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Don Tacorleone posted:Do you old fuckers regret all the time you spent on your slow rear end machines watching a pixel the size of my dick move 3 squares to the left? Because lol i just got my dad's old hand me downs i got my first pc when i was 7
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orangesampson posted:233 without a agp card, Modding a pc in 1998 was expensive. I don't think mine had an AGP slot either. I threw in a GeForce 2 MX and an extra 128 megs of RAM. Ran Quake 3 fairly decently.
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Don Tacorleone posted:Do you old fuckers regret all the time you spent on your slow rear end machines watching a pixel the size of my dick move 3 squares to the left? Because lol i prefer the old computer it had no sound card or modem (so i wouldnt have to hear or read ur posts)
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Don Tacorleone posted:Do you old fuckers regret all the time you spent on your slow rear end machines watching a pixel the size of my dick move 3 squares to the left? Because lol
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Don Tacorleone posted:Do you old fuckers regret all the time you spent on your slow rear end machines watching a pixel the size of my dick move 3 squares to the left? Because lol lol this nerd thinks you have to be old to remember the 90's
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Oct 16, 2014 03:48
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I had a mid 90s Compaq my dad bought from some guy at work
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I learned to type on a C64 with a genuine bluescreen. Those were the days. 
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Otto von Ruthless posted:
The first time I saw the Internet, it was called the ARPANET. Cyberball 2072 posted:Remember when lovely computers were like 2 grand? God people were dumb on the 90s, computers were 2 grand and online access came at a per minute charge. I bought 128K of RAM to double my computer's storage. That cost me $500. Then I added a 20 Meg hard drive. That cost another $500. (The 40 Meg hard drive was something like $800.) Don Tacorleone posted:Do you old fuckers regret all the time you spent on your slow rear end machines watching a pixel the size of my dick move 3 squares to the left? Because lol Your phone has more processing power than the Saturn V rocket, the control rooms at Cape Canaveral and the Johnson Space Center did during the Apollo missions. My middle school has more processing power, just in chromebooks and tablets, than all of NASA, plus all of its contractors and the Pentagon, did during the Apollo missions. It is really amazing what the kids can do with all that power, when they are on form.
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Don Tacorleone posted:Do you old fuckers regret all the time you spent on your slow rear end machines watching a pixel the size of my dick move 3 squares to the left? Because lol Computers didn't make me rich, but my life is pretty drat good. It's all thanks to being a huge nerd. I regret nothing.
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Don Tacorleone posted:Do you old fuckers regret all the time you spent on your slow rear end machines watching a pixel the size of my dick move 3 squares to the left? Because lol gently caress no Zaxxon owned 
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My first computer was a Blip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB-jyKJ3mEE
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genesplicer posted:Your phone has more processing power than the Saturn V rocket, the control rooms at Cape Canaveral and the Johnson Space Center did during the Apollo missions. My middle school has more processing power, just in chromebooks and tablets, than all of NASA, plus all of its contractors and the Pentagon, did during the Apollo missions. I was just thinking this earlier today, does that mean I'm old now?
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Oct 16, 2014 05:18
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first computer was a commodore 64, then i got a 286 that didnt do much at all 486 was big poo poo tho
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MondayHotDog posted:You guys were all rich/had nerdy parents. My first computer was a Celeron 733 with 64MB of RAM and a 20GB hard drive. It was literally the cheapest computer my mom could find. same. it came with windows me. the deskstar would later prove to be insufficient storage for the cheap dsl and p2p bonanza and i discovered a screwdriver opened the case and the thing could be upgraded
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:first computer was a commodore 64, then i got a 286 that didnt do much at all i made wing commander 4 run on a 486.
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I used to play Rise of the Triad on a 386. When I would shrink the screen real small so it would run non-lovely, it would display the message "Buy A 486" Good times.
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I remember the Tech Teacher at my school bought one of the earliest 486 machines. Then he bought a 540 meg hard drive. When I asked what it was like to have that much storage, he said it was like moving from a one room apartment to an aircraft hanger. I wonder what a 2TB hard drive would be like in that sort of situation.
