Oh, so long ago.

Yours truly on our Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, late 1981. Ahead of its time in many ways, and doomed to failure. Yes, that's a television hooked up as a monitor and an audio tape drive for data and programme storage.

The TI-99/4 was the first 16-bit home computer, with good colour graphics and a sprite system that was the best available at the time. A peripheral system was soon available that enabled the use of memory cards, multiple rom packs, serial and parallel ports, floppy drives, and hard drives.

Using a Hewlett Packard 9825A at work and the TI-99/4A at home meant I was thoroughly enmeshed in the world of the personal computer. My wife learned to write programmes on this wee beastie.

Yes, I'm wearing a white cardigan. No judgement, OK?

#PersonalComputer #vintagecomputer #16bitcomputer #vintagecomputing

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Atreides · @osiris_0x7A4
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@volkskrant onzin verhaal. Punt. Dit soort verhalen had je ook toen de computer zijn intrede maakte. Wat voor wilde verhalen ik toen wel niet gehoord hebt. Het is meer angst dan rede. Je weet dat angst een slechte raadgever is.

#oudetijden #PersonalComputer #chatgpt

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Elizabeth K. Joseph · @pleia2
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Someone needs to keep me away from , but isn't this paperclip holder cute?!

In spite of the listing being very clear, it is larger than I expected 📎💻

#model #PC #PersonalComputer #IBM #ebay

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That Other Sean (parody) · @freakazoid
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Is the about to dramatically reduce the number of personal computers in the world?

Does it matter?

Neither of these questions is rhetorical.

#steam #deck #SteamDeck #PersonalComputer

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19WAC3067 ~ PA11343 · @Wilfred
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with a mid 90's . When patience was still very normal...

#PersonalComputer #backintime

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Andrew (R.S Admin) · @ajroach42
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Which, finally, brings us back to the ESP32!

See thread: retro.social/@ajroach42/105397

Basically, the ESP32 is a simple microcontroller (that is to say, it's a computer! It's just not a computer the way we usually think about it.)

It's really cheap, like $3 or $4 for a simple board. There are folks making software for it already to treat it like a desktop computer.

It's not completely open or completely standardized or capable of everything I want out of my but ...

#PersonalComputer

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