A couple of my first tech purchases

A couple of my first tech purchases

Here are a couple of pictures I thought I would share for the younger viewers in the crowd..

MY FIRST CELL PHONE

Motorola Cellular phone

This phone could slide into holding/connection bracket under my truck seat and handset would plug into a jack on my dashboard as well as being carry-able. BTW – NOT light

It was actually a very good phone – reliable and clear.

MY FIRST COMPUTER

TRS-80 Model I

No Hard Drive, No Floppies – Just a cassette deck that would load and save programs ( analog of course ) You had to fast forward to get to the program or data you needed! I taught myself Visual Basic on this dinosaur.

Visicalc (excel precursor)  an amazing program that I think made computers the most useful to most people and businesses.

MY FIRST DIGITAL CAMERA

Fotoman

Good old Logitech!

376 x240 px and grayscale only

(link for info from Wikipedia: FOTOMAN)

One of my first Printers (about $2000)

This was a behemoth of a printer – about 30 lbs and relatively noisy

TRS-80 Daisy Wheel Printer