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Got a hold of my granddad's old IBM PCjr.

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Originally posted by: Iron Woode
I have a PCjr review in an issue of Compute's Gazzette.

LOL.

My Commodore 128D had some of those features. RGB output to a 1084 monitor. Detachable keyboard, onboard 1571 dual head 5 /14 drive, SID sound chip (better sound than the PCjr had), basic 7, 128K of ram expandable to 640 k. It was 3 machines in one: a C64, C128 and a CPM machine.

It still works. 😀
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I got mine too, any idea on a method to hookup the digital rgb to a modern monitor?
 
They were cool but the limited memory sucked. My neighbor had one and we wanted to play kings quest 2 or 3 (can't remember) but he only had the basic memory and it wouldn't load. So had to play on my potable (=luggable) pc which had more memory but only a 4" amber display (4 colors).

Good times.


 
LOL. And just think, I was being the über-productive 6-year-old with an Apple Macintosh Plus in 1986, playing MS Flight Simulator, while you all were chugging away with that monstrosity.
 
7 cities of gold. I can remember killing the chiefs and then have to wipe out all the natives. Good times.

 
Originally posted by: Iron Woode
I have a PCjr review in an issue of Compute's Gazzette.

LOL.

My Commodore 128D had some of those features. RGB output to a 1084 monitor. Detachable keyboard, onboard 1571 dual head 5 /14 drive, SID sound chip (better sound than the PCjr had), basic 7, 128K of ram expandable to 640 k. It was 3 machines in one: a C64, C128 and a CPM machine.

It still works. 😀

And yes Electronic Arts was around then. They were around in 1981 too.
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That rig ruled back in the days.
I ran subroutines in the Z80 (4MHz) processor from C128 mode. Cool stuff.
I should get one, I kind of miss it. 8510 assembly code was the shiznit!
 
thats what my first computer was
it was used, i was 7
i learned BASIC
when i was 9 i had modified the TRUCKER program to let me drive without ever sleeping.
 
I adore the system I have now yet the nostalgia from when I was young and the PC industry was in its infancy is strong. Just think someday we'll all be saying the same thing about the systems we're using now!

"Yeah, I remember when I had that Barton 2500+ with only 250GB of storage!!" 😛
 
Originally posted by: PanzerIV
I adore the system I have now yet the nostalgia from when I was young and the PC industry was in its infancy is strong. Just think someday we'll all be saying the same thing about the systems we're using now!

"Yeah, I remember when I had that Barton 2500+ with only 250GB of storage!!" 😛
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But it won't be the same looking back. Now with 3+ghz cpus its easy to imagine a 10ghz and terabyte dvd's.
 
Originally posted by: rudder
Originally posted by: PanzerIV
I adore the system I have now yet the nostalgia from when I was young and the PC industry was in its infancy is strong. Just think someday we'll all be saying the same thing about the systems we're using now!

"Yeah, I remember when I had that Barton 2500+ with only 250GB of storage!!" 😛
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But it won't be the same looking back. Now with 3+ghz cpus its easy to imagine a 10ghz and terabyte dvd's.
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That is right and exactly why we will fondly recall our measly 3ghz CPUs and Radeon 9800s. Someday they will look like a joke.
 
Ahh word muchers. I used to play number munchers, word munchers, etc long long ago. heh.

And I think I played the pinball construction type thing too.
 
Suck = the $25k PS/2 Model 80 with the 386/20 processor in 1987....it did come with a 15" monitor though.

My apple //e was $2600 with printer and some cards in 1986 or so.

Now we have $300 PC's 🙂

I do like old toys though, it's fun to get on them and reminscese...even pull off some downloading!

 
i have the EXACT same comp. my dad has been wanting to throw it out, but i held onto it, floppy disks, carts and all. he refers to it as our "museum piece". how can i let go of my first comp?


 
Originally posted by: binoculaz
i have the EXACT same comp. my dad has been wanting to throw it out, but i held onto it, floppy disks, carts and all. he refers to it as our "museum piece". how can i let go of my first comp?
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A few M80's ought to do it.

"Not enough memory??? WTF??!! It's impossible to get 612kb free to play Commander Keen!"
memmaker.exe...


I actually started on an 8088 that was someone else's. My first computer was a 386. 16MHz on that bad boy. 2400 baud modem and a math coprocessor.
 
heh, over drive processor
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NEC V20's...

Reminds me of those Sanyo MBC550 worksatans and NECV20 based PIP's that were used at the RFS research facility in Antarctica. They are still running. (the PIP's anyways)

Cheers!
 
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