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The So Called Good Old Days  
User currently offlineLuv2fly From United States of America, joined May 2003, 11957 posts, RR: 51
Posted (7 years 4 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 1123 times:

A blast from the past. Times do change for the better.


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User currently offlineBirdwatching From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 3573 posts, RR: 52
Reply 1, posted (7 years 4 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 1108 times:

Wow, I must buy that.

Soren  santahat 


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User currently offlineMhodgson From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2002, 5047 posts, RR: 29
Reply 2, posted (7 years 4 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 1105 times:

My mobile phone is more powerful than that!


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User currently offlineIAH777 From United States of America, joined Mar 2008, 0 posts, RR: 5
Reply 3, posted (7 years 4 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 1091 times:

"...lightning-fast 20MHz..."

 rotfl 

I miss my old Mac Plus.  Sad

User currently offlineDrDeke From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 830 posts, RR: 1
Reply 4, posted (7 years 4 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 1064 times:

I'd say that was a pretty nice computer for the time. The microchannel bus really rocked ISA back in those days.

-DrDeke


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User currently offline9VSPO From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 5, posted (7 years 4 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 1060 times:

Not as good as...



 Wink

User currently offlineDrDeke From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 830 posts, RR: 1
Reply 6, posted (7 years 4 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 1060 times:

Yeah, nothing beats running a comptuer and television set to work on my home energy use figures during the 1979 energy crisis  Wink.

-DrDeke


If you don't want it known, don't say it on a phone.
User currently offlineYooYoo From Canada, joined Nov 2003, 6055 posts, RR: 53
Reply 7, posted (7 years 4 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 1056 times:

Wow, what would my frame rate be for Flight Sim?  Wink


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User currently offlineSearpqx From Netherlands, joined Jun 2000, 4343 posts, RR: 12
Reply 8, posted (7 years 4 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 1041 times:

Funny thing is tho - I actually did more true computer 'stuff' on one of those ancient boxes than I ever do on my 2.xGHz, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD, 17" Flat Panel, Dell. Anybody can turn on a PC and click on a link, but back in the day, I wrote my own inventory and invoicing programs in BASIC, did all my navigation using self written .bat files, etc. Ahh to be a geek in the 80s


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User currently offlineMhodgson From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2002, 5047 posts, RR: 29
Reply 9, posted (7 years 4 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 1025 times:

Quoting YooYoo (Reply 7):
Wow, what would my frame rate be for Flight Sim?

You wouldn't fit it on the HDD. And I don't think you get a CD reader, either!


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User currently offlineIAH777 From United States of America, joined Mar 2008, 0 posts, RR: 5
Reply 10, posted (7 years 4 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 1017 times:

More importantly, how many freakin' 5" floppies would you need?  eek 

User currently offlineFlyKev From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2006, 1349 posts, RR: 6
Reply 11, posted (7 years 4 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 1006 times:		 AIRLINERS.NET CREW
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Sold!

I always enjoyed visiting http://oldcomputers.net/

Makes you appreciate modern tech.

Kev.


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User currently offlineSearpqx From Netherlands, joined Jun 2000, 4343 posts, RR: 12
Reply 12, posted (7 years 4 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 991 times:

Quoting IAH777 (Reply 10):
how many freakin' 5" floppies would you need?

Floppies? We don't need no stinkin floppies! I've got my cassette player and two blank cassette tapes right here!  old 


"The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity"
User currently offlineMhodgson From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2002, 5047 posts, RR: 29
Reply 13, posted (7 years 4 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 988 times:

Quoting IAH777 (Reply 10):
More importantly, how many freakin' 5" floppies would you need?

6462 I believe!


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User currently offlineIAH777 From United States of America, joined Mar 2008, 0 posts, RR: 5
Reply 14, posted (7 years 4 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 988 times:

Quoting Searpqx (Reply 12):
Floppies? We don't need no stinkin floppies! I've got my cassette player and two blank cassette tapes right here!

Which you should have backed-up on reel-to-reel, you whippersnapper!

User currently offlineABfemme From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 15, posted (7 years 4 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 979 times:

Er.......I am sure I have one of those upstairs waiting to go to the tip !!

User currently offlineIAH777 From United States of America, joined Mar 2008, 0 posts, RR: 5
Reply 16, posted (7 years 4 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 975 times:

Quoting Mhodgson (Reply 13):
6462 I believe!

Holy crap! "Please eject Disk 2248 and insert Disk 2249. Push 'Next' to continue."  faint 

User currently onlineAeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 18853 posts, RR: 64
Reply 17, posted (7 years 4 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 961 times:

I've just gotten a craving for a good game of Pong.


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User currently offlineSearpqx From Netherlands, joined Jun 2000, 4343 posts, RR: 12
Reply 18, posted (7 years 4 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 961 times:

Or even worse, on disk 6459

Data Error Reading drive A:

Abort,Retry,Ignore,Fail?


"The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity"
User currently offlineRolfen From Germany, joined Jan 2006, 1764 posts, RR: 2
Reply 19, posted (7 years 4 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 954 times:

Does it come with the secretary with the 80ies hairstyle and the ugly glasses?


rolf
User currently offlineAloges From Germany, joined Jan 2006, 8357 posts, RR: 47
Reply 20, posted (7 years 4 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 951 times:

Lol... I think the old components display at the computer centre of my uni would be something for you folks. I'll try to remember getting a bit of data tomorrow.


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