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Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by lizard.boy on 03-13-2006 at 01:26 AM

ok, so my dad cleaned out a filing cabnet this weekend, and found the flyer for the first computer he and my mom bought when the got married (20 years ago this year). man was this thing top notch, cost them nearly $1500 canadian.

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by qgroessl on 03-13-2006 at 01:47 AM

Bad thing is... that looks like the keyboard I had on my old computer till we got this one about 2 years ago

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by Joe on 03-13-2006 at 02:02 AM

10Mhz and 1MB memory....

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by Voldemort on 03-13-2006 at 02:07 AM

omg... my mother passed by, and she told me she had one of those!

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by Voldemort on 03-13-2006 at 02:12 AM

quote:
Originally posted by groessl35
ad thing is... that looks like the keyboard I had on my old computer till we got this one about 2 years ago

Keyboards reamain almost unchanged.

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by RebelSean on 03-13-2006 at 02:13 AM

LOL.

I remember those things, I've seen quite a few of them.

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by guanako on 03-13-2006 at 02:28 AM

love the colors on the screen

operation with an indicator light :drool:

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by qgroessl on 03-13-2006 at 02:35 AM

quote:
Originally posted by bto

quote:
Originally posted by groessl35
ad thing is... that looks like the keyboard I had on my old computer till we got this one about 2 years ago

Keyboards reamain almost unchanged.

True that... but most people has better than windows 98 two years ago

haha

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by lizard.boy on 03-13-2006 at 02:59 AM

quote:
Originally posted by joe cool
10Mhz and 1MB memory....

mwahaha.. not 1mb memory.. expandable to 1mb

its actually 256kb by default.

and for comparason: the latest ipod has an 80mhz processor and 32mb ram, with a high intensity lcd

i think i remember playing centipede on that pc.. till it started to make sparks.

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by Voldemort on 03-13-2006 at 03:07 AM

ive seen servers as old as that pc, they needed a room with about 0*C ... they were cool...

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by NiteMare on 03-13-2006 at 05:33 AM

i had a computer that old once, it was so crappy, and it had one of the orriginal "simcities" on it, although we never could get it working

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by Discrate on 03-13-2006 at 06:14 AM

LOL, the computer is so slow. But i bet in that day and age people thought that computer was really fast lol

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by NiteMare on 03-13-2006 at 06:28 AM

quote:
Originally posted by joelm
LOL, the computer is so slow. But i bet in that day and age people thought that computer was really fast lol

back in the day it WAS fast, seeing as there are calculators running more advanced programs nowadays then what was being run back then

seriously, i was runing windows 1.01 on it, alond with word, and i could start it up and work away with zero lag, but also, zero features

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by Daniel on 03-13-2006 at 06:52 AM

so .. whens this baby due for release?

* Daniel saves up some cash

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by YottabyteWizard on 03-13-2006 at 07:07 AM

20 MB HDD! OMG... and the CPU, at least it was even faster than NES (1.79 MHz NTSC version, 1.66 MHz PAL version)..... yes old days...
My dad's first PC was a 386SX and after that a 486SX, when I used to play with my all-mighty and powerful MS-DOS 6.0 :'(

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by user27089 on 03-13-2006 at 07:44 AM

:lol: Those computers are mad.

We used to have one of them I think, or one of the ones where you plug in the tape player... I can't quite remember.

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by Pinchichuv on 03-13-2006 at 08:14 AM

quote:
Originally posted by lizard.boy
ok, so my dad cleaned out a filing cabnet this weekend, and found the flyer for the first computer he and my mom bought when the got married (20 years ago this year). man was this thing top notch, cost them nearly $1500 canadian.

damn thats my new computer

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by Ezra on 03-13-2006 at 04:28 PM

I used to have one of these babies

[Image: MSX-SonyHB-F1XDJ_2.jpg]

With these awesome specs:

quote:
Originally posted by Wikipedia

* Processor: Zilog Z80A running at 3.58 MHz
* ROM: 32 kB
o BIOS (16 kB)
o MSX BASIC V1.0 (16 kB)
* RAM: 8 kB minimum, up to 64 kB
* Video Display Processor: Texas Instruments TMS9918 family
o Video RAM: 16 kB
o Text modes: 40 x 24 and 32 x 24
o Resolution: 256 x 192 (16 colours)
o Sprites: 32, 1 colour, max 4 per horizontal line
* Sound chip: General Instruments AY-3-8910 (PSG)
o 3 channels + noise

Those were the days

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by _Humphreys on 03-15-2006 at 09:31 PM

WOW, is there a turbo mode on it as well...it might be able to go to 20 MHZ. Now that's overclocking.

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by prashker on 03-15-2006 at 09:33 PM

quote:
Originally posted by joe cool
10Mhz and 1MB memory....

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by Jhrono on 03-15-2006 at 11:09 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Carltos Cool
WOW, is there a turbo mode on it as well...it might be able to go to 20 MHZ. Now that's overclocking. (Smilie)

OMG 1337, i can imagine lizard.boy trying to overclock it right now on his basement LOL

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by lizard.boy on 03-15-2006 at 11:15 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Johny

quote:
Originally posted by Carltos Cool
WOW, is there a turbo mode on it as well...it might be able to go to 20 MHZ. Now that's overclocking. (Smilie)
OMG 1337, i can imagine lizard.boy trying to overclock it right now on his basement LOL

heh. actually the turbo mode was 10mhz.. the non-turbo was the 4.7 mhz on the sheet.
and it would probably be funny, even though we chucked the machine in '97

RE: Memories for older users, laughs for younger users by NiteMare on 03-16-2006 at 01:11 AM

i can still remember those old b:\ drives, with the 8 inch floppys, microsoft couldn't get them hard, just there later 3 1/2 inch "floppys"