I remember when a BIG Hard Drive was 40mb

[Big Dave]

Changing floppy discs to change fonts.

[Mom]

Changing floppy discs to change fonts.

My goodness you age well

I used to have spare fonts in my handbag too

[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

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!!

[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

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.

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:Me]

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?



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!