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The DOS thread got me thinking...

#21
Mine was a ZX80, 1k ram, 4k rom and not much else.

1st pc was a clone 4.7mhz 8088 no turbo button. 20mb hdd and that was about it.

$30 bought an NEC V20 cpu upgrade which gave it up 30% !

As for internet, that term does not imply by default an IP based internet. If those BBS systems were linked to any more than one and spanned you could argue it is an internetwork.

According to George we have internets. What's funny is many people bagged him. Although he may have screwed up in his terminology what he said technically is true.

This is such a funny thread. If you guys get a chance try looking at say a mid 80's pc mag!

What a laugh. And those DEC VAX's were pretty killer systems.
 
#22
hbarcat said:
My internet debut was relatively late (in 94) but I had a good dial up connection and a 33.6 modem. By comparison, I've been getting online access for the past year at a maximum connection speed of 26 kbps (yes, that's only a 26!) with my crappy phone line out here on the farm. [Cue the banjo music] :help:
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I had the 26k internet connection as well. I sympathize, it really sucks. We have pair gain on the copper which didn't allow for dsl.

Now we have dsl2 but still waiting for the cut over.
 
#24
Atoz said:
Nice! :D

Ever used these:
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On one of these?
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We got to use the cards for first semester Fortran, until they finally let us use the green screens second semester. I quickly changed my major to Chemistry. :D
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I used the card punch readers in college for my FORTRAN computer language course 1984? or 85? Long ago. I also had to right in the job codes on punch cards in the U.S. Air Force in 1980-81. Another tech would enter the codes using a puch card machine. Booooorrrrriiiinnnng!:help:
 
#25
hbarcat said:
My internet debut was relatively late (in 94) but I had a good dial up connection and a 33.6 modem. By comparison, I've been getting online access for the past year at a maximum connection speed of 26 kbps (yes, that's only a 26!) with my crappy phone line out here on the farm. [Cue the banjo music] :help:
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Ouch, sorry to hear it. That would drive me insane these days.
 
#26
Ah the memories! I used to get onto BBS' in the early 90's, I remember racking up a hefty phone bill because you each time to connect would cost a phone call. I remember downloading a game demo which, at the time, was a whopping 1mb, it took hours and ended up being unplayable.

I got onto the internet in 1997 and was hooked immediently. I was stunned by the amount of information I could access and regularly pestered my Dad to hook it up using his work laptop.
 
#27
A 286 with 1 meg of RAM, 40 MB HDD, 2400 baud modem, running MS-DOS 3.3 (later 4DOS). Upgraded to a 386 pretty soon. I recall scouring the freeware BBSes, particularly DaSan in Norway, and dl'ing Linus Torvalds' first Linux release. Fractint was a program I always kept up to date. In 1993 I got a 100 MHz 486 DX2 and started running Windows 3.11 and the Mosaic browser, then Netscape. Switched to Opera in 1996 (v2.1, I think).

Still have Windows 1.0.1 from 1985 archived, btw. All of 700 KB :) .
 
#30
Lol this is funny. Yeah there isn't alot of command line stuff via Dos. Linux with it popularity brought back the art of it at least, well I say that, actually Linux GUI's pretty much do it for you now, all you really need to do now is "tweak" it some.
How about the games :hyper:
My 1st was Wolfenstein 3d back in the day....Looking back at the block graphics, god the games have come so far.
 
#31
mward69 said:
Lol this is funny. Yeah there isn't alot of command line stuff via Dos. Linux with it popularity brought back the art of it at least, well I say that, actually Linux GUI's pretty much do it for you now, all you really need to do now is "tweak" it some.
How about the games :hyper:
My 1st was Wolfenstein 3d back in the day....Looking back at the block graphics, god the games have come so far.
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I had an Amstrad CPC, so my first games were things like Chuckie Egg, Rick Dangerous and Arkanoid.

Classics :)
 
#32
Basshole said:
You know, I was realizing just the other day, it's been over a decade since I've used a modem to connect to ANYTHING. I haven't even used my modem to receive a fax in over a year!
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I haven't had a modem in the last 5 or 6 PCs that I have built. I have not used a modem at home since '97 or '98.

My work laptop has a modem in it. I haven't used it since I got it back in May. I think that the last time I used a modem on a work laptop was in 2001. That was 3 laptops ago. Gotta love cell cards or tethering with a smartphone.:cool:
 
#33
8086 with 256K ram and no hard drive was my dad's first computer I played on back in the 80's.

Atari 2400 loading frogger from a tape deck.

My first computer was a leading edge 386 16mhz laptop with 1mb ram, 20mb hard drive. 1993 I got it for college. BBS'ed with that.

Upgraded to a 386 40 w/ 4mb ram, had win 3.1 on it then I discovered AOL. $3.95 per hour and I would have $200 - $300 bills the first 6 months or so. LOL.
 
#36
I was late getting into computers (1994) (and this thread as well it seems).

I had a 486 @ 66MHz Tandy :hiding:. It had 2MB RAM (I added 2MB more at the cost of $200 :eek:), 2x CD-ROM, 512 on-board video chip and a 20MB HDD.

33.6 modem gave me access to the BBS world.

I remember when AOL :spit: went from pay-per-hour to all-you-can-eat. And waiting 20 minutes + to log on because of it.
 

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