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OT - Remember When....
The PDA thread got me thinking, so with apologies to the young punks ;)
I remember looking through K-Mart ads to see if they lowered the price of the Commodore 64... An IBM PC with TWO floppy drives! Engineering pressure vessels on a Radio Shack brand computer Compaq taking an IBM PC chassis, putting a small CRT on the front and a handle on the back - and calling it a PORTABLE. I liked it too :confused: Bill Gates and the one meeting that would one day make him the richest man in the world. IBM's Topview, Quarterdeck's Deskview, and Microsoft's Windows battling it out for ownership of the multitasking software market. Most rag "experts" chose IBM or Quarterdeck to win. HA - I was right. (too bad I didn't buy stock or move to Seattle - I'd have that Black Thunder now) Watching an IBM-AT boot for the first time and not being able to read the screen fast enough to see the files load - and thinking "I'll never need this much processor power" Running my former employers first PC based engineering network, late at night in the engineering office so we wouldn't have to go through corporate hoops and have electricians ask questions (my boss took the heat for that one, but forgiveness IS easier to get than permission) X Windows - running programs on a different machine than the one you are sitting at. Hehehe - the ultimate test was opening a window on a buddies machine and displaying a picture taken of him and the stripper from his bachelor party - DURING a presentation HE was giving to our group. I earned alot of respect with that one:D I remember $40,000 workstations actually being FASTER than $5000 PC's. Formatting hard disks into five partitions so you could actually use the whole disk. Finding out which Windows 3.1 files (only about 45 of them) were needed to load my Windows based program on any DOS machine. My first pentium I machine - blinding speed - thinking "I'll never need this much processor power" :D :D |
How about "overclocking" a pentium 166 to a 200 'cause it was faster with Doom II
For all you mainframers out there... two words... PUNCH CARDS :D |
My first PC was an 8086 XT. It operated at a blazing 4MhZ and if you pushed the "turbo" button it would operate at 10Mhz:eek:
The only problem was that it would get too hot, so you had to use it sparingly....:rolleyes: It had two 3.5", 720K floppys and ran DOS 3.3...Years later, when I could afford a hard drive, it was a seagate 20Meg Drive...The possibilities were limitless with that much storage. :D BTW, it came with an amber monochrome monitor... It has a 1200 Baud modem(remember "Baud"?) I had to buy a plug-in math co-processor, so that I could run AutoCAD Version 8 on that shiny, new hard drive... You weren't serious until you got yourself a CGA, 4-color monitor...Then you were stylin' Remember those awful purple and cyan graphics schemes... Then came Video graphics Array(VGA)...256 colors that would blow you away. :D :D They've certainly come a long way! Oh ya, remember the old Radio Shack TRS machines(all in one monitor and cpu) Simply Amazing...:D |
Originally posted by Baja Daze My first PC was an 8086 XT. It operated at a blazing 4MhZ and if you pushed the "turbo" button it would operate at 10Mhz:eek: The only problem was that it would get too hot, so you had to use it sparingly....:rolleyes: It had two 3.5", 720K floppys and ran DOS 3.3...Years later, when I could afford a hard drive, it was a seagate 20Meg Drive...The possibilities were limitless with that much storage. :D BTW, it came with an amber monochrome monitor... It has a 1200 Baud modem(remember "Baud"?) I had to buy a plug-in math co-processor, so that I could run AutoCAD Version 8 on that shiny, new hard drive... You weren't serious until you got yourself a CGA, 4-color monitor...Then you were stylin' Remember those awful purple and cyan graphics schemes... Then came Video graphics Array(VGA)...256 colors that would blow you away. :D :D They've certainly come a long way! Oh ya, remember the old Radio Shack TRS machines(all in one monitor and cpu) Simply Amazing...:D How many actually programmed using punch cards? I hated those days. |
Nick,
I remember being in a pinch one day on the TRS. I ran out blank disks and needed to save a new program desperately. Knowing that you could buy single sided or double sided disks I figured the media inside the sleeves would be the same. I carefully opened the sleeve, took out the media, cut out the sleeve to match the double sided version and slipped the media back in. It worked! :D |
I remember spending $2,400 in 1982 on a Radio Shack Model 4P (P meaning portable, as the whole thing, all 64K of it and the monitor and keyboard fit into a carrying case that looked like a sewing machine), and running superScripsit and Visicalc, the whole time being amazed!
