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Official « Old Geezers » thread
- Thread starter Karbon74
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- 24/12/11
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i had a hacked modem where i could run 313K over dialup , the 56k was actually a hardware restriction
I'll see your 386 and raise you a Radio Shack TRS-80.
Edited to add: i may still have the commodore 64 somewhere in the basement.
I had a TRS-80.....model 1.
Can we go into the negative on this geezer test if we have actually used a fax machine, a phonograph, or written a check in the last week? I'm guilty on all charges.
Also use a reel-to-reel deck regularly....
I have played the original XCOM: Enemy Unknown (XCOM UFO Defense in NA)
On a 486
On a 486
486 that I built myself out of components bought in the parts shops of Chinatown
And look where I ended up today making watches from chinese parts
The world is a circle
And look where I ended up today making watches from chinese parts
The world is a circle
Mine was 386 with 16Mb ram, enough to run windows 3.1 comfortably.486 that I built myself out of components bought in the parts shops of Chinatown
And look where I ended up today making watches from chinese parts
The world is a circle
Imagine how I thought I could conquer the world when I bought my first Intel Platinum 1 133mhz PC.
That is a Cray Supercomputer compared to my 4K Trs-80- i eventually saved up enough to buy up 16K (not MB- K!!) of RAM. Programs were loaded via casette tape....
Now I remember my old man's Apple IIe...That is a Cray Supercomputer compared to my 4K Trs-80- i eventually saved up enough to buy up 16K (not MB- K!!) of RAM. Programs were loaded via casette tape....
Don't forget the IBM PC Jr
Apples were fancy shmancy. Radio Shack TRs-80 and the Commodore64 was for us poor shlubs.
I must have been really poor then because I only had a Commodore Vic20... Guess I was destined to be buying rep watches later in life thanks to my parents and the Vic20..
One day my buddy got something called a "Macintosh"- blew the doors off of everything before it. Using technology stolen from Xerox, The screen used something called an "icon" instead of a bunch of letters and numbers to represent a folder.
It was mind boggling at the time.
It was mind boggling at the time.
I didn't have any of them. No Atari or Coleco either. We had one Commodore 64 on each floor at school. It made it's way from class to class as the days went by.
I forgot about he Vic20. Also Atari had a brief but failed foray into personal computing- it might have been the first color home computer- you hooked it up to your TV and tuned to channel 3 to make it work:
