we are sick! :-)

[uwantasumwang]

Has anyone stopped and thought about how much advancement we;ve made in computer technology in a couple years. I remember wondering how someone was going to fill up a huge 1GB drive. Now I wish I had a terrabyte Not to mention processors... 186, 286..... 1.2ghz... hahha.. and we still want more and more and more... .we truly are sick...

 

[Erasmus-X]

Hmmmm,, in the purist sense, there was no such thing as the 186 processor. We had the 8086 and 8088 8-bit processors before Intel debuted with its first 16-bit processor, the 286.

 

[uwantasumwang]

hahaa... sure make me feel dumb hahaha,..

 

[MikeyBaby]

I remember paying over a grand for our first 80386 - and it came with a whopping 4Mb RAM, and 130Mb Hard Drive! WOW I remember thinking how will I ever fill that?!

Prior to that I owned an 8Mhz Amstrad 8086... My how times have changed.. when I look at my system now

 

[uwantasumwang]

yup thats what i'm talking about the first computer i had was a commodore 64.. hahahah.. didnt even have a harddrive... heheheh.. now I just ordered a 1.2ghz system with 150gb of harddrive space... I'm just wondering what I"m gonna be saying 10 years from now.. "damn, i only have a terrabyte.." ha..

 

[Noriaki]

well technically there was a 186....I learned about it in a history section of one of my computer science classes. It was just never widely used, and it wasn't in the PC market...

 

[sharkeeper]

Nothing beats my old CCS 300 system based on the S-100 bus. Lightning fast Zilog Z80 running at 4.77 MHz. 64 KB of RAM, and a pair of 8" Floppies. Ran CP/M.

That was a lot of computer back in 1979.

Windows? Only versions of Windows I knew back then were Andersen and Pella! :Q

Cheers!

 

[uwantasumwang]

sounds like a real supercomputer haha...

 

[Oyeve]

Yep, ther was a 186. I am holding one in my hand now. Its says:


Front:
R80c
186-16
Lo221978
1978

Back:
8010845WAC
Malay 020
IW


I pulled it from an old SEHI hub.

 

[uwantasumwang]

im glad there is a 186 now i dont feel stupid

 

[Oyeve]

What really is freaky is that my compaq ipaq has many times more power than it took to put a man on the moon!

 

[Planktune]

man never went to the moon
What are we gonna do when there will be no more computer upgrades.
once we reach the everything instantly level and pcs are like disposable lighters. anyone remember how outragous a disposible lighter was at first. like moterheads of old, computers like cars, will become untinkerable. but for now give me a ddr board

 

[Erasmus-X]

My first (and only) 386 cost $2500. It was a 16MHz SX and came with 2MB of RAM, an 80MB hard drive, and a very early VGA graphics adapter with 256k of memory. I put a bit more life into it later with a Cyrix piggyback 486 33MHz upgrade chip and added 6MB of RAM to total 8MB. That upgrade cost over $400 and wasn't all that satisfying.

 

[Leo V]

Nothing beats the 8-bit Z80 microprocessor. It lives on even today, inside TI's programmable calculators.

 

[erub]

I'm not sure if we will ever (well, I'll say next 20 years) reach the "everything-instantantly" level - because new games (and new versions of MS Windows) can always take advantage of the next level - with office applications, we've probably already reached it - I dont know how many more features you can add to MSOffice, etc.

 

[MWink]

I have an Intel/AMD 186. It is on a tape drive.

 

[Syborg1211]

Man, you guys really make me feel young with all that talk about commodre 64s(?). Before I built this rig I have here I was using a 486 for about 2 years and then a pentium 100 for about a year. I am really not that young it is just that my dad was a stingy bastard so I got myself a job and worked for my own computer .

 

[Mixxen]

$2500 for a P60, 8MB RAM, 720MB HD, and 15" monitor. Thus, the monitor and the AT case costed me about $2500 because it's the only thing that is still in use from that system. :disgust:

 

[Santan]

neeed......more......speed!!!!!cant...help....myself!!!!!!!must........go.......faster!!!!!

 

[tkdkid]

In the future most things will be instant. You order something, bam..you got it. You want to go to the mall, bam..you're there. But the DMV will still take like 8 seconds. 8 seconds?! Come on!! I gotta be at work in like 3 seconds!!

Blatantly ripped from comedy central.

 

[tjdavis1138]

TI99-4A was my first.

Did I ever love my Commodore 128 with **fast mode** and cpm!! At least it never crashed on me. Would have been hell to try and play quake3 on-line with the dsl though.

 

[Wah]

386/33 with 4 MB ram, 20MB hd space, Super VGA (no, not just plain old vga!!!) monitor. I miss that system.

 

[Dennis Travis]

I started with the usual Commie 64 and Atari 130XE and went to an Atari ST and Amiga 500, but my favorite old system was my first real PC. It was a 286/16 with a AMD 80286 CPU, 1-Meg Ram, 42 Meg Western Digital HDD, 1.2 & 1.44 Floppies and 14.4 modem. It had at first a Hercules Monochrome graphics card with a Amber monitor. I upgraded it later to VGA with a 1-Meg Trident card. I bought it almost brand new (it was about 2 months old) for $550. The dood I bought it from built computers for friends and later went into the business of building/repairing computers for a living. He built the 286 with parts he bought from computer swap meets and gave me a good deal and threw in a lot of other hardware and software. To me it was so fast at the time. I look back at it now and it seems so S L O W! By the way the motherboard still works after all these years!

 

[DeViSoR]

Dam no one ever used the Dragon 32/64 machine.. those where kewl

 

[TravisBickle]

that rubber keyed Timex/Sinclair could take some abuse! I use to hammer on it in frustration. nowadays it's real easy to change a cheap keyboard when you ruin it.
now THAT's what I call progress!