The Oldest Computer
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| Posted: Jan 03, 2008 10:18 a.m. - Subject: The Oldest Computer |
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Do you remember the oldest computer you have ever used? I can remember using a Radio Shack TRS-80 in high school. My have they changed.
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| Posted: Jan 03, 2008 10:22 a.m. - Subject: |
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all i remember is that it was an old packard bell with a huge monitor. about 10 years ago
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| Posted: Jan 03, 2008 10:46 a.m. - Subject: |
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Quote: Do you remember the oldest computer you have ever used? I can remember using a Radio Shack TRS-80 in high school. My have they changed.
So you’re in your 40’s...Viper?
First one I had was an 8088 with 64KB of RAM and a 10 Meg hard-card (not drive).
4Mhz speed - Fucking lightning. It was on that, that got me really into programming...
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| Posted: Jan 03, 2008 12:11 p.m. - Subject: |
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beats me, it was some fucked up big assed floppy disk sum-bitch at school
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Jan 03, 2008 12:13 p.m. - Subject: |
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It is either my uncles Sinclair ZX81 or my Commodore VIC-20.
I think they both have only 4K ram.
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| Posted: Jan 03, 2008 12:22 p.m. - Subject: |
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first computer I ever owned was a Comodore 64
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| Posted: Jan 03, 2008 12:26 p.m. - Subject: |
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The oldest one I had ever used was my dad’s computer that he used to program shit on in the late 80’s/early 90s or it could have been a crappy mac computer that I played games on in kindergarten.
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| Posted: Jan 03, 2008 12:34 p.m. - Subject: |
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Back in grade school.
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Jan 03, 2008 2:13 p.m. - Subject: |
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A 33 mhz PC, I don’t know any of the other specs. I used to play lemmings on it..
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Jan 03, 2008 2:28 p.m. - Subject: |
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Sorry I am not Viper, but i am in my late 30’s.
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Jan 03, 2008 2:32 p.m. - Subject: |
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I used an Apple eMate:
My school was either cheap as shit or poor as shit. Take your pick.
Those things blew donkey cock.
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Jan 03, 2008 4:19 p.m. - Subject: |
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Something I pulled off a website...
Quote: Bloatware
It seems bigger more complex computer programs are outstripping the mammoth gains made in computer hardware technology.
A comparison was done between a 1986 Computer and a modern day PC.
The old computer, with just 4 Megabytes of ram and a tiny 8 MegaHertz processor outperformed the modern dual-core beast on nine out of seventeen tests.
The trial looked at how each computer handled similar tasks like word processing or making spreadsheets. It turns out modern programs waste a lot of processing power on unnecessary routines.
http://www.abc.net.au/sydney/stories/s1958814.htm
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| Posted: Jan 03, 2008 4:26 p.m. - Subject: |
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Quote: it could have been a crappy mac computer that I played games on in kindergarten.
Those were the first ones I have used. We played this math game on it and this monster guy ate numbers/answers/or some shit. I’m not 100% sure it was a mac, but it most likely was one.
The first computer that my family owned was back in the 90’s. I can’t really remember the specific year, but me and my brothers had Tomb Raider on it and it was one of the first in the series. I remember we skipped skewl to play that shit. Too bad I sucked ass at it and I remember being eaten by tigers. :(
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Jan 03, 2008 6:12 p.m. - Subject: |
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Quote: I can’t really remember the specific year, but me and my brothers had Tomb Raider on it and it was one of the first in the series. I remember we skipped skewl to play that shit.
I remember skipping skewl to go to my dad’s office to play Tomb Raider on his office computer! Doom also. That game was teh uber leetness.
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Jan 03, 2008 6:24 p.m. - Subject: |
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One of those shitty ones that didn’t even have a desktop. They just have games ’n’ shit.
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Master Egg
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One of those shitty ones that didn’t even have a desktop. They just have games ’n’ shit.
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| Posted: Jan 04, 2008 8:43 p.m. - Subject: |
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Texas Instruments TI 99/4A. It was connected to a 13 inch color TV that also had my Atari Video Computer System, later renamed Atari 2600, on it. An IBM PC in 1981 cost over $5000, as Intel wasn’t capable of cranking out those 8086 / 8088 processors very fast at that time.
In 1970, 1 MB of RAM cost about $1 million.
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