10 Legendary Computers Photographed

Megalith

Megalith

24-bit/48kHz
Staff member
Joined
Aug 20, 2006
Messages
13,000
I wouldn’t have been able to tell you the name of a single one of these if it weren’t for the captions, but these old-school computers are pretty interesting to look at.

…Ball began to research, locating the computers that changed the course of technology, and found that most of them were sitting in museums. In his formal request to photograph them, Ball made it clear he would be photographing the machines in a way in which they'd never been seen. "I think [that] piqued [the museums'] interest and helped start a basis for the project," he said. Working with the production studio INK, Ball created 10 gorgeous photos and pulled historic information on each of the computers.
 
Megalith said:
I wouldn’t have been able to tell you the name of a single one of these if it weren’t for the captions, but these old-school computers are pretty interesting to look at.

…Ball began to research, locating the computers that changed the course of technology, and found that most of them were sitting in museums. In his formal request to photograph them, Ball made it clear he would be photographing the machines in a way in which they'd never been seen. "I think [that] piqued [the museums'] interest and helped start a basis for the project," he said. Working with the production studio INK, Ball created 10 gorgeous photos and pulled historic information on each of the computers.
Click to expand...

Old Paul on May 29, 12:03 PM said:
I still have "My First PC Computer", a 1984 DEC (Digital Equipment) Model "Rainbow 100A", which was later upgraded to a "Rainbow 100B", by adding a "5 Megabyte", full size hard drive, a 6hz CPU Chip, a 150W PSU, and DEC 3.1 DOS.
Although quite expensive, at the time, it was also way ahead of the IBM PCs of the era too (2 X 400K single sided, Quad density Floppy drives, A DEC 100 Serial Printer, a Color Monitor, a builtin "Moon Lander" Game, 995K of usable RAM Memory, Built-in DEC 100 Terminal, and the ability to "Boot" to either to "DEC Terminal Mode", CPM OS, or DEC DOS versions 1.1 thru 3.1!)
 
Last edited:
Old Paul said:
Old Paul on May 29, 12:03 PM said:
I still have "My First PC Computer", a 1984 DEC (Digital Equipment) Model "Rainbow 100A", which was later upgraded to a "Rainbow 100B", by adding a "5 Megabyte", full size hard drive, a 6hz CPU Chip, a 150W PSU, and DEC 3.1 DOS.
Although quite expensive, at the time, it was also way ahead of the IBM PCs of the era too (2 X 400K single sided, Quad density Floppy drives, A DEC 100 Serial Printer, a Color Monitor, a builtin "Moon Lander" Game, 995K of usable RAM Memory, Built-in DEC 100 Terminal, and the ability to "Boot" to either to "DEC Terminal Mode", CPM OS, or DEC DOS versions 1.1 thru 3.1!)
Click to expand...

I think you meant 6Mhz CPU.. at least I hope you did.
 
I wish he had included some sort of scale reference. I get the impression that some of these are pretty huge but it's hard to tell.
 
My first was a RS ts-80 then a Tandy 1000, then an IBM 33mhz we upgraded to a 75mhz later on....
 
cyclone3d said:
I think you meant 6Mhz CPU.. at least I hope you did.
Click to expand...

Since it's been 32 years ago, and the DEC computer has been stored away ever since the 80286 Chip computers came out, so you may well be right.

All I recalled now was the "6" It was an 8088 chip, and the new, faster, up-graded CPU Chip I got from a guy on the MIT BBS website, which did speed my system up noticeably!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top