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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!