Post your Remember when . . . [computer geek]

[DropTheTop]

Remember when you could punch a notch in a 5 1/4" floppy to make it double-sided!

http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Squareholepunch.jpg/200px-Squareholepunch.jpg

[Culookin]

I remember my dad's old IBM computer in the basement that had 20MB ram and took 5 1/4" floppy disks to boot up...

Remember Atari!? Still got one in a box somewhere my parents gave us as kids to play!

[DropTheTop]

This was my first (and only) Mac:

http://lowendmac.com/compact/art/mac-se-208.jpg

Details

* SE introduced 1987.03.02 at $2,900 (dual floppy)
* CPU: 8 MHz 68000
* ROM: 256 KB
* RAM: 1 MB, expandable 4 MB
* 9" b&w screen, 512 x 342 pixels
* ADB: 2 ports for keyboard and mouse
* serial: 2 DIN-8 RS-422 ports on back of computer
* SCSI: 1 DB-25 connector on back of computer
* hard drive: none
* floppy: 800 KB or 1.4 MB double sided
* size (HxWxD): 13.6" x 9.6" x 10.9"
* weight: 17 lb.

[MYSCZ06]

http://lowendmac.com/coventry/06/art1205/apple-ii.jpg

Apple II I remember using it in the 7th Grade--

The first Apple II computers went on sale on June 5, 1977[7] with a MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor running at 1 MHz, 4 kB of RAM, an audio cassette interface for loading programs and storing data, and the Integer BASIC programming language built into the ROMs. The video controller displayed 24 lines by 40 columns of monochrome, upper-case-only text on the screen, with NTSC composite video output suitable for display on a TV monitor, or on a regular TV set by way of a separate RF modulator. The original retail price of the computer was US$1298[8] (with 4 kB of RAM) and US$2638 (with the maximum 48 kB of RAM). To reflect the computer's color graphics capability, the Apple logo on the casing was represented using rainbow stripes,[9] which remained a part of Apple's corporate logo until early 1998. The earliest Apple II's were assembled in Silicon Valley, and later in Texas;[10] printed circuit boards were manufactured in Ireland and Singapore.

[Neutron]

http://www.ansamaa.org/images/gallery/original/1224543003.jpg

:cool::cool:

[MYSCZ06]

http://hackedgadgets.com/wp-content/2/_Huge%201GB%20IBM%20Hard%20Drive.jpg

This is a 1GB IBM hard drive from about 20 years ago. Wow how technology has evolved! Do you think that the engineers of the day would guess that today we would have more than a hundred times that storage in your pocket which also by the way has a color screen, battery and the smarts to make it play audio and video?

[GB Vette]

Let's just say I remember when and then some... :toetap:

[Cobra4B]

It'e really amazing how computers etc. have evolved. I remember watching commercials for Prodigy (one of the first ISPs) and not having a clue what the internet was or did. I rememebr trying to pay A10-attack Tank Killer and having to upload like 15 5" floppys just to get it to start.

[MYSCZ06]

Let's just say I remember when and then some... :toetap:


yea right!

[DropTheTop]

I had to use these throughout my schooling!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/G%C3%B6ttingen-SUB-Encyclopedia.Americana.JPG

http://www.westchesterlibraries.org/files/u5/dictionary1.jpg

And sometimes I even had to go to one of these places!

http://nhrc.nic.in/library/librarymain_files/library.jpg

Before Google search:

http://www.oberlin.edu/library/special/oberlin/deweycatalog/carddrawer-small.jpg

[DropTheTop]

Kids have it made nowadays, and yet most of them are lazy whining ****s!

[VatorMan]

Man-you guys make me feel young. :hurray: Thanks.

[DropTheTop]

Man-you guys make me feel young. :hurray: Thanks.

I thought I was still young! 35?!? :toetap:

[thegreenman]

Remember when real computers used 8 inch disks.

[zz4vetteguy]

Remember when people used to do things for themselves and go to the Library and do research from books instead of using a computer.

[zz4vetteguy]

Remember using the DOS Shell to do things on a PC?

[DropTheTop]

Remember when real computers used 8 inch disks.

