I was wondering if computers were as popular when Apple came out with
the model in 1984.Did everyone have like they do now or has the internet
today just overrated computer use?,Anyone here used a computer in that
era,Do you like them more today or like them more back then?

I used 'em back then. I had an Apple 2E. (which was the "THING" back then) I played games on it and used it for homework. I don't remember how much they were...but it was expensive for back then. They worked alright and you didn't have to worry about viruses like you do now. There were a few bugs but not much.

I don't know if I per say like it more today then I did back then...but you can do ALOT more with computers now then you could. I used to write programs and such back then and it was pretty easy. Now a days it's not quite so easy.

D

They were popular but not nearly as popular as they are now. The high cost being one of the reasons. I knew a few people who had them in the mid 80's. They also started getting them in the school library at that time. I remember being very intimidated by those big bulky things.

We got an Apple IIGS around 1987. It was a pretty simple, yet fun machine. We had over a hundred games for it..man it was sweet. It was actually possible to access the internets back then, but there wasn't much use for it. I wish I hadn't sold that computer just a couple years ago, I had a lot of good memories on it.

I do know that one of my brothers had some kind of computer in the late '80s. I remember an olympic-type game where you could play against other people. I would have to ask him more about it because I don't remember it too well since it wasn't my computer.

We got an Apple IIGS around 1987. It was a pretty simple, yet fun machine. We had over a hundred games for it..man it was sweet. It was actually possible to access the internets back then, but there wasn't much use for it. I wish I hadn't sold that computer just a couple years ago, I had a lot of good memories on it.


Ahh, a fellow IIGS fan. :thumbsup:

I picked one of them up cheap at an auction. Apple actually put out a Mac-ish GUI for the GS. System 6 for the GS is very much like System 7 on the Mac. It's fun to tinker with now and then, a nice collectable.

i remember using them in the late 80's

I used 'em back then. I had an Apple 2E. (which was the "THING" back then) I played games on it and used it for homework. I don't remember how much they were...but it was expensive for back then. They worked alright and you didn't have to worry about viruses like you do now. There were a few bugs but not much.

I don't know if I per say like it more today then I did back then...but you can do ALOT more with computers now then you could. I used to write programs and such back then and it was pretty easy. Now a days it's not quite so easy.

DWhich programming language(s) do you know? Just wondering. :d

I was using computers back in the early eighties, all DOS-based back then, no Windows.

I remember the 8" floppy disk, amber monochrome screens, 10MB hard drives, the ORIGINAL all text Leisure Suit Larry.... I also remember my mixing up my Dad's punchcards that he had programmed and how upset he got about that. :crazy: He punished me by making me learn Fortran and Cobol :lol:

I remember taking computer classes in High School, where we learned how to program DOS. What a nightmare that was. You youngsters should be lucky you never had to see that.

Apple II were great, the ones with the black and green screen. But those stupid little box ones with the black and white screen...I hated those.

We didn't have one at home until 94 or 95. An old 486.

We didn't have one at home until 94 or 95. An old 486.

Yeah, I had one like that. The only program I had on it was Word Perfect. It was like a typewriter.

:lol:

Yeah, I had one like that. The only program I had on it was Word Perfect. It was like a typewriter.

:lol:

I still have some word documents off that computer. It does look like a typewriter. :lol:

I had "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" on mine. So low tech it only had still pictures.

I still have some word documents off that computer. It does look like a typewriter. :lol:


Fortunatley, I had a top of the line Canon Bubblejet printer.

It only took 20 minutes to print out a page!

:eek:

Amazing!

;)

The very first computer i had just had games on it.My mum and I were hooked on playing 'Where in the world is Carmen San Diego'.It really was a great game.

I can remember using computer's at my aunt's school (she was/is a principal) when I was really little. Like the late 80's or early 90's. The only thing I really clearly remember doing on them was playing Oregon Trail. I also remember playing that game and other games at my own school.

But now that I think about any computer without the internet, I'd be like "OK, what do I do now?" I'd be incredibly bored with it!