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Ya, the prices were outrageous...Just look at what you get now for $599.00 from Dell...
I used punch cards somewhat, but not a whole lot...mostly programming CNC machines. Frequency, I've heard of that being done...Never tried it though. What about when the 3.5" disk drives became 1.44Meg...did you guys all drill out the upper corner of the old 720(low-density disks) and reformat to 1.44?....:D |
Remember when .......
You saw someone typing on the keyboard at work and it meant they had to be WORKING! :D :D |
Frequency
Originally posted by Frequency Remember when ....... You saw someone typing on the keyboard at work and it meant they had to be WORKING! :D :D |
Do you remember
C:/dir so you could see what programs you had? |
I remember well, Ron!
cd\ md c:\xxx... rd c:\xxx... copy a:\xxx.xxx c:\xxx\... format a: /u pkzip a:\xxx.zip c:\xxx\*.* dir del *.* list ren xxx.abc xxx.cba edit autoexec.bat edit config.sys . . . . . |
How about the new DOS command that changed our lives for the better...
xcopy :) |
First computer in office had twin 50 meg hard drives – WOW!
We use to keep office printers in sound proof boxes – in separate rooms. Use to bolt the IBM Selectric typewriters to the desks so thieves wouldn’t steal them. Monochrome monitors. Still think of the computer era as BM & AM (before mouse, after mouse) |
OMG...xcopy was a lifesaver!
Such simple things meant so much...;) |
Everything I buy (electronics) is better than what it replaces for less money.
Computers, PDAs, Big Screens, Printers, etc.... |
you wanna talk old stuff
My first comptuer was a PET what a toilet Had an Apple 2c also that was sort of a wannabe laptop that had 128K of internal RAM Dude a stick of GUM half chewed could hold more information than that.!!! Natural progression of things Hell Gates even said there would be no reason in the world to have anything faster than a 486 Yeah well why is it windows 2000 wont even fit on a CD now unless it is all CAB files? (try ghosting win 2k and see how big it is) Hell Remember the phone modems that you actually took the recienver and put it on the modem rubber things ? How about floppy disks and taking a hole puncher and snipping out the other side to make it double sided, double density and thinking the floppy disk police were coming to get you? I remember doing backups on big 8 inch monster floppies off of my dads 1 meg hard drive that was as big as a common desktop is now? Remember the WOPER from war games? Ever try the trick of the soda can pull tab to the receiver to get a dial tone in that movie? okay I could keep going on and on here but Ill stop okay and remember I consider myself young, im 31 Jason |
I once paid $900 for a Maxtor 760mb drive it was the hottest thing on the market at the time....1990 :eek:
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Originally posted by Baja Daze What about when the 3.5" disk drives became 1.44Meg...did you guys all drill out the upper corner of the old 720(low-density disks) and reformat to 1.44?....:D Floppy disk police! LOL:D :D :D |
Friend of mine charged a dollar per disk to format them, he had kids parents giving him disks and money to get it done.
Not a bad enterprise for middle/high school kid few hundred bucks per week. not bad Yeah floppy disk police, Just like now you think that MS open license agreement is going to bite you in the ass too! Freakin XP they screwed us You have to call microsoft to get XP off of one machine and transferred to antoher. Im going to have to try ghost with that and see if I cant get around this or not. Damn rules are MEANT TO BE BROKEN!!! Hey Uncle bill, you might try but you will never succeed! Jason |
Originally posted by Jayl13 Freakin XP they screwed us You have to call microsoft to get XP off of one machine and transferred to antoher. |
Question is, once you get XP off of a machine, why would you want to put it on another?? ;)
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LOL
Good point Jason |
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