I remember our first modular handheld gaming system, Microvision, which flopped after 2 years on the market. Quite a few things on that list take me back to my younger years, as well as other items not mentioned. I remember using PovRay to make single ray traced images that took hours to complete on a home PC. I remember playing with it and seeing what we could get it to do.Īs I await the availability of nNidia's new gpus I have been thinking about how far we've come since my childhood when my first video game console was the Atari 2600 and a game like Pong was literally 2 lines (the paddles) and a dot (the ball). Belvoir back in the early 1980s, who came home one day and showed me an Osborne he had just bought. I had a good friend, when we were pilots flying for the Pentagon at Ft. First computer exposure in the early 1960s was studying engineering at VPI and lugging around punch cards for the school’s IBM 360! I suspect my current Haswell–based i5-4440 with a 512GB SSD and a 2GB HDD sitting on my desk is probably at least as powerful!
A total Luddite when it comes to Win10, though I may have to cave with my next build!) (I went from MS-DOS to Win95 (in the mid 95s) to WinXP to Win7, and am now still plugging along with Win8.1. NOT in the IT business, though I have been assembling my own PCs for many years now…AMDs through 2015 and Intel since. Thanks for a trip down memory lane! Last time Tom’s went through a history of computers…I enjoyed that as well. After filing for bankruptcy in 2012, Heathkits came back in 2015 with an online shop. When he was born in 1982, he cost $995 (about $2,600 today).īy the way, Heathkits are still around. His arm fell off over time, but after some gentle surgery, he'll be capable of walking around and picking things up. There's one of those in the Heathkit catalogue, and I've built two other Heathkits, so I could build that,’” Jobs told the Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation in 1995. I mean, you looked at a television set, you would think that ‘I haven't built one of those but I could. “ gave one the sense that one could build the things that one saw around oneself in the universe. In fact, Steve Jobs was a big fan of the kits, and it just may be what gave him the confidence to build computers for the world. Heathkits allowed customers to build their own robots, TVs, radios, oscilloscopes and computers from 1947 until 1992. But building your own robots is nothing new.
And parents get to have some fun with their children too.
Today's kids are fortunate to have a fun way to dive into STEM and coding with robot toy kits.
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