Remember when...

Not that I really miss the days we used to have to program everything in BASIC before we could do even mediocre tasks. The first computer I ever worked on was a Commodore Vic20 and it was, well a toy. We were later amazed when the Commodore 64 came out and then the Commodore 128. Wow a whole 128 Kb of memory! Not long after that "real" PCs were available and you still had to load your programs to do anything. We used to have loads of floppy disks laying around which were mostly pirated software you got from a friend. The c prompt was something you had to learn otherwise you were not going anywhere.
Man, have we come a long way.

-Ozzy

I remember how my 286 had two floppy drives (I was seven back then), but my dad had worked with mainframes using punch cards (he's a maths and science teacher, don't ask me how he got access to them).

One drive is for the OS and the other for programs, boy was it a buzz, then we whacked in a 40 meg hard drive, along with 2 megs of ram and we had a Colour monitor (256 colours, was expensive back then).

The thing is, everything now has moved to user friendliness as pcs went mainstream (good strategy if your in for business), and also alot of the architecture has been just "patched up" to accomodate for today's usage, but none the less, we have evolved for a few kilobytes of memory to mega/giga for volatile storage (same with secondary storage), and few kilo hertz to giga hertz now, even in terms of simultenous multiprocessor or clustering/distributed systems.

mmmmmm, dos.

FAKE OZZY! Get outta my forums. :thefinger :D

mmmmmm, dos.
Oh yea. That takes me back. :smile:

CP/M all the way!

What I like about the commodores was the special graphics characters.

wish that i could have played with one....:(
i had the 486 sx clone that i'd use often when i was 9 years old....that was my first computer ever......learned how to use Dos and windows 3.1.....

My programming teacher always talks about how when he graduated high school, his parents went and spent alot of their money on a Radio Shack TRS-80 (a.k.a "Trash-80") (http://www.vannattabros.com/history2.html) More Radio Shack TRS "Trash" 80 (http://www.pc-history.org/tandy.htm)

While I am not the oldest member around, I am old enough that the year I started college is the year they finally replaced punch card machines. Talk about getting in on the leading edge. :)

The first computer I remember ever using was an apple with the green and black screen i think. I used it when i was like 5 or so, I was really young. Then I remember having to use DOS and of course the ever so fabulous Win 3.1. I remember being like 10 and having to show my parents how to do things, even though they bought the computers for their own use.

I love my 286, I remember playing games and writing some basic algorithm.

Becuase of the early years I've started, I'm sorta develop this into more of an interest.

In fact I still got all my floppies from back then, but not the 286 as when I migrated to australia I sold that and got a 486 instead. lol

But I still got the 5.25 inch floppy drive, damn I'm feeling old. Even for the 5.25 inch floppies with the software on it. in face, might load up a game from it right now.

My programming teacher always talks about how when he graduated high school, his parents went and spent alot of their money on a Radio Shack TRS-80 (a.k.a "Trash-80") (http://www.vannattabros.com/history2.html) More Radio Shack TRS "Trash" 80 (http://www.pc-history.org/tandy.htm)

I have a TRS-80 Model 4, that was the last (TRS-80) model they made - it's actually a really nice computer when you think about how old it is. However I still prefer my Kaypro. It's probably the "newest" of my old computers, my oldest is a 1979 Apple II+ a friend gave me for free (dead now, computer not friend) which is several years older than I am!