You know you've been around computers a while...

[Kenny P.]

Hmmm... Let's go way, way back to the first PC's days...

Kansas City Standard 300bps tape storage

Amdek monitors (B&W or Green Screen)

The first personal computer with Microsoft BASIC in ROM (OSI C1P)

Assembly Language

Character Graphics

Thinking that 1MHz is blazingly fast

Printers costing $500

8" Drives, Floppy and Hard

X-Acto, solder, wire and protoboard to make modifications (slot? what's a slot?)

PR#6 (oh, that's a slot...)

Visi-Calc

Super Serial Card

Novation's Apple Cat (1200bps half duplex, made full with a daughtercard - which I had!)

The DTMF chip for above

Gorilla Banana printers

What a wonderful time to be alive!!!

Kenny P.

[savagegerbil]

man i'm glad i missed all that stuff. Wasnt interested in computers until my mid teens. when the pentium first came out. Anything else is just uncivilized.

[amcfreek]

trouble is here guys , ive been slackin in my post sorry
you guys forgot about the huge tape drives that fed the punch cards
i can remember kaypro, and the manual said ""dos wouldnt last, cpm was going to rebound""
problem here is you guys are talkin about some of my collection in pc junk
the 84 key keyboards from ibm have a metal backing and weigh a ton,
impossible to get used to typein on after a standard 101
any body remember: the atari 800, had 2 completes ditched em years ago,
ataris 1040 st?have 2,, the comadores amiga 500, have 1
the ibm pc , have 2 originals plus parts, i did toss a working commadore from 77
scrap guy was happy!!needed 2 ppl to lift
kick me please! i did that in 98, harder harder kick me!
i also have a complete digital equiptment ,dec, rainbow 100 +
any ideas when it was made? hey i also have test drive 1,2,3 5,6
im missing 4 , ill live 4 now,, i also have a tandy 102 laptop/pda
i have of course the famous ti 99 and ti99 4a ,
the c64/128, plenty of em, as well as the apples/mac
sorry to boare you guys/and or change subject coffes not ingested yet this morning
thanxz

[mongo69]

if you can remember adding 4megs of memory to your video card was awsome.

if you can remember when you had to type RUN to run a program you just wrote.

[amcfreek]

remember the wumpus??
i watched somebody port it to a ti99,,before it was out on a ti99!
well, i said cd was a fad, too good to be true!
remember when intel said gohead zilog, make the 8080 never happen for you,dont waste you time
intel said " gohead amd make those 3 rate chips for ibm,then it was the 386sl? call the lawyers, 486 call em again, the pr rateing call em again,
intel said "go head nexgen 2 cpus never happen"
intel said "lab pull this nexgen cpu apart we need 1 to call our own"
intel said " we need a name to copy right /pentium/ and call the layers if amd gets any ideas"
can any one remeber when steve jobs visited greatfull dead shows to stock up on paper supplies??
remember when cyrix was still in bizness?
remember useing hard drives for wheel chocs?
ans finally remeber "theirs gold in them thar cpu's" california gold rush of the 19 90's

[Gabriel]

you have used FAT12

[Chosen One]

[quote]Originally posted by sennister:
<strong>You would cut a notch in your new 5 1/4 single sided disks so that you could store information on the back as well.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I totally forgot about that! That was awesome!

[Triumph]

History to you is the rise anf fall of Ram prices

[Froghead]

Conversely - you know you haven't been around long enough when someone donates to your store a working 1982 IBM PC with original monitor and keyboard and no one in the shop knows what it does.

[robbydobby]

when u turned it on u had to boot off of a 5.25" floppy and thats all u had in it

[Mayhem]

When your TV had as good a resolution as tour monitor. (because it WAS the monitor.)

When your current joystick has more onboard memory than your first four PCs combined. (and is easier to program)

If you can remember hard wiring the keyboard and monitor. (because that's how they connected)

When your sound card has more on board memory than your first six PCs combined.

When your video card has more ram than your first three hard drives had space.

Or, for that matter, when your video card is a better computer than the PC you had 5 yrs. ago. (64MB ram and a 200mhz proc.)

[Drone2903]

<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by amcfreek:
...i also have a complete digital equiptment ,dec, rainbow 100 +
any ideas when it was made? </font>

IF I remember correctly, Digital Corp manufactured the Rainbow 100 from 82 to 84.
That thing had 2 CPU: an 8086 and a Z-80
You could boot in CP/M (and run from the Z-80) or Dec version of Dos for the 8086.
It had prop. floppys (single sided, 5.25" 400k) mounted opposed to one an other in order to use only 1 motor for the heads.

And expensive. 640k, 2 flop, mono (amber, green or paper white) monitor, OS and floor stand would set u back $5000. (can).

10MB hard disk (full height 5.25") = $1500.

I remember using Wordstar, Multiplan, Select 86 and DBase II on that thing.

Meeeeemooriiiiiiiiiesss,

[mahdi]

<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by mongo69:
if you can remember adding 4megs of memory to your video card was awsome.

if you can remember when you had to type RUN to run a program you just wrote.</font>

4megs? I remember 1meg upgrades were insaine and what the hell would anyone even DO with a 4meg video card??

RUN haha! how BASIC!
Try this one...
load "*",8,1

[This message has been edited by mahdi (edited September 07, 2001).]

[prince_steval]

You know you've been around computers a while...
When
1. Your ZX 48k Spectrum was the coolest
thing on earth.
2. Your first PC XT cost more than your
first 386
3. 40mb MFM hard drives were da bomb and you
thought you'd never fill it up.
4. Dr Dos 6 and Stacker were the in thing..
5. The error "No ROM Disc" meant hours of
debugging and frustration.
6. Dos 5.00 was the coolest OS on the
planet...
7. Modems were a privileged species...

Well enough nostalgia - just shows how old I am


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Your floppy disks were 8" in size,
tapes were about the size of video cassettes, CD's were unheard of, you remember spending ages building a dos boot disk that would give more than 600K of base memory, just to run the latest games.

Your state of the art machine was a Commodore Vic 20, the internet - what internet?? You ask yourself - Did anyone manage to complete "Jet Set Willy" ???


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