Comments on: Computer design, back when https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2007/07/07/computer-design-back-when/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:27:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Justin Sherrill https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2007/07/07/computer-design-back-when/comment-page-1/#comment-13195 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:27:49 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/index.php/2007/07/07/2326.html#comment-13195 Oh, wow, a PC-7000 was what I used to use to connect to various MUDs and BBS systems in the 80’s, at a roaring 1200 baud. I didn’t remember what the model was, but seeing the picture reminds me. Ah, nostalgia.

The Sharp WD 2000 also in that list is completely a Fat Mac clone.

]]> By: Joe "Floid" Kanowitz https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2007/07/07/computer-design-back-when/comment-page-1/#comment-13192 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:37:37 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/index.php/2007/07/07/2326.html#comment-13192 Hmm, might’ve lost my first attempt to reply. If we’re being pedantically specific about the ’80s, Apple was pretty beige throughout that era, so don’t overlook all the other novel case designs:

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/year.asp?st=1&y=1985

(…and that’s only one year out of ten, doubtless incomplete.)

Aside from the usual suspects, I have one of those Sharp PC-7000s kicking around here and it’s aged quite well — perfect size for a workbench, very readable display, and if I ever need a slow but elegant terminal I’ll have to pull it out of the closet.

]]> By: Gergo Szakal https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2007/07/07/computer-design-back-when/comment-page-1/#comment-13188 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:57:35 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/index.php/2007/07/07/2326.html#comment-13188 It’s way funny that Apple machines looked better in 1991 than a PC does in 2007. Let alone laptops…

]]> By: Joe "Floid" Kanowitz https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2007/07/07/computer-design-back-when/comment-page-1/#comment-13186 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:24:40 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/index.php/2007/07/07/2326.html#comment-13186 Fair and Balanced:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/year.asp?st=1&y=1985

Apple was pretty beige until the ’90s. Of course, there were plenty of fairly novel beige cases, too. (That one’s more fun in person, when you can play with the spring-damped pop-out LCD.)

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