Real geeks- name it.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

Shouldn't be hard.

[no name no slogan]

1. Is that some sort of Heathkit?

I recognize the logos on the front of teh b0xen

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

2. Some sort.

I'd considered blanking out the logos, but what the hell. It's the Lounge. Something like this can go on for hours....

:evilgrin:

[no name no slogan]

3. Well, you've got me beyond that

I don't know too much about their computer kits. My Big Brother(tm) used to do some of their kits back in the 70s, which is the only reason I recognize it.

[Writer]

4. It's not a UNIVAC... it's well after...

is that a FORTRAN machine? Or is it simply the first PC?

[leeroysphitz]

5. The component on the right looks like some kind of toaster...

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

8. I believe that may be a dual floppy drive box.

Did a zoom within Photoshop and it appears to be dual 5 1/2" floppy drives.

[Deja Q]

6. It's a computer!

:rofl:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

10. Dayum! Sharp as a tack as usual, H. T.

How do you manage to stay on top of so many things? You make it all seem so effortless.

:toast:

[Deja Q]

12. Because I don't dwell on old things, that's why.

:P

:rofl:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

14. You tend to forget something

New things always spring from old things. The only old things springing from new things are simply old things being rebuilt from other old things.

Get it, youngster? :rofl:

[appal_jack]

7. i would guess a Z-80 processor.

Do I get partial credit?

-app

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

17. An 8080A running at 2 Mhz

A dinkum fair guess, however. Half a point. :toast:

[appal_jack]

18. i'll take points where i can get 'em. 2 mhz, huh?

Faster than an Apple //e with the 6502, iirc. I think the Apple ran at a little more than 1 mhz..

I never actually 'computed' on anything older than TRS-80's and Commodore PETs myself...

cheers #6!
:toast: :beer:

[DarkTirade]

9. That is something from ancient times.

Many here would not be old enough to even remember it.

[begin_within]

11. TRS-80?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

15. Nope.

:shrug:

[rug]

13. An automated bagel toaster.

[appal_jack]

16. could very well be

Some college buddies of mine kept a PDP-11 main frame (remember when they were classified into subgroups of mainframe computers, micro-computers, and slave terminals: a veritable silicon hierarchy) on and running through the 1990's primarily to heat their office during cold weather.

I bet that Heathkit got warm somewhere on the surface of those boxes.

-app

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

19. Ok- here ya be. All is revealed.

It's the very first Heathkit computer kit- the H8. It was released in '77. It used HDOS- Heathkit's very own flavor of DOS.

http://oldcomputers.net/heathkit-h8.html

http://home.comcast.net/~davidwallace2000/h8/The_Heathkit_H8_Digital_Computer.htm

I actually have an old OS archive cd around here somewhere- it contains copies of almost every released version of DOS, and it also has all the old flavors of Windoze all the way back to 1.0. An interesting thing to have, even though I don't have an old computer to load them on.