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conmee
01-07-2004, 02:05 PM
The 20th Anniversary Apple Macintosh thread.... I remember upgrading... I had a TI-99/4a, Apple IIe, IBM PC XT, and when the Mac came out, my parents paid an exhorbitant amount of money so that I could learn how to use a 'mouse'... lol The good ol' days of computing... I still prefer command lines to GUIs, but what the hell... lol

Can I get a 'Hell Yeah!' from all the old-timers in da' house who actually owned TI's, Commodore 64's (or Vic 20's), Timex Sinclair's, Tandy Color Computers, Coleco Adam, or other similar old-school home systems? Rock on!!!

Rumor has it that not only will the original Apple Macintosh '1984' commercial air again - it aired only once during the Super Bowl, but that a newer commercial will go along with it and a 20th Anniversary Old-School edition Mac will be released. Of course, I made all this shit up, but nothing like 25 year old games in the arcade to get one thinking of WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD TIMES GONE?!!??!

GO IRISH!!!!

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Laceration
01-07-2004, 02:17 PM
HELL YEAH!!!

Didn't have a TI, C-64 or any of the "name brand" models, but I did start out with an old Xerox 820-II. Z80, blocky graphics, and not much else, but that's where my brother and I learned the ins and outs of a PC. CP/M anyone? :D Got an 8088 later on after that, and so on and so forth, but yes, those were the good times...

The Mac Super Bowl ad is still one of the best commericals in modern history. I think I have that somewhere at home, or at least a link to it. I'll see if I can find it.

FORD
01-08-2004, 03:43 AM
Had a Vic 20 , a Timex/Sinclair which never even got used, and a Commodore 64 which I used right up until I bought my 386 in 1993. And I used Apple II's in high school.

Anybody else remember when Atari claimed they were going to expand the 2600 game system into a computer? If they ever followed through with those plans, I never saw it.

FORD
01-08-2004, 03:46 AM
Any other Commodore 64 users remember the online service "Quantum Link"?? Guess what that turned into?

AOL. Seriously.... and it sucked then too! I think I managed to actually get online with the damn thing 3 times with my 1200 baud modem :eek:

flappo
01-08-2004, 04:10 AM
..i had an intellivision

..pc engine , megadrive , saturn , snes etc

..does that cunt ?

GAR
01-08-2004, 05:09 AM
I still got most of this shit...

TRS-80
Timex Sinclair
TI 99/4
Commodore 64

386/16sx-33sx-33dx-33slc-dx40
486/dx33/66/80/100/120/133
Pentium 60/75/100/133/166/200/450/1300

Lisa
LCIII
Powermac 6100/66
Powermac 7300/80AV
Powermac 8300
Powermac 9200 w/G3 333 upgrade

conmee
01-08-2004, 10:34 AM
Brethren and Sistren,

Heck yeah, I also had an Atari 800XL-- and one of the first non-Apple systems with a GUI (later beat out by Amiga) called GEM, for the Atari 500ST. It was ahead of its time, but by the time the Ataris with the GUIs came out, Apple and PC had already cornered the market for high performance personal computers....

The Apple Lisa was bad-ass... but with a pricetag of $10,000 brand fookin' new.. I never did own one until years later as a collector's item.

My latest system is an IBM ThinkPad T40p, 1.6GHz Pentium-M, 1GB DDR226 SDRAM, 64MB ATI FireGL video, 60GB 7200RPM hard drive, DVD/CDRW, 14" SXGA+ 1400x1050 LCD, Docking Station, etc.... a long ways away from the TI, Timex, Commodore, Atari days..... lol

GO IRISH!!!

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conmee
01-10-2004, 05:46 PM
Folks... we need to hear about your old-school computer systems... if all you got is a 486 to wax nostalgic about, this thread isn't for you... lmao..

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diamond den™
01-10-2004, 05:52 PM
Originally posted by conmee
Folks... we need to hear about your old-school computer systems... if all you got is a 486 to wax nostalgic about, this thread isn't for you... lmao..

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I have an AMSTRAD PC1640(IBM Clone) over in England from like 1986. It is fucking garbage :)

diamond den™
01-10-2004, 05:55 PM
Here is a GRATE Link for oldie Computers....

http://www.old-computers.com/news/default.asp

:)

Dave's PA Rental
01-10-2004, 06:07 PM
My family's first computer was an Atari 800. It had a cartridge you plugged in (kind of like the old atari games) called "Basic". HA!

