Posted on 04/19/2016 1:26:22 PM PDT by daniel1212
I have an original IBM floppy, 5.25 in.
It has Dos 1.2 on it.
Won’t boot, though...
My first PC was about 1984... A Seequa Chameleon
We only had the computer, no storage, My brother and I would spend alot of time typing in programming in basic from magazines so we could play simple games. Can’t remember what computer I went to next.
This would work great until power got turned off and we had to start all over again.
My Tandy Model 100 had a built in blazing fast 300 baud modem.
I brought it to meetings and used it to take notes. The Congress-critter I worked for gave me evil looks. He said it distracted everyone from what was being discussed.
It worked for 20 hours on 4 AA batteries and had a 8 line by 40 character monochrome LCD display.
Cost me right around $1000. Sold it 2 years later for $600. The guy tried to return it a week after he bought it because some of the keys stopped working. Worked fine when I sold it, so I told him sorry, I’m not Sears...
Now I have a nice HP laptop that cost me about $40 more than what I spent back then on 2 8MB 72-pin RAM chips @ $183 each.
I regret nothing, though 6 months later, I saw those same mem chips priced at $12/ea. That was my FIRST lesson... ;)
I remember running MEMMAKER again, and again, and again until my flightsim [Aces Over Europe] would run. That was the reason I bought the silly thing for in the first place. Well, that and the joystick, throttle and rudder pedals, to the tune of $200, @ Best Buy. It was sure fun, though.
Indeed. Thank God for tools that can be used for good. Right now i have two Firefox browsers running, with about 300 tabs total open, and a dozen documents in Open Office, Thunderbird email with GBs of mail and 5 emails accounts, plus Bible programs. All on a Dell 780; 29.ghz CPU and 8GB ram. Under Windows 10. Glory to God. 
That TURBO BOOST must have made a real difference!
I want you on my flight if the captain ate the fish.
It did! It was located right next to the Reset button.
holy moly I’ve never had that many tabs open at once. Does your computer even function with that much open at once? I have 16gb of ram and I rarely have 5 tabs open at any one time.
We sound like a bunch of old fart ham radio guys talking about vacuum tubes.
I think my system would crash under all that strain.
My brother and I did that too. The games to longer to program than we wanted to play but we did it every month.
“We sound like a bunch of old fart ham radio guys talking about vacuum tubes.”
No, rotary spark gaps and thermionic detectors!
Heh, thanks! I’ve driven a plane many times thanks to my then-boss, who was a pilot. The touch-and-goes at Toledo Express Airport were a bit hairy at night for a novice non-pilot but the approach to the runway all lit up was way cool! He had me fly that pattern 3x. I didn’t even bend the bird [which was a little Cessna 152].
Young ‘un.
I remember my old 2400 baud modem. Stick the handset into the cups and rock out on some C:/ prompt baybee :)
You ever do them Tesla coils there hoss?
I remember getting a 20 meg hard-card and thinking I swindled the seller by only paying 200$.
The first one I worked on had 6 Meg of storage on platters the size of LPs.
L
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