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Don Tacorleone posted:Do you old fuckers regret all the time you spent on your slow rear end machines watching a pixel the size of my dick move 3 squares to the left? Because lol go get em champ
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Oct 16, 2014 06:26
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yeah my first computer was an 80086 with no hard drive
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:yeah my first computer was an 80086 with no hard drive thats what she said
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hey guys what do you reckon is heaviest, OPs mother or a Trinitron
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:hey guys what do you reckon is heaviest, OPs mother or a Trinitron well nobody hs a trinitron anymore so...
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If you didn't own a trinitrom monitor in the 1990s you were poor.
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Oct 16, 2014 07:26
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mine was an ibm aptiva lol.
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Robbie Fowler posted:mine was an ibm aptiva lol. ur mom was bundled with shovelware
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swan was better
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first computer was a lovely 8088. I envied the kids w/ C64s but at least I had space quest and nethack... it weirds me out how thoroughly the personal PC situation has reversed itself since, oh, the late 90s macs used to be the expensive computers that cranky nerds with too much money insisted on using, whereas PCs were the "good enough" machines that most folks would buy on the cheap. nowadays you just buy an iPad or whatever and don't worry about the PC unless you're a hardcore gaming nerd or need to work at home or some poo poo. it's like micro$oft finally realized their dream of becoming apple while apple decided that it'd actually prefer to own the mass market. lol make up your minds you silicon valley jerks! e: I can;t post gud vobaculary mmmm fucked around with this message at 09:30 on Oct 16, 2014 |
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486 DX2 66Mhz with 4MB RAM 200MB hard drive and *~MULTIMEDIA KIT~* It had a turbo button but pressing it would reduce the speed to 33Mhz so what was the loving point of that. Also my fondest memory was browsing the Microsoft Cinemania 94 disc that came with the machine. I spent hours on that thing... it was my internet. I still have a windows XP VM and a cinemania iso but if I'm honest it's clunky and lovely and it's much easier to just open a browser window and go to Wikipedia. I can't even do nostalgia properly.
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mmmm posted:macs used to be the expensive computers that cranky nerds with too much money insisted on using, whereas PCs were the "good enough" machines that most folks would buy on the cheap. youve really keyed in on the major shift there
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gary oldmans diary posted:it used to be that pcs dominated the desktop market but now pcs dominate the desktop yeah I goofed, meant "personal" computer. I am old. e: because gary oldmans diary is correct mmmm fucked around with this message at 09:29 on Oct 16, 2014 |
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The first computer I used was something similar to this one http://www.pcmuseum.ca/details.asp?id=181&type=Computer Although it was probably a just a 5150 clone from the same manufacturer Rhombic Drive fucked around with this message at 09:23 on Oct 16, 2014 |
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First computer I ever used was hand cranked and used punchcards because im hella old. First PC was a 286 clocked at 14Mhz (286's sucked). First gaming computer was a ZX Spectrum 48k, all noisily loading games from a cassette player at 1500 bits per second, rocking Jet Set Willy with my 1-button Atari joystick.
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the 80s were peak "get your white child a Personal Computer because everything's going to be on computers" and companies would finance machines for their employees. my dad went 2800 deep on a loan for a full apple //gs setup in '85 and that was the best christmas i ever had
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My first computer was a 486 packard bell. this thing windows 3.1 baby.
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Ron Paul Hype Man posted:
Got one of these, the guy who sold it to me bought it brand-new, only used it once and lost interest right away. Sold it to me in brand-new condition for ten bucks. My first computer was my father's old hand-me-down Amiga 2000. I was using it to do my school work right up until about 2001.
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gary oldmans diary posted:it used to be that pcs dominated the desktop market but now pcs dominate the desktop the point was that the desktop market is disappearing 
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Bought a brand new vic20 when they came out. The future is now, baby!
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