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Offline skullman

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Re: My New System
« Reply #15 on: September 16, 2009, 11:13:39 PM »
does anyone remember how to work in DOS?I bought a q9550  runnin @2.83.This is so sweet.I have never been below 59 fr.Tildeath I love my setup.
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Offline guncrasher

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Re: My New System
« Reply #16 on: September 17, 2009, 09:44:12 AM »
It was an apple II. The one for word processing was an ibm which we thought was bolted to the floor til we found out it weighted like 60 lbs.
Programing we did in basic and machine language. People like td back then were known as gods and if u got a computer from them u would show it to your friends with the understanding they couldn't touch it.


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Re: My New System
« Reply #17 on: September 17, 2009, 10:32:28 AM »
Quote from: Ghastly on September 16, 2009, 09:13:08 PM
You must be a youngster - I was building PC's when power users actually got 2 single sided floppy drives (160 KB), rather than the one it came with standard so they didn't have to do the floppy shuffle - and opted for an add-in memory card or three to bring it up to a max of 256 KB from the 64 KB it came with. (Note the KB, not MB).  Up until the XT came out that is, in which case you could get a 10 MB hard disk.

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Quote from: skullman on September 16, 2009, 11:13:39 PM
does anyone remember how to work in DOS?
Sure, which version? I'm pretty sure I even remember how to do a memory map of some processes to free up the upper memory.
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Offline katanaso

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Re: My New System
« Reply #18 on: September 17, 2009, 11:55:43 AM »
Sitting in the closet at my folks' house is our original IBM PC with the expansion chassis to get the 10MB HDD.  The 5.25" floppies were made to be double-sided via use of a hole-punch.  It was an 8088 processor -- think it was 4.33MHz.

I also have an Apple IIc there.

I think we have 400-500 floppies combined between the two.

First version of MS Flight Simulator is there as well (I think with the manual). 



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Offline skullman

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Re: My New System
« Reply #19 on: September 20, 2009, 06:51:03 AM »
My 1st was an 8088.The OS was on th5.25 floppy.I thought I was pooing in high cotton when my father in law added a 20 meg hard drive.Man we have come along way.Have you seen about going to nano technology.What is next
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Re: My New System
« Reply #20 on: September 21, 2009, 08:52:56 AM »
how about:


asus P6t Motherboard
6gigs of ocz 1600 DDR3 ram
I7 2.66 processor
zalman 120mm cpu cooler
seagate 1 Tb harddrive
card reader
2 DVD burners
OCZ 600watt P/S
Xclio windtunnel Full tower with 2 250mm fans
MSI Radeon 4890 1gig 256bit GDDR5 pci-e card

all for under $1200. frame rates hold at 59 all the time with everything on running windows7!
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