downloading at 28k and thinking that was fast...

yip, i can still remember when processors didn't need fans and when you would struggle to fill a 250MB HD.

Paul

haha yeah. i also remember when my old P133 was top of the line with a 28k modem and Windows 95 ah, those were the days. i also had a 950mb hdd and it took forever to fill it. now i have trouble keeping my 2 drives empty (48gb total)

Yehhhh!

I used to have a old 28.8kbps modem connected to Compuserve lol i used to love that woman saying "Welcome To Compuserve" lol

They still goin? dont hear much bout em now a days!

MartMoz

Can tell that you've never heard of Google. As for the good old days, this is my first home pc lol. It's only three years old lol. But I do remember using Windows Box back in primary school.

I remember when you were 'l33t' if you could program basic and if you dialed up with 14k modems into Bulletin Boards

i had a 4000 something baud modem and connected to AOL (i was a kid) and downloaded pictures of the Tick (cartoon). Those is some good memories. Playing a game called Test Drive in DOS (i really miss that game) and some flight sim game that fit on a floppy disk (5.25"). Gah, i want to cry. I miss those games.

I remember how exciting DOS upgrades were (sarcasm).

i remember playing on a texas instruments comp in school, i could program a rocket ship blasting off, well as a good a rocket ship as you could make with characters from the keyboard, it had programs on cartridges like an atari.
i also remember gas being below $1.00 and life without walmarts. lol

oh man, i remember the sign i was looking at when gas first increased to a dollar.


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ahahsdf;ljasdfl;kjasdf i found it!
Test Drive Tripple Pack @ Abandonware

I found a ton of old school 80s and 90s games. 600MB worth its great, have them on a cd somewhere

the cheapest ive ever seen gas wsa 75 cents.

I have seen it in the 40cent range, but im up here in canada and that is per litre and not gallon.

I remember when I used to nearly blow a gasket seeing 'graphics' on my monochrome (orange and black) monitor using MS-Dos on my IBM 286. Then I remember when I got all excited seeing the Navigator which was a kinda 'shell' for Windows 3.11 proprietary to Packard Bell computers...yes, yes...I owned a Packard Bell so you KNOW I've been through computing hell. P75 with 8 megs of Ram and an 850 meg drive wit a 14.4 modem. I was KING....KING! Ohh the days....

I remember my excitement when I bought my first computer - a BBC model B built by Acorn computers. I had it on order for about six months before it was delivered. It was state of the art for home computing with a whole 32k memory - 16k rom based and 16k ram. It had to be plugged into an old portable TV so my next milestone was buying a green screen monitor for it. Eventually I added a floppy disc drive interface and bought a dual, double sided, double density drive unit that gave me a total of 800k storage on 5.25" floppies.

Happy Days

I remember, 40GB Fujitsu HD. Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww at all this space.

I remember thinking how good MIDI's sounded.

Trotsky, how did you get 800K out of a 5 1/4 floppy. Man I never saw one over 720K and to get that I had to sit in the dark with a small fluorescent light adjusting the flywheel timing juuuust so.

I loved my old TI 99/4. By the time I was done with it, it had the consoles 32K ROM + 32K Ram with 64K in the cartridge slot, 128K on an expansion card and another 64K in a print spooler with 2xDS/DD 5 1/4 floppy drives. I was running both FORTH and Editor/Assembler on it (I miss FORTH). A 300 Baud Full Duplex modem and the loudest Smith Corona daisy wheel printer on Earth. And you know that stuff wasn't cheap either. I paid like $250 for that printer that the neighbors probably could hear and $495 for the TI. I think about $229 for the modem and several hundred for the box for the expansion memory and floppy drives. And the cable that ran from the console to the expansion box was about 3" wide x 3/8" thick and about as stiff as a ... well, board. I don't remember what the floppy drives cost but I almost went with 8" drives instead of 5 1/4", they were cheaper. There was just no way I could afford a hard drive and controller, it was about 10 more years before I got my first HD.

Wherever you live Trotsky were you able to get cables that actually matched anything or did you have to get the pin-out diagrams for everything and make up your own PIO and RS-232 cables yourself too. We didn't even have a Radio Shack up here (Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan's Upper Peninsula) I had to get plugs and crap mail order from Heath Corp. in Benton Harbor. There was a Radio Shack in Milwaukee WI. I'd get there maybe once every 3 or 4 months and it was like heaven. All those diodes and caps, plastic bags of assorted IC's, bread boards and PC board masking and etching kits, books and manuals, wow. Never knew what you were getting, but for 50 cents, shoot, get three, there might even be some 505 op-amps in there and you can make your own theremin (think - It Came From Planet 9 - sound effects).

And there wasn't any AOL or Compuserve. But a whole world full of BBSes and colleges that let you on to their machines at night and on weekends. I had an account (free) with the University of Manitoba - Winnipeg, and another with the Goddard Space Center. There was some hacking but it was almost all against the telco's and almost everyone trusted almost everyone else. There were even some completely open computers at the Pentagon (there hadn't been any movies out yet to give anyone any bad ideas). I remember running across a phone# one night and when I tried it, it was the Secretary of The Navy's office, no password needed. Try that today and there'd probably be someone knocking on your door (or more likely, crashing through your windows) before the modems quit squealing. I love what we have today, but I loved that stuff every bit as much.

Oh, and yeah, gas ran from 19 to about 23 cents a US gallon back then. Cigarettes were 45 cents a pack and coke was a dime a bottle here and you drank it, it didn't go up your nose. And if it did, whoa nelly that'd clear your head right out. And Hewlett Packard made really good programmable calculators (about $450) but you had to learn Reverse Polish Notation. I lusted , but never got one. You could buy a new Chevy Vega for about $1600 and I needed a car more. Hey, don't laugh, my Vega was actually a good one. It was fast, fun to drive and I got about 65,000 miles out of it before I rolled it one afternoon trying to outrun a pig s**t slurry rain-bird irrigation sprinkler whose 200' plume of brown lusciousness was was being blown out of the corn field and back across the road.

It was fun but I don't think I wanna go back.

and THEN i was born

benyahuda0, to answer your questions in the order that you asked:

Firstly, I didn't get 800k storage from a single 5.25" floppy. The file system allowed 100k per side on a dual sided single density disk or 200k per side on a double density disc. I bought a dual drive that could read and write to double density discs. This gave me 4 sides at 200k per side equalling 800k total storage. At the time this was a massive amount of storage.

Secondly, I did have to make up the occasional cable but the manual that came with the BBC model B was very good and contained the necessary diagrams. More often though I was able to buy them. Here in Derby, we have a superb little electronic components shop called "Potts" where we can get anything.

You say you come from upper michigan. Are you anywhere near Ludington? I've had occasion to visit there on a number of occasions on business. Really nice place - I had the best lobster ever at a small place just outside town on my last visit a couple or three years ago.

I remember when the school 7200K connection (later 14400) was friggin fast and I managed to kill some BBS boxes when Test Drive 3 was out and being shared. My uploads caused the server run out of space.

I also remember when "levelpacker" methods appeared to Commodore 64 in 1989/90 and it was really cool thing... we used to have e-zines etc back then, also on Amiga scene. ..

Am I the only one who went "the what on the what now ?" Damn you must be anicent lol

I remember playing Transformers on a commodore 64!

playing zelda on the DVI... oh wait.. that's europe...

I remember when ReaderRabit was the hit game for little kids at my preschool! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111SHIFTONEONESHIFT11!1!!!!!

Gas for 99 cents a gallon. Damn those were the days.