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Do you wish you still had your old computer for Nostalga sake?

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a lot of people are still attached to their old systems... working at best buy last year, i commonly saw 5+ year old packard bells brought in for service. I was more surprised they still worked than the fact that people still used them. the people had bonded to their computers.
weird, huh.
 
i sold my pentium pro a few weeks ago for 1200 bucks 😛 it included a 800x600 max 30" monitor, but still, not bad I think.
 
I still have my first 2 computers (Zenith 8088-8 Laptop) (Amstrad 286-12). My third one was upgraded and upgraded until it became my current system. Some of its parts are still lying around somewhere.
 
I had just as much fun on my old 286 as I do on my new AthlonXP. I played Kings Quest 5, Star Trek 25th Anniversary (a 7 floppy game that took over 3 hours to install) and more, Deluxe Paint 2 was on it, and I would draw Star Trek pictures then animate em. It was great.

Those were the days!
 
Hehe my family hasn't let go of any of the old boxes I played on in my youth, to date my little brother and I (he's about 16) have all of them racked up on a single monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Each runs our favorite old games, in fact one of our computer's only job is to support one game, because to us it's that good, so I don't WISH I still had my old computers, I do 🙂
 
Absolutely NOT.

In fact, I recently tossed out my old and still working Atari 800.

The games didn't look so great (If I never play Miner 2049er again . . . ) and I am done with DOS (except in real emergencies).
 
i do have my old computer. a TI99/4A with Speech Synthesizer. i also have my old IBM PS/2 model 30. And I found an old Apple //e on the curb and it worked perfectly. Since then, i also got an Apple ][+ and a //c for portable gaming entertainment (wolfenstein, spy hunter, taipan, choplifter, lode runner, etc.). The old Apple 2s have rca video out, so you can just plug them into any tv. Beats the heck out of emulators.

i did recycle the first PC i built myself, which was a 486DX i build from a friend's old motherboard and various scavanged (free) components. the only reason I got rid of it was because i couldn't get it working. i kept the pieces that did work tho. i don't really miss it, since it was free (and pretty junky), it's only nostalgic because i built it.
 
TRS-80, Model 1, Level 1 Basic (4k memory), data stored on audio casettes, monochrome moniter, those were the days...........................
 
I still have a CCS 300 with 4.77 MHz Z80 CPU (S100 bus) with 64KB of Ram and TWO 8" floppy drives for a total whopping 5MB of storage! 🙂 Runs CP/M. Was used up until 1997 or so for running a energy management plant for research aquaria in which elasmobranchs were kept.

This thing could take out a dozen taliban troops if launched high enough in the air. It may still even work after hitting the ground too! :Q

Cheers!
 
I never had a really old computer, but I had a Dell P200 w/ MMX and 32mbs of ram. I still have the case, psu, and motherboard. I plan on shooting it later, it doesn't do anything else besides collect dust and take up space 😛
 
Still have mine. IBM AT, 30 Mb HD, 1MB ram, Runs Win 3.1.

It still works. Brings back lots of memories to hear that hd whir around on those loose ball bearings. Harddrive is a full size one too 3/3!

I remeber buying a better vid card for it, CGA -> VGA, just so i could play scorched earth. 😀
 
Not really.. my first computer was a 286/8MHz/640K and I don't really ever think about it.. my 2nd was a 486 DX/33MHz/8MB -> don't really think about it.
3rd computer was a P166/32MB/1.6GB - it got upgraded to a 200MHz MMX Pentium, and 64MB of RAM, and most of the parts out of that PC are still in use today at my company. I then got a K6-2.. oh jeez I could go on forever about my computers/parts and where they are now or whether or not i know.. heh..

I never even get a chance to have a favorite computer because i am an avid upgrader and it changes all the time. I have pretty much had one computper since the P166, but i have been constantly upgrading..

wow.. lots of time and money spent on this. LoL
 
I dont reallt want the computer itself back, but I am fond of the memories.

Perhaps my fondest:

Discovering Civ 1 for the Mac SE. I played that game endlessly. Sure, Civ3 is an improvement, but it can't replace the original!
 
#1) I have to show that goodbye-network video to my Cisco instructor! Is there any way of DOWNLOADING the file instead of being limited to browsing? 😀

#2) I'd love to have a TI99 4/a + speech synth like my box of old. I've gone through two - the second time I even had the HUMONGOUS expansion box (as big as an ATX desktop case!) with disk drive. Sold it for $100 to someone on a large-scale scavenger hunt. 🙂 My first computer.

#3) I can genuinely use having my second computer around... I'll need a Tandy 1000 at some point for my PC music history site. My Tandy 1000 had 16 colour graphics and 3 voices of nice sounds while all my school chums had CGA and monochrome with PC squealers. Anyone who said "Tandy Sucks" would be invited to my place so they could change their tune. 😉

#4) I have the sound cards. 😀 PC music "nostalgia" if you will. I still remember my first music program - used the Tandy 1000's 3 voice. Got me going. I still remember the shock of hearing the Adlib card played for the first time! I was amazed and HAD to have it. I couldn't afford it... so I got Radio Shack Canada to start selling them (sent a letter up the chain of command) and when my local Radio Shack got one in I would put on demonstrations for customers. Got my card 1/2 price that way. 😀 Not bad for a prepubescent.
 
I still have a motherboard from this house's first computer - a 386. It's even Y2k compliant, and it still works just fine. I have the manual for it yet too - manuals were detailed in those days. I think we paid $80 then to upgrade from 4MB to 8MB of RAM. 85MB HD, and a 512KB Trident card. No sound card for awhile though; not until they were getting cheaper - around $30 for a generic one. I have since gotten ahold of a really old Creative card; looks like an original soundblaster. It still has a volume control wheel on the back of it.
 


<< My Tandy 1000 had 16 colour graphics and 3 voices of nice sounds while all my school chums had CGA and monochrome with PC squealers. >>



After being used to the sound fx on the Apple ][ emulators, I was really surprised how good the sound chip is on the old Apples. It sounds infinitely better than the emulators - it sounds just like the old full-sized arcade machines. It's strange that modern super-technology can't emulate the same quality of sound effects as prehistoric machine.
 
I'd be amused to see my Tandy SX1000 with green screen again. I had to trash it when the hard drive died. Luckily, my IBM was already in the mail.
 
Man, there is nothing like firing up the old pentium 200 w/ MMX tehnology and playing a little Quake. Honestly there is a huge draw for me to have a bunch of old systems goin, although im not sure why. That pentium 200 is currenly my web server and going strong. I am about to get my good old celeron 433 back too. Its so sad 🙁 I sold it to somebody, and now it doesnt work. It makes me feel terrbile, but ill have her back in tip top shape soon you can be sure of that!!!! Man, someday i want to have every computer i ever owned- it will be my legacy i tell you, my legacy!!!!!!!
 
I still have some of my first computers around just to mess with. I have my Commie 64, Atari 130XE, Amiga 500 and 2000, Atari 1040 ST, IBM 5151 XT and my first 286 I built with a ELT motherboard. They all work fine still too. It's fun sometimes to mess with them and some of the old games. The games back then were more fun for some reason. Some on the Amiga are still good even today although are getting a bit dated now. It amazes me how ahead the Amiga was.

 
heh I still have my 286, my 3 486's and my 'old' Pentium II computers 😀

they can do exxellent work as file holder etc,(stacked them on top of eachother or next to eachother, put em into lan 😀)

altho the 284 is just nostalgia, it has a 20 MB harddisk, but I still use it just to keep it exercised 😀

 
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