Ah remember what it was like when you had to type everything in Command prompt?? No, me either!! Fuck nostalgia!!
even on winblows machines i use the command prompt all the time (or at least the RUN window) e.g. kill appthatfreezesupunderwindows -f
actually, yeah. i DO remember that. 10 Mhz, with a TURBO button! bitches! go DOS go! see program run.....
My earliest memory is of logging in to "Compuserve". In a text base window. A "+" meant .35 cents a minute.
I have this old Sim City original game on a floppy disk and I have to go into msdos mode in order to use it. It's like going back in time. Not only do I remember the black screen with the blinking green cursor but what was up with those dot matrix printers. I have these things from when I was little and we'd have computer lab at school and they're printed out on those printers. I'm super glad I'm alive now to experience a must faster smarter more fun computer.
I remember having the game Civiliztion I over about 10 discs (the old black thin box types)... Ahh... I miss the good old days of DOS with my 4.0 mb ram, and my good old Turbo button that jumped the shit up to 15 mhtz! Commander Keen, Lemmings, Sim City, Vikings, and Civilization I gaming all the way
Yep. Anyone remember when you had to enter a program step by step in binary, using toggle switches? Those were the days!
It's the old skool computer geeks thread! Oh man, time to remenice. I remember being like 10 years old and owning DOS, and my dad had no fucking clue what I was doing. I first got started on computers during the time Windows 3.1 (anyone remember that?), when point and click was possible but it sucked compared to just typing in commands. I remember the original Mortal Combat for the computer, Sim City and this awesome game called 3D Dinosaurs I was addicted to, possibly the only educational game ever that was actually fun. And Monopoly, another childhood favorite. Oh the good times.....
Jesus Christ man, those machines are put to shame by that computer from Willy Wonka! Seriously, how old are those?
The MITS Altair 8800 was introduced in 1975, and is considered to be the very first "personal computer". It sold for $395 as a kit, $495 assembled. CPU was an Intel 8080A, running at 2 MHz. Came standard with 256 *BYTES* of RAM. The Imsai 8080 came out shortly after the Altair, in 1976. It used the same CPU, and had a very similar architecture. The standard configuration came with a whopping 4K of RAM, and could be ordered with dual 8" floppy disk drives. This machine became famous after it was featured in the 1983 film "Wargames", where it was shown performing feats that it never could in the "real world".
anyone remember that lovely game, "Ugh!"...I think that it was the first computer game I have ever had the pleasure of playing.
First computer I ever worked on.... And the first computer I ever owned Oh for those that don't know that's an apple || and a Ibm 486, hell i had that ibm for many years, upgraded it to a smoking 32mb's of RAM and added a network card so i could hop on my local 28KB/s dial up connection... btw: LONG LIVE THE COMMAND LINE!!! Current System: Gateway Select 700 with a kick ass 64mb's or RAM and a cooking 700mb'z AMD Athlon (installed the athlon because I didn't want an intel inside ~p3@c3~
