2006-12-17 08:05:15 · 11 answers · asked by VILLAIN 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
what were the size and speed
2006-12-17 08:05:48 · update #1
calculators
2006-12-17 08:06:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Wow.... 1980's.... Well the best home computer...If you could call it that was a keyboard called Amiga, made by Atari or Sega if I remember right. Now the "work computers" (System 36 from IBM was the industry standard) was about the size of a tall coffin, I'd say about 3 1/2 feet tall to 4 feet and the dimensions of a burial coffin, maybe a bit wider. Also the VAX system, was tall tape towers connected to a CPU that was about the same size as the peripheral I am describing for IBM System 36.
There was also the newly designed "desktop" PET computers, used mostly in colleges, hardly saw any outside of schools, reminds me of the old apples (single piece, monitor & cpu together) but bigger clunkier and the input, besides the 5.5 floppy disks, would be audio tapes. Yes we created, saved programs and data alike in audio cassets and the information stored would be sent in via something EXACTLY alike a cassette recorder, the old type.
This question has actually made me think of the wonderful advances we've had in the technology in the last 27 or so years.
2006-12-17 08:13:50 · answer #2 · answered by Mar Yam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's see- for personal computers in the 1980s. In 1983, I got my first computer which was a Commodore Vic 20. It had 5 KB of memory and used a tape drive (as in cassette tape) for storage. It had a cartridge plug in for programs. It was roughly the size of modern desktop computers. It ran very simple software programs and was very easy to program using BASIC.
Later in the 1980s, simpler DOS pcs and Apple 2es (and their clones) became more readily available. They were similar in their green screen output and use of 5 1/4 floppy disks.
2006-12-17 08:50:58 · answer #3 · answered by lunatic_teacher 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The History Of Computers During My Lifetime - The 1980's
The History Of Computers During My Lifetime - The 1980's ... In rare cases plug-in cartridges were also used. Like the VIC-20, the 64 used a TV set as its ...
www.pattosoft.com.au/jason/Articles/HistoryOfComputers/1980s.html - 40k -go to this site.
2006-12-17 08:08:55 · answer #4 · answered by Kumari V 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My sister had an Osborne. It had this little 5" by 5" monitor and
disc drives on either side. The disc was a floppy but was the size of a CD. The computer had 64K memory; same as most calculators you find in Bidness Depot.
The computer cost her $2000.
It was built to be carried around. The size of the container was about the size of an accordion.
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2006-12-17 08:12:37 · answer #5 · answered by $Sun King$ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DOS system-56 MB---
2006-12-17 08:07:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Big and slow. Running on DOS.
2006-12-17 08:07:14 · answer #7 · answered by tamara_cyan 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They were awesome! Commodore 64 4evah!!!!!!!!!
2006-12-17 08:07:08 · answer #8 · answered by Underground Man 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As big as frigates
2006-12-17 08:09:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They filled entire rooms, or so my dad says.
2006-12-17 08:06:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