Remember Old Slow Computers

[Fresno]

No.

No? To what.

 

[SBTNW]

my first computer was a IMB PS/2 with Windows 3.1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_System/2

i remember spend the afternoons gamming with Terminator 2...
http://www.mobygames.com/game/terminator-2-judgment-day

very nice memories for this thread.
rep to you, fresno!

 

[Fresno]

my first computer was a IMB PS/2 with Windows 3.1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_System/2

i remember spend the afternoons gamming with Terminator 2...
http://www.mobygames.com/game/terminator-2-judgment-day

very nice memories for this thread.
rep to you, fresno!

Thanks:thumbsup:

 

[Fresno]

I found a picture of my old computer online, for my thread.

vTech Laser Turbo XT

Intel 8088 CPU clocked at 10 Mhz
640 kilobytes RAM (on motherboard)
40 meg RLL hard drive
720K 31/2 inch floppy drive
360K 51/4 inch floppy drive
8-bit VGA card ISA
Sound Blaster 8-bit ISA
Microsoft Serial Mouse
Laser 14 inch color VGA monitor (interlaced .39 dot pitch)
MS-DOS 4.01


Had this computer from around 1980 to 1995 when windows 95 came out.

 

[mongo18]

I never touched a computer until I started college in 2000. Bought my first in 2001, a P3 866 with 128 MB of RAM and a 32 MB TNT2 vid card. Not really that old compared to what some of you guys remember.

 

[D-rock]

I remember playing some games that were only text on the old ones. :1orglaugh It was hard trying to navigate around using only text. It's funny thinking about how we used to use those huge floppy disk also.

 

[thorsif]

Yeah, i had a Sinclair ZX81. Text Graphics & B&W. You could buy coloured sheet / film to stick on your TV screen to add colour

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_ZX81

 

[thorsif]

then the Commodore Vic20 then ZX Spectrum & Commodore 64

They were the days:1orglaugh

Commodore Vic20http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_20
ZX Spectrum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum
Commodore 64 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

 

[om3ga]

Watched a profile of Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple and creator of the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s on the Business Channel a couple of nights ago..

 

[Eric Lindros]

then the Commodore Vic20 then ZX Spectrum & Commodore 64

They were the days:1orglaugh


Commodore 64 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

Yeah, welcome to the club, Thorsif.
Aah, old memories ....

 

[Fresno]

then the Commodore Vic20 then ZX Spectrum & Commodore 64

They were the days

Commodore Vic20http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_20
ZX Spectrum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum
Commodore 64 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

I remember the comador 64 in stores when I was 12.

No money to get one.

But my ****** had an atri 400.

Found a picture online.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_400#The_early_machines:_400_and_800

That brings back old memories..

 

[Quagmire33]

yea I remember using really old slow macs when I was a ***

 

[Legzman]

I had a Tandy something or other, fuck that thing was a piece of ****, even back then!

 

[Fresno]

I had a Tandy something or other, fuck that thing was a piece of ****, even back then!

Does one of these ring a bell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_computers

 

[tartanterrier]

I had an Amstrad CPC 464 with tape drive :eek: Those were really the days :1orglaugh

 

[Legzman]

Does one of these ring a bell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_computers

This one is the closest.

 

[Fresno]

I had an Amstrad CPC 464 with tape drive :eek: Those were really the days :1orglaugh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC_464


does this one look like the one you had

 

[TheSatyrIcon]

Back in the early '80's, My parents told Me that they were getting Me a computer. I was all jazzed, thinking that I was going to get one of those new-fangled Apple Computers... Instead, I got a Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer. It wasn't as cool as an Apple, not by a long shot. My first real comp was a HP, meant to run writing programs and Sim City; by the time I got it hooked up to the Interwebs, it was so slow: dial-up and download times were horrendous. Still, I dl'ed porn!

The Satyr Icon

 

[marquis2]

Slightly off topic but does anyone remember Prestel? It was like the forerunner of the net, operated by the Post Office using phone lines and viewed on a TV screen.

 

[pitino]

I remember playing some games that were only text on the old ones. :1orglaugh It was hard trying to navigate around using only text. It's funny thinking about how we used to use those huge floppy disk also.

you mean something like Hobbit D?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_(video_game)