Author Topic: computers...I remember the 80's (Read 1426 times)

NUKE · « **on:** December 28, 2004, 10:10:47 PM »

I remember buying the top of the line AMD computer......was what, 33 mhz with maybe a 20 meg hard drive?

The best game at that time IMHO was Ultima Underworld......that game still looks advanced to me.

I remember Falcon and head to head combat, playing against my brother via direct connect cable. What a blast that was.

It's amazing to me that today I am holding in my hand a compact flash that is about the size of 2 postage stamps and has a 1 gig capacity.

Lizking · « **Reply #1 on:** December 28, 2004, 10:18:28 PM »

I'm thinking you are remembering the 90s.

spitfiremkv · « **Reply #2 on:** December 28, 2004, 10:28:40 PM »

33mhz top of the line, that must've been a 386. didn't those appear in the late 80s?

NUKE · « **Reply #3 on:** December 28, 2004, 10:31:54 PM »

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Originally posted by spitfiremkv
33mhz top of the line, that must've been a 386. didn't those appear in the late 80s?

yes.

Ultima Underworld was 1991 though.

vorticon · « **Reply #4 on:** December 28, 2004, 10:40:40 PM »

Chairboy · « **Reply #5 on:** December 28, 2004, 10:44:33 PM »

AMD made a real flash with their 386 DX40, that's probably what you got.

NUKE · « **Reply #6 on:** December 28, 2004, 10:47:37 PM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
AMD made a real flash with their 386 DX40, that's probably what you got.

that's exactly what I had! I forget the HD and memory size.

Widgeo · « **Reply #7 on:** December 28, 2004, 11:11:53 PM »

VIC-20 here!

LePaul · « **Reply #8 on:** December 28, 2004, 11:20:06 PM »

Ive still got all my old PCs up in the attic. 286, 386 SX 25, 486 SX 25, yada yada.

Sold the TRS-80 because someone offered me an obscene amount of cash for it. Model III. It was mint.

Memory lane...

Remembering how BNC networks were supposedly better than twisted pair...til you had a terminator go on the fritz and bring the whole thing down.

The blazing speed of 2400 baud, and thinking you were rocking the world with your new, 2 foot long 14,400 internal modem

Anyone need a 5.25" floppy drive?

Remember the joys oh eeking out more free memory tweaking config.sys and autoexec.bat ?

Upgrading from 16 colors to VGA!

When "going online" was logging on to any of the thousands of Bulletin Board Systems across the world

Fun times....remember your first 3D accelerated video card?

NUKE · « **Reply #9 on:** December 28, 2004, 11:25:00 PM »

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Originally posted by LePaul
14,400 internal modem

Anyone need a 5.25" floppy drive?

Here's one for you. You remember the Osborne Executive? Look it up. It had one (well, dad bought it for us kids) 5.25 floppy only, "basic" language and about a 4 " monochrome screen.

I still have it...it's from 1982 or so. The world first "portable" computer......lol.

MrBill · « **Reply #10 on:** December 28, 2004, 11:44:11 PM »

Man That brings back memories.
The good ol' Osborne portable
1800 odd 1981 dollars for a 25lb lug around with a 300 baud modem, 64K ram and a sizzling 4mhz Z80, to start my first consulting jobs ... the wife wanted a new car.

LePaul · « **Reply #11 on:** December 28, 2004, 11:48:10 PM »

Remember that "bible"...Computer Shopper was it? Big, huge magazine almost entirely all ads.

Which reminds me, whatever happened to Zeos? I recall they always had huge systems and prominent ads in that magazine.

Chairboy · « **Reply #12 on:** December 28, 2004, 11:54:03 PM »

Computer Shopper was teh great.

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #13 on:** December 29, 2004, 12:58:50 AM »

I remember saving to buy my first 2MB RAM! My first PC was a 1512, my HD was 20 meg. When I had my 386, I remember having to by a new HD to play Strike commander that was 80 megs.

Oh... and I remember my first sound card, a thundersomething ... made Falcon 3 play real music and sound, I was like a kid at the liquor store:D

Chairboy · « **Reply #14 on:** December 29, 2004, 01:03:34 AM »

I first got connected with my Mac 512e. A great computer, Mac Plus ROMs and a SCSI adapter for the 20 meg Jasmine drive, it was an incredible amount of storage.

Favorite two games:

Space Rogue. The Mac version was better then the PC version, higher res, etc.

Lunar Rescue. This was a 'lunar lander' type game, except that it was a side scroller and you had to deliver cargo between moon bases, some of which were underground. Flying a moon lander underground and having to lay down some fire on a gun on the roof, a real challenge. I remember, if you flew too high, you'd get shot down by the sky defense system. Very similar to Gravitar, iirc.