do you remember when
demonfurbie
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yep im old
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gorebrush
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Not as old as me...
Though I'm 28. (So I must have started really early...
I would dig out some DOS 3.3 screenshot's but couldn't find any
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Devilsbane
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demonfurbie wrote: »
yep im old
Yes I do. These were back in Elementary School!Decide what to be and go be it. -
nerdydad
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You kids and your GUI interfaces, do you remember trying to find the program you wrote on your Commodore by fast fowarding the tape to the counter number you wrote down, only to realize you didn't reset the counter.Devilsbane wrote: »Yes I do. These were back in Elementary School! -
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Not as old as me...
Though I'm 28. (So I must have started really early...
And in turn not as old as me.
Next month it'll be exactly 20 years since I got my first PC, which ran Windows 2.x. Not as "pretty" like the attached image because I had Hercules and monochrome monitors.You kids and your GUI interfaces, do you remember trying to find the program you wrote on your Commodore by fast fowarding the tape to the counter number you wrote down, only to realize you didn't reset the counter.
No, but I do remember the back-then-horrible-and-now-nostalgic squeaky sound of the tape device connected to my Atari and waiting ages only for it to fail most of the time - still regret going for the cheaper tapes. -
gorebrush
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I got my first PC 20 years ago too
IBM Model 55 SX/2 - 386 16MHz, 2MB RAM, 60Mb HDD, MCA Graphics Card I think it had...
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alan2308
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You kids and your GUI interfaces, do you remember trying to find the program you wrote on your Commodore by fast fowarding the tape to the counter number you wrote down, only to realize you didn't reset the counter.
This, except I was an Apple ][ guy. Now hand me my Peek/Poke chart and get off my lawn. -
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Sounds like someone needs to watch Wargames again.Jumping on the IT blogging band wagon -- http://www.jefferyland.com/ -
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I couldn't stop laughing at the OPs pic. My first gateway PC did that. -
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I got my first PC 20 years ago too
IBM Model 55 SX/2 - 386 16MHz, 2MB RAM, 60Mb HDD, MCA Graphics Card I think it had...
Those were the days, //shakes fist
You had a 386
Mine was a Tulip AT Compact (surprisingly popular back then despite the corny name) 286, 10MHz with 640KB ram and a 20MB hard disk. There was little "compact" about it. I still got a 5.25" diagnostic floppy needed to configure the CMOS. The oddest thing about it was the main board, which was itself a 16-bit ISA expansion card.
Just being able to get things to run on those minimal specs is pretty much what got me started with "IT" initially. Especially later when I had more memory and used extended/expanded memory/hma and Stacker to push its limits. Those sure were the days.
Hofman Networking - Tulip Museum Just looking at the photos takes me back in time. The only thing that would feel more like time traveling is a video of Dune on a 64 shades of gray monitor where red is rendered as black.
Screenshot from an Atari 800XL (first home computer I had):
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tpatt100
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I get a "wth??" response when I say I played MMOs like Wow back when mmos did not have graphics
Playing a MUD game with MUSHclient - YouTube -
TheShadow
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Multitasking at its finestWho knows what evil lurks in the heart of technology?... The Shadow DO -
nerdydad
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I remember saving up my pennies to buy a copy of Novell DOS 5, which was multitasking, of course I also remember downloading a copy of linux back then and it took almost 2 days with my 2400 baud modem.
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TheShadow
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I remember saving up my pennies to buy a copy of Novell DOS 5, which was multitasking, of course I also remember downloading a copy of linux back then and it took almost 2 days with my 2400 baud modem.
Novell DOS 5 == Concurrent CPM 86 -> Concurrent DOS under a different name after they bought Intergalactic Digital Research (DRI)Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of technology?... The Shadow DO -
millworx
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How many of you remember this. This was one of my favorite games as a little kid. Aside from Jeopardy on my 8088, which I had to load with 5 1/2" floppy's. (Im running this in my emulator haha)
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Kelkin
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I get a "wth??" response when I say I played MMOs like Wow back when mmos did not have graphics
Playing a MUD game with MUSHclient - YouTube
mmmm MUDs.. I spent many an hour on those.. -
phantasm
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Forsaken_GA wrote: »
AWESOME!! Usurper and LORD were king back in those days!!"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." -Heraclitus -
Bokeh
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lol reminded me of my first computer, Commodore Colt. Dual 5.25 floppy drives, 640k of memory, and turbo mode clicked it up to 5mhz. A real speed demon!
Someone mentioned "War Games" ... Well they are doing a remake of it, should be out sometime next year. -
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God I miss MUDs and LORD.
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alan2308
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How many of you remember this. This was one of my favorite games as a little kid. Aside from Jeopardy on my 8088, which I had to load with 5 1/2" floppy's. (Im running this in my emulator haha)
What do you mean remember? I've got the 32bit version that still runs fine on Windows 7. I might just have to play a game today now. -
JDMurray
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Geez people, we already had this topic back in 2007!!!
http://www.techexams.net/forums/off-topic/23578-what-your-first-windows-version.html -
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My oldest machines, a Heath/Zenith Z-89A (1983), a Radio Shack (Tandy) TRS-80 Model 1 (1984), and a Polo System I (MS-DOS) from Polo Microsystems (my first PC clone, 1985), have sadly long been scraped. Before that I just played on PDP-11 minis running UNIX.
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jamesp1983
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How many of you remember this. This was one of my favorite games as a little kid. Aside from Jeopardy on my 8088, which I had to load with 5 1/2" floppy's. (Im running this in my emulator haha)
that was a great game. hunting was the best part."Check both the destination and return path when a route fails." "Switches create a network. Routers connect networks." -
Hypntick
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jimmypizzle83 wrote: »that was a great game. hunting was the best part.
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