how times have changed

[rack04]

Originally Posted by andysutherland

Wow! I had forgotten about that game!

It was frustrating when people would die from a broken leg.

[Sawyer]

Originally Posted by Wanger

I remember playing Oregon Trail on an Apple in grade school. Green and black screen. LOL

Originally Posted by andysutherland

Wow! I had forgotten about that game!

Originally Posted by rack04

It was frustrating when people would die from a broken leg.

I remember playing and loving it on my first computer, an Apple IIe.

http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html

[rizzle]

I have no idea what my first computer was nor do I care.

[rennD]

Originally Posted by Wanger

I remember playing Oregon Trail on an Apple in grade school. Green and black screen. LOL

Open Apple > E

[Starscream]

I remember that we thought we were special when we got to use the Apple IIs rather than the old version at school.

[rennD]

That blue tint Apple II GS was so kool back then.

[GrtndpwrflOZ]

I can remember playing load runner on a Mac YEARS ago. I'm talkin so long ago there was no hard drive. You used system disks to store information.
If you took the case off the [all in one] pc the designers names were embossed in the inside casting of the case.

I can remember designing printed circuit boards with a PC (after taping) that had an 85M heard drive and engineers used to say that there was NO WAY you could ever put enough information on that hard drive to fill it.

I wonder where that Engineer is today......

[Don Fernando]

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?

back in 1993 I bought my first real pc (I had a C64 for years before that). A 486 with 540mb harddrive and 8mb memory, boy, that was hot at the time and would last me for years

[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!!!