This was pre-operating systems. I never really learned Basic, I just noodled on the thing and wrote things like:

10 goto line 20
20 add 4+3
30 goto line 10

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Atari_800_System_s1.jpg

thebuldawg
01-10-2004, 10:49 PM
Ah, the good old days. I remeber using those old Macintosh's in school. Later we had some sort of DOS computer at home, but I wasn't really all that impressed since my NES was far more interesting to me at the time. However the comptuer I have now is 5 years old, which anymore is considered ancient. :argh:


Oh, by the way I do have a TI-83, but I suppose that you guys are talking about Stone Aged computers rather than modern day calculators.:D

wizzkidder
08-22-2007, 04:14 PM
We had a Commodore 64 to try and run a payroll system at the place I worked for way back when. I remember the prez saying "we're going to get a couple more of these and then we won't have to hire as many people".

Was he ever fuckin' wrong! :D

That's like saying if you own a computer, you won't need paper anymore!

TVGUY
08-22-2007, 04:20 PM
My brother and I were rocking the TI 99 4A. (texas instruments) Those were the days.

FORD
08-22-2007, 04:24 PM
Originally posted by wizzkidder


That's like saying if you own a computer, you won't need paper anymore!

Technically you don't. You could do pretty much any form of written communication via direct e mail or attached documents now. If you don't want a document altered, send it as a PDF. Use imaging systems for permanent archives.

The biggest obstacle is digital signatures, and beyond that, network security itself. It's probably going to be a while before at least the final copy of any sort of "official" document isn't printed on paper.

wizzkidder
08-22-2007, 04:42 PM
Originally posted by FORD
Technically you don't. You could do pretty much any form of written communication via direct e mail or attached documents now. If you don't want a document altered, send it as a PDF. Use imaging systems for permanent archives.

The biggest obstacle is digital signatures, and beyond that, network security itself. It's probably going to be a while before at least the final copy of any sort of "official" document isn't printed on paper.

I should have put in my original post that I don't include myself in that remark. That's what a lot of people thought and I think that some computer-illiterate people don't get the concept of electronic documents.

Kind of like the users here at my work who print out important emails and file them in their drawer. It's pretty funny. :confused:

Nitro Express
08-23-2007, 07:21 AM
I never was much of a computer geek but my brother and dad were. My brother was a student at Stanford University and a member of the HomeBrew Computer Club. He was at the meeting when Steve Wozniak came in with a wood box that actually housed the first Apple computer ever made.

My dad was a contractor who did business in sevral states. His payroll and taxes were a complicated nightmare. He was one of the first medium sized businesses that started using a computer. He was a TRash 80 man. I remember the excitement when the office got an IBM AT. Everyone came over to see it including our accountant. LOL! I had the Trash 80 that you used a casset tape for loading and storing programs. I had to modify a cassett tape player so it would work reliably. I had a crude version of Deffender I would play on the black and white screen.

We had an IBM PC in 1984. Most of the people at school were still using typewriters. I was using Wordprocessor on a PC. I remember my stupid english teacher saying the dot matrix print was unexceptable and I was trying to convince her I used the best Okidata printer made. LOL! That thing was a tank. I inherited the IBM PC and used it at college. A few years later I bought a PC's Limited computer from a guy named Michael Dell in Austin, Texas.

I programmed BASIC on Apple ii's my senior year in high school and the first time I saw a McIntosh was in 1985. The thing blew me away because it had a mouse and the interface was so cool. Too bad that didn't become the standard. It was more dry and unexciting MS DOS until Windows came out and what crap that was.

Nitro Express
08-23-2007, 07:29 AM
Originally posted by FORD
Any other Commodore 64 users remember the online service "Quantum Link"?? Guess what that turned into?

AOL. Seriously.... and it sucked then too! I think I managed to actually get online with the damn thing 3 times with my 1200 baud modem :eek:

I used a dial up service called Prodigy and remember getting a hard on when I could afford Compuserve. LOL! I was finishing up a bachelors degree in finance when the school of managment made it clear they had internet access. We didn't know what that really was. Some of the CIS students did. It was a huge pain in the ass where you had to check out a big binder of HTML codes to get anything. No search engines and no browsers! One day some CIS student told us where to find porn on the system. Holly hell the internet access in the business building computer labs took off after that. Then Netscape broke and we all know where that went.

Nitro Express
08-23-2007, 07:35 AM
I never fell into the GEEK crowd. My brother was a geek. No way in hell was I going to get into anything cutting edge in the computer industry. I remember my dad having orgasms over Lotus 123, Multiplan, SSI Accounting software. He spend hours trying to manage his office with what was available and those were the "hot applications" in those days. To a teenager, it meant nothing to me.

