Originally Posted by Paco
Errr Paco, I think My Watch can beat up my old ZX81 LOL
Cool on you building your own system though, that must be hella fun and a hella nightmare all rolled into one..... rather like going on a date with jasun !!
Errr Paco, I think My Watch can beat up my old ZX81 LOL
Cool on you building your own system though, that must be hella fun and a hella nightmare all rolled into one..... rather like going on a date with jasun !!
Domain inventory sale.
My first computer was a Timex Sinclair.
1K of ram and no hard drive.
It had to back up to cassette tape.
and it could type about as fast as I could read.
Jasun Mark. Crass of the Titans.
but your ass would hurt less in the morning.
Jasun Mark. Crass of the Titans.
Yes, it's a hella of a lot of hellas! One thing: I rarely hide things from peeps - it's not who I am - but I must say ... NEVER tell your friends or "loved ones" that you know how to build fix computers!
:shitpoke: hey, my computer is slow.
*extending forward a fist full of speed/meth*
That'll fix your little wagon!
:shitpoke: hey, my computer just froze.
*pulling out hairdryer*
Give me a bit of time.
:shitpoke: hey, I caught a virus from porn site 'X' - why do you guys do that
one of societies biggest misconceptions is that all porn sites are run by the same person/company ... oh yah, and we are NOT AOL!
k, I'm showing my age, but the first computer I used was a mainframe reached by dialing (on a rotary dial phone) a phone number, then sticking the handset in rubber receptacles attached to an even-then-ancient Teletype ASR-33 terminal.
Lightning fast 10 character per second (110 baud) modem speed. Programs were stored on punched paper tape.
My first real computer I owned was a North Star Z-80 based machine that predated the Sinclair by about 3-4 years (1978). It had 64K of memory, a Z-80 processor, a single density 5-1/4" floppy drive that could store 90K of information. The BASIC interpreter and OS combined took up about 20K of memory, leaving 12 K for programs and data. An additional 32K of RAM cost about $500.
But it was a pretty kickass machine for it's day and it was amazing the complexity of program you could actually write in 10K of RAM.
my first computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX#MSX_1
my second computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_st
Ah, I was a giddy boy when I got my first computer. I'm not as old as some of ya's though.
A Magnavox Headstart 300. Circa 1990-ish.
12 MHz 286, 1 MB RAM, 40MB HDD, 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives, 2400 baud modem. DOS 3.01 or something like that.
I signed up for Prodigy in all it's 16-color DOS glory and was hooked on the internets ever since.
There was also a Headstart 300 CD version, which was identical only it included a (1x) CD-ROM drive in place of a 5.25" floppy. And it cost $500 more.
I have a very difficult time trying to imagine or "picture" what most first-generation PC owners went through --- it must have been very frustrating, and a huge test of their patience.
I would not have survived!
Not many people know that we after thoughts (2nd gen'ers & on) owe thanks to you 1st gen'ers, for funding the movement.
Thank you.
When I started working with PCs (just shy of a decade):
- the Pentium was already in to the second part of the third generation (PIII Tualatin etc), and slot one boards were virtually extinct.
- Windows 98 S/E OEM was just released and ME (more like EW) was on its way.
Also, 128MB@133Mhz memory, 17" monitors, 10GB drives spinning @ 5400RPM, 52x CDRoms, ATX Power supplies, 32MB video cards, and 10MB NICs were all the "standard".
Better was out and available.
One of my co-workers TRIED giving me a rotten Apple (IIe) and some RadioShack system that I've never heard of.
They said they'd make a good firewall.
Me, I was thinking more along the lines of a doorstopper.
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