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[Exilyth]

About two decades ago, running the system profiler would have probably resulted in something like this:

OS Version: Commodore Basic v.2
System RAM: 64 KiB
CPU Name: MOS Technology 6510
CPU Speeds: 1.023 MHz
Physical CPUs: 1
Virtual CPUs: 1
Video Card Description: VIC II
VRAM: 16 KiB
Primary Display Resolution: 300x200
Multi-Monitor Desktop Resolution: 300x200
Microphone: False
Language: English (United States)
Free Hard Drive Space: N.A.
Total Hard Drive Space: N.A.
Windows Experience Index Rating: N.A.

I don't even dare compare theese numbers to a modern computer system.
Isn't it awe inspiring how far we've come since then?

Just try to imagine: back then, a 5.25" floppy had 110 KB, nowadays we've got usb thumpdrives no larger than a finger which can store 16 GB and more...

[KBone]

LOL, I remember 8" Floppy drives.... and the 250MB hard drives that were twice as bis as the current gen 1TB drives... man I suddenly feel old...

[Catamount]

KBone, on 03 October 2012 - 05:54 PM, said:

LOL, I remember 8" Floppy drives.... and the 250MB hard drives that were twice as bis as the current gen 1TB drives... man I suddenly feel old...

I worked for my high school help desk for a semester; got a bit of free credit for it and it was fun so I figured why not.

Once, while the teacher/tech was cleaning out his closet while I as coming in, he said "Hey, want to see the biggest hard drive I have?", and when I said yes he gave me one of those. A nice, 5.25" HDD, and it weighed a ton. It was a couple GB, I think, a clever trolling on the word "biggest"

Ah how I loved that generation of computers, the only generation of computing to have one, unequivocal final boss

Edited by Catamount, 04 October 2012 - 11:59 AM.

[KBone]

Catamount, on 04 October 2012 - 11:58 AM, said:

oh my god I just had an old-gasm, i remember that game!!! no matter how hard you tried, you could never escape the yeti!!!!

[Roaxis Stalomainis]

oh, you could escape the yeti! I've done it numerous times and had blue ones chaing me, oh those were fun times.

[Joe3142]

I remember floppys, always reminded me of dogs somehow, even though they dont seem to be remotley related.

[Paul BlackJack Cady]

OK....

I got one for all you old farts to have fun with..

List out your favorite, best and fastest computer builds, (motherboards, cpu, mem, video card...) for.......wait for it......wait for it.......



Mechwarrior 1 (Gideon Braver, Blazing Ace's)

Mechwarrior 2: Titanium trilogy, Pent Edition.

Mechwarrior 3

Mechwarrior 4

This is without using DOSbox...just the original computer we played on or built to play on.

I'll start with my first built computer for MW1 If I remember it right..

Motherboard = ACER V10-486 Intel i486 Motherboard
FSB = 66MHz then 100MHz
CPU = Intel i486DX2-66, then I upgraded to the DX4-100
Ram = 64MB
GPU = Matrox Mystique
Sound = Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE-64Gold
Power = Can't remember, but it was a stock unit.
OS = Windows 3.1

[Sean von Steinike]

I used to work with computers that still used punch cards and paper tape input/output devices.

[Bagheera]

Back when many games didn't really have "progression." They just got faster and faster until you couldn't keep up and died.

Edited by Bagheera, 01 November 2012 - 08:26 AM.

[Acid Phreak]

Sean von Steinike, on 01 November 2012 - 02:35 AM, said:

I used to work with computers that still used punch cards and paper tape input/output devices.

i know that a hospital in my city using those papercards in the kitchen for the lunch plan, this "pc" never has problems like a office desk.

[Sarah Dalrymple]

This was my first computer:


And this was my first 'laptop':

(light weight my arse! lol)

[Stickjock]

"Ralph" - my beloved TRS-80... he was a good computer "bless his heart"... Still have a working Commodore 128 w/tape drive and joystick still in the box that I hang on to just because...

you want to have fun... pick up CC64 or another commodore emulator... throw your shiney new super computer into 64k mode... lol...

Lot's of ROM's available as well on varying sites...

Edited by Stickjock, 03 November 2012 - 08:39 AM.

[Acid Phreak]

Stickjock, on 03 November 2012 - 08:38 AM, said:

"Ralph" - my beloved TRS-80... he was a good computer "bless his heart"... Still have a working Commodore 128 w/tape drive and joystick still in the box that I hang on to just because...

you want to have fun... pick up CC64 or another commodore emulator... throw your shiney new super computer into 64k mode... lol...

Lot's of ROM's available as well on varying sites...

do it on your smartphone...o_O...should be the best gaming app

[Paul BlackJack Cady]

well this was my first real computer.

http://www.thegeeksc...8/apple_iii.jpg

[ODonovan]

None of that stuff for me.



Amiga 1000 all the way.

Speech synthesis, plug-and-play, icon-based (windows) operating system (which Microsoft stole, even down to the trashcan icon for the recycle bin), stereo sound, drag and drop capability, and JUST a smidge under VGA graphics (in NTSC - PAL versions (European) were slightly BETTER than VGA). This all ran on under a quarter meg of memory.

Nothing IBM had at the time could even come close.


R.I.P. Amiga... You went before your time.




-Irish

[Sarah Dalrymple]

ODonovan, on 03 November 2012 - 10:57 PM, said:

None of that stuff for me.



Amiga 1000 all the way.

Speech synthesis, plug-and-play, icon-based (windows) operating system (which Microsoft stole, even down to the trashcan icon for the recycle bin), stereo sound, drag and drop capability, and JUST a smidge under VGA graphics (in NTSC - PAL versions (European) were slightly BETTER than VGA). This all ran on under a quarter meg of memory.

Nothing IBM had at the time could even come close.


R.I.P. Amiga... You went before your time.




-Irish

http://www.commodore.../CUSA_Home.aspx

I am tempted to get one of these for my kids... too bad it's not an original, but it looks like a good remake!