trev said:50 < age < 55
Started with springs, hairclips and wooden breadboards in the 60s!
Ah, those were the days when a transistor meant a handheld wireless (radio) and LPs were played on turntables encased in rosewood cabinets
Trihexagonal said:Suffice it to say I remember when calculators sat on the desk, had a big metal hand crank on the side, and were known as adding machines.
Texas Instruments released the TI-99/4 microcomputer. This system generally used audio cassettes to store information, along with ROM modules, similar to gaming units, to hold commercial software. Additionally, TI made available a speech synthesizer, based on their own chip, for the TI-99/4 and its successor, the 4A.
Some years befor that, but I remember playing with one.Manufacturer: Triumph Adler
Type: Bitsy 10
Year: 1984
Technology: µP TMS 9900 96kB RAM