#Home Computers

[cherrie01]

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[miscpav]

Steve Allen & Jayne Meadows, Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Home Computers (Casablanca Records [!], 1983)

Grammy nominee (!!), Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording

Vinyl rip:

Video by Fran Blanche with the audio and showing the booklet included with the album:

More info: Discogs

Inspired the 1984 video Computability starring Allen and Meadows:

More info/links: waxy.org, IMDb, archive.org

[fruitcage]

[silvermoon424]

This is a subject that really interests me because I (28 years old) had computer classes in grade school where learning how to efficiently type was a big focus. As a result I have a very high WPM (words per minute) count and am an excellent touch typer.

However, I've heard that they started phasing out computer classes in a lot of schools because it's assumed that kids/teenagers already know how to use a computer in this day and age. But smartphones are more popular than computers now, and as result a lot of Gen Z/Gen Alpha kids are able to text very quickly but their typing skills aren't as good.

[stone-cold-groove]

Apple Macintosh 128K personal computer - 1984.

[felixwylde]

Idyllic Nostalgia

Your life without a computer: what does it look like? It’s hard to imagine, especially if you’re using this medium to read these words. What was life like before computers?I’m old enough to recall a world before home computers and smartphones. I remember building dens in the woodlands safely.TV wasn’t great back then, with just three channels at best, and kids’ TV had limited airtime, thanks to…

[ilyberrymuch]

you can also put in the tags how old you were, again im nosy lol

[vintagehomecollection]

Natural light helps to create a comfortable work environment. The large window permits ample sunlight and, with the light-colored paint on the walls, creates a comfortable work environment.

A Portfolio of Home Office Ideas, 1998

[raziraphale]

Tag your age if you wanna bc I was just thinking about how I have used floppy disks before (I'm 25 and used them in elementary computer lab) but my 22 y.o. brother hasn't which is so weird to me like 3 years isn't a long time at all to me

[webdiggerxxx]

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[itsahotminuteinbetween]

tryna figure out where I am on the doodle spectrum

[cherrie01]

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[canidaezy]

how do transmascs not want to kill themselves all the time honestly

[nordickies]

Why do I always get the urge to write when I'm literally in the middle of doing something

[troybarnesbucky]

he should’ve been brought home. his parents shouldnt have spent the better part of a year fighting for his name, his story, his life. baruch dayan ha’emet, hersh. i’m so incredibly heartbroken. this has broken me.

[byruit]

Sony HitBit HB-101 (1984)

The HB-101 is part of the MSX standard, a unified home computer architecture developed by Microsoft and ASCII Corporation.

- CPU: Zilog Z80, running at 3.58 MHz

- RAM: 64 KB

- Video: Video Display Processor (VDP) with a maximum resolution of 256 x 192 pixels, supporting up to 16 colors

- Sound: Programmable Sound Generator (PSG) for audio