All About Old Computers

[wolflove_bigdawg]

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.

[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.

[Guest Dobermaxx]

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

 

 

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

[wolflove_bigdawg]

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

[Riot6]

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.

[mizuno882004]

IBM 480 ED laptop for windows 95. Still working though, but i shelved it.

[blackmamba]

do you guys know where i can sell

old, vintage macs, lc 475, lc lll, apple one b/w scanner

cd roms, cables, etc?

 

thanks

[Pussyboy]

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

[-=extreme=-]

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.

[Aspire]

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

[wolflove_bigdawg]

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.

[wolflove_bigdawg]

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?

[zuriken]

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.

[caliburman]

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!

[mwah]

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: