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Mga tol and mga geeks, remember the good ol' days of computing, the 80's where it all began? This forum is for reminiscing about the days when computer memory is measured in Kb's and cpu speed in KHz. :D I'm also planning in starting collecting pieces of computer history and maybe also some of you. So if we have some old equipment, perhaps we can also start trading or swapping here.

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Guest Leviticus

from my elementary days: how to switch on a computer: flip the switch WAAAAAAY behind the cpu, switch on monitor, insert boot FLOPPY disk. If it does not power up, BANG THE COMPUTER WITH YOUR FIST. Hehe.. old school style of doing things.

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Guys, my first PC was an Atari 400. I may actually have some old cartriges in a box somewhere for this thing. :P

 

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Manufacturer Atari

Model 400

Date Announced 1979

Date Canceled 1982

Specifications

Processor Rockwell 6502

Speed 1.79 MHz

RAM Up to 48K (almost always 16K)

ROM 10K

Storage Cassette Tape or 5.25" floppy disk.

Expansion 1 cartridge slots, 2 well protected memory slots and a daisy-chainable expansion bus

Bus N/A

Video Up to 320x192x16 color composite video or TV out standard and much higher resolutions and color depths with low-level programming

I/O I/O bus could connect to an optional interface unit with parallel and serial ports

OS Options Atari OS

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My first computer was a Goldstar (now LG Electronics).

 

286 "Fast" 12 MHz

1 MB Ram (Max then)

40MB HDD

Dual Floppy

DOS 4 then upgraded through 5 & 6

No GUI but started to use DOSshell for DOS 5.

 

It ended up getting shipped to the province after I got my next computer which was a 486.

 

The 286 died in the province.

 

It was nice back then. I had boot up process in the HDD (instead of floppy) and since it was DOS, the system was up in just a few seconds, instead of after a coffee break with these new Windows Machines.

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I still have my Commodore 64 with a 1541 single sided floppy disk drive. Kaso lahat ng floppy disk ko na may commodore programs nasira na.

I still remember punnching a write protection notch on the other side of the floppy so I can use the other side. Kailangang baliktarin pa yung floppy disk to read the other side. He he he. Those were the days.

 

you guys are old. hehehe... (nagsalita ang bata...)

 

hanggang game console lang ang pagkakaalam ko sa atari

 

peace!

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I remember growing up with Apple II and the TRS-80. We used to have games/data stored on casette tapes. I remember studying BASIC, swapping 5.25 floppies (360kb?) and eventually hanging around BBSes using 14400 modems about ten years ago.

 

hahaha. geek. :thumbsupsmiley:

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My first computer was an Apple II clone called the Starapple. Composite amber display off an 80-column card, multi I/O card with parallel and serial port, dual external single-sided drives, 16 kb of ram on board, CP/M card with 48 kb of ram, Okidata 100 printer. Followed by:

 

IBM PC-XT with the 10MB hard disk, 5.25 double sided drive, hercules graphics card driving a green IBM monitor, Intel 8088 processor running at 4.75 MHz, 101-key Centronics keyboard, MS-DOS 2.11, Epson LX-80 printer with the color ribbon. And then naging:

 

Apple Mac Plus, 800 kb internal 3.5-inch floppy, 800 kb external floppy, Motorola 68000 running at 8 MHz, 1 MB ram, 9-inch white monitor, later added an external 20 mb SCSI hard disk drive, Apple Imagewriter II printer with sheet feeder, 4-color ribbon, Mac os 4.1, naging:

 

Apple Macintosh II, 800 kb internal 3.5, 40 MB internal SCSI drive, 16 Mhz Motorola 68020, Motorola 68881 math processor, 4 MB of RAM, 256-color Apple video card, 13-inch Apple trinitron monitor, Apple Laserwriter 2

 

The rest are forgettable computers.

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I remember being one of the coolest kids in my batch, because we had 2 PCs at home - a 386DX/33 and a 386SX/25. And not only that -- inupgrade namin yung 386/25 ko para maging MPC - multimedia PC! With a blazing fast 1x (150Kb/s) cd-drive and a Sound Blaster Pro.

 

Ah the good old days of DOS 3.3, 5, and 6.22.

 

But I also used to have an Apple ata... basta, the command for "dir" was CATALOG, and "park" was PR#6. Old school talaga.

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I started with an Apple II+ clone 48kb ram on board with 16kb memory card to boost the memory to 64kb. I remembered adding a 128kb memory card which I used as a ram disk.

Later I switched to an 8088 IBM clone, & move on to a 386 computer. Diba ang address ng Maalikaya is 386 Quezon Ave?

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