Submitted by Engadget posted a batch of old BBS entries from 1985. Some quotes: “We still think this Macintosh thing is an overrated, underpowered poor stepchild to the Lisa.” On Microsoft: “We don’t really know how they think they can take on the Macintosh user interface, though, so don’t be surprised if the little Arizona startup that could, well, can’t.”
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Wow, you’re quick– I fixed that seconds after I posted the item…
Tapecast? Seems like this was written recently as if the user was in 1985. And my BBS software on my old Atari XL didn’t display graphics.
I’d imagine that he had the pictures digitized and saved in .gif format. And no, he probably didn’t display the graphics alongside the story-he probably had them available for download…..
That is what they fear about their competitors. Most of them are good enough.
Lots of companies who look into alternatives already see that, but they will not switch until the pain is high enough. The lock-in factor of MS Office is huge, especially if a company’s workflow is mapped to MS Office makros.
Were they really? Just think back to all the awfulness of the early PC: e.g. the BIOS hackery, the byzantine memory management, the 1-bit beeper, the DOS command line, the confusion of graphics standards.
I’d suspect many decision makers never really considered the technical merits but bought PCs simply on the strength of IBM’s (and later MS’s) brand.
And nastolgic to see ASCII Art.
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That was a wonderful look back at how things used to be. The comments about flat panels and cdroms were priceless!
I love the flat panel design and how the author thought the guy was insane. Not to mention looking forward to 200MHz boxes…
And the NES, I think I bought one of those around 89 or 88… I distinctly remember blowing a years worth of childhood savings to go halfsies on one with my brother…
And the laptop:
” Its internal nickel-cadmium battery pack takes 14 hours to charge, but gets you between 6 and 11 hours of computing time on a single run.”
Ok, laptops needs to get back to 6-11 hour runtimes without being crippled by 10″ screens… Maybe that’s not possible and I should just get one of those tiny vaio’s..
A lovely trip to the past. It only shows how much, and on the other hand how little, everything has changed.
The comment on the flatpanel mockup is just great.
It’s not news from 1985, it’s recent news stylized as such. Come on, as somebody once said, “tapecasts” is a pretty big giveaway. Big thumbs down to OSBA editors for not getting such an obvious joke.
Certainly my first impression was that tapecast is an expression that would come from our now ubiquitous podcast terminology. I even joked recently about why a tape recording was a “tapecast.” Is that such a giveaway really though? Google groups provides a bit of a clue. google tapecast and see what the earliest referenced date of that expression was. The earliest one I came up with was an internet radio broadcast link from 1998 which was broadcasting a “tapecast” of some country music thing. Both 1997 and 1998 far pre-date iPods much less podcasting, so I think the terminology goes back a bit further than we think and isn’t an indication of a darn thing.
Actually, reading actual messages, the earliest tapecast date (rec.radio.noncomm) was 1995. Interesting…
“Someday we’ll all have phones as portable as the 11-pound Mobira Talkman.”
It is so nice reading that. They couldn’t even dream what we would have in 2005
Funny how much electronics have evolved in such a short time, while many other fields of life have changed so little.
Hello people, this is sarcasm at it’s best. This is like bbspot news. It’s a joke. You guys are GULLIBLE!
It was written in 2005. Get with the program.
Yeah… we all knew that it was a joke.
Someone botched the GPS, it was barely coming online for the military for the first gulf war, which was many years post 85
A1000 vs Windows 1.01
How could we lose? :/
No sh*t! :/
If the skullduggery and conspiracies between various “other” companies in their attempt to kill the Amiga and it’s wonderful true preemptive multitasking OS had never happened, in addition to all the mismanagement, blunders and utter lunacy that went on a Commodore we would all still be using Amiga’s! :/
The Amiga was 10 to 12 years ahead of anything else available at that time and was/is the finest computer I’ve ever had the pleasure to use. It was also a full fledged multimedia machine long before multimedia became a clone buzzword and long before it was cool!
Professional 3D rendering started on the Amiga due to the machines amazing capability and they continued in that capacity long after Commodore went bankrupt in 1994 plus many are still use doing that very thing.
Amiga’s were in use everywhere in professional broadcasting courtesy of the Video Toaster and they entirely dominated that field for a great number of years as well.
I remember when all the great games came out for the Amiga first. If clones got a port it was an afterthought and if Mac’s got a port they were damn lucky! Plus all boxes regardless of which computer it was for showed the Amiga screen shots because they looked so much better!
The Demo scene started on the Amiga. The MOD scene started on the Amiga, and so did a host of other things!
I still own 8 of them. Two A3000T’s, 2 A3000’s, 3 A2000’s and a CD32 w the SX-1 expansion module which turned it into a full fledged computer too.
I still use them quite often and some are incorporated into my recording studio equipped with multiple Sunrize AD516 digital multitracking sound cards along with the fantastic Studio 16 software which give me zero latency just like they always have since 1987!
Yep that’s right zero latency multitrack hard disk recording beyond CD quality since 1987, many years before any other computers could even attempt something like that and many years before hard disk based multitrackers were available too!
It’s a crying shame how things work out sometimes. :/
Nevertheless, the mid 80’s were great fun and provided one with many options as far as computers and operating systems go. Too bad it’s no longer like that. :/