I remember when a BIG Hard Drive was 40mb

[Big Dave]

http://homepage.mac.com/david_cohen_design/.Pictures/10pics/screen.jpg

[Bald Eagle]

Better still I remember when a complete, web browser included operating systems fitted on a 1.4mb floppy disk. :rofl:

[Taz]

I can still remeber just how crap my Pentium 75 was with it's 8MB hard drive and it cost close to $3000

[Big Dave]

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Word 1.1

[Big Dave]

$800 for 4mb of RAM

[Ronin]

4 hundy for a 20 meg drive for an Amiga 500

[Taz]

I used to get very annoyed waiting for the tape drive to load my program on my amstrad only for it to come up with an error right at the end. :angry:

[jim.cox]

I'm gonna realy show my age here

But I remember programming IBM System 360's with punch cards

And carrying around diskpacs that looked like big stacks of vinyl records

[Kendog]

I remember when my first Playstation didn't have a wireless connection to the internet.




Ok, I also remember 'load"*",8,1'

[Ronin]

I remember when my first Playstation didn't have a wireless connection to the internet.




Ok, I also remember 'load"*",8,1'

Ahhh the comodore 64... thems the days.

[davereid]

I'm gonna realy show my age here

But I remember programming IBM System 360's with punch cards

And carrying around diskpacs that looked like big stacks of vinyl records

Ahh, FORTRAN and punch cards, what a way to make a living...

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[Mom]

I remember when my first Playstation didn't have a wireless connection to the internet.

Well said that man, very funny! I still dont have wireless internet :rofl:


Ahhh the comodore 64... thems the days.

Fuck you are really old :yes: BASIC now there was a language. How many wasted hours of my life attempting to write binary code to make a friggen cursor move left, then down and right :pinch:

[Ronin]

Well said that man, very funny! I still dont have wireless internet :rofl:



Fuck you are really old :yes: BASIC now there was a language. How many wasted hours of my life attempting to write binary code to make a friggen cursor move left, then down and right :pinch:

Shit, it had 4 times the memory of the TSR 80 I started on. Nice wood panelling though.

[Jantar]

I'm gonna realy show my age here

But I remember programming IBM System 360's with punch cards

And carrying around diskpacs that looked like big stacks of vinyl records
Snap! :yes:

[Mom]

Shit, it had 4 times the memory of the TSR 80 I started on. Nice wood panelling though.

I am really laughing now, I was going to comment on the wood grain exterior.

[Big Dave]

Changing floppy discs to change fonts.

[Mom]

Changing floppy discs to change fonts.

My goodness you age well :yes:

I used to have spare fonts in my handbag too :lol:

[Gremlin]

And on the flipside, I still support a piece of software for a client, where the update logs stopped in 1991. The software was written in 1989 from memory? In use every day, and no plans to replace currently :bye:

My first pc was a pentium 1, 100, and I was the envy of all the kids at school...

[DarkLord]

Go the almighty 486.... a whopping 20mb of RAM, Doom 2 ran really jerky - until you pushed the Turbo button on the front of the CPU!! :D

[neels]

I still has in my cupboard a 386sx25 motherboard with 4mb of ram on it. It seems a shame to throw it away after it's survived this long. I think the smallest HD I've got now is about 240Mb, I chucked the 20's 40's 80's and 120's away a while ago.

I've also got PLC programming software on 5 1/4" floppies, but no drive to read them with :blink:

Anybody remember drawing borders in your basic programs.╔╩╦╩══════...

[Bren]

I used to get very annoyed waiting for the tape drive to load my program on my amstrad only for it to come up with an error right at the end. :angry:

hah, I hear you there....i had an Amstrad CPC64..loved the thing....was my first computer...way back when...85 or 86 cant remember which
And was easy to copy games...in my twin cassette stereo...

[Big Dave]

Yeah goblin - conversely I got a new iPod touch and my entire mp3 music collection, a month's worth of podcasts, two complete seasons of 'UK Whose Line' plus another 5 hours of old time TV on it - and it still has 8gb spare.

[Eddieb]

My father built our first computer using instructions out of a foreign electronics magazine. He had to buy a bare circuit board and lay the circuits on it manually then solder all the components on. Circa late 70's I think. 1 pixel was about an inch square.

[vifferman]

A computer company I worked for in Chch had three washing machine sized units: one for the processor, one for the memory, and one for the mighty 1Mb hard drive, that took 3 and half hours to spin up to a stable speed. The platter weighed 57kg...

First network I worked on was Televideo - workstations had 5.25" drives, monochrome (green on black or black on green) monitors, 64kb RAM, and 4Mhz processors. The file server was a whopping 10Mb...
For all that, it actually performed well, as everything was text-based - no graphics to slow things down. Oh - and we had a W/P program: Wordstar. Heaps better than WordPerfect that replaced it, that was in turn replaced by the execrable Word. Network was all token ring - had to support it myself (learn how to run it, install cables and cards etc.) as the so-called service agents (Computerland?) didn't know much about TokenRing, which was expensive and complicated, but heaps more reliable than ethernet, until 10-Base-T came out.

