Anybody remember when this was fast? Imagine trying to surf the web with one of these!!:sleep: Lightning fast 20MHZ Processor!!:laugh:
ou: My first office desktop system was right around that time, maybe a couple years later... a 16mhz Packard-Bell with 8mb of ram, and of all things, a TURBO boost button! I think it was supposed to change the processor from 8 to 16mhz, as if anyone would leave it at the slower speed... :error: Beautiful 13" b/w monitor too! Win 3.1 too :Brow:
my 1st pc was by unisys - dual 360 bb diskette drives, no hard drivw , 256 kb memory , b/w 12" monitor . circa 1983 .
my first computer surfed the net at 2400 instead of the 750000 i have now. it was an apple of course and i thought it was great. to download bits and pieces i started the download at 10 at night and went to bed ; - ) and now look at us all. shotting jast:blast: :laugh: :Comp: :TU: :3gears:
TI My first computer had a cassette recorder for a disk drive. We would buy computer magazines and have Mom type in the game code by hand. What a waste of childhood.
Boy you guys must have been pretty wealthy back in 89. I couldn't afford that much for a computer now! :eek2:
89 i bought one for my house in 84 and added the net to it later. it wasn't that much. if i remember it was like $2800 for that one back then. did word processing and later the add ons did more
My first PC was an IBM PC/XT with Z8088 processor at 4.77 Mhz, 512K ram, 2x360 floppies and a whopping 10 mb HDD .....Man....I was COOKIN' !!! Paid about 5K for it all with a printer and monitor......made about 40K that year doing custom programming :Brow: I remember selling PC's later on (IBM AT and Compaq 386) and making almost a grand on each !! profit margins then were 20-25%. I sold back-fill memory boards that took the 512K up to a WHOPPING 640K for $480 each - sold over 300 of them to Morgan Guarantee on cold call and then hit all the other Wall Street investment firms - ended up selling over 1200 of them the first month. I was Salesman of the month (my first month working for that Co.) and got a $500 bonus plus my commission, PLuS the vendor of the board sent me on a paid trip to St. Martin Ahhh....the good 'Ole days......I could go on and on
Commodore PET 2001, ca.1980. 16k. Got it used for $800. ...and the rumors are true, the tape drive would catch fire: 10 motor 1 20 motor 0 30 goto 10 Switched the tape motor so fast it would smoke then light.
Texas Instruments TI-99 Had a cassette player for storage. Loved programming in BASIC. Operating system?? We don't need no stinking operating system!!
My family had a 286, 386, and a 486 before the family finnally got a IBM Aptiva Intel Pentium 1 Processor! Whoa. that was super fast. Now my brother has a custom TOP OF THE LINE computer.:shock:
Woot, got our first when I was 8 and it was a commodore 64/128 though i don't remember the specs I played games like afterburn and top gun endlessly. Amazingly my mom still had and used that computer until about 5 years ago for word processing. First pc was an sx25mhz clone when i was 15 also with a turbo button. Its kinda funny but I've got a keychain usb device that holds more than that harddrive did.
One thing I've found interesting over the years.... I've bought hundreds and hundreds of computers since 1986.....Once things settled down pricewise, you get a top of the line system for approx. $2800-$3000 .....both then and today. Of course todays system isn't even fair to compare but whats interesting is the price-point has pretty much stayed the same. I just bought 15 top-end dell's and with the 19" flat-panel displays they came in at just under 3K/ea
If you haven't already tried it, here's a great litle toy: Commodore Emulator for the PC ...and a listing of all the old games: Commodore 64 Games Expect to lose about 3 weekends :Comp:
How about the Vic 20?? had a memory cassette the size of an 8-track, soldered two together to double the memory....wow were we cool. Or was the 64?? Amazing how spoiled we are now, look how the power has increased and the cost has dropped...incredible... later Tim
The TI-994A ROCKED!!! 16K ram, 16 colors, and I even had a little basic program memorized that I typed in on all the computers at the stores in less than 5 minutes... it put up what looked like the railroad crossing lights blinking on a black background... the kicker was it took a complete shutdown to reset it cuz of the way I wrote it, any keypress was ignored. Munchman was my fave.... :laugh:
Hey I had Munchman!!! :laugh: Also had the Space Invaders clone TI Invaders, but my favorite was that side scrolling spaceship shooter called Parsec. I remember spending hours and hours programing in BASIC. Until my family would yell at me because they wanted to watch TV. :laugh: Hey I did some looking and found a Ti-994a emulator that runs on Windows and has tons of old games as well. :grin: Ti-994a emulator
I started out with an Atari 400. Then moved up to the 800XL. It had 64K Ram!!! - 16 was reserved for the system though. All the old machines seemed to do the job just fine. My Atari Writer was great for papers - I don't need a dancing paper clip to help me write. I've been toying with the idea of digging out the Atari and interfacing it with my PC. That would be fun.
I remember playing on a computer in summer school, like around 3rd grade, it had the "turtle" game where you would tell the turtle the coordinates where to go, like a really primitive "snake" game. My grandma bought the first computer in our family, a hewlett packard with a whopping 50mhz, top of the line then, now it's in my basement. lol We had a computer once with a "turbo" button, never knew what it was for until I read this post.
