Tech trends by year and decade

[Daehawk]

Tech timeline

Its set to start at 1994 because thats the year I got my first PC but check it out and surf the timeline. Its very cool. I actually found I had some dates in my head wrong by 1 year. Got my GeForce 256 in 1999 instead of 98 it seems

[sgoldj]

Thanks for the link.

I started back in '79 with the Apple II, so lots of nostalgia for me.

[Daehawk]

Well if I had to go back to my first computer it was the Atari 800xl (still have it in box) around 82.

[dbt1949]

I got a job working on computers in 1978. The display was Nixie tubes.
Most of the computer consisted of logic chips hard wired (literally) together. Just a few microprocessors.
Hard drive was about 2 1/2 feet in diameter and had a removable disc about the same size that most places backed up once a week and took hours to do it.
I remember my boss saying in would hold a million entries. (it was mainly used for inventory control.)
Found out the girls entering the data got paid more than me, who repaired the computers.

[Isgrimnur]

I got a job working on computers in 1978. The display was Nixie tubes.

Of course, it's $300...

Real nixie tubes are the "LEDs" of yesteryear. They proudly displayed their digits on scientific equipment, voltmeters, counters, and control panels. While they're no longer in production, the company that makes these has managed to scrounge up some from the Eastern European region of the former Soviet Union. So even though this isn't technically a limited edition, it is limited because any Nixie tube item depends on that original dwindling supply.

[Isgrimnur]

Return of Nixie tubes

[morlac]

Return of Nixie tubes

Great website. I now want a $1,630 clock.

https://www.daliborfarny.com/product/puri-nixie-clock/

[MonkeyFinger]

Return of Nixie tubes

Great website. I now want a $1,630 clock.

https://www.daliborfarny.com/product/puri-nixie-clock/

Oooo… me too. However.

[Holman]

My Dad worked for AT&T Long Lines and was their liaison to Bell Labs.

In 1979 we moved to Birmingham for his job, and a team came and installed a UNIX terminal in our house for him. I was 10, and I could use the dial-up phone-cradle modem to call a Bell center in Atlanta and play Chess, Star Trek, and Adventure (which later became Zork).

I may have been the first kid on the internet!

[Daehawk]

Those tubes were probably .25 cents once

[Archinerd]

We’ve lined up four nixie tubes balanced with our small yet stunning center colon tube.

[Daehawk]

Kinda look like condom molds.......shorties.