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Computer Geek circa 1984

Dorm Room Panorama from 1984
What a geek!

random stuff to notice:

  • Awesome 1mhz 64k computers with 160k 5.25 inch floppy drives
  • Evans & Sutherland calendar
  • “Creative Computing” and “Compute” magazines
  • 45s
  • D&D figures
  • Awesome 9inch color monitor, um I mean TV tuned to channel 3
  • Hayes 1200baud modem (or was it 300?)
  • Dot matrix printer with fan fold paper
  • Michael Jackson “Thriller” Album

actually there are 2 computers and 3 floppy drives. The Commodore 64 with 64k of ram and a 160k drive and the Atari 800 with 48k of ram and 2 floppy drives. The original *standard* one, an Atari 420 Disk Drive with 88k discs and a 3rd party “double density” drive that could store 176k per disk.

Gees, my current digital camera’s pictures take 3-4meg each. That would mean storing just one picture from my camera would take around 21 double density floppies or 42 single density floppies!

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