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  Sony Vaio UX Micro Computer (UMPC) Review

  We tested the first UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) from Sony - the Sony Vaio UX Mobile Computer - a few months ago. The 1.6lb Vista powered computer comes fully equipped with an Intel more... Centrino Duo processor, 40gb harddrive, Blue Tooth, Wi-Fi and touch screen not to mention a docking station and a slide out keyboard.
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  Inside the oldest mint-condition microcomputer

  The DigiBarn's Bruce Damer explains the history of what may be the world's oldest-remaining mint condition Altair microcomputer--and opens its case for the very first time.
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  Apple 1 Microcomputer Museum display LCF Group Floyd Virginia

  www.floydfolks.org & http 1-540-808-2880 -floydlcfgroup@gmail - PO box 179 Floyd,Virginia 24091 Apple 1 Microcomputer designed by Steve Wozniak of the Apple Computer Computer. LCF School LCFSchool Apple 1 is part of the LCF GRoup Historical Computer Collection - LCF Group is located in The Floyd Professional Center , Village Green, Floyd, Virginia. This Apple one is in special wood case -12 or so were made by a start up computer store to sell a working system and not just the Apple 1 PC board. This is working system and is part of a Historical collection of microcomputers consisting of 1000's of item collected over 40 years by David Larsen as Larsen Worked with the Blacksburg Group in Publishing the BugBooks and the "Blacksburg Continuing Education series of books. Some historical items on display at the Floyd Professional Center - Village Green, FLoyd , Virginia, David Larsen KK4WW J79WW, Gaynell Larsen KK4WWW J79WWW, Dee Wallacw KG4VMI, -----Important Names & Words in the History of Microcomputers Insai, Adam Osborne, bugbook, Ed Roberts, floppy disk, RAM chip, TRS-80, radio shack, commodore, Steve Jobs, Steve Wuzniack, WOZ, Atrai, Osborne, Adam Osborne, Heathzenith Clivesinclair, polymorphic, Ex8l, Heathkit, colleco, IBM PC, IBM PC jr., DEC, Don Lancaster, Wayne Green, teletype, Hewlett Packard, Jon Titus, Bill Gates, Apple, Microsoft, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Digital, museum, cyber, TI, IC, micro processor, Intel, logic, memory, USB, robotics, server, data, history ...
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  Mark 8 Microcomputer by Roy Justus Floyd Virginia LCF Group LCF School

  www.floydfolks.org & http 1-540-808-2880 - floydlcfgroup@gmail - PO box 179 Floyd,Virginia 24091 Mark 8 -- LCF School Floyd Virginia I first learned to program a computer by taking a class at Virginia Tech which taught Fortran IV on the IBM370 main frame using punch cards for data entry. The year was 1978 and it was an enjoyable class. We worked at our own pace and graded on our mastery of the subject as measured by how many programs we completed and how well we solved the problem in logic given. Then came video terminals in place of the punch cards for a chemistry class. Very cool stuff. I spent many late hours at those old HP terminals running simulations of NMR spectra and chemical composition problems. I left Tech in 1980 and took a job as a lab technician and operator at a local waste water treatment plant. I wasn't seriously going to take the job at first but I went to check it out anyway. When I got there I talked to the superintendent and looked around. I walked into a room filled with analog controllers, strip chart recorders and alarm systems and I changed my mind about taking the job. It was a fine opportunity to learn more about process control and analog electronics. I went back to tech in 1984 and took some digital electronics classes taught under Mr David Larsen and Dr. Paul Field. Just about that time the plant I worked at began to be upgraded with digital electronic controllers and we received our first IBM PC. Actually it was a Radio Shack model 1200 ...
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  MITTS Atair 680 Microcomputer-LCF Historical Collection-Floyd VA.wmv

