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Rider on the storm.
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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?
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Lebowski Urban Achiever
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"Why don't you put them in your secret compartment" - 12stones (Ricky) |
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Lebowski Urban Achiever
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The first computer I built had a AMD K6-2. I think it was 233 MHz.
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"Why don't you put them in your secret compartment" - 12stones (Ricky) |
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Cigarologist
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First computer I built had a 233 too, I was jazzed!
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Dear Lord, Thank You.
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I had to save my stuff on cassette and write my own code on a texas instruments.
I can remember writing a computer christmas card complete with a tree and blinking lights playing jingle bells in around '79. That was cutting edge stuff considering they didn't even teach BASIC in school yet. In the coming years I learned to really hate computers.
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Good thing I'm normal
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Our first computer was a Vector Graphics with a 10 MB hard drive. My goodness that was all the storage space you would EVER need.
I remember when we needed a mailing list, we would start it, go to lunch and it would be just about finished sorting it when we got back. |
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I have a working Atari 800 (with Happy(r) drive modification) hooked up to a late 70s tv in my basement. 8 bit bus, 64Kb addressable memory
![]() I collect and use old computer hardware at work as some old system controllers can't use anything else. ISA cards and such. I won't even describe what I paid $3,500 for in '93. ![]() I still have it and it still works. (I think, I haven't turned it on in a few years.) |
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Pepin Ho of the NorthWest
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the first computer we had was a 25Mhz 386SX. I remember when we upgraded to an 340mb HDD and it cost somewhere around $800.
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NinfaManiac
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ADAM and Commodore 64 & 128 and Atari 1040 ST
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Any cigars portrayed in this post that appear to be Cuban in origin are completely fictional in nature. Any resemblance between these cigars and actual Cuban cigars is unintended and coincidental. |
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Cigarobsession.com Baby!
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I remember being VERY excited to buy a 400MB Maxtor HD for $499 on sale at CompUSA! lol
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Cigar Videos |
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[quote=BC-Axeman;416935]I have a working Atari 800 (with Happy(r) drive modification) hooked up to a late 70s tv in my basement. 8 bit bus, 64Kb addressable memory
![]() QUOTE] I started out with an Atari 400 - the one with the "Burger King" keyboard, and a tape drive! Then a year later, we came up with enough cash for me to buy an Atari 800 and and 810 5 1/4 floppy drive - Heaven!!! ![]() I then blew $450 on my first 24-pin dot matrix printer, mainly because it had the ability to print zeroes with a line through them to allow you to tell the difference between an "O" and a "0". I still have both of them, and a ton of games on tape, floppies and cartridges! Remember Star Raiders on the cartridge? Wow! I was totally blown away by the graphics! I even have a "pong" game that hooked to the tv! ![]() ![]()
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NinfaManiac
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Man, I really want to find the game Barbarian for the Atari ST computers. It was 2D. Sigh
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Really, really old
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Someplace around here I have an old Timex computer, an Adam plug in to the game console (I still use the console), and an IBM PS-1 with no hard drive and a monotone monitor.
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Rider on the storm.
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How many people remember working on the Texas Instrument TRS-80. We used to call it a "Trash 80"
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MassHole
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I had to upgrade to 4MB of RAM for the newest game!
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I remember playing Oregon Trail on an Apple in grade school. Green and black screen. LOL
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