we are sick! :-)

[MikeyBaby]

God, I remember my Commodore 64!

It was my first computer when I was about 8yrs old. Thats where I started programming - I used to store all my BASIC programs onto a Tape!!!

Noting down the counter numbers so that I knew where to start to reload it another time!! That was so long ago now if I saw a C64 now I wouldn't know where to start!! Hahahaha..

The best was playing back those C64 tapes on a regular tape player and hearing the hissing, crackling noises!!

 

[Oyeve]

I remember when I worked for this investment company back in 1987-88 I asked them if they can get me a computer for home (I already had an IBM PS/2 model 50z) and they said go ahead and order one. So, I ordered a Compaq Deskpro 385/25 with 4 megs of ram. It cost 12,000. I also ordered a 300meg hard drive(nearly unheard of in 1988). The hard drive was an ESDI type, was as big as a carburator. The HD cost 2,000. The monitor was a 13" NEC Multisync 3D. It cost $700. When Windows came out I bought a MS mouse which cost me $130. Grand total was $14,830 for a 50 lb 25mhz 386 with 4megs of ram. I still have the receipt and laugh everytime I look at it. No sound, video was EGA. hehehe. My palm pilot is 10 times more powerful now.

 

[AngelOfDeath]

Well our first computer in the family - I was about 12 years old, was an Atari 520ST. It competed against Apple. The outcome we all know, but it was a good computer the one hole year we had it untill it was switched with a 8086 with 2 5"1/4 floppy-drives.

AoD

 

[Oyeve]

Those STs had great sound! I still have an Atari comp. The 800XL. all of 64k. Competed directly with the Commodore64. Commodore won, barely. Still got tons of carts for it and a plotter printer. And lets not forget the Enhanced Density floppy drive, a whole 170k per side! Could fit dozens of programs on one disk! I also had the tape drive. I remember loading Jumpman from tape, took like 45 minutes to load and usually crashed after 44 minutes!

 

[uwantasumwang]

you know whats really sick? is AMD, Intel and other manufacturer probably have cpus up to like 300Ghz and 50TErrabyte hardrives sitting in their warehouses, but they are slowing the release down just to milk us for everything we are worth... Remember what 10000 got you 10 years ago, today you can buy something that totally rocks that for $100(if you can find it to buy)

 

[BigLance]

Yes. The computer life is VERY addicting...

 

[TravisBickle]

the STs didn't have such great sound. they first used a 3 channel yamaha chip I think, whilst the Amgia had pcm sound. the STE gained pcm sound but it wasn't used much for compatibility reasons. the pirated games were nice though
does anyone remember Turrican and Turrican 2? Wow!

 

[TravisBickle]

of course if you compared ST and Amiga games for sound and graphics to the PC at the time... the PC was horrible. and expensive. look how far we've come!

 

[Dennis Travis]

Oyeve, those tape drives were evil! I hated the failed load after waiting so long!

 

[A2KLAU]

Well IMHO going forwards with technology is better than going back or staying still! I mean if we stayed the saem then we would hardly be anywhere. Yes the techno market is going forward VERY fast, and it is hard to keep up, but thats how things are! We are not exactly "SICK" just obsessed with techno!

Albert.

 

[Quaggoth]

Noriaki, Please send me some info on this "186" you speak of

 

[Noriaki]

lol sorry guy. I really don't know much about it.

My CSc 212 teacher told me that there was a 186 produced by intel, it wasn't very widely used, and I don't think it ever made it into PCs...

It exsisted, that's about all I know about it, sorry man

 

[azeker1]

OK, I'll play. My first system was a Commodore *VIC 20*! I learned to program in Basic on the Atari 800 and I was stoked to finally get my own Commodore 64 with a 5.25" floppy and a dot matrix printer! I used this rig all through college! (I graduated in 1990!) My dad just gave up his Commodore 128 a year and a half ago!

Then, I got a swanky 33Mhz 386 with an 80MB HDD and a CGA graphics card with DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1! Whooodoggy I was livin' large then! Next a P-90, then a pentium 233MMX, and finally a PII-400. In a month or so it will be a 1Ghz+ Thunderbird!

Look how far we've come!