90s Home Computer Discussion

[Amy SF]

How to Buy a New Computer (in 1993)

 

[Second Summer]

Take a look at this!

One computer in a small auto repair shop in Gdansk, Poland, however, has survived for the last twenty-five years against all odds.

The computer in question is a C64C that has been balancing driveshafts non-stop for a quarter of a century.

More: Battered But Not Beaten Commodore C64 Survives Over 25 Years Balancing Drive Shafts In Auto Repair Shop | HotHardware (27. September 2016)

 

[Amy SF]

Think about that next time someone tells you to replace your computer after just a few years because it's "obsolete".

 

[Joe]

Tech Republic magazine has published a pretty interesting series of photographs of computational machines throughout history, but predating the '80s and '90s.

Gallery: 15 unique analog and mechanical computers from throughout history - TechRepublic

These run from the abacus (2700 BC) to the Antikythera mechanism (205 BC) to Napier's Bones (1617 AD), to inventions by Galileo, Blaise Pascal, and even by an inmate in the Buchenwald concentration camp.