Comments | koalathebear: Computer nostalgia :D

koalathebear

Computer nostalgia :D

Jan 12, 2008 09:54

Mama Koala and I went to the mall this morning so that I could post my box of heavy things back to Beijing. My suitcase is about to explode so I thought it best to post a few things back home first. While I was in the post office buying some blank CDs to make Mama Koala some music CDs, I blinked when I saw this:

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nostalgia, stupid thoughts, commodore 64, computer

Comments 14

raynefangirl January 12 2008, 02:05:32 UTC

Ah the wonders of floppy disks ^^

I still got all of my old floppy disks, allthough there ain't a floppy drive in the computer. Do they even sell that anymore??

nutmeg3 January 12 2008, 02:06:33 UTC

I love Dad and Son's outfits in that Vic-20 picture. My ex picked out our first computer, an Apple with a green screen and pretty much no memory. We used to play Castle Wolfenstein on it. Our next was an IBM with a spiffy amber screen and, iirc, 20MG of memory. Good times, good times.

forg January 12 2008, 09:45:00 UTC

*grin* I just went through my old floppies and saw what was on them, took it off and chucked them - though I still have a couple of boxes of unused disks in the cupboard.

What to do with them?

koalathebear January 13 2008, 12:08:15 UTC

Ebay! :D

enigel January 12 2008, 09:58:29 UTC

Oooh, you've been into this computer thingy way before I was. Mind you, there weren't so many opportunities in our socialist country. My first computer was not bought, but made by dad (with some contribution from me in assembling the keyboard - I'm still proud about that ( ... )

koalathebear January 13 2008, 12:09:04 UTC

It could also be that I'm older than you are ;) We only used the datacassette for a while but I did enjoy the games that we played. I have excellent memories of my SC64 and typed up lots of really bad Mary Sue fic on that machine :)

muridae_x January 12 2008, 09:59:35 UTC

Ha! I can beat your floppy disk sighting. I still have four boxes full of single density disks, as previously used by my Atari ST.

And no, I don't have a single machine in the house that has a floppy disk drive any more, let alone one that can read disks that retro - but the boxes are just the right size to sit behind my computer speakers on the shelves and make them stand forward to the same level as the books on them. That makes them functional in my book. :-)

In my first job for a certain big media company, I used a word processor that loaded all its software off one 5.25" floppy, and wrote files out to another. Dual floppy drives, mmmm. And somebody in the same department had an identical machine except that her disk drives took 8" floppies.

The first computer I ever owned was the Sinclair Spectrum 128. It took twenty minutes to load a full blown 128 kilobyte game from tape (with accompanying squeals and multicoloured flashing bars around the loading screen), and then it quite often crashed before starting and you had to begin ( ... )

koalathebear January 13 2008, 12:12:14 UTC

I suppose I really am a little troubled by the complete inability to read old files except with extreme effort. I mean we can still read things from hundreds of years ago so long as the paper hasn't disintegrated yet I can't read a word file that I created back in 1997 or so and that was Microsoft Word. There's something wrong about that. It's like we've gone backwards.

For some reason I always associated the Atari with the notion of a games machine whereas the Commodore was Serious Stuff + games so easier to sell to Papa Koala as an idea ;)

muridae_x January 13 2008, 14:41:08 UTC

Nah, the Amiga was Serious Graphics... the Atari was what the Serious Musicians used. I think both camps have probably defected to the Mac nowadays though ( ... )