OK, that's just huge.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Floppy_Disk_Drive_8_inch.jpg

[Cobra4B]

Haha... yeah I remember when a "report" consisted of looking up the subject in the Encyclopedia and paraphrasing it all. Not sure how anyone did real research before the advent of the internet.

[DropTheTop]

Haha... yeah I remember when a "report" consisted of looking up the subject in the Encyclopedia and paraphrasing it all. Not sure how anyone did real research before the advent of the internet.

I also remember having to type my report on my electric Brother, complete with white-out strip!

http://www.mrmartinweb.com/images/type/brotherax28.jpg

[TR6speed]

I wish I had a picture of my first computer. It was the TI 99. I plugged in a cassette tape play and used a small black and white TV as the monitor.
Remember when a 20 meg hard drive was more than you would ever need, at least that is what we thought.

[DropTheTop]

I wish I had a picture of my first computer. It was the TI 99. I plugged in a cassette tape play and used a small black and white TV as the monitor.
Remember when a 20 meg hard drive was more than you would ever need, at least that is what we thought.

Anything like this?

http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/ti/h/ti994a.jpg

[Yamma]

I thought I was still young! 35?!? :toetap:

man that is old. :D

Remember using the DOS Shell to do things on a PC?

My first laptop was a toshiba satellite - narrow screen, no color, and ran off DOS.


And I still remember playing with my Atari 2600 and colecoVision.

[DropTheTop]

man that is old. :D

I guess I just FEEL young, since I don't have any kids, I'm extremely immature, and my GF is 5.5 years older than me! I always tell her that when she was out drinking in the bars, I was zippin' around on my moped! :smilelol:

[MYSCZ06]

ok ok how about gaming systems...I have the XBOX/Wii/PS3 but what about these old systems---
http://www.gooddealgames.com/articles/Game%20Consoles/6%20Coleco%20Telstar.jpg

http://a.abcnews.com/images/WNT/ht_atari_071109_ssh.jpg

http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/geekev2_1a.jpg

and we played video games on these---

http://www.adamsandadamsinc.com/images/pac22.jpg

ok ok so how old are we feeling now....lol

[DropTheTop]

I had these too:

http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/images/Potpourri%20Page/frogger.jpg

http://www.gameland.gr/geoanas/images/hand_caveman.jpg

http://www.geekvintage.com/images/coleco-tabletop-donkey-kong-front.jpg

[Munch]

We used to go up to the college when I was in 4th and 5th grade and they had a line of PET computers that took cassette tapes and we would write simple basic programs and play games we got from one kids brother like D&D and super toker. The funny thing was that we were always the only ones using the computers in the college, a few grade school kids! We wanted our own computer so bad we called every rental place in town to see if they rented computers and they all said... Uuummm no.

Finally one day my Mom brought home this awesome Compaq portable computer!
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/Dr_Munch/compaqI.jpg
it had a 4.77MHz processor and a whopping 128K of mem. That thing was the bomb and I played Zork and Hitchikers guide to the galaxy on that baby till I wore the letters off the keys. When we got a fancier computer I loved playing Liesure Suit Larry, especially buying libbed lubbers!

[thegreenman]

OK, that's just huge.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Floppy_Disk_Drive_8_inch.jpg

I will have to look in my garage, I might still have one. I know I still have the 8 inch floppies.

[09CTSV]

My first computer had tapes to load programs. You had to write the program each time. I remember writing the programs for Tic Tac Toe and thought it was just cool as all heck.

My Dad's work had a computer in it's own room for tracking the truck maintenance and other financial items. The computer had these huge tape drives that you had to load up for each program. The whole room was carpeted and air conditioned to keep the computer clean and quiet.

[zz4vetteguy]

I thought I was still young! 35?!? :toetap:

You are WAY old...almost as old a Gary.

I also remember having to type my report on my electric Brother, complete with white-out strip!

http://www.mrmartinweb.com/images/type/brotherax28.jpg

Mine was not that fancy, it did not have the LCD display....but I also still have it somewhere.

[DropTheTop]

You are WAY old...almost as old a Gary.



Mine was not that fancy, it did not have the LCD display....but I also still have it somewhere.

I'm not sure if mine had an LCD either. I'll bet my parents still have it somewhere. :D

[CertInsaneC5]

Let's just say I remember when and then some... :toetap:

Remember when real computers used 8 inch disks.

