I still currently have the keyboard however...
![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
He could have held off a year or two and bought a Telecom Australia Computerphone, with twin tape drives. That did define useless, but itPrince George wrote:Back in '79 or '80, my Dad bought what must have been amongst the first computers in Port Pirie - an Altos, with the processor and keyboard built into the same structure as its glorious monochrome monitor. Complete with an 8" floppy drive (you could practically fold the disks into planes). He had glimpsed the future and wanted to move the records for his legal practice into electronic storage, but was perhaps 20 years too early, as this thing practically defined useless.
Prince George wrote:Back in '79 or '80, my Dad bought what must have been amongst the first computers in Port Pirie
Code: Select all
Signature removed
http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/ALTOS-PC-1981.htmPrince George wrote:Back in '79 or '80, my Dad bought what must have been amongst the first computers in Port Pirie - an Altos...
Yes sir, from right at the end of '74 through to '82. I was born in the UK, and it's hard to imagine how difficult it was to find opportunities back in old blighty back then. It came down to a choice between Birmingham (where they had lived for a while) and Port Pirie - and Birmingham was sufficiently bad to have them think that they would try their luck, sight unseen, with Pirie.Hooligan wrote:You used to live in Pirie?Prince George wrote:Back in '79 or '80, my Dad bought what must have been amongst the first computers in Port Pirie
I lived there 1990 until 1996.Prince George wrote:Yes sir, from right at the end of '74 through to '82. I was born in the UK, and it's hard to imagine how difficult it was to find opportunities back in old blighty back then. It came down to a choice between Birmingham (where they had lived for a while) and Port Pirie - and Birmingham was sufficiently bad to have them think that they would try their luck, sight unseen, with Pirie.Hooligan wrote:You used to live in Pirie?Prince George wrote:Back in '79 or '80, my Dad bought what must have been amongst the first computers in Port Pirie
Code: Select all
Signature removed
I don't really recall the train station (but yes it was working back then). I do recall when the shopping centre ("Pirie Plaza", right?) opened and we were all so excited it seemed like the town toured through the place; I guess the joke was on us. I was pretty young, the things I can really remember are stuff like swimming down on the black sands of Solomon Town beach (I think we lived in Solly Town for a while, before we moved to Risdon Park), or when they built the "Bridge to Nowhere". IIRC, that was the first set of traffic lights in town. Now that I think of it, I think that we were there when they built "The Stack".Hooligan wrote:I lived there 1990 until 1996. I guess you would remember Pirie before the Kmart (Ellen centre) was built and the the train station was still in full working order? the main street must have been busy before Kmart.
That still works at Football Park if you're right in the middle of a row when buying drinks from the Coke sellers trawling up and down the aisles. Or at least, it did the last time I was there (mid last year).Prince George wrote:I don't really recall the train station (but yes it was working back then). I do recall when the shopping centre ("Pirie Plaza", right?) opened and we were all so excited it seemed like the town toured through the place; I guess the joke was on us. I was pretty young, the things I can really remember are stuff like swimming down on the black sands of Solomon Town beach (I think we lived in Solly Town for a while, before we moved to Risdon Park), or when they built the "Bridge to Nowhere". IIRC, that was the first set of traffic lights in town. Now that I think of it, I think that we were there when they built "The Stack".Hooligan wrote:I lived there 1990 until 1996. I guess you would remember Pirie before the Kmart (Ellen centre) was built and the the train station was still in full working order? the main street must have been busy before Kmart.
I remember my dad telling us about when they knocked off on Fridays and headed down to The Federal Hotel (I think). It would be so crowded you couldn't get in past the door; so you tapped the shoulder of the guy in front of you and gave him your money and your order, then he'd tap the next guy and so on. A few minutes later your beer would come back along with your change. That's why they called it "The City of Friendly People".
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 0 guests