First computer you bought?
What was the first computer you ever bought? Though my former in-laws got my ex and I a computer for Christmas 1997, which was a Pentium 166MHz clone computer sold by a small computer store in ...
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LOL!
I bet you didn't experience any buffering in those days, old timer! ;)
Ah....good old Radio Shack! I used to love that place; they had great stuff.
Rumblshack wrote:Buncha NOOBS! (LOL)
My first computer was a TRS-80 Model 2 in the fall of 1980 (TRS-80 stood for Tandy-Radio Shack 1980... Great imaginations, eh?)
No Windows then, nor MS-DOS. Everything was done in BASIC.
My parents said that was the future so I needed to learn it.
Not a computer, but the best thing RadioShack ever made: DX-160. So sorry I gave mine away. Classic radio.
But you couldn't streeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaam with it! :smileylol:
MarkJFine wrote:Not a computer, but the best thing RadioShack ever made: DX-160. So sorry I gave mine away. Classic radio.
My first computer, we grabbed in 2001 or 2002 for $800 or so... 15 or 17 inch CRT, was an HP Pavillion, forgot the model number, but it had an 800Mhz Pentium 3 with 32MB of RAM, 20GB HDD, and Win98 SE. I miss that little machine.
maratsade wrote:But you couldn't streeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaam with it! :smileylol:
Maybe not that model. But I can 'audio stream' using my JRC NRD-535D. There is a mode call Digital Radio Mondiale, which is a 10kHz-wide QAM signal that uses varying underlying audio protocols to stream high fidelity digital audio over shortwave.
For example: I'm able to livestream Kuwait on 15110kHz most mornings. That's not to say I actually understand what they're saying. It's just that conditions are such that I can properly receive and decode it.
"For example: I'm able to livestream Kuwait on 15110kHz most mornings. That's not to say I actually understand what they're saying. It's just that conditions are such that I can properly receive and decode it."
Very cool!
MarkJFine wrote:Not a computer, but the best thing RadioShack ever made: DX-160. So sorry I gave mine away. Classic radio.
It reminds me of the days when Radio Shack actually had some inventive and quality devices, and their own at that.
Unbelievably, we still have a Radio Shack in our nearby village, though it opened in the early 90s, after those better store days were mostly over.
Pre-1980 RadioShack was pretty awesome. That was back in the day when they actually sold components where you could build stuff as well as the tools and materials to build it with. They had some pre-made electronics, but their specialty was kits and loose/replacement parts... hobbyist stuff. After 1980 they went a little corporate crazy, then finally failed.
