1987 was a very good year !!

The A2000 was actually two machines in one, it was first a Commodore computer capable of the fantastic graphics and sound with a large library of games, and second an IBM clone completely compatible with the entire DOS based software library.

Specifications here:
http://www.myoldcomputers.com/museum/comp/amiga2000.htm

I used to build 8" floppy drives for Shugart

This was our third computer.................

The TRS-80 model II was intended to be a business computer for use in offices and labs. It is equiped with a full height Shugart 8'' drive with a capacity of 500k.

I wonder what we ever did with all the old computers..........

Our second computer

The ZX-80 is regarded as a pioneer system in micro-computing as at the time the only available computers were kits for hobbyists like the MK-14 or more expensive systems intended for education or research such as the Tandy TRS-80 or the Commodore PET.

CAPICOM

CAPICOM is a Microsoft® ActiveX® control that provides a COM interface to Microsoft CryptoAPI. It exposes a select set of CryptoAPI functions to enable application developers to easily incorporate digital signing and encryption functionality into their applications. Because it uses COM, application developers can access this functionality in a number of programming environments such as Microsoft® Visual Basic®, Visual Basic Script, Active Server Pages, Microsoft® JScript®, C++, and others. CAPICOM is packaged as an ActiveX control, allowing Web developers to utilize it in Web based applications as well.

On the web at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995332.aspx

The brave new world..............

I found the first EPIC "documentary" fascinating................

Epic 2014 is the original flash online movie made by Robin Sloan for the Museum of Media History. Set in 2014 it charts the history of the Internet, the evolving mediascape and the way news and newspapers were affected by the growth in online news. It coined the word "Googlezon" from a future merger of Google and Amazon to form the Google grid, and speaks of news wars with the Times becoming a print only paper for the elite culminating in EPIC Evolving Personalised Information Construct. As a flash animation, this film is extraordinary, not just for it's use of technology but for it's fantastic perception looking forward.

check this out!
http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/

You can see the original version here:
http://epic.makingithappen.co.uk/

It gives me goose bumps!!