how times have changed

[rack04]

Originally Posted by macpappy

I was going through some old boxes in a closet today. (Actually, my wife was).
She hands me a small box and asks, "Are these any good?"

It was a internal hard drive that I had salvaged from a computer with a blown motherboard about 6 or 7 years ago. How big was it? 1.2 GB. Remember when those used to be big?

I still remember playing alleycat and paratroopers on a pc that booted from a 5 1/4". I be you paid a pretty penny for the 1.2 GB back then.

[bazookajoe]

I ran across an old box of games (frogger, preppie, zaxon, centipede) on cassette and an Atari tape drive - talk about old. Don't know why I even kept that stuff.

[rack04]

The first computer I built had a AMD K6-2. I think it was 233 MHz.

[kgoings]

Originally Posted by rack04

The first computer I built had a AMD K6-2. I think it was 233 MHz.

First computer I built had a 233 too, I was jazzed!

[SvilleKid]

Originally Posted by rack04

The first computer I built had a AMD K6-2. I think it was 233 MHz.

Piker!!

First real desktop I had was a 8086. paid extra to get the BIG hard drive, 20 mb. Also paid extra to get the upgraded RAM, got 1 mb instead of the standard 640 kb!! Anyone else remember extended verses expanded memory? Had to run a side program to take advantage of the extra 360 kb of RAM. I can't remember the speed of the original modem, was slow, slow, slow, that's for sure!

That desktop started up in about 3 seconds! I still think that Word Perfect ran faster on that machine than it does on my current machine.

Way before Windows. DOS 5.0, I'm thinking, was the last upgrade I put on it. Graphic cards? Speakers? Mouse? Ethernet? WTF were those!!!