Why is Site so slow and Chat down again????

boogeyman · May 25, 2011

Lessee....... Another blast from the past! How about spending 2 days typing in the code from Compute! magazine, to end up with a semi cool pgm.

How about a blast for the youngsters! Running a bulletin board (old school equivalent to a web site) on a Commodore64 with a ram expansion pack, 4 5 1/2 floppie drives and a super blazing fast 9600 baud dial up modem? And we were elite!!!!!!!

Treasure_Hunter · May 25, 2011

boogeyman said:
Lessee....... Another blast from the past! How about spending 2 days typing in the code from Compute! magazine, to end up with a semi cool pgm.

How about a blast for the youngsters! Running a bulletin board (old school equivalent to a web site) on a Commodore64 with a ram expansion pack, 4 5 1/2 floppie drives and a super blazing fast 9600 baud dial up modem? And we were elite!!!!!!!

Hey I remember the Commodore64......My first PC was a Tandy 1000, cost me well over a grand, no hard drives at that time, but it had twin floopy drives......WOOOOOOO HOOOOOO :icon_thumright:

boogeyman · May 25, 2011

Anyone remember the Timex Sinclair aka Doorstop? I think they were the great great great great grandfathers of the pocket pc

I think the whole thing with a grocery receipt printer was $100. Only problem was noone wrote software for em. The nerds & nerdettes used to gut them to control robots.

mastereagle22 · May 26, 2011

Ah yes the Timex Sinclair. The programs came on audio cassettes, took forever to load and if the Ram expansion module moved even slightly, the computer rebooted.

Had a 64 and a 128. I remember my first IBM Compatible pc had 8 MB of Ram and an external 5 and a 1/4 floppy drive. I thought I was really something.

Wow how times have changed....

Treasure_Hunter · May 26, 2011

I remember when I saw my first hard drive for sale, 750 MB, I thought WOW that is a lot of storage, how could someone ever use that up..... Now we are buying Terrabyte drives....LOL

boogeyman · May 26, 2011

Treasure_Hunter said:
I remember when I saw my first hard drive for sale, 750 MB, I thought WOW that is a lot of storage, how could someone ever use that up..... Now we are buying Terrabyte drives....LOL

Funny if you think about it, For what that 750MB drive cost you could buy a case or two of thumb drives.

somewhere I've got a board that is about 18 x 18 inches the center lookslike window screen in a frame. Didn't know what it was until an old tech I knew told me it was RAM, and heald a whopping 2K. Amazing how far we've come.