For You youngin's August 17, 2007, 10:16:26 PM And for the old computer Geeks...Booted any good DOS lately???Ahhh the(ahem)good ole days...:hick: Quote Selected
For You youngin's Reply #1 – August 17, 2007, 10:18:45 PM I remember alittle of that from Computer Programing class. I know alittle Q basic, C and C++ as well. Quote Selected
For You youngin's Reply #2 – August 17, 2007, 11:04:42 PM C:>DOS\_C:>DOS\RUN_RUN\DOS\RUN:DOh yeah, I remember those days. An 8MHz 8088 processor, 640kb of RAM, a 5.25" 640k floppy drive, a 3.5" 720K floppy drive, and a 20MB hard disk drive that was added later and was as big as a toaster and as heavy as a car battery, funneling all of that technological Godliness through a Hercules monochrome graphics chip with 16kb of video RAM, to be displayed on a 12" monochrome monitor.Mouse? Modem? Sound card? Ethernet card? Printer? CD ROM? Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope and nope. Quote Selected
For You youngin's Reply #4 – August 17, 2007, 11:32:08 PM LOL Carm... You forgot the joystick... Nope...I was rootin' around in my junk and thought what the Hell...This is booted on a 386/DX-25, 8 meg RAM and a VGA color graphics card... I have a generic 8088 MB(not sure of the speed), but the DOS 2.12 won't boot on it... Comes up fine on a DOS 3.2 disc... Some where I have a original 8088 IBM 4.77Mhz motherboard, since I also have a XT case, I'm going to try to get it all into one lump again...HAVI, those were affectionately called "Trash 80s" by a lot of folks... Quote Selected
For You youngin's Reply #5 – August 17, 2007, 11:55:13 PM Good grief that's an old version of DOS. I think the first one I cut my teeth on was 6.0, and I actually bought it from a local computer shop. Now if you want to one up that, someone should post up a pic of a computer running Windows version 1.*Edit* beat myself to it... Quote Selected
For You youngin's Reply #6 – August 18, 2007, 12:28:14 AM We had green screen Apple II computers when in the early 90's when I started grammar school......... Quote Selected
For You youngin's Reply #7 – August 18, 2007, 06:47:38 AM Oh yeah. Computers circa 1978, 10th grade. TRS-80s, cassette tapes, Fortran, Cobal....(my spelling is wrong I'm sure)"If X+Y>10 goto..."Screens were black and white then.Algore had already invented the internet too.... Quote Selected
For You youngin's Reply #8 – August 18, 2007, 07:13:29 AM All this old computer talk and no one mentions a good commodore vic20 or the 64. That one is so old that you hoojed it up to you TV. It had color unlike some of the others. Don't forget the cartridge games. Quote Selected
For You youngin's Reply #9 – August 18, 2007, 07:43:21 AM Quote from: ipsd;170049All this old computer talk and no one mentions a good commodore vic20 or the 64. That one is so old that you hoojed it up to you TV. It had color unlike some of the others. Don't forget the cartridge games.I had one of the Timex Sinclair computers, but it would get hot and quit working... Kinda flustered me and didn't actually get another one for several years(286 @ 8Mhz or a screamin' turbo 12Mhz)... Quote Selected
For You youngin's Reply #10 – August 18, 2007, 08:45:53 AM Quote from: TurboCoupe50;169989Some where I have a original 8088 IBM 4.77Mhz motherboard, since I also have a XT case, I'm going to try to get it all into one lump again...Oh, God, the XT case. Mine was about 24" wide, 20" deep, and 8" tall, with 4 5.25" bays in the front. Fvcker weighed about 80 pounds. When I turned it on it sounded like a 747 starting up (that massive hard drive spinning up) and would click and beep like R2-D2. And the "Turbo" button. I had a really old Wheel Of Fortune game and had to turn "turbo" off or Vannah White would have seizures.Who could forget the RAM expansion boards, which held anywhere from 128 to 360 kb (that's kilobytes) of RAM and were as big as modern video cards? Quote Selected
For You youngin's Reply #11 – August 18, 2007, 09:01:36 AM Oh, and did somebody mention Trash-80's?...or hard drives?...or printers?...or modems? Quote Selected
For You youngin's Reply #12 – August 18, 2007, 09:14:43 AM thats nothing. back in my day, computers were the size of a room, cost close to $100,000 and didnt even have solitare. now THOSE were the days Quote Selected
For You youngin's Reply #13 – August 18, 2007, 09:35:33 AM Well if you really want to go back, computers had tubes, were the size of a building and cost millions...I have five new 7AK7, dual gate computer tubes... These were released in '48 for computers and is the first tube to be designed just for such duty... Also have a 6888 which is a newer version of the same tube ...Lotsa info on the net... Scroll down and have a look at this baby...http://mywebpage.netscape.com/reitery2k/univac1.htmInside the Univac1 Quote Selected
For You youngin's Reply #14 – August 18, 2007, 09:38:33 AM Jumping Christ!!!! $14,293 for 128K and an 8.4 meg hard drive... Quote Selected
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