what is DOS?

[Spaz Monkey]

You guys and your fancy computers!  Back in my day it was hard trying to log on to a BBS when those Indians cutting down the telegraph line.  My grandpa still reminds me he only had zeros back in his day.  And then great-great-gramps complaining that Paul Revere stole his source code.

[nostrebor]

I remember getting a new 486 CAD machine with a $1000+ video card with a full "Meg of RAM!" We were calling other companies and telling them about doing regens in Acad in under 10 minutes! Company owners were coming by after work just to see how fast it was.

I was a God among the local drafting geeks.

[bfauska]

And to think I complain at work because I don't yet have the $400 video card I want so that AutoCAD 2007 will hide my lines more consistently while I do realtime 3d orbit with perspective turned on.  I guess things have advanced a little.

[rovingmind]

Not that old.


Here's a fun game...

MY first computer (after the C64) was a 286 16mhz w/ 2mb ram and a 40mb hdd.

You?

I still have one of those,


also have my first,
IBM psII model 25 with,  DUAL 3.5" FLOPPIES!!!!! woohoooo CGA graphics a whopping 16 colors, Dos 3.1

um still have it to, and it still works,


also have the timex sinclair with the membrane keypad
and a tandy but i don't know its model number off-hand

windows 95 was the last to be a GUI over dos,

[papaschtroumpf]

Speaking of mice ,  do you remember Light Pen?

Here in France we had very popular set of computer (Thomson TO7, MO5, MO6 etc...) that were provided with a Light Pen in standard. That what was fun to draw directly on the screen on painting software. And point menu item directly.  A kind of ancestor of touch screen.

Ah the memories! The TO7 had horrible parallax errors and you had to crank up the TV brightness way up (yeah, in those days we didn't even use monitors, and saving programs was done with a tape recorder!)
I learned to program and hack hardware on a Sinclair ZX 80 (yeah, it stands for 1980) then on the TO7, which was a pretty good machine for its time.

thanks youki, you always seem to bring back memories (heck, your avatar reminds me of playing Goldorak during recess)

(yeah, I grew up in France although I've lived in the US for most of my adult life)

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=11

[youki]

Ah the memories! The TO7 had horrible parallax errors and you had to crank up the TV brightness way up (yeah, in those days we didn't even use monitors, and saving programs was done with a tape recorder!)
I learned to program and hack hardware on a Sinclair ZX 80 (yeah, it stands for 1980) then on the TO7, which was a pretty good machine for its time.

thanks youki, you always seem to bring back memories (heck, your avatar reminds me of playing Goldorak during recess)

(yeah, I grew up in France although I've lived in the US for most of my adult life)

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=11

the TO7  with his horrible flat keyboard....  (later they made a TO7/70 more powerfull with a gum keyboard  and then some rare with a real keyboard).
the TO7 and T07/70 where the only computer at this time to be provided in Standard with a GENLOCK!  You could use it to incruste text on your TV Screen (i mean the text was displayed directly on a TV Show for instance) and then with a video recorder save it on a VHS tape.  One of my teacher used that to add subtitle to some little film he made.

[knave]

...WOW, I can't resist.

After the obligatory C64 which I loved... my dad sent me to HSC with his geek buddy and they had me build my own screaming XT with a wopping 256K of ram and an amber monichrome monitor.  LOL, they set me down in the garage and handed me a bag full of ram chips and said "push these into the slots..." Coolest games I had for it were Risk and Spacewar.  (This was probably the best thing my dad could have ever done for me, I learned alot.)

I later franken-upgraded my computer one part at-a-time to a 286 with a VGA monitor over the spam of four years or so.  My first HD was 20 megs.  It was awesome...until my friend deleted DOS off of it. (Damn del *.*  )

Ah...those were the days...I still build my computers.

[rovingmind]

yeah but not one chip at a time anymore 

...WOW, I can't resist.

After the obligatory C64 which I loved... my dad sent me to HSC with his geek buddy and they had me build my own screaming XT with a wopping 256K of ram and an amber monichrome monitor.  LOL, they set me down in the garage and handed me a bag full of ram chips and said "push these into the slots..." Coolest games I had for it were Risk and Spacewar.  (This was probably the best thing my dad could have ever done for me, I learned alot.)

I later franken-upgraded my computer one part at-a-time to a 286 with a VGA monitor over the spam of four years or so.  My first HD was 20 megs.  It was awesome...until my friend deleted DOS off of it. (Damn del *.*  )

Ah...those were the days...I still build my computers.