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I was going through some old boxes in a closet today. (Actually, my wife was).
She hands me a small box and asks, "Are these any good?"

It was a internal hard drive that I had salvaged from a computer with a blown motherboard about 6 or 7 years ago. How big was it? 1.2 GB. Remember when those used to be big?

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I still remember playing alleycat and paratroopers on a pc that booted from a 5 1/4". I be you paid a pretty penny for the 1.2 GB back then.

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My very first PC had a hard drive of 5MB. Heck, one digital picture from my cheapo camera takes more than that :D

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I ran across an old box of games (frogger, preppie, zaxon, centipede) on cassette and an Atari tape drive - talk about old. Don't know why I even kept that stuff.

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The first computer I built had a AMD K6-2. I think it was 233 MHz. :)

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First computer I built had a 233 too, I was jazzed!

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I had to save my stuff on cassette and write my own code on a texas instruments.
I can remember writing a computer christmas card complete with a tree and blinking lights playing jingle bells in around '79. That was cutting edge stuff considering they didn't even teach BASIC in school yet.
In the coming years I learned to really hate computers.

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Our first computer was a Vector Graphics with a 10 MB hard drive. My goodness that was all the storage space you would EVER need.

I remember when we needed a mailing list, we would start it, go to lunch and it would be just about finished sorting it when we got back.

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I have a working Atari 800 (with Happy(r) drive modification) hooked up to a late 70s tv in my basement. 8 bit bus, 64Kb addressable memory :D.

I collect and use old computer hardware at work as some old system controllers can't use anything else. ISA cards and such.

I won't even describe what I paid $3,500 for in '93. :r
I still have it and it still works. (I think, I haven't turned it on in a few years.)

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the first computer we had was a 25Mhz 386SX. I remember when we upgraded to an 340mb HDD and it cost somewhere around $800.

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ADAM and Commodore 64 & 128 and Atari 1040 ST :wo

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I remember being VERY excited to buy a 400MB Maxtor HD for $499 on sale at CompUSA! lol

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[quote=BC-Axeman;416935]I have a working Atari 800 (with Happy(r) drive modification) hooked up to a late 70s tv in my basement. 8 bit bus, 64Kb addressable memory :D.
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I started out with an Atari 400 - the one with the "Burger King" keyboard, and a tape drive! Then a year later, we came up with enough cash for me to buy an Atari 800 and and 810 5 1/4 floppy drive - Heaven!!! :D

I then blew $450 on my first 24-pin dot matrix printer, mainly because it had the ability to print zeroes with a line through them to allow you to tell the difference between an "O" and a "0".

I still have both of them, and a ton of games on tape, floppies and cartridges!

Remember Star Raiders on the cartridge? Wow! I was totally blown away by the graphics!

I even have a "pong" game that hooked to the tv! :r



:dance:

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Man, I really want to find the game Barbarian for the Atari ST computers. It was 2D. Sigh :(

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I remember the 286 systems...

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Someplace around here I have an old Timex computer, an Adam plug in to the game console (I still use the console), and an IBM PS-1 with no hard drive and a monotone monitor.

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How many people remember working on the Texas Instrument TRS-80. We used to call it a "Trash 80"

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I had to upgrade to 4MB of RAM for the newest game! :wo

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I remember playing Oregon Trail on an Apple in grade school. Green and black screen. LOL

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:tpd:
Wow! I had forgotten about that game!

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:tpd: It was frustrating when people would die from a broken leg. :r

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I remember playing and loving it on my first computer, an Apple IIe.

http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html

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I have no idea what my first computer was nor do I care.

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Open Apple > E :wo

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I remember that we thought we were special when we got to use the Apple IIs rather than the old version at school.

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That blue tint Apple II GS was so kool back then.

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I can remember playing load runner on a Mac YEARS ago. I'm talkin so long ago there was no hard drive. You used system disks to store information.
If you took the case off the [all in one] pc the designers names were embossed in the inside casting of the case.

I can remember designing printed circuit boards with a PC (after taping) that had an 85M heard drive and engineers used to say that there was NO WAY you could ever put enough information on that hard drive to fill it.

I wonder where that Engineer is today......

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back in 1993 I bought my first real pc (I had a C64 for years before that). A 486 with 540mb harddrive and 8mb memory, boy, that was hot at the time and would last me for years :r

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Piker!!:r:D;)

First real desktop I had was a 8086. paid extra to get the BIG hard drive, 20 mb. Also paid extra to get the upgraded RAM, got 1 mb instead of the standard 640 kb!! Anyone else remember extended verses expanded memory? Had to run a side program to take advantage of the extra 360 kb of RAM. I can't remember the speed of the original modem, was slow, slow, slow, that's for sure!

That desktop started up in about 3 seconds! I still think that Word Perfect ran faster on that machine than it does on my current machine.

Way before Windows. DOS 5.0, I'm thinking, was the last upgrade I put on it. Graphic cards? Speakers? Mouse? Ethernet? WTF were those!!! :r