remember when pc edition

mrmarius

bored figured I would take a trip down memory lane with computers. remember when:

all computers were slow and you had to wait minutes to connect to the internet?

you would Im someone and then get kicked off the server and have to reboot?

you would get the "blue screen of death"?

your email ended with either "@AOL.com" or @cs.com.. mine was cs?

feel free to add more

k2quiere

remember when you had to type in code just to be able to play lemmings

rprussell2004

Remember when four colors in a game was exciting and innovative?

VenomousDuck

OS/2 Warp was going to take out windows...

kzivic

I still have an aol email address.

*hangs head in shame*

I'm just too lazy to switch everything over to gmail.

sho3girl

wating for the tape to load the game and then the electric going out!

rprussell2004

OS/2 Warp was going to take out windows...

+1

Those Redmond *kitten*...

Valqis

I still have an aol email address.

*hangs head in shame*

HEY what's wrong with AOL???

taso42

When 3 1/2" floppies came out people mistook them for "hard disks".

When your mom would pick up the phone and interrupt your modem session.

All the BBS's were busy so you dialed into that one you don't like so much.

You finally got a sweet EGA monitor that could do 640×350 and show 16 colors.

You finally got your IRQ settings right.

Oh wait, now the sound card isn't working.

Twisted_Wrister

When my email address ended with @juno.com

ANYONE remember them?????? I actually worked tech support for them in the late 90's.

GauchoMark

when you could tell how fast your internet connection was going to be based on the modem tones?

How about having to rearrange your autoexec.bat and system.ini files to get enough extended memory for a CD-rom to actually work?

starting a program, then remembering you forgot to type mouse first!

frixtine

I can remember being a little, little kid, and having a commodore 64 or a vic 20. Something like that.... and my parents would get in PC magazines with the code to type in, and then there would be programs for us to use. I remember making crazy pixelated drawings and stuff like that. I don't remember lemmings... but I'm talking early 80s. I think the best we ever got was asteroidish or centipedish.

MassiveDelta

When 3 1/2" floppies came out people mistook them for "hard disks".

When your mom would pick up the phone and interrupt your modem session.

All the BBS's were busy so you dialed into that one you don't like so much.

You finally got a sweet EGA monitor that could do 640×350 and show 16 colors.

You finally got your IRQ settings right.

Oh wait, now the sound card isn't working.

When floppies came in larger sizes. The more common 5 1/4" and the less common 8 1/2" floppy.

When every one used Netscape instead of Internet Explorer

Gaming at 14.4K, 28.8K 33.6(Smoking fast)

Using a pencil to bridge two circuits to overclock my CPU

california_peach

Wait? My PC is still slow. Maybe it's me.

jplord

Remember playing Star Trek on an IBM 370 using punch cards?

L00py_T0ucan

<=== remembers ye olden thymes

I remember:

...saving data onto an exotic peripheral device known as a 'tape recorder'.

...when you had to shell to DOS to zip and unzip files (before there was a WinZip program), and also to plot, for some drawing/modelling programs.

:laugh: :embarassed:

Shannon023

I remember when *coughs*some friends*coughs would download music for free from Napster.

UsedToBeHusky

I remember entering commands into the C/:

You know C-prompt. (edited because I don't remember if that is the right way for the backslash)

UsedToBeHusky

What I want to know is who remembers "Q-link"?

FrenchMob

I still have BSOD with Win 7 so that's not in the "remember when" category.

_Timmeh_

20 goto 10

tigersword

When floppies were actually floppy.

The days before Windows and mice.

TK266

remember when the home computer can with 4k of ram (K not Megs) and you could up grade to 16k for about $400. and there were some freaks who ever upgrade to 48k, but who the heck would ever need that much memory? NASA? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

and I hated that tape drive, but I loved my text based adventures.

20 goto 10

well played, my friend. well played.

UsedToBeHusky

When floppies were actually floppy.

I totally remember that. They confused the crap out of me with that one.

MassiveDelta

I remember entering commands into the C/:

You know C-prompt. (edited because I don't remember if that is the right way for the backslash)

c:\ ....still use it today

tigersword

I remember entering commands into the C/:

You know C-prompt. (edited because I don't remember if that is the right way for the backslash)

C:\

tadpole242

I remember when 2mb DEC memory upgrade was the size of a two draw filing cabinet; I remember 80086 Dragon PC had 16kb of memory, and two colour one black and one green. I remember when the only way to use the internet was to use Unix. And 16 colours was state of art.
I also remember upgrading my zx80 to a zx81 by hand with a soldering iron from 1k to 8k
I also remember when I typed 600 lines of code from a computer magazine.

ScottyNoHotty

My TRS-80 runs on cassettes and still works!!! Wish i still had my 8080 BBS hook up....

jfinnivan

How much of a geek am I? . There was also 640x480, and my favorite, 320x200. Either with 16 or 256 colors. Bios modes.

When 3 1/2" floppies came out people mistook them for "hard disks".

When your mom would pick up the phone and interrupt your modem session.

All the BBS's were busy so you dialed into that one you don't like so much.

You finally got a sweet EGA monitor that could do 640×350 and show 16 colors.

You finally got your IRQ settings right.

Oh wait, now the sound card isn't working.

TK266

My TRS-80 runs on cassettes and still works!!! Wish i still had my 8080 BBS hook up....

*Trash 80 Fist Bump* the TRS-80 was my first computer also. ever play shanghai trader. it think it had 1 bit graphic. :laugh:

TK266

I remember when Scott Adams meant computer games, not Dilbert.