[neels]

Wordstar. Heaps better than WordPerfect that replaced it, that was in turn replaced by the execrable Word
Ahhh, the good old days, wordstar and slash command macros in Lotus 1-2-3

[Big Dave]

I worked pretty much full time for a (Computerland?) franchise getting 3/486 Windows to talk to Centris/Quadra Macs at commercial printers and studios.

[pete376403]

Ive got an original Microsoft Flight Simulator Ver 1.00 on a 5 1/4" diskette. Says it requires "640K RAM, & CGA adapter". IBM sales rep used to carry it with him to show how IBM PC clones (eg the Exzel, anyone remember those) were not as compatible as they made out.

And the first hard drives I got near were the IBM 62PC, 62 megs in a pack (6 platters) about the size of a microwave. Were used on System 36 minicomputers (mini being the size of a small car, where a real mainframe was the size of a small house)

[sugilite]

my first was a zx81 with a massive 4k of ram, I upgraded it to 8! Remember buying computer mags for game code and labouresly typing it all in and cursing the bugs through the typos in the mag!

[shrub]

It was 1988 and I was selliing insurance and got issued a Data General laptop at a cost to the company of $10,000.00 that I carried around in a suitcase. It had a whopping 1mb RAM and a 10mb HD, an 8 inch orange screen and one of the first 3.5 inch floppy drives. My mates couldn't believe the power and technology in such a minute package.

Soon after that I bought my first cellphone. It was a new portable model as opposed to a car phone and was about the size of a big bike battery (and weighed as much). The battery lasted about 8 hours, it cost me $1900.00 and cost $200.00 a month in line fees plus some ridiculous amount of money to make calls. I used to love walking (or was that wanking?) up Queen St in my suit with my cell phone over my shoulder, and every now and again someone would phone me and everyone would look. God I loved it when that happened! I sold it for $500.00 to a chimney sweep.

[YellowDog]

It was 1988 and I was selliing insurance and got issued a Data General laptop at a cost to the company of $10,000.00 that I carried around in a suitcase. It had a whopping 1mb RAM and a 10mb HD, an 8 inch orange screen and one of the first 3.5 inch floppy drives. My mates couldn't believe the power and technology in such a minute package.

Soon after that I bought my first cellphone. It was a new portable model as opposed to a car phone and was about the size of a big bike battery (and weighed as much). The battery lasted about 8 hours, it cost me $1900.00 and cost $200.00 a month in line fees plus some ridiculous amount of money to make calls. I used to love walking (or was that wanking?) up Queen St in my suit with my cell phone over my shoulder, and every now and again someone would phone me and everyone would look. God I loved it when that happened! I sold it for $500.00 to a chimney sweep.

Was it one of these?

http://www.frontier-electronics.co.za/images/old_olivetti2_.jpg

Amazing graphics (in Orange) :)

I still have mine stored at my Dad's house somewhere.

At huge expense I upgraded the RAM to 640k. The 10Mb HD was more than adequate for WordStar.

I remember upgrading from Concurrent DOS 4.0 to IBM PC-DOS 2.1.

I was the envy of all with my luggable 'break your lap' top computer.

It also doubled up as a seat when the train was packed full.

Goodbye Zenix, you're history!

[vifferman]

Soon after that I bought my first cellphone. It was a new portable model as opposed to a car phone and was about the size of a big bike battery (and weighed as much). The battery lasted about 8 hours, it cost me $1900.00 and cost $200.00 a month in line fees plus some ridiculous amount of money to make calls. I used to love walking (or was that wanking?) up Queen St in my suit with my cell phone over my shoulder, and every now and again someone would phone me and everyone would look. God I loved it when that happened! I sold it for $500.00 to a chimney sweep.
A guy I work with used to work at IBM. He said that most of the 'early adopters' of those old brick cellphones who used them a lot (mainly to show the general hoi polloi how important they were) are now dead; despite claims to the contrary, almost all of them developed brain cancers or the like. :blink:

Was it one of these?

I was the envy of all with my luggable 'break your lap' top computer.

LOL.
We had one of those 'luggables' (but an IBM 386, IIRC) - looked like a sewing machine in its case.

[Swoop]

We still have a machine (@ work) that runs 16Mb of RAM.
Thank f*ck the programmes are tiny.

[shrub]

A guy I work with used to work at IBM. He said that most of the 'early adopters' of those old brick cellphones are now dead - despite claims to the contrary, almost all of them developed brain cancers or the like.

Mine predated the brick, the handset sat in top of the phone bit which had a shoulder strap to carry it with - it was made by that leading brand of cellphone makers, Mitsubishi. I remember when the bricks first came out - the whole phone in one compact handpiece - what technology! I worked across the road from a big car yard and all the salesmen had them and were forever walking around the yard talking on their phones, and at the local boozer they all used to plonk them on their tables and regularly make and take phone calls.

I had a mortgage and a child so I could only afford to carry mine around and pray for someone to phone me.

