And for the old computer Geeks...
Booted any good DOS lately???
Ahhh the(ahem)good ole days...:hick:
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I remember alittle of that from Computer Programing class. I know alittle Q basic, C and C++ as well.
C:>DOS\_
C:>DOS\RUN_
RUN\DOS\RUN
:D
Oh yeah, I remember those days. An 8MHz 8088 processor, 640kb of RAM, a 5.25" 640k floppy drive, a 3.5" 720K floppy drive, and a 20MB hard disk drive that was added later and was as big as a toaster and as heavy as a car battery, funneling all of that technological Godliness through a Hercules monochrome graphics chip with 16kb of video RAM, to be displayed on a 12" monochrome monitor.
Mouse? Modem? Sound card? Ethernet card? Printer? CD ROM? Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope and nope.
Trs 80 Ftw
LOL Carm... You forgot the joystick... Nope...
I was rootin' around in my junk and thought what the Hell...
This is booted on a 386/DX-25, 8 meg RAM and a VGA color graphics card... I have a generic 8088 MB(not sure of the speed), but the DOS 2.12 won't boot on it... Comes up fine on a DOS 3.2 disc...
Some where I have a original 8088 IBM 4.77Mhz motherboard, since I also have a XT case, I'm going to try to get it all into one lump again...
HAVI, those were affectionately called "Trash 80s" by a lot of folks...
Good grief that's an old version of DOS. I think the first one I cut my teeth on was 6.0, and I actually bought it from a local computer shop. Now if you want to one up that, someone should post up a pic of a computer running Windows version 1.
*Edit* beat myself to it...
We had green screen Apple II computers when in the early 90's when I started grammar school.........
Oh yeah. Computers circa 1978, 10th grade.
TRS-80s, cassette tapes, Fortran, Cobal....(my spelling is wrong I'm sure)
"If X+Y>10 goto..."
Screens were black and white then.
Algore had already invented the internet too....
All this old computer talk and no one mentions a good commodore vic20 or the 64. That one is so old that you hoojed it up to you TV. It had color unlike some of the others. Don't forget the cartridge games.
I had one of the Timex Sinclair computers, but it would get hot and quit working... Kinda flustered me and didn't actually get another one for several years(286 @ 8Mhz or a screamin' turbo 12Mhz)...
Oh, God, the XT case. Mine was about 24" wide, 20" deep, and 8" tall, with 4 5.25" bays in the front. Fvcker weighed about 80 pounds. When I turned it on it sounded like a 747 starting up (that massive hard drive spinning up) and would click and beep like R2-D2. And the "Turbo" button. I had a really old Wheel Of Fortune game and had to turn "turbo" off or Vannah White would have seizures.
Who could forget the RAM expansion boards, which held anywhere from 128 to 360 kb (that's kilobytes) of RAM and were as big as modern video cards?
Oh, and did somebody mention Trash-80's?
(http://www.foxthundercats.com/images/radioshack/page4.jpg)
...or hard drives?
(http://www.foxthundercats.com/images/radioshack/page9.jpg)
...or printers?
(http://www.foxthundercats.com/images/radioshack/page20.jpg)
...or modems?
(http://www.foxthundercats.com/images/radioshack/page46.jpg)
(http://www.foxthundercats.com/images/radioshack/page47.jpg)
thats nothing. back in my day, computers were the size of a room, cost close to $100,000 and didnt even have solitare. now THOSE were the days
Well if you really want to go back, computers had tubes, were the size of a building and cost millions...
I have five new 7AK7, dual gate computer tubes... These were released in '48 for computers and is the first tube to be designed just for such duty... Also have a 6888 which is a newer version of the same tube ...
Lotsa info on the net... Scroll down and have a look at this baby...
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/reitery2k/univac1.htm
Inside the Univac1
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Jumping Christ!!!! $14,293 for 128K and an 8.4 meg hard drive...
There's some very smart people out there. I'm still trying to figure out a simple relay. Look at the wires in this thing!
TED
Looks like the dash in my car...
Looks like the dash harness of 100 cars.
...oh, and I forgot to post the page with the specs on that Trash-80:
(http://www.foxthundercats.com/images/radioshack/page5.jpg)
...And look at those upgrade options. $1900 for an extrenal floppy drive (or $3k for two drives), a thousand bucks per 128k of RAM...
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Inside the Univac1
(http://mywebpage.netscape.com/reitery2k/univac5_a_350w.jpg)
Anybody can look smart holdin' a Simpson 260 meter...:hick:
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I remember a couple of years ago I tried to save some of my old 8088 games onto a 3 1/2" floppy by hooking up an old 5 1/4" to my 486. Loaded up pit fall....
Typed in run and that was followed by the game over screen....
When I worked for IBM in 1957 I was assigned to the Census Bureau in Suitland, Maryland.
They were running two Univac I's at that time and one of them was Serial # 1
I learned MS-DOS when i was like 8 years old. I Never forgotten the commands. At the day its still very useful when i need to fix a PC....
I liked very much, even today when im learning java some things are similar....
Do you want a good program for DOS ? try mpxplay, it plays mp3 songs. I used this like 3 weeks ago....
Those Radioshack computers were pretty expensive (i remember when Carmen posted the entire catalog some months ago, pretty interesting)....how much does a Cougar/Bird cost at the same time ?
Oh , I forgot which wire was bad.......
Our Collet mill at work looks like this. Maintanence man has wore a hole in his head from scratching it when trying to troubleshoot. And the manual is in German, lol.