My Computer Class 1987 Kleinmachnow East Germany
I know this might be amusing to some so as a sunday laugh I post a photo I just found while cleaning up. It shows part of the Mr. Aschbrenners Computer class anno 1987 in deep red socialistic Kleinmachnow / East Germany. Its me sitting in the middle on a kick ass KC85/II sporting 8 KiloByte RAM, a NO SMALL CAPS rubber round keyboard, a whopping "HD ready" 320x256 pixel screen, a "save me 10 times and you have one functioning copy" cassette recorder and an operating system called CAOS (Cassette Aided Operating System) with lovely BASIC. When I remember correctly this photo appeared in some kind of newspaper at the time. I actually programmed an animation on this thing back then even so there was no direct graphic access - I hacked around it by creating a custom font set and then cycling through the typefaces... ah the old times...
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Mr. Aschbrenners computer class. The good old days...
And for all those who don't know it anymore: the KC 85/II is under the table and needed kind of cartriges to run BASIC or RAM. But the cassette recorder was a real cassette recorder and the monitor was a russian (?) tv box called Junost.
A few months ago I saw one KC 85 in a second hand shop in Potsdam and had a flashback too ;)
Posted by: deli | 31.08.07 13:53
Hihi. Süß schaust Du da aus. Aber erkennen tut man Dich sofort.
Posted by: Saint | 19.09.07 0:10
Boom. Mit dem etwas kleineren Jungen hinter dir habe ich jahrelang Handball zusammen gespielt, nur der Name fällt mir nicht mehr ein. Das ist ja krass!
Posted by: Saint | 19.09.07 0:13