Yep. BTDT. :D

My first computer had tapes to load programs. You had to write the program each time. I remember writing the programs for Tic Tac Toe and thought it was just cool as all heck.

My Dad's work had a computer in it's own room for tracking the truck maintenance and other financial items. The computer had these huge tape drives that you had to load up for each program. The whole room was carpeted and air conditioned to keep the computer clean and quiet.

Started out as a kid with the C64 Commadore system.

After 1 year in college went to work and had to start progamming on a Burrows A4 main frame system and ended up on a Burrows A7 main frame system years later. The computer room was kept at 60 degrees. BBBRRR.

My company finally had to get rid of all that old crap it 1999 because of the Y2K issue. In the case of those old dinosaurs it really was an issue.

I don't miss those days.

[BuckyThreadkiller]

I had a Royal portable.

If you used the black and red ribbon, it had a color monitor.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_e1IlgcNcTSg/R5f_2rtpoPI/AAAAAAAABvQ/r1EYdADDsAg/royal.jpg

[DropTheTop]

^ Jebus! Portable?!? Did it come with a counterbalance weight for your other arm, when carrying?!? :lolsmile:

[WKMCD]

Let's just say I remember when and then some... :toetap:

Gary and I may be the only ones that will remember life before DOS. My first PC was an Intertec SuperBrain QD. CP/M OS and dual quad-density drives. No hard drive. It had 2 Z80 processors. One for processing and one for disc I/O. You ran the program on one disc and data on the other. With single drive machines you loaded the program and removed the diskette to insert your data diskette. Speaking of which - 8" floppies were "floppy discs". 5 1/4 were diskettes and 3 1/2 were "mini-diskettes". I remember all the oohing and ahhing when the 3 1/2 came out.

Alright - so I'm old...:moon:

Time for my nap...:sleeping: :lolsmile:

[DropTheTop]

^ So MicroSD cards would've been unfathomable?!?

[Neutron]

Does anyone remember proggies? :leaving:

[Zed16]

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z140/dbatista104/punch-cards.jpg

Spent many an hour typing these out in the computer lab. And it always seemed like the punch card machine I got had a worn out ribbon so you couldn't proofread the card. Just had to run them through the reader and come back hours later only to find a typo. :toetap:

[09CTSV]

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z140/dbatista104/punch-cards.jpg

Spent many an hour typing these out in the computer lab. And it always seemed like the punch card machine I got had a worn out ribbon so you couldn't proofread the card. Just had to run them through the reader and come back hours later only to find a typo. :toetap:

We still have boxes of those laying around at work we use for note cards. Makes for great note cards by the way.

[zz4vetteguy]

Sweet jebus, how many of you old fawkers are there on this sight....I am still waiting for someone to post up a pic of an old magnetic tape unit...LOL

[WKMCD]

Sweet jebus, how many of you old fawkers are there on this sight....I am still waiting for someone to post up a pic of an old magnetic tape unit...LOL

Wipper Snapper!!!:beat:

I'm just old enough to have bought 3000 shares of MSFT in 1986....and hold them today after many splits. :p

[zz4vetteguy]

Wipper Snapper!!!:beat:

I'm just old enough to have bought 3000 shares of MSFT in 1986....and hold them today after many splits. :p

I was 9. :leaving:

[Neutron]

I was 9. :leaving:

I was 3. :leaving:

[boracayjohnny]

I was 3. :leaving:

I was getting a BJ in a whorehouse in the Philippines.

[Neutron]

I was getting a BJ in a whorehouse in the Philippines.

Winrar. /thread

[boracayjohnny]

Winrar. /thread

Just imagine if I had bought msft stock with all the money I wasted on booze and hookers. :banghead:

Who am I kidding, there are mofo's even now that don't believe the crazy ass stories I still tell from back then.

[Skia]

I was 9. :leaving:
:skep: My oldest daughter was born in 1986....I was 28..:yesnod:

[DropTheTop]

I remember when this thread was on topic! :lol:

[boracayjohnny]

I remember when this thread was on topic! :lol:

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/pp141/boracayjohnny/ninjacat.jpg