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Hah, you had it great! My first PC was a 286, which IIRC either had no HDD, OR. 20MB HDD (might be mixing it with our next PC, which was a 386). I'm pushing 40
by GordonS 7y ago
Hah, you had it great! My first PC was a 286, which IIRC either had no HDD, OR. 20MB HDD (might be mixing it with our next PC, which was a 386).
I'm pushing 40, and still shake my head in wonder sometimes about just how much is possible at such small scale and cost.
But this is now turning into "when I were a lad..." :)
- serf 7y agoOh, you kids! My XT had an 8088 @ ~4mhz in it, and we pushed it uphill to school both ways, in the snow! It was multi-functional though. The power supply was inefficient enough to heat the room, while simultaneously being heavy enough to bludgeon large creatures for sustenance. Something inside me misses the radiant heat, sitting here on a cold day with my chilly metallic laptop.
- yantrams 7y agoI honestly thought you were gonna reference the Four Yorkshiremen sketch by Monty Python after the second line!
- hirundo 7y agoMy Heathkit H89 had a Z80, 16K of RAM and a built in cassette interface. And we liked it.
- cubano 7y agoI just flipped a bank of 16 switches by hand with vacuum tube gates and core memory...punch cards are for sissies!
- Filligree 7y agoYou had a computer? Back then I wrote C programs on paper, then executed them by hand...
- nabla9 7y agoOne of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
- int_19h 7y agoC? All I had was a single book on MS-DOS, so I wrote batch files on paper, then executed them by hand. (Not even joking, by the way - literally how I got into computers and programming.)
- znpy 7y agooh kids! i used to crank the wheel by hand on my analytical engine that my hacker friends and me built after there was a leak of babbage's plans! he never knew! you kids and you petabytes of ram! back in my day.... /s (i'm looking forward for these comments to be commented on a certain website i'm not supposed to name)
- nikanj 7y agoStart a few Electron apps and it'll warm right up
- techie128 7y agoFew? You can only run 1! We have to yet invent the technology to run two, let alone a few!
- brian_herman__ 7y agoRun a threadripper with the window open!
- rs23296008n1 7y agolaughs in 6502 dances in 68k cries in 486
- iso947 7y agoMine was too, albeit 40MB had and a CD tom! Ran windows 3.1, Civilisation (VGA graphics), railroad tycoon, Star Trek 25th anniversary - and could have them all installed at the same time. Other programs included championship manager 93, and I think day of the tentacle. But it wouldn’t run Linux - 386 and above.