rod222
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What I collect: Worldwide Stamps, Ephemera and Catalogues
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Post by rod222 on Sept 5, 2013 6:03:57 GMT
Apple Computer Lisa Demo (January 7, 1982) We take navigating using icons and a mouse for granted, but that wasn't the case thirty years ago when one had to type in every command. Apple changed that with the introduction of the Lisa, the first affordable computer with a graphical interface. It cost $10,000 dollars when it was introduced in 1983; that's almost $23,000 in 2013 dollars. Do you recall your first computer? I remember, feeling like a special "in touch" person, when I slapped down my $600 to buy my first "XT" machine 1983-1984? I recall the shop smelling strange, like a whole new world, like plasticcy, metally type odour, I was wrapped. I used it to enumerate clients on my Real Estate database, It got to around 300 then ran out of memory, no graphics, just yellow text. 1986  Me, by my very first computer... complete with dot matrix printer (apologies to those whom have seen it before)  |
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Philatarium
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What I collect: Primarily focused on Japan, but lots of other material catches my eye as well ...
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Post by Philatarium on Sept 5, 2013 19:46:51 GMT
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BC
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Vancouver, BC Canada
Posts: 836
What I collect: Worldwide USED up to the 1960's, later years from countries that came into existence after then, like Anguilla, Tuvalu and Transnistria.
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Post by BC on Sept 5, 2013 20:12:18 GMT
Tuvalu, 2001  |
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hank
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What I collect: USA, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia and other Eastern Europe.
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Post by hank on May 2, 2021 11:29:35 GMT
![]()  A personal favourite of mine, from the Computer Networking Conference held in Budapest. |
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hrdoktorx
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Posts: 7,213
What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 2, 2021 12:06:08 GMT
Great idea to revive that thread. I immediately thought of the Charles Babbage issue from the UK, shown here in its presentation pack, for a series on British scientific achievements:  And, to answer the opening question of the thread, my first computer was an Apple IIc in 1985. |
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brightonpete
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On a hike at Goodrich-Loomis
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Post by brightonpete on May 2, 2021 14:05:11 GMT
Centenary of the Canadian Census. This stamp shows ticker tape to input data into computers, and the reel-to-reel 9 track tapes that computers used to store data in! Computing has leapt light years ahead of that in the early 70's!
My first computer was a Radio Shack PC-01. It had a 1 x 24 character LCD display, a cassette/printer interface and a spiffy carrying bag. Also all of 1.9k RAM!
The first office computer was a Hewlett-Packard Series 1000 mini-computer. There was nothing mini about this guy! It stood over 6 feet tall and 3 or so feet wide, two units, one with the guts of the machine, the other a tape drive among other things, unseen. Two hard drives which by today's standards were enormous, each disc had 5 platters for read/write for a total of 50 megs per hard drive - 10 megs per platter, but they were replaceable! A humongous Versatec printer, 4 line printers and a Daisy Wheel impact printer that clattered like crazy every 12 hours for about an hour or two. All cooled by a huge AC unit! Working with the Canadian Forces Weather Service meant that we had pretty decent computing systems from 1980 on.
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hank
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What I collect: USA, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia and other Eastern Europe.
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Post by hank on May 7, 2021 16:45:54 GMT
Here's another information technology stamp from GB released in 1982. This one shows the development of communications. An unusal shape for a GB commemerative. Great stamp.  |
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jun 13, 2021 20:09:27 GMT
Issue from Algeria in 2011 on the topic of rural telecenters:  |
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hank
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What I collect: USA, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia and other Eastern Europe.
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Post by hank on Jun 24, 2021 19:34:05 GMT
 I received some mail from 'down south' and this interesting SOAR was on the cover. |
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hank
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What I collect: USA, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia and other Eastern Europe.
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Post by hank on Jul 4, 2021 18:59:30 GMT
 And I was well pleased to get this one on a letter from Israel the other day. |
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hank
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What I collect: USA, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia and other Eastern Europe.
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Post by hank on Feb 11, 2022 7:03:31 GMT
 East Germany 1987, fond memories of the BBC Micro from back then myself. |
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swvl
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Posts: 548
What I collect: FDCs, plus some US modern and new issues. Topical interests include music, art, literature, baseball, space...
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Post by swvl on Jul 12, 2022 20:27:11 GMT
Here's an FDC produced in 1994 by the philatelic roundtable on GEnie, the first online stamp forum I was ever involved in. GEnie was a long-defunct text-only messageboard that began in the mid-Eighties, long before there was a WWW. Interesting and informative conversations were had on any number of subjects by people typing out their thoughts in ASCII text; this was before HTML, and there were no images. When I was first getting interested in stamps as a kid, that roundtable expanded my horizons - in fact, it's probably a big part of why I became interested in covers at all. Coming across this brought back some nice memories.  |
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 24, 2022 20:39:02 GMT
Tunisia issue from 1986 marking the introduction of informatics in the school curriculum:  |
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 19, 2023 18:12:46 GMT
New stamp from Germany showing one of the earliest calculator designs, from Wilhelm Schickard in 1623:  |
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cjoprey
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Scanning stamps for my website...
Posts: 1,504
What I collect: Belgium (predominantly), British Commonwealth (older ones), WW (whatever comes my way...)
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Post by cjoprey on Sept 19, 2023 20:36:43 GMT
Adding one from Belgium: COB #2116, 1984:  |
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 13, 2024 9:52:48 GMT
Issue from Mauritius in 2001, part of a set on textile manufacturing, showing a computer aided machinery station:  |
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Aug 26, 2024 22:04:35 GMT
New stamp from New Caledonia on the topic of Technology and Innovation:  |
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 1, 2024 12:48:08 GMT
The King of Thailand is featured in front of a computer, on this stamp overprinted for Chulalongkorn University:  |
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 2, 2024 21:35:22 GMT
A stamp issued in 2011 by Thailand and showing a computer-assisted microscope:  |
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 29, 2024 8:17:48 GMT
Thailand stamp issued for the World Communications Year in 1983:  Note the old style modem in the bottom left panel. |
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