"OS/2 ready". Now there is a blast from the past.
Posted on 01/18/2017 2:54:47 PM PST by Rebelbase
My brain stumbled back to the old days. Remember these? Countless hours going through the pages trying to find the best deal. And stacks of the things taking up space on the desk!
Used to read every page!..............
I remember!
What?
"OS/2 ready". Now there is a blast from the past.
I remember.
Recently I saw some pictures of a house that has not been changed since the 1960s or 70s. What fascinated me most was the fact that the owners were STILL using a rotary phone. I had not seen one in years!
First PC: Black, small, 16MBs memory.
Would take FOREVER for a naughty picture to download. :)
OS/2 == half an operating system!
If only it was OS/2 WARP!
Oh, the agonizing recoveries using the 23 diskette set to install it... yow. Major painful flashbacks here...
(had to do with our programmers taking a 4GB disk, formatting it to 3.9 GB and leaving the .10 unformatted... any uncontrolled shutdown/reboot required a version of twister with the diskettes to boot the danged thing back into life)
Loved that...it was tech porn for us early adopters!
I used to read each page too! We had a subscription of Computer Shopper for many years. Bought some nice 8088, 286, 386s back in the day from the custom builders that advertised in there. I remember my father and I reading an article in there on a company named Apple back in the mid to late 80s perhaps and us debating on investing $500 in it back then believe it or not. We didn’t unfortunately!
Wow. Look at that ad:
“...History-Making Low Cost... $1999.00”
That’s the one thing I DON’T MISS.
Sounds like my father-law's house. He still has a tube TV and shag carpet too. My son says that it "is like stepping into a time warp at his house."
Read it religiously back in the day.
Remember? I used to subscribe. Mailman hated that time of the month.
WOW! I Remember That Stuff!
I loved those!
I didn’t know current systems could still route pulse-dialed calls.
I built my first computer in 1975 in my USAF barracks room in North Dakota. A year later I upgraded to a 1200 baud cassette tape “mass storage” and 4 kbyte static RAM.
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