Hell, I remember being astounded by 16 colors
You had color?
I think the most primitive thing I worked on, this side of a Royal Standard, was a typesetting machine with no screen and paper tape.
Atherton: Half the men in this room wish you were on their arm, tonight. Inara: Only half. I must be losing my indefinable allure.
'Shindig'
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Ginger - May 22, 2008 2:33:37 pm PDT #6335 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Connie Neil - May 22, 2008 2:35:10 pm PDT #6336 of 25501
brillig
Orange on black text-based monitors with a slight flicker. We had a corporate monitor-flinging party when we replaced hte last of those.
Ginger - May 22, 2008 2:36:30 pm PDT #6337 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Green on black.
Connie Neil - May 22, 2008 2:39:08 pm PDT #6338 of 25501
brillig
Also of the devil.
Sean K - May 22, 2008 2:39:37 pm PDT #6339 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I remember both orange on black and green on black. I was just saying how astounded I was at the first 16 color computers.
omnis_audis - May 22, 2008 2:40:15 pm PDT #6340 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I almost bought it. Soooo tempting. Damn you poverty!! 32 GIG! Holy cow!
Jessica - May 22, 2008 2:50:16 pm PDT #6341 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
We were evicted from our hole in the ground, and had to go live in a lake...
amych - May 22, 2008 3:10:25 pm PDT #6342 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Oh, yeah? How much RAM did your lake have?
Matt H - May 22, 2008 3:42:44 pm PDT #6343 of 25501
Musikalicen Opfer
Jumping in to bid for geek-trashiest: How about a 1981 DEC Rainbow with both Z80 and 8086 chip, and BOTH C/PM and MS-DOS 1.0....still operational, with all the papers I wrote as an undergraduate on floppies that STILL WORK.
(yes, I actually still have this. Don't know why.
amych - May 22, 2008 3:45:53 pm PDT #6344 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
You have the machine because that's fucking cool. You have the undergrad papers because... well, that's between you and your doG.