Check out this machine!

[OUTLAWS The Machine]

We've come a long way since 1989.

[Scorch]

20 MHz :w00t:

[Grimmy]

for that price, I was 2. I will be trading in my new rig for that baby :w00t:

[Fred Bear]

Now thats a old computer

[Crism]

I quote them


Lightning-fast 20MHz

:rofl: :rofl: That was funny....I can't believe those were the POS's you's were on when I was born....

Hey, in 10 years, I'll have my 30 gigasquats (GSQ) Flentuim 7 overmashed to 35 kilowatts (KLW)

Try running Serious Sam on a computer in 10 years...can anyone say 1237 fps????

[EXEcution]

Mine's just a little betta than that PC

[SALvation]

My first PC was a 25MHz and it was a TURBO. :D

[Gun Element]

My Game boy advance is stronger.....

:lol: That computer is sucky.

[JIMINATOR]

Originally posted by SALvation@Mar 29 2003, 10:29 PM
My first PC was a 25MHz and it was a TURBO. :D
I still have my first original receipt from 1991
486 25Mhz 128 cache 4 MB 220W PS - $1895
Gateway Omni KB - $69
200 MB Drive - $769
Floppy $60
Orchid pro II VGA 512K - $209
Sony 14' Monitor $669
Dos 4.01 $65
IO Card $25
Mouse $19

Remember, these were all cut rate prices at the time
I loved that keyboard, it was a huge solid thing, not like the flimsy things you have today
We have come a long way

[OUTLAWS CHICO]

My first computer went out the window, I was a maintenance man for a apartment complex and I was able to pick it up cheap. But I didn't know anything about them so I got mad after about 2 days of trying to get it to work and threw it out the window, Then after fixing the window and picking up the pc I sold it for what I had in it. $100.00 . I went over to the guys house and I'll be he already was on it. GGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. It was about 10 yrs later then SHOGUN built my first PC I could get to work LOL.

[Death-Dude]

Oh, that baby screamed! My buddy who got me into computers had the 12MHz, 640K Ram (he upped to 1 meg!) and a 10 meg HD, for a little over $4K. Think of how fast you could run the edlin command on that baby! :thumbs:

[JIMINATOR]

Originally posted by Death-Dude@Mar 30 2003, 02:18 AM
Oh, that baby screamed! My buddy who got me into computers had the 12MHz, 640K Ram (he upped to 1 meg!) and a 10 meg HD, for a little over $4K. Think of how fast you could run the edlin command on that baby! :thumbs:
edlin, now that's a joke. I had 4.01, I think that version came with the gui edit command. Now that was living big time....

[Sirc]

Originally posted by Death-Dude@Mar 29 2003, 09:18 PM
Oh, that baby screamed! My buddy who got me into computers had the 12MHz, 640K Ram (he upped to 1 meg!) and a 10 meg HD, for a little over $4K. Think of how fast you could run the edlin command on that baby! :thumbs:
LOL. That's what I had too. Mine was a Korean knock off though and only cost $3K. I had $200 state of the art 2400 baud modem too. W00t! :w00t:

ASCII porn rulez. :wootrock: :drink:

[Slice]

OMG, I had an 80x86 computer when you had to put in a 5 1/4 floppy disk to boot Dos up from first to run any other program. There were no hard drives then. :P Of course I was only like 10 years old, but my dad was in the industry then, so we had one. ;)

[Sirc]

Originally posted by Slice@Mar 29 2003, 11:01 PM
OMG, I had an 80x86 computer when you had to put in a 5 1/4 floppy disk to boot Dos up from first to run any other program. There were no hard drives then. :P Of course I was only like 10 years old, but my dad was in the industry then, so we had one. ;)
LOL. We had one of those at work. The only thing I can remember using it for was Lotus 123.

[OUTLAWS Tip]

Originally posted by Slice@Mar 29 2003, 11:01 PM
OMG, I had an 80x86 computer when you had to put in a 5 1/4 floppy disk to boot Dos up from first to run any other program. There were no hard drives then. :P Of course I was only like 10 years old, but my dad was in the industry then, so we had one. ;)
That is the computer my dad was using till I built him one two years ago. Within the last year he just started feeling comfortable with the one I built and has begun using it. The power supply on the one I built him went bad two weeks ago and he was back using the old one to write letters. I have since replaced his power supply but his antique still sits next to the new pc with his dot-matrix printer all hooked up.

:w00t: :rofl: :rofl:

[OUTLAWS The Machine]

Originally posted by OUTLAWS Tip+Mar 30 2003, 12:48 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (OUTLAWS Tip @ Mar 30 2003, 12:48 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--Slice@Mar 29 2003, 11:01 PM
OMG, I had an 80x86 computer when you had to put in a 5 1/4 floppy disk to boot Dos up from first to run any other program.&nbsp; There were no hard drives then. :P&nbsp; Of course I was only like 10 years old, but my dad was in the industry then, so we had one.&nbsp; ;)
That is the computer my dad was using till I built him one two years ago. Within the last year he just started feeling comfortable with the one I built and has begun using it. The power supply on the one I built him went bad two weeks ago and he was back using the old one to write letters. I have since replaced his power supply but his antique still sits next to the new pc with his dot-matrix printer all hooked up.

:w00t: :rofl: :rofl: [/b][/quote]
SO what you are saying is that the 15yr old POS puter outlasted the one you built a couple years ago? :w00t: :rofl:

[OUTLAWS Tip]

Yep, and it is tough prying it out of my dads hands. It was my first pc build and I bought a bare-bones system cheap at a computer show. That was my first and last barebone system purchase.
:rofl:

[chaotic42]

Man, you guys are making me feel old&#33; My first computer was a Commodore 64 back when I was 4 (1986).

1MHz processor
64KB SSSD Floppy (1581 drive, that POS)
64KB RAM
16 Colors

How do you run programs from the disk? No command other than

load "*",8,1

That would load the first program (usually the only program) from the disk. I remember getting frustrated by running into the memory limitations of it.

In &#39;90 I got a 4.77MHz 8086.

[OUTLAWS The Machine]

I remember the Commodor64. That was one bad ass machine back then. My first was made by Atari back in the same era. I can not remember the cpu speed or how much memory it had. It had a cassette tape drive with it. I had a book with all sorts of little programs that could be typed in. Like one that would make a stick figure guy walk across the screen. It took hours to type in all those lines of Basic just to see a stick figure walk across the screen. I was around 10 years old then.

[OUTLAWS DirtGod]

8 grand i had forgotten how much those thing used to cost...... :hmmm:

My first computer was also tandy but nowhere near as fast as that one i think it was 4 mhz with the intergated floppy disks

[Aries]

My first PC was a Schneider-Amstrad with b/w screen, one large floppy drive (extendable to two large floppy drives...oh I miss turning that close switch) and the memory (HD) of that rig was 512K large :rolleyes:



and the first game I got addicted to on that machine was &#39;Digger&#39; (where you drive in a digging tank, collect the diamonds, eat the bags of cash and ditch the mice that chase you)

:wootrock: