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Huge_Midget posted:Mine was a Commodore 64. We old as gently caress. I had a Leading Edge Model D. Dual 5.25" floppies. I couldn't afford the $500 20Mb hard drive.
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Huge_Midget posted:Mine was a Commodore 64. We old as gently caress. I still have mine in the original box in my garage. Have a floppy drive for it too. Been meaning to dust it off and show the kids what I had instead of an iPad. I really wish I'd kept my Apple IIe.
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My first was a IIE. Had everything stored on drive b so my computer memories are all BRUN choplifter BRUN loderunner
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Jun 9, 2017 15:04
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From the era where you could say your car and your computer both had 'Turbo'
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Jun 9, 2017 15:55
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InitialDave posted:My first PC was an Amstrad 286. Was running Counterpoint, if anyone else has even heard of that one. Holy poo poo, you are completely right. I had completely forgotten about the 286. I think my first 'PC' (intel/IBM based) was a 286/12? The 386/25 was my big upgrade when some friends opened a computer shop. I'm so old I'm forgetting entire generations of computers now!
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286 12MHz with terrible DR-DOS 6.0 on it. It claimed to turn the tiny 10MB HDD into 20MB. I once foolishly tried to install Wing Commander 2 on it. LOL. It was 'only' eight disks, but the decompression and subsequent OS-recompression took over 8 hours. The game wasn't playable on a 286, anyhow. What a waste of time.
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TotalLossBrain posted:286 12MHz with terrible DR-DOS 6.0 on it. It claimed to turn the tiny 10MB HDD into 20MB. I had one of the first 40mb hard drives made. It was so loving huge! I had to partition it into 2 drives because DOS couldn't support that much storage space in a single partition. At the time it seemed like I could never possibly fill that up!
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Jun 9, 2017 19:57
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The Locator posted:I had one of the first 40mb hard drives made. It was so loving huge! I had to partition it into 2 drives because DOS couldn't support that much storage space in a single partition. At the time it seemed like I could never possibly fill that up! I had a monochrome 286 running sim cga to play Sierra games off 10mb Brunelli boards. It was a blast when you're 10 or so
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Jun 9, 2017 21:16
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I was too young to remember it well, but when I was growing up in Poland, a radio station would transmit beep boops. You recorded the beep boops on tape, then you put it into your computer and had a game. That's kind of rad.
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Jun 9, 2017 21:53
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There was a late night tv program I remember that talked about computers and the latest amazing tech, they flashed a square of pixels in the corner, you could stick a special photocell thing in the corner of the tv and record a program. Young me thought that was magic, I think they advertised the photocell for like £100-ish
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Jun 9, 2017 22:27
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKWcZ3NJdw0 Bridgestone video on manufacturing new tyres for the Jaguar XJ220. Pretty interesting, epecially if you like XJ220s. Zeppelin Insanity posted:I was too young to remember it well, but when I was growing up in Poland, a radio station would transmit beep boops. You recorded the beep boops on tape, then you put it into your computer and had a game.
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Jun 9, 2017 22:38
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I used to type in the programs from Compute! magazine into my C64. Got some mad 10-key skills when they started using machine code. https://arstechnica.com/staff/2012/12/first-encounter-compute-magazine-and-its-glorious-tedious-type-in-code/
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Jun 9, 2017 23:04
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I remember doing that for my BBC Master in 1988 or thereabouts. Played the gently caress out of some Chucky Egg and Dambusters. We had a Commodore +4 before that, and I remember playing Transylvania on my mother's work computer, an Apple ][e
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Jun 10, 2017 00:24
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You guys and your modern first PC's. My first one was a Commodore PC-1 with 512 KB of memory, 8086 CPU, 5.25" floppy drive and a 12" monochrome monitor.
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Jun 10, 2017 06:02
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Kidney Stone posted:You guys and your modern first PC's. 
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The first PC my parents owned was this:  The Amstrad Sega Mega PC. Could play (most) Megadrive games. It was fun. I mostly played Stunts though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hKK4_gvOS0
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Falken posted:I mostly played Stunts though. gently caress yes, get the indy car to 245 mph (stated top speed of 230) and hit a jump, and see how far the skybox extended.
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Falken posted:I mostly played Stunts though. Oh man, me and my friend played the hell out of that game. Well, I say played... Mostly we just tried to break the Indy car so it got stuck at max speed and tried to launch it into space. LOL efb on that one!
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Jun 10, 2017 12:11
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My first rig was an XT with that hot new 3.5" floppy drive technology. It played prince of Persia like a boss.
