wolflove_bigdawg Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 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. 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. Quote Link to comment
Guest Leviticus Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment
Guest Dobermaxx Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Guys, my first PC was an Atari 400. I may actually have some old cartriges in a box somewhere for this thing. Manufacturer AtariModel 400Date Announced 1979Date Canceled 1982Specifications Processor Rockwell 6502Speed 1.79 MHzRAM Up to 48K (almost always 16K)ROM 10KStorage Cassette Tape or 5.25" floppy disk.Expansion 1 cartridge slots, 2 well protected memory slots and a daisy-chainable expansion busBus N/AVideo Up to 320x192x16 color composite video or TV out standard and much higher resolutions and color depths with low-level programmingI/O I/O bus could connect to an optional interface unit with parallel and serial portsOS Options Atari OS Quote Link to comment
wolflove_bigdawg Posted February 23, 2007 Author Share Posted February 23, 2007 tol Dober inggit naman ako sa yo. dream ko magkaroon ng ganyan Atari 400 or 800, nung high skul ako, mga 1982 yata yan. you still have that with you? will you sell it? how much? or better yet, donate mo na lang saken hehehe. dati makukuryente ka pa pag on mo ng pc ano? katabi kasi ng power supply hehehe Quote Link to comment
Riot6 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 My first computer was a Goldstar (now LG Electronics). 286 "Fast" 12 MHz1 MB Ram (Max then)40MB HDDDual FloppyDOS 4 then upgraded through 5 & 6No 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. Quote Link to comment
mizuno882004 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 IBM 480 ED laptop for windows 95. Still working though, but i shelved it. Quote Link to comment
blackmamba Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 do you guys know where i can sellold, vintage macs, lc 475, lc lll, apple one b/w scannercd roms, cables, etc? thanks Quote Link to comment
Pussyboy Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 the very first PC is used was an XT. no hard drive. u use 5 inch floppies as OS, then pull it out, put in Lotus 123 or wordstar. then u put another floppy on drive b as your data disk. then you'll find later you have a virus c-brain or microbe. hehehe Quote Link to comment
-=extreme=- Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 Mine was a Commodore 128/64 using with 128KB of memory using 5 1/4 floppy drive single sided. OS is BASIC and CP/M. Quote Link to comment
Aspire Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I still have my Atari 800XL at 64K memory , and would you believe it ? it still works http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/XL/800xl/800xl.jpg Quote Link to comment
wolflove_bigdawg Posted March 7, 2007 Author Share Posted March 7, 2007 i think it would help if you could tell whether you still have it now and selling. maybe someone out there would be interested in collecting. Quote Link to comment
wolflove_bigdawg Posted March 7, 2007 Author Share Posted March 7, 2007 I still have my Atari 800XL at 64K memory , and would you believe it ? it still works http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/XL/800xl/800xl.jpg yo Aspire!, ganda ng 800xl mo ah. r u selling it? how much? Quote Link to comment
zuriken Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 amiga 500. ang ganda ng software na deluxe paint, pang drowing at 2d animation. itong program na ito ang lolo ng photoshop.gago lang talaga ang mga taga commodore, pinabayaan nila. Quote Link to comment
caliburman Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 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! Quote Link to comment
mwah Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 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: Quote Link to comment
whitetiger Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 First one was a Commodore 128.The next was an 386 DX 40 (AMD CPU) 8 MB RAM, 105 MB HD, DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1. Spend hours to maximise available Memory to get those games running... whitetiger Quote Link to comment
boomouse Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 (edited) 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. Edited May 21, 2007 by boomouse Quote Link to comment
fir3st0rm Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 My first PC was a 286 with 40mb hard drive and a CGA graphics card, it had a 5.25 and 3.5 floppy drive, it was a real high end PC during it's time, most PC's were still PC XT back then with the green, orange or monochrome monitors. Quote Link to comment
JohnPetrucci Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 Nakakatuwa pag naalala ko yung boot by DOS pa.. ahehehe... tapos pinapagawa kami ng batch files... hay, those were the days. Saan kaya ako makakuha ng pacman na pang pre-Pentium classic.... Quote Link to comment
hero168 Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 8086 computers then nagkaroon ng TURBO button to make it faster. 1mb hard disks very expensive and VGA monitor na mahal then...5.25 diskettes Quote Link to comment
mckyxxx Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment
johnlove Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 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? Quote Link to comment
chapsuey01002 Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Best praktis pa rin magsimula ka sa umpisa. Praktis in Windows NT Quote Link to comment
mckyxxx Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Best praktis pa rin magsimula ka sa umpisa. Praktis in Windows NT AKA Windows 3.5? Try Windows for Workgroups (3.11); yun yung orig Quote Link to comment
james_bandido Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 (edited) my very 1st computer was a TRS-80 color computer ... wala pa floppy drive nun ... you save and retrieve data to a standard cassette recorder ... the monitor itself was your tv set and at channel 3 ... gardemit, ang tanda ko na pala ... hahahaha ... Radio Shacks TRS-80 Color Computer Edited May 31, 2007 by james_bandido Quote Link to comment
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