Computers of yester-year!!!

[Josie]

OK you computer buffs. Here's one for you!

There are 10 computers pictured that those of you old enough to remember will have actually used. Can you tell me their model and make, year and approximate price tag!!!!

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Any other info may gain you extra points!!! :P

3) looks like a Logabax Persona, a scaled-down version of the one I used to work in the Malaya Garage at Billingshurst in 1970. It kept the Payroll for the showroom staff, records of Spare Parts, and produced standard letters to customers to welcome them after taking delivery of their new Audis, Mercedes-Benz or Porsches, and also advised them when their warranties were nearly up (did they have any problems ?)

There were two huge disk drives, and I had to do a daily save, weekly save, and monthly save onto backup disks. (Nowadays all done quickly on a laptop.)

[Josie]

Tommo - that's not what I've got it as. Sorry! Will give you 1 point tho for the hard work you did in backing up each day/week/month. I had to do the same for a fileserver that used to sit behind my desk - it used to take hours!!!! :o

True, we take so many things for granted these days.
I don't recognise any of the ones shown, but many seem to have twin floppy disk drives. Remember when these used to get stuck ? And before that, computers used for accounting had to be fed a block of punch cards which loaded the programme.
I did once train to be a computer programmer and had to learn Basic and machine code but found it very laborious. Then in 1983 Personal Computers came in, with pre-programmed software and it all took off from there. Nowadays with the advent of the Intel Pentium Processor we don't even have to worry about things such as writing macros, which seemed very important at the time.

[Chris_Sav]

I think 9) is an early IBM from very distant memories, possibly 5155, when 'Portable' meant moveable by wheelbarrow.

If you had the really superb version it had a maths coprocessor as well.

I went to UNI in 87 and they were about then, so early 80's, haven't got a clue on price.

6) is an early Compaq, I have one similar, but not the same up in the loft.

Sav

[Lord Cheeky]

1) TRS 80 Model II - 1979
8) Intertec super brain??
10) IBM 5100 - 1975 $20

[H&J]

2. Osborne model 1 - 1981 approx £1,200.00