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Guess what i found in an old box :







4 MB Videocard from 1992, Quadtel, 2MB RAM Modules from 1991, 20 MHZ Intel CPU from 1986 (God i miss my old computer).

I miss the days of MS-DOS and the old 20 kilograms keyboard :roll: .

Sexy!

Doesn't get much more badass than a 68 pin processor

I miss the old DOS days too. I kind of wish windows had never evolved past a shell on top of DOS that could be treated like any other application

Yeah, it's really slow . However, it reminds me of the nice old times . I will try to make a 386 work, just found a good motherboard here. I'll try to overclock it (if it's possible) and see how much can i get out of it . How would it be to get it to osscillate at 1000 MHz? I bet it's possible with a really good heatsink and a N tube for chilling...

nostalgia!

Who stole my new computer?

My kettle would benchmark better than that lot

S-100 bus components anyone? Yes, I'm that old...

If you like Shells, use Linux^^(You don't need to anymore though if you are using linux) but you definitley can get great shll experiences with a lot more power than in the old dos days.

dell_jockey wrote:S-100 bus components anyone? Yes, I'm that old...

Yow! That is old!

I shouldn't talk though, I don't have any S-100 components but I do remember those days so I guess that makes me as old you if not older...

Does anyone know what the first hobbyist micro computer was?

Look what computer i used in the year 2001, i got my main computer crashed so i looked at my closet for spair parts and i came up with that 600mhz celeron and fixed it up all together and thats what came up.



You know what is my opnion on today's computer nerds?
They might be smart and got pub's and warez and shit but still they don't know what is the true real computer stuff such as DOS and good old days when we used our modems to call BBS's and their grammer sucks!! (in the mother language i mean)

WE ROCK they SUCK.

Hail QB PDS 7.1

Tipperton wrote:

dell_jockey wrote:S-100 bus components anyone? Yes, I'm that old... :?

Yow! That is old! ;)

I shouldn't talk though, I don't have any S-100 components but I do remember those days so I guess that makes me as old you if not older... :shock:

Does anyone know what the first hobbyist micro computer was?

The Exidy Sorcerer (I think), and I had one. Followed later by the commodore pet. And a whole slew of handhelds such as the sharp 1651. I loved that machine!

Before I bought my first computer, I used to make money by building computer kits for people that wanted the computer, but lacked the time, desire or skill to build it themselves.

My first computer was the Applie ][, I then upgraded to the Apple //e when it came out.

Then my uncle gave me an AT&T Unix PC, nice machine except that they stripped down unix to the bare minimums (no developement tools, you had to pay extra for those) so it didn't hold my attention for very long.

I had an Amiga 1500 (I think, it was the one that was mostly keyboard) but everything for it was way over priced, so I sold it.

After that I switched to PC compatibles and haven't bothered to look at any other type of computer since.

I had Apple //C

It rocked!

Well my really first computer was a ZX Spectrum . If i recall well 13 MHz, 64 KB Ram and i was loading the programs from an audio tape. After 5 minutes of loading, the most common message was 'Tape error' .




[EDIT]

Sorry, the CPU had 3.5 Mhz not 13.