vava Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 Well not exactly. But please... notice the 'lightening fast 20 Mhz' - blazing speed, I tell ya... http://www3.sympatico.ca/mivava/images/1989computer.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 Hehehe Well, I'm sure Azat will soon jump in and tell us how it was done in the old days with the rubber bands and the rocks but I personally started with a C64: 1MHz 8-bit processor and 64K of total memory Getting the XT was like a dream come true after that (we borrowed it for a couple of months from a friend) ... but then had a MAC for a while ... YES! A MAC! My first real graphical user interface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted March 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 I LOVED the C64 (but could hardly call it a PC ) Actually, I still have it today. It's in perfect working order, although I can't find the tape drive. I did buy a floppy drive used a few years back, so the system is very usable. Unfortunately, most of my disks have errors on them (but man, I had hundreds of games for that thing!!) Of course, nowadays you just need an emulator - the old hardware doesn't mean much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 Oh ya, those were the days. I too started with c64, but then got a 8086(or was that 8088 I don't remember) when the price was 3200. I had to work for almost a whole year to save that kind of money. Vava, I actually got a 386 very similar to the one that you posted as well. I think I aid about 3K for that as well. Ouch. Them got a P1 for 2400 and then a P3 for 1700 and then a P3 laptop for 1700 then recently a P4 desktop for 700. My my how cheap things have become. Actually I recently ordered a very good PC from Dell for a friend for 500. That is incredible to me. Sip, I personally never used punch cards, but a friend 3 years older then I learned to program with punch cards in U of W Madison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fadi Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 "Unfortunately, most of my disks have errors on them" I am starting to believe that you illtreat your disks like I illtreat my scanners(and monitors, but thats another story) No wonder after you have to pay many $$$ to collect those data's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Sip:... but then had a MAC for a while ... YES! A MAC! My first real graphical user interface.I always knew there had to be something wrong with you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fadi Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Sip:... but then had a MAC for a while ... YES! A MAC! My first real graphical user interface.I always knew there had to be something right with you... [ March 17, 2003, 09:34 AM: Message edited by: Domino ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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