[Taz]

I had one of those big brick cell phones with curly cord and handset when I was a sales rep in the motorcycle industry years ago. Never took it out of the van as it was too heavy and embarrassing to carry. They replaced that with a Motorola flip phone, was still too embarrassed to pull that out in public though.

[yod]

I can still remeber just how crap my Pentium 75 was with it's 8MB hard drive and it cost close to $3000

i think you mean 8MB RAM - this would have been around '96?

[Marmoot]

40MB is not big...

5MB IS big!

http://www.yellow-llama.com/wp-content/uploads/harddrive.jpg

In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data.

[Big Dave]

This was THE shizzle in 1972.

http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/HP-35-Calculator.gif

[Taz]

i think you mean 8MB RAM - this would have been around '96?

Yes you're right. 8MB ram. I upgraded it from 4. Haed drive was 850 odd. Just went up to the attic and had a look :). Bet the thing still runs too.

[yod]

Yes you're right. 8MB ram. I upgraded it from 4. Haed drive was 850 odd. Just went up to the attic and had a look :). Bet the thing still runs too.

lol sounds like almost the exact same machine i had at the time

P75, 8M RAM , 850MB HD, 14.4modem and two big speakers built into the front of the case rofl

there was some serious time invested in warcraft 2 and red alert on that machine!!:Punk:

[Taz]

Similar mine had seperate speakers and no modem. I used to dream about being able to afford a 233mhz, that was the shiz.

[Ronin]

The day when I borrowed my mates 14.4k modem to do some "serious" downloading.

[Pixie]

I remember when data storage consisted of a chisel and a rock

[Pixie]

A computer company I worked for in Chch had three washing machine sized units: one for the processor, one for the memory, and one for the mighty 1Mb hard drive, that took 3 and half hours to spin up to a stable speed. The platter weighed 57kg...

First network I worked on was Televideo - workstations had 5.25" drives, monochrome (green on black or black on green) monitors, 64kb RAM, and 4Mhz processors. The file server was a whopping 10Mb...
For all that, it actually performed well, as everything was text-based - no graphics to slow things down. Oh - and we had a W/P program: Wordstar. Heaps better than WordPerfect that replaced it, that was in turn replaced by the execrable Word. Network was all token ring - had to support it myself (learn how to run it, install cables and cards etc.) as the so-called service agents (Computerland?) didn't know much about TokenRing, which was expensive and complicated, but heaps more reliable than ethernet, until 10-Base-T came out.

Luxury!
In my day the computers had 8" floppy drives and we had to carry them on our backs all day long,
The boss would whip us to within a inch of our lives if we put them down,then he ....zzzzzzzzz

[Big Dave]

Cold chisel?

Luxury. We had t' use thooombs.

[nothingflash]

My mum always told me not to worry as size doesn't matter. Bless her...

[Edbear]

A mate of mine still uses his 286 and a dot matrix printer...
I was a late comer to computers so my first was a Pentium 100 with a superfast 8 x CD ROM and dot matrix printer. Cost over $5k!

[FROSTY]

I'm from the era where a pocket calculator was a slide rule.

[riffer]

First computer I had was one my dad and I built from instructions in an Electronics Australia, with a hex key pad on it like an alarm system. Had to program the whole thing in one go from machine code. Urgh. I wouldn't do that now. Progressed to a Commodore 64 at home, and maintaining the school PCs - a Challenger 1P (which I upgraded to 4kb of RAM) and an Apple II.

Started work at Government Print with an IBM System/360, with the 2311 disk drives (a whopping 7.25MB!) for a while until they got some 3340s. Then they got a Vax 11/750. We were running about 50 VT220 terminals off that and it worked pretty well (except when my mates and I were trying funny stuff and continually fatalled the unit, killing every users processes).

Then to IBM XTs and ATs, Macintosh IIs, Sparcstations. SGI Indys and finally grunty PCs. I also recall having a Macintosh IIci with dual Rocket Acceleration cards, and a number of Quadras, Powermacs, and G3s, G4s, G5, etc...

And the MB size has just gone up and up. This morning I threw another 1TB drive into my games PC, which already has 1.5TB of storage in it.

It ain't gonna stop... and I'm only 43.

[riffer]

If you want to talk about expensive PCs I remember a mate of mine purchasing an Apple Macintosh Quadra 900 with 256MB ram, a 2GB hard drive and a 21 inch colour CRT monitor in 1991. It also had a fair bit of Avid gear in it too for video editing.

It cost him $75,000!

[EJK]

Pentium MMX was my dawn of computing era. So advanced compared to you guys.

[Edbear]

I'm from the era where a pocket calculator was a slide rule.

Yup! They were phasing out the Abacus with the slide rule when I was at school. I reckoned the Abacus was easier to understand... Couldn't understand why they switched from base 12 to base 10 either and I didn't like decimal currency when they brought that in as well.


If you want to talk about expensive PCs I remember a mate of mine purchasing an Apple Macintosh Quadra 900 with 256MB ram, a 2GB hard drive and a 21 inch colour CRT monitor in 1991. It also had a fair bit of Avid gear in it too for video editing.

It cost him $75,000!

Ouch!