trip down Harddrive memory lane....

[Nanotech9]

im reading along and saying WTH... thats old news.. and then look up that page a little an realize the particular news clip is from the year i was born... seems that 8088's were the big thing, and they were prediction that by 1996, you would pay less than $1 mer meg of HD space....

http://www.alts.net/ns1625/winchest.html

[stupidzbu]

i got my first computer in 1991 when I was 11 years old... from ADRAY's (gone for good).. for $3,000

my dad bought a 19.5 MHZ SX-II computer with a 2400 baud modem... and a 121 meg hard drive...

i remember... looking at a blank DOS screen and saying 'what the hell do i do with this?'
people nowadays just can't appreciate what a GUI does for you..

shit.. i even remember choosing DOS over WINDOWS 3.0 cause it crashed so much! HAHAHA big change huh?
i used to download all these games.. and it would take HOURS... plus.. i even had a copy of Chicago (beta Win 95).. but didn't have the hardware to install it.. imagine downloading 100 + MEGS on a 2400!! HAHAHHAHA

thats back when Prodigy was the shit and AOL almost went under!
WOW! i even remember the time I bought a CD-ROM.. and tried to install it myself.... but was dissapointed when I found out that the computer couldn't handle a cd-rom...

you know... back in the days when Leisure Suit Larry installation came on like 15 disks..... and Quest For Glory I was a kick ass game!

good ole' days man...
it's makin me cry!

[ChrisMG187]

I remember prodigy! They had that kickass maze game! LOL, that was like 10 years ago, and I still remember it! My first system was a 386 with Win3.1. I remember getting educational games on the 5.25" disks for christmas one year. Come to think of it, I still have them. Those were the primitive days of AT keyboards, Serial Mice, and no Got|Apex?!!!

[zenbooty]

You people make me feel old!

My first PC was the classic Texas Instruments TI 99/4A! It hooked up to your TV set for a monitor, and used a cassette recorder for storing data. It also had a slot on right side of the top surface for loading cartridges with such programs as Parsec, Mountaineer, and Advanced Basic! It had 16K of memory (upgraded to 64K when you were using the Advanced Basic cartridge!)

Before that, we had one of the original Pong machines...

[revil]

hard drives are that cheap now? I've been booting win2k on a dual floppy system.

[Grimm]

I remember playing a graphical online multiplayer game on rodigy like 10 years ago. It was D&D Pools of Radience. It was pretty slick for back then.

I also remember waaaayyyy back when my dad brought home a computer. It was a new TeleVideo with a built in 8" screen (amber or green with the flick of a switch!) with dual full height 5 1/4" floppy drives! State of the art! The thing was about 4 feet long almost 18" high and 18" deep. It was huge! A few months later my dad brought home one with a hard drive! It had a MASSIVE amount of storage available, five whole megabites!!! Who could ever use all that space?

[ChrisMG187]

Makes you wonder where they put all their mp3's from napster back then.

[Twilight]

Heh.. I remember when I was a sophomore in high school (8 years ago) and my boyfriend upgraded his computer to a 1 gig hard drive. He told me that this was the ultimate hard drive, because basically he could never fill it. Haha.
My first computer was (gasp) a Texas Instruments that you plugged into a tv for a monitor. We used a black and white tv. I'm not sure if that even counts as a "first computer" because it's not really a computer! The next computer we got was a Mac Classic! Heh... I think that thing had 2mb RAM. Scary thing is that my parents still have it! They didn't stop using it until 486's were available. I remember my brother trying to upgrade the CD-rom from a 1x to a 2x, and it wouldn't work. For some reason he managed to get a 4x to work in it, and man... that was something he told all his friends about.. he had a 4x Cd-rom!!

[Jihforce]

Originally posted by Reverend Evil
hard drives are that cheap now? I've been booting win2k on a dual floppy system.

What's win2k?

[Jihforce]

Heck, I first started using computers when all programs were loaded into the computer with programs recorded in audio tapes.

[stupidzbu]

I used to play Mad Maze on prodigy ALL THE TIME (i think that's what it was called...)

it KICKED ASS! i even went to the BBS's they had there... and would talk to people about the game.. get advice.. maybe some directions too..

that game was GOOD...

cheesy ass graphics.. but MAN! i spent so many hours on it! and this was BEFORE you had unlimited access for $19.95 a month...

my dad kicked my ass when he got the bill.. and took it away from me for a while...

hehehhe

[Y2J]

Mad MAze..holy shnikies, I remember that one. What a time waster. Go Left, run into man in 16-color house. Answer riddles, go through door. Go forward...

[revil]

Originally posted by Jihforce

Originally posted by Reverend Evil
hard drives are that cheap now? I've been booting win2k on a dual floppy system.

What's win2k?

hehe, you youngins. it's windows 3.1 with it's date set to Jan. 1 2000 - 00:00:00

[Grimm]

Originally posted by Jihforce
Heck, I first started using computers when all programs were loaded into the computer with programs recorded in audio tapes.

You had tapes!?!
We had to use punch cards!

[Nanotech9]

hahah


my dad had a TRS-80 built in monochrome monitor, dualing 5 1/4"s, and a daisy wheel printer. 64K o ram baby!

after that we bought a 386 sx 25 w/ 2mb ram, win 3.1, and a 40Mb Hd.... and even got a swivel base on the monitor. :D

[hapoo]

ChrisMG187: umm weren't you like 5 years old 10 years ago?

[revil]

Originally posted by Nanotech9
after that we bought a 386 sx 25 w/ 2mb ram, win 3.1, and a 40Mb Hd.... and even got a swivel base on the monitor. :D


I still have one of those laying around somewhere

[ironchef]

i still have the 3.5" floppy drive from my first pc from 9 or so years ago, cute little feller.

i'd guess they're the most durable part of any computer. that and the cables.

and i remember running fips on my drive to partition the 80 megger into two 40 meggers so i could run dos and linux. hehe, compiling the kernel took over 3 hours :)

[Markel]

The first computer I worked on had 8K of memory (we were lucky 'cause we had the extra 4K over the basic system) and a 32K swapping disk. Most of the work was done using two block-formatted tape drives -- each tape held 512 blocks of 256 bytes (except we hacked the tape formatting program and OS to "stretch" the tapes out to 1024 blocks).

Most sections of code had to run on a 128 byte "page" of memory, or else you had to do some extra housekeeping. You learned to use every bit (literally) to your advantage.

Ah, the days of the PDP-8/PDP-12. (That was in the early '70s.)

[Doomer]

Anybody remember "Beast" ?

This was a classic time waster than would only run on an XT. If you tried to run it on anything faster, you'd never outrun the little boogers. :D

[ChrisMG187]

Originally posted by hapoo
ChrisMG187: umm weren't you like 5 years old 10 years ago? Yup