I think I only ever got to play with the Model III in the store, but I cut my geekly teeth on the Model I. The two we had in high school only had tape drives, and over time they got flaky so that it took many tries to load things. But by then I was spending most of my time at the microcomputer lab at the local university (and also at their timesharing terminal farm, and on their PLATO terminal — anybody else remember PLATO? Really nice system, excellent at what it was designed for.).
The first computer we had at home (well, not counting the Timex/Sinclair) was a Commodore 64, and I occasionally think of grabbing one (or a C128D, which I bought when I went away to school) off of ebay.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. :-)
Ya know, the interesting thing is that your laptop needs a system clock 300 times faster (and a vastly more powerful instruction set). Yeah, you're doing a lot more on it than you did on the Model III, but for the routine things you do that overlap (word processing, f'rinstance), I'm sure your laptop doesn't get things done 300 times faster than the Model III did. It probably uses more computons just to draw window borders while you're writing a document than your Model III did to write a whole document. Kids today... :-)
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The first computer we had at home (well, not counting the Timex/Sinclair) was a Commodore 64, and I occasionally think of grabbing one (or a C128D, which I bought when I went away to school) off of ebay.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. :-)
Ya know, the interesting thing is that your laptop needs a system clock 300 times faster (and a vastly more powerful instruction set). Yeah, you're doing a lot more on it than you did on the Model III, but for the routine things you do that overlap (word processing, f'rinstance), I'm sure your laptop doesn't get things done 300 times faster than the Model III did. It probably uses more computons just to draw window borders while you're writing a document than your Model III did to write a whole document. Kids today... :-)