You know you're old when:

[pheasant]

You buy 2 x 256mb DELL PC100 SDRAM for 6 bucks a stick. 18 bucks with
shipping.

I remember paying 125 bucks for 8mb of the same back in 92-93.

Amazing!

 

[Simon]

You buy 2 x 256mb DELL PC100 SDRAM for 6 bucks a stick. 18 bucks with
shipping.

I remember paying 125 bucks for 8mb of the same back in 92-93.

Amazing!

The HP3000 system you managed years ago had 2mb of ram and quite happily
ran 30+ users on the manufacturing system Didn't half speed up when I
doubled the ram to 4mb lol
simon

 

[Conor]

You buy 2 x 256mb DELL PC100 SDRAM for 6 bucks a stick. 18 bucks with
shipping.

I remember paying 125 bucks for 8mb of the same back in 92-93.

Amazing!

Newbie...

1MB 30 pin SIMM, £25 (about $45 at current rates)

--
Conor

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[Con]

You buy 2 x 256mb DELL PC100 SDRAM for 6 bucks a stick. 18 bucks with
shipping.

I remember paying 125 bucks for 8mb of the same back in 92-93.

Amazing!

Ha, you think that's old. I can remember when a HDD (winchester) drive
with a whopping capacity of 10 MB was over $2000.00. Yes, that's
MegaBytes.

--
A stupid man's response to what a clever man writes is never accurate
because he unconsciously translates what he reads into something he can understand.

Con

VectorLinux 5
When Choice Matters

 

[JAD]

Ha, you think that's old. I can remember when a HDD (winchester) drive
with a whopping capacity of 10 MB was over $2000.00. Yes, that's
MegaBytes.

whats a hard drive?

 

[Gingangooli]

Ha, you think that's old. I can remember when a HDD (winchester) drive
with a whopping capacity of 10 MB was over $2000.00. Yes, that's
MegaBytes.

.....anyone had to spend a day rewriting the servo code back on to one after
a head crash can consider themselves a bit creaky too !!!

 

[Con]

whats a hard drive?

It's something you lose when you get old like me.

--
A stupid man's response to what a clever man writes is never accurate
because he unconsciously translates what he reads into something he can understand.

Con

VectorLinux 5
When Choice Matters

 

[Con]

....anyone had to spend a day rewriting the servo code back on to one after
a head crash can consider themselves a bit creaky too !!!

Sick minded as well.

--
A stupid man's response to what a clever man writes is never accurate
because he unconsciously translates what he reads into something he can understand.

Con

VectorLinux 5
When Choice Matters

 

[Rene Lamontagne]

Sick minded as well.

--
A stupid man's response to what a clever man writes is never accurate
because he unconsciously translates what he reads into something he can
understand.

Con

VectorLinux 5
When Choice Matters

Your'e old when you can remember spending a whole night re-entering all the
code into a Honeywell Alpha 2000 In OCTAL and have it online by 6:00 am
(1975), or paying $330.00 for 16K , yes KILOBYTES of memory for an Apple II+
(1979).

Regards Rene

 

[SAMF2000]

Your'e old when you can remember spending a whole night re-entering all the
code into a Honeywell Alpha 2000 In OCTAL and have it online by 6:00 am
(1975), or paying $330.00 for 16K , yes KILOBYTES of memory for an Apple II+
(1979).

Regards Rene

Heck I remember my first Real computer with windows. it was a 478 cpu
machine. and paid a whopping $1,500.00

 

[Jeff]

Heck I remember my first Real computer with windows. it was a 478 cpu
machine. and paid a whopping $1,500.00

My first machine was an 0086 with the new Radio Shack Operating System in it. ...was one of the first models to have a hard drive. A
year or so before, the best of machines had 2 floppy drives (the 5.25" models) so that you didn't have to keep swapping the disk
that contained the operating system (dos 3) with the disk that had your program on it. ...and then there were the punch cards that
were used in the card readers on the mainframes.

....even as late as 1986 or so, we were using the modern Wang computers with the new 14" monochrome monitors.

Jeff

 

[JAD]

My first machine was an 0086 with the new Radio Shack Operating System in

it. ...was one of the first models to have a hard drive. A

year or so before, the best of machines had 2 floppy drives (the 5.25"

models) so that you didn't have to keep swapping the disk

that contained the operating system (dos 3) with the disk that had your

program on it. ...and then there were the punch cards that

were used in the card readers on the mainframes.

Tandy 1000, dual 5 1/4 floppy drives, CGA and Tandy Dos + leisure suit
larry....good times

...even as late as 1986 or so, we were using the modern Wang computers

with the new 14" monochrome monitors.

 

[Phisherman]

My first PC was an IBM PC, no drives, IBM monochrome monitor,
saved/loaded BasicA programs on an external cassette. I was the 200th
customer to buy a Hercules Card, about $700. The 5.25" drives were
$500 each, 5.25" floppies were $5 each. I still have the IBM
text-based adventure game. XYZZY!

 

[HDRDTD]

it. ...was one of the first models to have a hard drive. A
models) so that you didn't have to keep swapping the disk
program on it. ...and then there were the punch cards that

Tandy 1000, dual 5 1/4 floppy drives, CGA and Tandy Dos + leisure suit
larry....good times

DEC PDP 11/03 Dual 8" floppies, no monitor, DecWriter (sp?) wide-carriage
printer with keyboard, Colossal Cave (Adventure) text-based. type in a
command, wait for printer to print the outcome.
The graphics were all in your imagination.

You could imagine the game in any resolution or colors that you wanted.

I think I still have a copy of the first computer game I ever bought. It was
the same Colossal Cave game, but it was then produced by Infocom, and was
the first in the Zork series. 5 1/4" floppy, played on my (still have)
Osborne 1 portable.

...even as late as 1986 or so, we were using the modern Wang computers

with the new 14" monochrome monitors.

 

[J. Yazel]

You buy 2 x 256mb DELL PC100 SDRAM for 6 bucks a stick. 18 bucks with
shipping.

I remember paying 125 bucks for 8mb of the same back in 92-93.

Amazing!

=======================

My first disk drive was a floppy for $1,200.00.

1979. Discus 8". Included interface board.

The second one was another similar drive. The price had
dropped to $600.00 (happy days).

In 1975-78 Godbout memory boards were 4k-$100 and 16k-$300 for S-100.

Jack

--

 

[Senex]

HDRDTD stunned us with this revelation on 10/22/2006 :

DEC PDP 11/03 Dual 8" floppies, no monitor, DecWriter (sp?) wide-carriage
printer with keyboard, Colossal Cave (Adventure) text-based. type in a
command, wait for printer to print the outcome.
The graphics were all in your imagination.

You could imagine the game in any resolution or colors that you wanted.

I think I still have a copy of the first computer game I ever bought. It was
the same Colossal Cave game, but it was then produced by Infocom, and was the
first in the Zork series. 5 1/4" floppy, played on my (still have) Osborne 1
portable.

My first game? 'Hunt the Wumpus' on the KIM using tape for storage.

 

[Ed Medlin]

=======================

My first disk drive was a floppy for $1,200.00.

1979. Discus 8". Included interface board.

The second one was another similar drive. The price had
dropped to $600.00 (happy days).

In 1975-78 Godbout memory boards were 4k-$100 and 16k-$300 for S-100.

Jack

Remember those. The company I worked for through that period had the service
contract for Avis and their Wizard reservation system. That system had a
500k or so core memory board that was about 2ft square and IIRC cost about
15-20,000 bucks US. God I hated those IBM Selectric I/O terminals.
........... They were worse than Teletypes...... Yea, I feel old
now.......

Ed