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Geek Culture / Another year, ooollddd

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Steve J
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Posted: 19th Dec 2006 14:23
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I was looking through things I had in college/my friends had in college. You want to know what makes me feel old? The fact that I had:

*Redhat 5.2 with a beta of gnome
*Programming Amiga with C
*AmigaVision, the entire suite, ie the manual, floppies, everything.
*An unopened copy of msdos 5
*16mb hdd
*A pc with the amazing P2 processor, and blazing high speed 56k.
*About 200 keyboards of ibm generic standards
*A 8x cd reader
*A mobo with no ide, only scsi
*About 10 hdds that aren't dead, but my mobo doesnt accept their connection.
*A 8" crt "Low Radiation" model.

I am ancient now=(.

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Van B
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Posted: 19th Dec 2006 14:30
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I still have the joystick my parents got us when we got our first computer (spectrum), it's a quality piece of kit (The Arcade) but I've got it rigged to an old PC joypad board and still play emulated games with it. Using that makes me feel damn old, but computer stuff does that to me all the time, like finding an old Spectrum or a computer magazine from 20 years ago.

I hold onto some relics, my STFormat magazine stack (about 4ft of nostalgia), my STOS manual, and my GFA Basic manual, I just can't part with them, it cost me too much as a youngster to get them. When I get too old, I'll pass them onto my son, who'll most likely burn them .

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Steve J
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Posted: 19th Dec 2006 14:35
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My friend has an Altair 8800. He isnt a good friend, but he owns a software company in spokane, and I know him, and we hang out when I am there, but he owns an Altair. I feel sorry, he must feel reeeaaal old with that still working and in his house

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indi
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Posted: 19th Dec 2006 17:17
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Im storing an apple plus with 4 megs of ram and a 20 meg HD, in mint condition for the right ebay sucker

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 19th Dec 2006 19:01
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I had an old Apple I sold on eBay about a year ago to someone who actually was replacing their old broken one... They still used it for their everyday computing needs! The thing was pretty similar to the specs indi just posted.

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Posted: 19th Dec 2006 20:52 Edited at: 19th Dec 2006 20:52
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I remember paying £150 for a 4Mb ubgrade for my Amiga and they sent 8Mb by accident. Can you imagine that ... an 8Mb Amiga? I was truely a God!
I bought a single speed CDROM for it too although it wasn't called single speed because anything faster was unheard of.


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Jeku
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Posted: 19th Dec 2006 21:33
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Yah, we bought a single-speed CD-ROM drive with MMC support Twas tray loaded and cost $800.

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 19th Dec 2006 21:49
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Quote: "Twas tray loaded and cost $800."




Looking back now though, do you feel you wasted your money on that upgrade After all, you could by a brand new system for that price

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Jeku
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Posted: 19th Dec 2006 21:58 Edited at: 19th Dec 2006 21:59
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Not at all, because at the time it was cutting edge. In fact, the total computer cost us $4,000:

486 DX-33MHz
4MB RAM
120MB HD
1x CD-ROM
14" Monitor
1MB Trident video card (!!)
Sound Blaster Pro
High-density 3.5" floppy disk drive

That was top of the line back in '91!

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Hobgoblin Lord
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Posted: 19th Dec 2006 22:06
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I had a 2k<--yes K Timex Sinclair 1000, but we paid $99 for the 16K module that plugged in the back and was the size a 1/2pint milk carton. eventually I moved up to a VIC 20. Also had an pong console, the really good one that had a switch to make the ball go faster

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Agent Dink
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Haha, true. I didn't know that 486DX was top of the line in '91. I know we were way behind the times when we got one in '95ish but I didn't think it was that old at the time.

Trident used to be a big name in video cards if I remember correct.

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Posted: 19th Dec 2006 23:06 Edited at: 19th Dec 2006 23:07
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I had a Trident 1 meg card in my 1991-92-ish pc:

486 DLC-40MHz
4MB RAM
200MB Conner HD
2x Sony CD-ROM (300 kb/sec max)
14" CTX Monitor
1MB Trident video card svga
Sound Blaster Pro
High-density 3.5" floppy disk drive

Then I upgraded the memory to a whopping 8megs, cost $45.00 per meg back then, rofl

Things really got cooking when I went to dx2-66 with a VESA Local Bus graphics card. I cant remember the make, might have been ati or Orchid, I cant recall.



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Posted: 20th Dec 2006 00:32 Edited at: 20th Dec 2006 00:34
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Yah, that reminds me of when my girlfriend at the time, around mid '98
shelled out hundreds of $$$ to buy me a Voodoo 2 card with 8MB VRAM.

The thing was a 3D *only* card, and it had to be daisy-chained into a regular 2D video card (which was a cheapo S3-Virge card from the day).

Poor gal--- the things she did for me

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Posted: 20th Dec 2006 02:45
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lol
the T7G days!



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Posted: 20th Dec 2006 13:28
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Ive got my commodore+4 in the corner of the spare room. Last time I tried it though half the keys seemed to be gubbed.

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Posted: 20th Dec 2006 22:16
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Quote: "lol
the T7G days!"


Yes, I still look back at those days with the utmost fondness. Spending $80 on the very first 2 CD game, and incidentally the very first game that was over 1GB in size. The box version I had also came with a VHS tape which, sadly, I misplaced

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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 21st Dec 2006 00:34 Edited at: 21st Dec 2006 00:35
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I'm sitting right by my families best computer before we started building them... NEC Powermate SX. I turn it on every once in a while and load up my old BBS to take trips down memory lane.

Edit: We got it before we realized that "NEC" stood for "Not Exactly Compatible"
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Matt Rock
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Posted: 21st Dec 2006 04:21
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I just turned 27 on saturday. For whatever reason, it feels like I'm a lot older than I actually am. What's sad is, I still get games and toys for by birthday


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Steve J
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Posted: 21st Dec 2006 06:08
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Nice Matt, few months until 28. I started settling down recently. I feel a few years older than I am frankly because of the knowledge of the young people here, it can sure as hell beat me in many places, kind of makes me out dated=/

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Posted: 24th Dec 2006 15:39
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wow you guys are old jk
i turn 16 in may =)

i remember programming on my dad's old commodore 64 lol
stupid poke, peek, and everything to do with sprites that take up the whole screen cuz the pixels are so big.

people who live in glass houses should dress in the basement.
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indi
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Posted: 25th Dec 2006 02:08
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35 this boxing day, ho hum

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Jeff Miller
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@Venge: "wow you guys are old jk"

As you grow older you won't think of those guys as so "old" as you now perceive them. I'm 57, so in your book I must qualify as "ancient". But I loved the original "personal" computers as they did, even though I first started computing long before that on mainframes with punchcards. As long as I can type, read, and see what's on my monitor, I'll still feel the thrill. Tonight, by the way, for that very reason, I feel as young as you! I'm pluggin' away at some of my ideas in DBPro programming, and having a ball while the rest of the world in frantically doing it's last-minute shopping.
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