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Jun 10, 2017 12:14
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Look at these guys and their fancy GUIs. Back in my day we used punch cards.
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BigPaddy posted:Look at these guys and their fancy GUIs. Back in my day we used punch cards. That's funny because my mom was a keypunch operator and was good enough that her company put one of those keypunch machines in our house so she could work from home. She was the fastest typer/10 key operator I've ever seen, she would finish a section of her work and get up for a break and the machine would keep spitting out cards for several minutes. She telecommuted before that was even a word I think. Of course the work had to be shuttled back and forth via car. I carried so many cases of punch cards and paper to and from the car.
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The Locator posted:Of course the work had to be shuttled back and forth via car. I carried so many cases of punch cards and paper to and from the car.
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While we're on the subject of old hardware: The Beast of Turin was a 1911 FIAT S76, with a 28-liter inline 4 (yes, that's 7 liters per cylinder). It developed about 300 horsepower and set a land speed record of 135 mph. Also, only two-wheel braking, operated by hand. It's been restored and took part in a vintage track day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnuevzsKTdc "It's like wrestling a big, hairy gorilla."
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Jun 10, 2017 18:39
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InitialDave posted:"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway" Yeah, but the latency is a motherfucker.
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Q_res posted:Yeah, but the latency is a motherfucker. I dunno, these guys had a pretty good ping I bet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzdEc2-tms4&t=27s
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Kidney Stone posted:You guys and your modern first PC's. Tandy 1000 TX 8MHz 80286 640k ram 720KB 3.5" Floppy no hdd With a Tandy CM-5 monitor, which had possibly the worst "Dot pitch" / pixel density ever in a PC monitor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH7w1Dz2S1U They gave us Personal Deskmate 2 and Deskmate 3 disks to go with it when we bought it from radio shack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pagLJCcGEBE Vanagoon fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Jun 10, 2017 |
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Deteriorata posted:While we're on the subject of old hardware: That's got a 7.3 in it? Yeah.... oh, wait.. sorry... I mean 7.3 gallons. Yes.
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Some photos from a rally I went to a few weeks ago:     More here: http://imgur.com/a/CfcvF
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My first computer was a Vic-20 
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Snowy posted:My first computer was a Vic-20 Mine was a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark-8 Also played with a Altair 8800 and few other very early kit mini computers. (I was doing Amateur Radio at the time so got quite a few hands on days with various things) The first one tht I didnt build was a Microbee 16K. Oh wait.... was it? Cant remember now. I think it still works tho.
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Saw this in a Morrison's car park today.    Apparently it is a Fiat Impala and it has a 4 speed manual transmission. This is all I could tell.
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AirRaid posted:Saw this in a Morrison's car park today.  please tell me this is at least 25 years old so we can legally have a fiat here that isn't literally 
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Thief posted:
They are kit cars based on the original Fiat 500 or Fiat 146. They were made in the UK from about 1970-1974.
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My grandpa was always a giant tech guy. He was a diesel mechanic by trade, but he always had the weirdest poo poo. When I was a youngster ][e's were standard kit in schools, but the first computer I ever hosed around with was my grandpa's machine that used god damned physical tapes. I wish I knew the specs. The first computer I ever had at home was his hand-me-down first gen Mac. For reasons passing understanding, he bought a cd-i because he thought it was cool. I never once saw him use it, but I remember trying out the Zelda game he had and being super underwhelmed with it
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Eat This Glob posted:My grandpa was always a giant tech guy. He was a diesel mechanic by trade, but he always had the weirdest poo poo. When I was a youngster ][e's were standard kit in schools, but the first computer I ever hosed around with was my grandpa's machine that used god damned physical tapes. I wish I knew the specs. The first computer I ever had at home was his hand-me-down first gen Mac. For reasons passing understanding, he bought a cd-i because he thought it was cool. I never once saw him use it, but I remember trying out the Zelda game he had and being super underwhelmed with it Nintendo was originally working with Sony to develop a CD-based add-on for the Super Nintendo. Sony wasn't willing to bend as far as Nintendo felt they should and jumped ship to work with Phillips on their CD-I. The fruit of that whole ordeal is that we got some awful licensed Nintendo games on the CD-I and Sony developed the Playstation. People bring up stuff like the Virtual Boy being a bad move by Nintendo but I'd claim the Playstation is their absolute biggest mistake.
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I don't care which thread this belongs in
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Needs airbrushing.
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Falken posted:I mostly played Stunts though. I'm laughing to myself that the engine noise in this game is still better than most of the car games I've played in the past 5/6 years.
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When your turbo's so oversize, you need to have it join you in the cabin:   From http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=478429
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