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LPBBEAR

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58. Ahh the memories......

Wed Mar 10, 2021, 05:52 PM

Mar 2021

My first computer was a 386 running DrDos. Loved it! Then we got a store bought 486 Packard Bell running Windows/MsDos with 4 mb later upgraded to 8 mb. Cost for that extra 4 mb was around $400 as I remember. Later ran a BBS using GAP BBS. Ahh what fun. Legend of the Red Dragon anyone?

After that I gradually moved into Linux which is where I have been ever since. I can only handle Windows in small doses and only if I'm paid to work on it.

Run a number of game servers (Tribes and Unreal) as well as worked on a games called "Legends" at one point. You can find that in the Internet Archive.

An excellent TV series that will really bring back the period is "Halt And Catch Fire". Apparently its available on Netflix and as a pay for on Prime.

Also caught a really interesting flick on the rise of Compaq yesterday called "The Silicon Cowboys". Its on Filmrise through various sources.

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In 1988, I Bought an 80 Megabyte Seagate Hard Drive [View all] MineralMan Mar 2021 OP

The one with the buggy whip? I got the one with a hand crank. I had 10 Meg of Ram, too ... marble falls Mar 2021 #1

Amen on your last point. Miguelito Loveless Mar 2021 #2

Just to add on to the point you are making... blugbox Mar 2021 #8

I remember getting the first 1GB scsi drive for our Sonic Solutions somewhere around 1990. bullimiami Mar 2021 #3

My first computer was an IBM leftieNanner Mar 2021 #4

Way more, in fact blugbox Mar 2021 #12

Amazing, isn't it? ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2021 #17

When I was in College leftieNanner Mar 2021 #19

I did Multiplication and long division on paper. ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2021 #20

I remember the algorithm for extracting square roots by hand central scrutinizer Mar 2021 #74

After Good Calculators Came Out... ProfessorGAC Mar 2021 #41

Still have my steel Pickett slide rule! lastlib Mar 2021 #56

I'll Bet ProfessorGAC Mar 2021 #76

My first micro computer, Commodore PET, 1978 Wednesdays Mar 2021 #80

OMG... piddyprints Mar 2021 #83

I remember when RAM was gold in the early 90s Stuckinthebush Mar 2021 #5

I upgraded my 128K of RAM to 256K and it cost me $350 in 1988. Tommymac Mar 2021 #36

When 4MB RAM was plenty dalton99a Mar 2021 #6

Dear lord, that is almost exactly what my PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2021 #54

A guy I helped pack up for a move recently had one of those computers with a 512 mb hard drive kimbutgar Mar 2021 #7

I remember the Floppy disks and DOS ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2021 #9

Remember when you had two slots for floppy disks? Mr.Bill Mar 2021 #10

::belly laugh:: I remember the guy at work who had FOUR 5.25 floppy drive ports.... TygrBright Mar 2021 #66

Ha! Floppy drives Revanchist Mar 2021 #31

My Timex-Sinclair 2068 had an external cassette drive. CaptainTruth Mar 2021 #33

That was me. With the CoCo 2. enki23 Mar 2021 #67

While looking for an SSD I came across Goonch Mar 2021 #11

Yup. MineralMan Mar 2021 #13

In '82 I was using a Radio Shack TRS-80 at work. Mr.Bill Mar 2021 #14

'83 I went to law school with Radio Shack keyboard with some memory and dot matrix printer Pepsidog Mar 2021 #34

I'd be thrilled if I had the *same* memory capacity I had in 1988 intrepidity Mar 2021 #15

The first hard drive I worked with Disaffected Mar 2021 #16

My computer was so poor it didn't have a cache Midnightwalk Mar 2021 #18

Sorry, Motorola didn't make the 6502, Rockwell did. bobalew Mar 2021 #51

Interesting to learn Midnightwalk Mar 2021 #71

Moore's Law Yavin4 Mar 2021 #21

And software and files will fill available space as fast as it's created. rickford66 Mar 2021 #37

That's what happens when people have all the incentive in the world to work on something DSandra Mar 2021 #22

On the other hand... Codifer Mar 2021 #23

i'm currently working on an old jukebox rampartc Mar 2021 #24

My first HDD was 32 MB ironflange Mar 2021 #25

Another marvel BootinUp Mar 2021 #26

This message was self-deleted by its author BootinUp Mar 2021 #27

Adjusted for inflation, that drive cost you about $890 in today's dollars. Silent3 Mar 2021 #28

Back in the late 1990s I taught myself how to build computers by rebuilding old ones csziggy Mar 2021 #78

I used a 'luggable' Compaq 8088 in the early '80s for uploading to programmable logic controllers Cirque du So-What Mar 2021 #29

Ha! 80MB! It was a pretty good day when you got a stack of 80 byte punch cards, a paper clip tandem5 Mar 2021 #30

When I upgraded my MAC II to an FX burrowowl Mar 2021 #32

I upgraded my IBM XT Cheezoholic Mar 2021 #35

You're bringing back memories! CaptainTruth Mar 2021 #38

My first progamming job in the early 80s... William Seger Mar 2021 #39

These things don't happen politically for a couple reasons (that I can think of - but surely bucolic_frolic Mar 2021 #40

FORTRAN, COBOL and punch cards. Marcuse Mar 2021 #42

Yup. I took a Fortran class in 1963. MineralMan Mar 2021 #53

Been there, done that. Jarqui Mar 2021 #61

I had an ADAM computer PCIntern Mar 2021 #43

About 4 Years Ago, My Company Gave Me... ProfessorGAC Mar 2021 #44

Shit, I routinely use data files bigger than that!! LOL Lucky Luciano Mar 2021 #45

i started with a 286 with dual floppies . and that was the one with 2 floppy drives . AllaN01Bear Mar 2021 #46

even better.. in 1980 DEC was selling the RK05 - a 5 MB pack drive system getagrip_already Mar 2021 #47

Went to Uni as a young man. Aussie105 Mar 2021 #48

My husband does computer work for people as a side job. AwakeAtLast Mar 2021 #49

This message was self-deleted by its author softydog88 Mar 2021 #50

Yikes! MineralMan Mar 2021 #52

+1. Inside: dalton99a Mar 2021 #64

Right around the same time (1989 I believe) I bought one for work that was.... George II Mar 2021 #55

In 1999 I bought an IBM Thinkpad laptop for $4,700 Victor_c3 Mar 2021 #57

Ahh the memories...... LPBBEAR Mar 2021 #58

technology is simple... humans, not so much. WarGamer Mar 2021 #59

In 1988, you were way ahead of your time!!! LeftInTX Mar 2021 #60

New rule. Draw up a list of 1000 outmoded, phony, lying, racist, etc. repug Oldem Mar 2021 #62

I remember buying a 20MB "hard card" BumRushDaShow Mar 2021 #63

I love this thread Laha Mar 2021 #65

In 1990, one of the IT guys in my unit told me I shouldn't buy a 300MB hard drive jmowreader Mar 2021 #68

Moore's Law for Society suilebhan Mar 2021 #69

32 Mb of RAM... mac2766 Mar 2021 #70

I bought my first videohead5 Mar 2021 #72

my first home computer had 8k of memory Worsel Mar 2021 #73

About the same time I bought a 40 Mb hard drive for my PC AT clone csziggy Mar 2021 #75

Vintage. Marcuse Mar 2021 #77

Maybe trying to "win" the thread unc70 Mar 2021 #79

Wow You guys are wild! Tracyjo Mar 2021 #81

My very first computer didn't have a hard drive wackadoo wabbit Mar 2021 #82