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🎄💾🗓️ Day 5: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar - Compaq DeskPro 1 🎄💾🗓️
The Compaq Deskpro Model 1, introduced in 1984, featured an 8 MHz Intel 8086 CPU, which had better performance than the IBM PC's 4.77 MHz 8088 processor. It combined Color Graphics Adapter (CGA) graphics with high-resolution Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA) text, delivering enhanced text display. This improved speed and better text clarity over IBM PCs equipped with standard graphics. The Deskpro's architecture allowed for various disk configurations and was an influence for many personal computers.
Check out The Centre for Computing History's Compaq DeskPro 1 page (and other resources there!)
The Compaq Deskpro was a line of businessoriented personal computers manufactured by Compaq, discontinued after the merger with HewlettPacka
And here's a somewhat "first computer" story from Adafruit team member Anne!
"In my first year of EE (junior) we were limited to larger computers. My senior year we could check out Compaq Portables (really luggables) which allowed us to run C compilers and compile cross assemblers onto a machine for ease of use.
When I graduated, I needed a computer and went to a PC store. They contrasted the IBM PC/XT 8088 with the newly released Compaq DeskPro 1. With an 8086 processor running at 7.16 MHz, it was faster. It came with monochrome graphics (green or yellow) with both CGA and text mode video. I bought the dual 5.25" floppy version to start, to have enough money for an IBM ProPrinter for output.
The machine was great and I spent many hours on programming, databases, word processing and more. It was upgraded eventually to a 30MB RLL hard disk and an added 720k 3.5" floppy."
It got through the '286 era and was supplanted by a '386 machine. I still have the DeskPro and I intend to resurrect it in the not too distant future.
Have first computer memories? Post’em up in the comments, or post yours on socialz’ and tag them #firstcomputer #retrocomputing – See you back here tomorrow!
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🛒 Chronos 2 | 🛒 Azure
If he gives us another PC video....
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The last two photos in this pool are taken 20 years ago when I first came to Japan. Apart from being an anime otaku, I was also a PC otaku where I would go back n forth to Akihabara to buy computer parts - and take them back because of a resource clash. For a while, I didn't have a case as it took up too much space in our small apartment. Had a great time with thick IDE cables. No USB back then. But then I decided to get a computer case to keep everything tidy - I remember carrying that case from Akihabara and then using it as a stool to sit on the train platform as it was so heavy. The constant incompatibility between devices, clashes of resources, driver hell, etc etc and the amount of time needed to maintain a desktop PC made me decide never to get one ever again... Fast forward 20 years - I suddenly find myself about to build a gaming desktop PC ;-) Given that gaming/VR is going to be part of our business, I figured that I would learn more by building a system myself instead of buying a gaming laptop off the shelf. I'm not a fan of large ATX cases so I went for an ITX board - the Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO and the processor I chose was the Ryzen 5 3600 - decent for what I need and pretty much what I could get hold of. PC components in Japan are difficult to get hold of due to the small PC market over here. The rest of the build is made up of the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070, NZXT Kraken Z63, Corsair Vengeance LPX 64 GB, Crucial P5 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME SSD and Fractal Design ION SFX 650G - although I did buy an ATX sized PCU by accident which would not have fit in the open styled case XTIA Xproto. I'll let you know how the build goes and upload some videos to my YouTube Channel at tokyostormtrooper - or just search for Danny Choo ;-) Did you build your own PC rig? If so what are your specs? #pcbuilding #smartdoll #tokyo #japan (at Mirai Store Tokyo) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKjI9keBeGB/?igshid=vquxh5o20ncq
Where is the update on my desk setup. its been a while since I said I would do it . And is gonna be even longer before the next one