Boy do I remember those days and back then you had hard drive types like type 47 or you had to manually enter the sectors..........
and if you accidentally put an RLL formatted drive onto a standard MFM controller, you lost everything!
yup
You know you are getting old when "young ppl's" memes don't actually show what you consider old PC tech!
That was just the 3rd keyboard and mouse standard I used! (XT & AT keyboards / Proprietary & Serial Mice).
Which one is that? Looks familiar?
I figure I prolly used some others, but my memory sucks.
5 pin din keyboard connector
You had me confused for a minute there, that's a PC/XT connector. AT used the same one but with different signalling (hence the XT/AT switch on the bottom of many old PC keyboards).
That reminds me, I also used some early Mac's with the RJ10 phone jack style keyboard connector too. That was replaced with ADB iirc.
Nice, I did use terminals back in the 80's (very common in local libraries), but I dont recall what sort of keyboard connectors they used.
EDIT: might have even been these ones from Wyse.
We still have one of those old RLL/MFM drives.
Bloody thing is massive for only something like 20 MB in size
I still have a working 40MB SCSI drive from my Mac SE sitting on my shelf - I think that's the smallest in my collection. I replaced it with a BlueSCSI SD card solution.
Wish I'd kept the 10MB HDD from my first computer in 1985...got the computer from a local IMB clone company. IIRC it cost me about $1,000. So exciting...started a life-long fascination w/geeky stuff.
And now back to our regular programming…