Stickbuild
Friday, December 9, 2005 7:13:00 AM
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J.Redleg
Friday, December 9, 2005 7:40:00 AM
Wow! 15 whole Megs! Is that enought space to fit an MP3 formatted song?
axpo
Friday, December 9, 2005 7:47:00 AM
Ahhh, the good old days.

I just dismantled an old 286 here in the house, this was the upgraded model with 12mhz and 2mb ram.

Man, that was the sh*& back then,

lol

Gene363
Friday, December 9, 2005 8:12:00 AM
I have given away video cards that have more ram than our original PC!

My first PC a whopping 20 meg hard disk and one meg of RAM and get back now it also had a CGA color monitor!

tank71663
Friday, December 9, 2005 8:21:00 AM
my 1st computer was an IBM PC Jr....I think it came with 128K...lol

My watch has more then that ! !...

Tank

jseeds
Friday, December 9, 2005 8:30:00 AM
back then you were LUCKY to have any hard drive at all...

I remember my old Tandy SX-1000 sans hard-drive - you had to use a 5 1/2" MS-DOS 3 boot disk, boot up, take it out, and THEN put in another disk to run any programs...

cgully21
Friday, December 9, 2005 8:40:00 AM
Wow, theres some old people on this board. I don't remember any of this. lol.
tank71663
Friday, December 9, 2005 9:01:00 AM
old...who you callin OLD...

I only smell that way...

Tank

sigh....Whippersnappers...

dave97402
Friday, December 9, 2005 9:03:00 AM
I remember building my first pc. And I thought....10 meg, no one would ever need more than that! LOL

Thought I was living large when I upgraded to a 25meg Segate drive!!

Cparker
Friday, December 9, 2005 9:18:00 AM
Commodore 64 with dual floppies (5 1/4). The 64 stood for 64K of RAM.

Mine was stolen when someone broke into our house. :{

Cparker

herfsnipe
Friday, December 9, 2005 9:37:00 AM
used to sell them. What a joke. But when you're the only game in town and people want it....

I got back every one I sold except maybe 1. It was a training issue. Or, I should say lack thereof. Connecting everything was the easy part. Making the hard disk work with the CPU? And oh yeah, how about those 8" floppys? TRS -80 Model II. Complete with 2 - 8" floppys and 1 meg external hard drive sold for $8,999.

EI
  • EI
  • Herf-A-Holic
Friday, December 9, 2005 10:42:00 AM
Remember the texas instraments (TI-99 I think) computer with the cassette tape deck you used for the drive and the eternal voice modulator

I think mine is still in the attic somewhere

had to go out an buy a 13 inch B&W tv to use as a monitor

kdotline
Friday, December 9, 2005 11:14:00 AM
I was prob the only one in my HS class that used a word processor--Apple IIe (we were livin large y'know)

I remember paying about a grand extra to up my first laptop to 12 meg of ram (66mhz, 340 mb hd, no modem) later paid $300 for the new modem card. And that machine wowed alot of computer geeks back then. LOL

bigbike
Sunday, December 11, 2005 6:53:00 AM
My first desk top office computer had one of these. It was a Radio Shack TRS 80 that I upgraded. Keep in mind that the programs back then were not running graphics and they worked just fine. I use to do, payroll, inventory, billing, general correspondance and some simple games on that machine. And yes all the above fit on that "add on device" that you all are laughing at. My how things have changed. We can all buy a new computer with 100's of times more storage for 1/4 the price.
TrannyMk
Sunday, December 11, 2005 7:32:00 AM
Yea, I remember my 1st computer. An Atari 400.
cribbie
Sunday, December 11, 2005 12:18:00 PM
Yes I remember them, I had a Lieutenant Colonel 10 meg I paid $1995.00 for my BBS I ran with my Commodore 128,

I had 1571 HD's and 1581 HD's and my BBS was before the internet people called my BBS to play games and post messages at a whopping 2400bps moved up from a 300 bps. Thanxxx for bring old memories back.

snowwolf777
Sunday, December 11, 2005 2:14:00 PM
Commodore 128. My first foray into high tech. With a tractor-feed dot matrix printer and case of green bar paper. And yellow monochrome screen.
sw48362
Sunday, December 11, 2005 3:11:00 PM
Bad sector read! Please repost. If the problem persists please contact technical support
sw48362
Sunday, December 11, 2005 3:33:00 PM
Bad sector read! Please repost. If the problem persists please contact technical support
andytv
Sunday, December 11, 2005 3:44:00 PM
I had a VIC-20............with a cassette tape drive.