  www.floydfolks.org & http 1-540-808-2880 -floydlcfgroup@gmail - PO box 179 Floyd,Virginia 24091------The diminutive Altair 680 was one of the first three Motorola 6800 computers on the market, along with the SWTPC 6800 and Sphere. The MITTS Altair company was owned by Ed Roberts. Roberts sold the company and went to medical school and is now a practicing MD. Although the 680 was "pre-announced" on the cover of the November, 1975 issue of Popular Electronics (following the similar introduction of its big brother, the Altair 8800), the headline trumpeting "THE FIRST MOTOROLA 6800 COMPUTER PROJECT" was not the whole truth. Ironically, page 5 of the same magazine carried an ad for the Sphere, a 6800 based computer available in kit form for $860, and page 89 advertised the SWTPC 6800 kit at $450. It's hard to say which computer actually shipped first in quantity. MITS offered a discount for orders placed before December 31, 1975, but the ads offering the discount featured a picture of the mock up 680 that appeared on the Popular Electronics cover (yes, the 680 was a mock up, just like the 8800 photo on the magazine cover the previous January). Also, the "December 31, 1975" discount ads appeared in Byte magazine as late as February 1976. From www.computercloset.com------Important Names & Words in the History of Microcomputers Insai, Adam Osborne, bugbook, Ed Roberts, floppy disk, RAM chip, TRS-80, radio shack, commodore, Steve Jobs, Steve Wuzniack, WOZ, Atrai, Osborne, Adam ...
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  Mark 8 Microcomputer Jon Titus LCF Group Collection Floyd Virginia

  www.floydfolks.org & http 1-540-808-2880 -floydlcfgroup@gmail - PO box 179 Floyd,Virginia 24091 Mark 8 Microcomputer, by Jonathan A Titus, LCF School LCFSchool Mark 8 is on display at the Floyd Professional Center- Village Green, Floyd virginia. Jon Titus designed the very first home computer and published plans in "Radio Electronics" july 1974. Jon Titus is credited as being the first to make available the plans and PC boards to allow an individual to have their very own computer. This Mark 8 microcomputer is part of the LCF Group historical collection of microcomputers including many 1000's of Microcomputer items collected over 40 years by David Larsen. David Larsen worked with Jon Titus and others to publish the Bugbooks and the "Blacksburg continuing Education Series" computer and digital electronics books , The LCF Group plans to have a full histoical microcomputer museum in Floyd, Virginia at a future time. www.microcomputercollector.com for info, David Larsen KK4WW J79WW, Gaynell Larsen KK4WWW J79WWW, Dee Wallace KG4VMI, Floyd Virginia N4USA www.floydfolks.org http Fairs -------Important Names & Words in the History of Microcomputers Insai, Adam Osborne, bugbook, Ed Roberts, floppy disk, RAM chip, TRS-80, radio shack, commodore, Steve Jobs, Steve Wuzniack, WOZ, Atrai, Osborne, Adam Osborne, Heathzenith Clivesinclair, polymorphic, Ex8l, Heathkit, colleco, IBM PC, IBM PC jr., DEC, Don Lancaster, Wayne Green, teletype, Hewlett Packard, Jon Titus, Bill Gates, Apple ...
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  PAC-MAN on oldschool microcomputer

  This is ultimate original game PAC-MAN from Atari, executed on Didaktik Gama microcomputer - whitch is better clone of ZX Spectrum. It have 3,5Mhz Z80 CPU, 80kb RAM and as data medium was tape cassete.
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  Buffalo Smart Cooker with Microcomputer

  A Smart Cooker that can not only cook rice, poridge, soup, curry chicken, many dishes but even bake a cake!

• Sony Vaio UX Micro Computer (UMPC) Review

• Inside the oldest mint-condition microcomputer

• Apple 1 Microcomputer Museum display LCF Group Floyd Virginia

• Mark 8 Microcomputer by Roy Justus Floyd Virginia LCF Group LCF School

• MITTS Atair 680 Microcomputer-LCF Historical Collection-Floyd VA.wmv

• Mark 8 Microcomputer Jon Titus LCF Group Collection Floyd Virginia

• PAC-MAN on oldschool microcomputer

• Buffalo Smart Cooker with Microcomputer