Nothing really got me excited about computers. They were a neccessary evil at times and in other cases a God send. They were a tool.

The day I looked up some porn on a computer is the day I remember getting excited like my dad did over Lotus and Wordperfect. LOL!

MAPRamone
08-23-2007, 11:30 AM
Originally posted by FORD
386 in 1993.

386 in 1993? Damn! I remember my dad bringing home a 386 in 1990 or 1991 (i think) when it was THE SHIT!!:D It was pretty friggin' expensive then too. It ran some pretty good games for me: Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis & my eternal favourite Monkey Island 2. I also remember playing Doom on it which ran V-E-R-Y slow on that machine. Still i enjoyed it. I also remember a kid in my school, whose dad was rich (a banker i think), bragging about his spanking 486 already in 1993/4. The 386 was the second computer we had. The first was a crappy Toshiba laptop dad brought home from work Never had a Commodore 64 but one of my friends had one. Another of my friends had an Amica.

Nitro Express
08-23-2007, 08:25 PM
Originally posted by MAPRamone
386 in 1993? Damn! I remember my dad bringing home a 386 in 1990 or 1991 (i think) when it was THE SHIT!!:D It was pretty friggin' expensive then too. It ran some pretty good games for me: Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis & my eternal favourite Monkey Island 2. I also remember playing Doom on it which ran V-E-R-Y slow on that machine. Still i enjoyed it. I also remember a kid in my school, whose dad was rich (a banker i think), bragging about his spanking 486 already in 1993/4. The 386 was the second computer we had. The first was a crappy Toshiba laptop dad brought home from work Never had a Commodore 64 but one of my friends had one. Another of my friends had an Amica.

Remember the TURBO BUTTON? Ha! ha! ha! Oh, I'm playing pong with color graphics, I better push the TURBO BUTTON! One of the dumbest computer featers ever!

MAPRamone
08-24-2007, 01:01 AM
Originally posted by Nitro Express
Remember the TURBO BUTTON? Ha! ha! ha! Oh, I'm playing pong with color graphics, I better push the TURBO BUTTON! One of the dumbest computer featers ever!

ROFL! sure do!

MAPRamone
08-24-2007, 01:03 AM
Anyone remember when Windows 3.1 was the standard and you actually had to EXIT TO DOS to play games?

Nitro Express
08-25-2007, 10:31 PM
Looking back at this. It was more revolutionary and fitting for our times now then it was then.

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Nitro Express
08-26-2007, 05:02 AM
Hitler was the best politician that the 20th Century produced. But just like Gates it was a real bitch to be subject to his operating system.

ODShowtime
08-26-2007, 12:41 PM
I remember beating the shit out of the ninja and the green fat guy in Bruce Lee on the '64 back in the day.

It took about a half hour to load the damn thing, but then you were ready to deal out some ass whuppins.

FORD
08-26-2007, 08:49 PM
Originally posted by wizzkidder
I should have put in my original post that I don't include myself in that remark. That's what a lot of people thought and I think that some computer-illiterate people don't get the concept of electronic documents.

Kind of like the users here at my work who print out important emails and file them in their drawer. It's pretty funny. :confused:

Actually, printing out e-mails could be a good move, depending on the subject matter.

Let's say, for example, that you have a great deal of inter-office correspondence via e mail concerning a certain project you are involved in.

Bad shit goes down at the office and suddenly, you're locked out of the computer system for whatever reason, while this ugly situation is resolved.

You just lost your trail of evidence, unless you can access the corporate mail server remotely. And if they locked you out at the office, they probably locked you out of the remote access.

So not only should you print out e mails of that nature, you should take 'em home with you, for security reasons.

FORD
08-26-2007, 08:58 PM
Originally posted by MAPRamone
386 in 1993? Damn! I remember my dad bringing home a 386 in 1990 or 1991 (i think) when it was THE SHIT!!:D It was pretty friggin' expensive then too. It ran some pretty good games for me: Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis & my eternal favourite Monkey Island 2. I also remember playing Doom on it which ran V-E-R-Y slow on that machine. Still i enjoyed it. I also remember a kid in my school, whose dad was rich (a banker i think), bragging about his spanking 486 already in 1993/4. The 386 was the second computer we had. The first was a crappy Toshiba laptop dad brought home from work Never had a Commodore 64 but one of my friends had one. Another of my friends had an Amica.

I actually didn't keep the 386 very long. Traded up to a 486. Unfortunately, it was a Packard HELL, so I don't think it actually ran any faster than the 386 did. :argh: