cube_rat
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In the spirit of some of the recent threads regarding old TV's and such, does anyone remember some of these cool high tech solutions from days of yore (I was a wee child of course )
*Telex Machines
*Thermal paper fax machines
*Ditto machines (the ones teachers would use. students would sniff the ink on the paper)
*Texas Instrument's first hand held calculator which came out around '71 or '72- Man, I LOVED my calculator.
*IBM's first PC - Dual floppy with boot disk. Came with Visicalc and Wordstar
*1200 baud rate modems
*Beta Max circa 1979?
*Big honking cell phones from the mid to late 80's - cost about $3.00 a minute. I don't know if it was 3 bucks a minute. I know I was bookkeeper back then for some high rollers and remember paying cell phone bills in the thousands.
Any other contributions?
*Telex Machines
*Thermal paper fax machines
*Ditto machines (the ones teachers would use. students would sniff the ink on the paper)
*Texas Instrument's first hand held calculator which came out around '71 or '72- Man, I LOVED my calculator.
*IBM's first PC - Dual floppy with boot disk. Came with Visicalc and Wordstar
*1200 baud rate modems
*Beta Max circa 1979?
*Big honking cell phones from the mid to late 80's - cost about $3.00 a minute. I don't know if it was 3 bucks a minute. I know I was bookkeeper back then for some high rollers and remember paying cell phone bills in the thousands.
Any other contributions?