🔢🖨️ The HP-85 from 1980 is a compact desktop scientific computer. It features a built-in 5'' CRT monitor, 16 KB of RAM, and a CPU with a clock speed of 625 kHz. It comes with an integrated BASIC programming language, and data can be printed using the built-in thermal printer. At the back, there are four expansion slots and a variety of modules, including a modem, can be added.
Even when development started in summer '79 it took twice as long as Apple expected, not only because they had to get rid of Jobs first. So LISA wasn't launched earlier than 1983 with 1Mb RAM for almost U$D 10K. The project was a $50 million investment for Apple Inc., and kept losses low since it sold almost 5K units annually. After 27 months it was in-house competition that buried the Lisa computers, litterally. In the end it was a zero sum game for Apple, but a huge step for modern graphic user-interfaces and more personal computers.
💿🖥️ Windows NT 4.0 (1996) brought many improvements, including the visual appearance from Windows 95. As was common for NT at that time, it supported architectures such as x86, Alpha, MIPS, and PowerPC. It was available in editions such as Workstation, Server, and Terminal Server (pictured).
👴🖥️ The IBM PC AT (1984) succeeded the PC XT as the fourth model of the Personal Computer, bringing:
🧠 A 286 processor with a clock speed of up to 8 MHz
🐘 Up to 16 MB of memory
🛣️ 16-bit ISA bus
⬛ PC DOS 3.0
📚 Disk interface, later evolving into PATA
📏 Standard motherboard dimensions, which later developed into ATX
💚💚 On many original Game Boys, some lines on the screen disappear over the years. 😢 Fortunately, vertical lines can be fixed with a hot soldering iron tip and a bit of patience 🥳 Have you also shown some love to your Game Boy after all these years? 😍
👽💾 Amstrad/Schneider CPC home computers use 3'' floppy disks, as a group of manufacturers led by Matsushita (Panasonic) aimed to compete with Sony's 3.5'' versions.
Here’s an Atari Mega ST ad from Atari Explorer, July/August 1988.
“At almost half the price of a Macintosh, it looks even better.” #AtariST#RetroComputing#VintageComputer
♊🧠 (february 1999) The Intel L440GX+ Server Board supports two Pentium® III or Pentium II processors, Ultra2 SCSI (LVDS) storage and 2 gigabytes of SDRAM memory. 😲
🐘🔍 Yesterday, the reader and emulator for MFM disks arrived. We couldn't resist, and after midnight, managed to read all 3 Fujitsu 47 MB disks from 2 Triglav J-11 computers. Unlike the test samples collected from the workshop, these were 100% readable and error-free 🤩 The operating system is DELTA-M, based on RSX-11M.