In this thread we only talk about old computer stuff from the 70's 80's and 90's

The whistling tones of the old dial up modem, it wasn't the same when it went silent.
The commodore 64 and the Amiga 500+, they were the days, cassette loading software for the commodore, 2d very playable games like Golden axe, Bomber man and Paper boy.

Still have my Commodore 64 and Amiga packed up in a cupboard.

Commodore was fun to programme making the screen run through colours or rolling lines of text to impress your friends, although in reality was utter crap.
Internet through the Amiga was weird, just a long list of directories with all sorts of crap in. Uploaded a picture of a teddy bear I created with a paint programme. PC technology sure did move fast.
Because computer technology was new to us then it was all so exciting, now it's all about graphics quality.

And, forgot, all the cheap copied games you got from car boot pirates, saved a fortune.

I had fake subscription to PC gamer for years

Are there any good NON WEB 2.0 web sites out there?


Wjhat constitutes WEb 2.0

Anyone here ever go to VP Excite Chat? You could make your own room...there were coffee mugs as avatars..and people painting avs for you. You could play gestures in the chat room...way way better then Facebook!!

OH hai.

This is great.

I actually only recycled my old systems this year. I kept the cpu though..an IBM 600.

Did anyone here ever experience TSN? That was my first internet experience and the old AOL.

I remember being so psyched that I had just gotten 32-megs of ram. ;)

Question for you all... Who all here freaked when they took our floppy drives away? I insisted on one with my last computer, and it sat unused. LOL.... I finally threw my disks away less than 6 months ago. It was very difficult parting with them.

Anyways, I miss having a true MSDOS operating system and the total control you get with that.

And who here can remember using terminal to get Mcafee updates? Oh and what about the free Thunderbird? That rocked!

And yes, I also remember using Netscape since I was totally annoyed with all those AOL graphics. Finally I said hell on it and switched to ATT Worldnet.

Oh and being a computer geek, I loved my QEMM memory manager.

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Or we can go back a bit more...

Tick, tick, tick, tick, griiiind, tick, tick, tick, tick griiiiind....

LOL yup, I had to fight through it but I finally let go too.

Oh and my old Packard bell P75 is still operational! I gave it to my mother in law a very long time ago to use as a glorified word processor. But being very old (late 80's), she refuses to take a newer computer from me.

It is loaded up with cats, and all sorts of old software. I still have my old cats CD's.

And to this day, I have to have a tower.

And to ramble on... Can you remember when having a full duplex mic was a big thing on Freetel?

And what about when Cuseeme came out? I thought OMG we are living the life of the Jetsons!

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I tried using INternet Explorer 8 yesterday.



Wow what a piece of shit. Throwing up errors everywhere.

I'm playing it right now!

That's awesome make sur eto tell us about it

Apple IIC

A spies adventure in Europe, the rabbit in a maze and the WWII bomber game. good times.

I just started it (never played the original). Larry has arrived at the sleazy bar, been in the crapper, talked to the drunk in the back room, and is now about to try and order a drink.

I had a commodore 64 with a floppy drive. I enjoyed playing text adventures like Infocom's, "wishbringer." Completely text-based, no graphics needed. Every move took a couple of minutes because the commodore had to access the data from the floppy drive. After that, i graduated into an Amiga 300. Good times...

Lotus 123
wysiwyg
WordPerfect

Load *, 8, 1
(if memory serves correct!)

We had a Commodore 64 back in the middle 1980s for our two daughters. Our favorite games were the Summer Olympics. There was diving, springboard, pole vault, skeet-shooting. Lots of cannonballs and neck injuries if you couldn't make them land properly. You chose the country you wanted to represent, then at the end they would play that national anthem. I often wished we had kept the darned thing, it was really a lot of fun.

I had a Commodore PET, Timex Sinclair 1000 and a Coleco Adam Computer back in the day, and pretty much every thing since then.

Even though technically the internet became available to the public in 91, In 1990 I was allowed two 15 minute sessions per week on the internet. The only thing available then were some Universities.

When the first websites were created nothing was indexed, you just used Archie, Veronica, Jughead and Gopher to get a list from an FTP site, which were about a dozen websites. I could finish surfing the entire internet in less than an hour. I use to track every new site that was created until about 1994, then it became impossible even with WebCrawler.

The good old days when getting a new modem meant you had to spend a few hours creating your own initialization strings and network socket interface config depending on what computer hardware and service provider you had.

Bonus.com online games, and the best of them was Battlefield. Now tankpit.com same good ole game

ZX-81
Commodore Vic 20
Spectrum 48k
Spectrum 128k
Amiga 500
Amiga 1200
Sega Saturn
Playstation
PC


And here i am

I remember the Sinclair Spectrum, and not fondly.

Like everything Clive Sinclair came up with, it was a heap of shit. I had 2 of the colour Spectrums. The first one arrived in bits, and was unusable. The second one was all in one piece, but was so shitty to use (horrid little rubber keys, each having about a dozen functions depending on how many shift and control keys you held down) that I binned it.

Early 70s - .mil - worked with computers that were as big as several refrigerators. I think they were IBM.

Would type out a program on a sheet of paper on a machine called a Kleinschmidt. As you were typing the Kleinschmidt would spit out a roll of perforated paper tape about an inch wide with your code represented by punched out holes. You would then load the paper tape onto a reel on the computer, run it through the reader and that's how you loaded the program. Some of those paper tapes were 30 feet long.

Same computer had a hopper where you put a stack of cards with holes punched in them. IIRC each card was a character in the program. You'd fire up the card reader and it would feed them through one at a time to load the program.

I also have a copy of Microsoft Windows 386 for Compaq still in the shrinkwrapped box.

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What? No Sub7? Yahoo Booters like Betty Booter? Angry ip Scanner? ProRat?