computers...I remember the 80's

[Karnak]

1987: Atari 520STfm w/512k RAM was my first computer.
1990: Atari 1040STe w/1mb RAM (later upgraded to 2mb at a cost of $220.00 and a 120mb hard drive).
1992: Intel 486/66 DX2 w/8mb and a 540mb SCSI 2 hard drive.
1995: Intel Pentium 100 w/16mb of RAM and the same 540 SCSI 2 hard drive
1997: AMD K-6 233 w/32mb RAM with a 3DFX VooDoo 2
1998: AMD K-6-II 350 and AMD K-6-III 450 w/128mb RAM with two VooDoo 2s in SLI mode.
1999: AMD Athlon 700 w/128mb RAM with w GeForce 2
2001: AMD AthlonXP 1800+ w/512mb RAM, two drive SCSI-3 RAID 0 and a GeForce4 4600
2004: AMD AthlonXP 3200+ w/1gb RAM, five drive SCSI Ultra 160 in RAID 5 with 128mb of cache on the card and an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Furious
'87-'88

Amiga 2000 with a 14" monitor.  4,096 glorius colors.  $3,500.

And if you were like me.
You used to giggle at all the IBM clone users when they ooed and ahhhed over their  new video cards and sound cards knwoing yours came stock with 4,096 colors and real sound when all theirs could do was go beeep beep.

Cracked me up when windows came out and the first time I saw it on my bosses computer.
I said to him "I dont see what the big deal is. I've been doing this for years"

[Ripsnort]

The very first computer system that I actually used in a job (1983):

[NUKE]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
And if you were like me.
You used to giggle at all the IBM clone users when they ooed and ahhhed over their  new video cards and sound cards knwoing yours came stock with 4,096 colors and real sound when all theirs could do was go beeep beep.

Cracked me up when windows came out and the first time I saw it on my bosses computer.
I said to him "I dont see what the big deal is. I've been doing this for years"

LOL, you're right. I remember a friend bought an Amiga and it had a raytracing program, full stereo sound, audio recording and editing, text to voice synthesis ( we had fun with that, trying to make it say naughty words), and the thing kicked arse over anything at that time. That bad part was that that glory period didn't last too long due to lack of software.

That Amiga really was the cat's arse back then though.

[Storm7]

Radio Shack TRS-80 with audio tape drive...mmmmmm. That was sooo cool. If you wanted color, you put a green plate in front of the monitor.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by NUKE
LOL, you're right. I remember a friend bought an Amiga and it had a raytracing program, full stereo sound, audio recording and editing, text to voice synthesis ( we had fun with that, trying to make it say naughty words), and the thing kicked arse over anything at that time. That bad part was that that glory period didn't last too long due to lack of software.

That Amiga really was the cat's arse back then though.

I dont think it was so much a lack of software as much as it was really poor advertising.
I never had any problems finding programs for it but what I did find is alot of people never heard of it before.

Amy was capable of doing alot of things.
with an  IBM bridgeboard  it could run IBM stuff and with a Mac ROM and drive if could run Mac stuff.
Given enough memory it could run all 3 at the same time.
Had they  taken that and ran with it advertisement wise they probably would have done much better.

Remember this was during the time when a big problem was one office running IBMs and the other running macs and which was going to win out in the workplace

While I'd never done it I understand it was real good at video editing
And I remember reading an article that the Irealie airforce used them for their flight simulators

In any event it was a great machine  in its time.
I still have my 2000 and all the software.
One of these days Im gonna haveta hook her up again