I shouldn't feel this old.

[Sinclair]

I am not by any stretch of the imagination old. Yet I feel sorta old. I realise that I remember when the laptop my family still has* was the machine I wanted to play games on, because of its awesome 32 megs of RAM and blazing-fast Pentium II processor.

I go into a video rental store, and wonder "Where are all the VHS tapes?" I remember my family having a computer that had one of the BIG floppy drives. Hell, I remember a computer that had a tape player for backups.

Of course, I feel younger when I think of how this must seem to the geezers who can remember what computing was like in the 80s... :p

*My father is a cheap Dutchman, my mother doesn't like computers that much

[Felix the Cat]

My first computer was a shockingly fast 16 Mhz machine in the early 1990s

It was later uprated to all of 32 Mhz, which meant I could play DOOM on hi-res mode :D

(My current box is 100x faster)

[Keystone]

Of course, I feel younger when I think of how this must seem to the geezers who can remember what computing was like in the 80s... :p
Och.

You are a pup Sinclair. I'm envious. I remember being amazed by a brick-sized Texas Instruments calculator---"How does it do that?!".

I'm not a bitter old geezer, though. My Pentium 4 computer with DSL internet is much more than anything I could have imagined 35-40 years ago. It's almost a fucking miracle.

[hellsatan]

Heh I still remember my first computer, a 286 - God that seemed like the dogs bollocks back then...

Chris

[Hakluyt]

These are very superficial reference points Sinclair, perhaps you have no abstract or cultural sense of time

Yes I remember my family's 286 as well, which I learned to play one of those incredibly boring early flight simulator games on, what a waste of human energy that whole enterprise was.

[Jimbo Gomez]

Pfft, that's nothing. I remember the time when computers were powered by coal. Honest. It was the year nineteen dickety-two.

[OVERWATCH]

Yeah, well my first computer was an abacus.

Just kidding, it was an Apple™IIc (http://oldcomputers.net/appleiic.html), and I am proud to announce that I was proficient in AppleBasic™.:cool:

[Excorcism]

Yeah, well my first computer was an abacus.

Just kidding, it was an Apple™IIc (http://oldcomputers.net/appleiic.html), and I am proud to announce that I was proficient in AppleBasic™.:cool:

that's a shame <sheds a tear>


:D

[Lenny]

Just think one day even remembering "the time before the internet" will be a sign of being old :cool:

[hellsatan]

You lie ;)

Haven't you heard the Modern Bible?

"In the beginning, God created the Heavens, the Earth and the Internet..."

Chris

[Sinclair]

These are very superficial reference points Sinclair, perhaps you have no abstract or cultural sense of time

Yes I remember my family's 286 as well, which I learned to play one of those incredibly boring early flight simulator games on, what a waste of human energy that whole enterprise was.

I remember, um, Clinton getting put on trial, I remember Harris getting elected in Ontario, etc.

[OVERWATCH]

I remember, um, Clinton getting put on trial, I remember Harris getting elected in Ontario, etc.

I remember Jimmy Carter giving away the Panama Canal.:cool:

My earliest memory, actually a foggy memory of a memory, was back in 1969 when I was only a few months old, I was standing in my crib looking out the front door at the neon lights across Roe Street in Madisonville(now a nig neighbourhood, when I was a year old we moved out to a semirural area that started turning into suburbia around 1984 or so).

[Sinclair]

Anyway, when the Machines take over, we'll all have to remember the dates various computer equipment was around, because the school curriculums for the Pink Hairless Apes will include a lot of history about our evil subjugation of our overlords' noble ancestors.

There will be "activities" where human kids are forced to pretend to be keyboards, and robots poke them all day long.

[Niko Bellic]

Didn't anyone else here have a Commodore 64?

[Felix the Cat]

Anyway, when the Machines take over, we'll all have to remember the dates various computer equipment was around, because the school curriculums for the Pink Hairless Apes will include a lot of history about our evil subjugation of our overlords' noble ancestors.

There will be "activities" where human kids are forced to pretend to be keyboards, and robots poke them all day long.
Remember the Robocaust?

[Sinclair]

All the poor floppies, the hard drives, the USB Flash memory devices, the CD-Rs, forced to hold my filthy, filthy smut.

I have committed Crimes Against Technology.

[Banat]

Didn't anyone else here have a Commodore 64?

I did.

I thought no one in the USA had the old fat boy. I recently found out that it was popular only in Europe, which I didn't know.

[Niko Bellic]

I did.

I thought no one in the USA had the old fat boy. I recently found out that it was popular only in Europe, which I didn't know.

I knew several people who had one. In the early days of home PCs, it had a nearly equal market share with Apple and IBM.

[Kodos]

I remember Jimmy Carter giving away the Panama Canal.:cool:

My earliest memory, actually a foggy memory of a memory, was back in 1969 when I was only a few months old, I was standing in my crib looking out the front door at the neon lights across Roe Street in Madisonville(now a nig neighbourhood, when I was a year old we moved out to a semirural area that started turning into suburbia around 1984 or so).

My 1st was falling in the toilet...

[Banat]

I knew several people who had one. In the early days of home PCs, it had a nearly equal market share with Apple and IBM.

For the last year since I bought this PC I've got now, I've played far more C64 and Amiga games on it than recent PC games. Nostalgia perhaps.

Before the laste erase I had opened a C64 games thread, but almost no one seemed to be interested at all. :( The legend has died.

[Keystone]

My 1st was falling in the toilet...
Something that interested you in there, Otto? Or was it potty-envy getting the best of you?

[Kodos]

Something that interested you in there, Otto? Or was it potty-envy getting the best of you?

No nothing in there except water at the time... but it was the 1st thing I remembered...

[Keystone]

No nothing in there except water at the time... but it was the 1st thing I remembered...
Well, at least you were rescued.

My first memory was being pushed out onto the sidewalk by my big sister. I was crying and she was trying to watch Popeye. I couldn't reach the doorknob to get back in. 1963.