Comments | mysteri: Kinda a Meme I made up. Nostalgia about old computers anyone?

mysteri

Kinda a Meme I made up. Nostalgia about old computers anyone?

Aug 22, 2009 18:22

So I have had a few convos lately with the kids. Ones that included I remember when. This was prompted by Modern Marvels on the History Channel. They did a 70s version and I think also an 80s one ( Read more... )

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threnody August 23 2009, 00:50:12 UTC

We still have our 286. My earliest fanfic is still on there, I wish I could remember what the hell the password was to it. Horrible schmoopsy angstiest of the angsty Gen X fanfic that I wrote when I was 15, with WordPerfect 5.1 and its eye searing blue screen. <3 ( ... )

fallconsmate August 23 2009, 01:23:35 UTC

squealing with joy when i could connect at 199000
yes on the black and white monitor
my original computer was a texas instruments
second was a 386 upgraded to 486 secondhand thing
then there was Frankenputer, that the boyfriend put together

and yes, i feel older than dirt most days LOL

lurkitty August 23 2009, 01:39:05 UTC

The first computer I ever used was a PDP 11. I used the keypunch to punch the cards so that I could run the program that would calculate square roots! We all cheered when they switched from cards to tape, because cards were easily mixed up.

My first home computer was a kluge- a z80 processor with ROM we burned ourselves. We had a 20K, 8" floppy drive, and the OS was CPM. I had a monochrome Heathkit monitor with a built-in keyboard.

We used to hang out on BBS on our 800 baud modem.

I AM older than dirt.

darkmark August 25 2009, 05:05:53 UTC

I remember ALL of those. Including my breadbox 286 with the orange and brown monitor and no internet connection to speak of. I was in hog heaven when I got it. Before that I had a dinky Atari comp that was only good for playing Venture and Buck Rogers...the latter off a cassette drive.