Which programming language(s) do you know? Just wondering. :d
Oh man....you're gonna make me think back to way back when????? I used to program on DOS all the time...now I couldn't progam a dog to go outside. I still have some of my old books on how to make games on the old computers. LOL

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Oh man....you're gonna make me think back to way back when????? I used to program on DOS all the time...now I couldn't progam a dog to go outside. I still have some of my old books on how to make games on the old computers. LOL

DA little thinking never hurt anyone. :D Ohhh.. DOS... I remember playing some dingy troll game with DOS before. I was probably in third grade? No idea. Ugh, now I'm thinking. LOL. :dizzy: Anyway, now I program with Java. I'm majoring in computer science. It's hard... sniffles. :crying:

Fortunatley, I had a top of the line Canon Bubblejet printer.

It only took 20 minutes to print out a page!

:eek:

Amazing!

;)

:lol:! Reminds me of the Dot Matrix printers my college library still has.

I don't remember anything about computers before the internet came.

Fortunatley, I had a top of the line Canon Bubblejet printer.

It only took 20 minutes to print out a page!

:eek:

Amazing!

;)My first was a Kaypro 4. The OS was CP/M and it chugged along at a blistering 4 Mhz, had 64 Kb RAM, a built-in 9" monochrome monitor, no hard drive, no sound, no modem, and I had it hooked up to a Morrow daisy wheel printer. 20 minutes per page -- Yep, that sounds about right.

I had my first computer encounter in 1987. My dad spent like a thousand dollars on that computer. There was no internet available, so I only played games and did homework (no printer either) LOL.
In school I was in Junior High when they brought them, the monitor was b&w and they were slow. We didn't knew any better. After that I had a typewriter until high school; fixing the computer was too expensive .

I remember taking computer classes in High School, where we learned how to program DOS. What a nightmare that was.
Oh, no doubt! :nod: Of course in my class I had an ******* for a teacher, so that didn't help me want to learn. I was listening to him explain how to program it, and he pauses and says, "I feel like I'm talking to a wall." Didn't matter to him that this was all quite new to me.

Anyway, those early computers were good for playing games, but that's about it. But even though they were new, I was never very impressed with the graphics even then. They are getting alot better now.

I remembher using my compuer locally calling BBS's.. I had my own BBS for awhile....

I ran it on a Commodore 64 which I still love :)

I am a teenager of the early to mid 1980's and I knew about computers, but computers were not obviously like they are now. Around 1983-1984, my school started a computer club and even had a computer class, but it was so limited (for a fairly wealthy school district) that one had to have a B average to be admitted to the class.

The first time I used a computer really was a word processor in college and I went to a "computer lab" with many computers in a room and I had to do some kind of important term paper that took a long time to do and was tedious, and used a hard drive disc (I guess this is what you call it, a plastic square with metal you inputed into the computer to save the file. But for me, the computer then was a glorified typewriter but it was a much better impovement than a manual typewriter. I dont know how to type and had to rely on the "hunt and peck" method. Now, and for the past twenty years I have sat on many keyboards and can hunt and peck very well, but back then, again, was a fairly tedious process.

One thing that hasnt changed that much are keyboards. Except for Apple. I love Apple except their toys are too expensive, and I HATE THEIR KEYBOARDS. Small with thin keys. Fortunatley one can toss that piece of crap and get a real keyboard.

I remember seeing the Tandy TRS-80 in the Radioshack catalogs back in the late 70s, and the price just didn't seem worth what you got for the money. The games were clunky and low resolution, and everything else it could do could just as well be done with a typewriter, was the way I saw it at the time.

Just not enough bang for the buck. I also knew guys who ran the data center for one of the local banks, and their view of monitor screen were that they were just good for saving paper (since the paper print out was the primary interface between man and machine at the time.

SO, I guess I was disinclined to get very excited about them.

In the early 1990s, I worked for a very large mall in Southern California, and we installed a central building automation system, that controlled all the indoor and outdoor lighting, as well as all the air conditioning in the mall common areas. And being able to turn lights on and off that were 3/4 of a mile away from my desk, or being able to monitor the temperature of the entire mall all on one screen....finally made a compelling argument that these machines might just be useful.

The internet came later.

My ex came out of the university in 1960 or so with Computer Science degree, it was all dutch to me but he worked on the Univac at Westinghouse where I met him. I was forced to use the Mac at Hitachi where I worked in the 1980's, boy did I resist it. I still resist all the bells and whistles out there, but enjoy what I do have.