Buzz Out Loud Lounge: Does anyone remember when...
Does anyone remember when...
by tango_fox1 - 10/29/08 7:04 AM1. 4 Megabytes (MB) was considered alot of memory.
2. You had to manually set up a permanent SwapFile on your hard drive
(if you are using a computer with a 386 processor).
3. You could use a 16-color driver for your display, even if you have a 256-color card, when running on a 20 MHz or slower system with
only 4 MB of RAM. (To change the display driver, run the
Microsoft Windows Setup program from MS-DOS or Windows and
select the standard VGA driver.)
4. For best performance of the multimedia elements, it is recommended
that you set your color card driver to display no more than 256 colors.
Those were the days when an 8086 was da bomb.
Any other things you might wanna add?
One addition
by crankycanuck - 10/29/08 9:09 AM In reply to: Does anyone remember when... by tango_fox1I remember the TURBO button.
Mine
by navsimpson - 10/29/08 10:38 AM In reply to: Does anyone remember when... by tango_fox11) You had to fiddle with the autoexec.bat and config.sys files to get games to work.
2) The midi music from Adlib and Soundblaster sounded AMAZING.
3) MS Word seemed like the future when put next Wordperfect 5.1
4) That little switch on floppies that stopped you from writing to them.
5) There was a difference between extended and expanded memory.
6) Modems.
The heck with the little switches...
by milkky - 10/30/08 4:59 AM In reply to: Mine by navsimpsonwhat about punching holes in the 5 1/4's so you could write to both sides, and then taping over them for "copy protection"?
I remember all of that
by satoauto - 11/4/08 12:45 AM In reply to: Mine by navsimpsonI remember all of that... himemsys...hunting around for 610k of RAM to play some Dynamix game...IRQ conflicts...local bus video...Commodore 64's tape drive...Newton MessagePad 2000 (still have it)...getting kicked off the internet when the phone rang.... getting a personal e-mail back from Steve Case when complained about something at AOL....73522.1256@compuserve.com as my e-mail address...
Remember?
by Renegade Knight - 10/29/08 11:23 AM In reply to: Does anyone remember when... by tango_fox1Heck I still have one of those computers. Nobody but nobody has managed to replace the Panzer General series so I have an old laptop (8mb of RAM 2GB HD, and 256 Colors) to play them on.
Unlike under XP, the games JUST WORK.
remember
by alamode123 - 10/30/08 6:44 AM In reply to: Remember? by Renegade KnightHeck, my first computer class was using punch cards. In grade 12 we got the PET computers.
Sure...
by Slikkster - 11/4/08 3:25 AM In reply to: Remember? by Renegade KnightIt couldn't possibly be the game manufacturer's fault, right? It must be XP! Funny thing, though...I have tons of games that "just work" on XP. I wonder how I managed to luck out.
my first computer -- 1992
by beelissa - 11/1/08 6:39 AM In reply to: Does anyone remember when... by tango_fox1When we took it out of the box, the first thing we had to do was install DOS. Then we installed Windows. From a stack of floppy disks. You had to type "Win" each time you wanted to run Windows, unless you added that command to your exec.bat file.
My son, a computer genius at the age of 3, tried to type Win into the search field of the library's card catalog computer and was frustrated that it didn't work.
Before that, my brother had an old computer in college. It had a text monitor, and 2 floppy drives. No hard drives, you ran the OS and all apps off the one floppy and saved files to a disk in the 2nd drive. It had 256 K of RAM. Kilobytes. Not MB. 256 K.
I bought him a 2400 baud modem for Christmas, it cost $100. He was thrilled, it allowed him to log into the college computer from his dorm.
I remember......
by mementh - 11/3/08 10:34 PM In reply to: Does anyone remember when... by tango_fox1I remember my dad brining home a 8086 from his work that was no longer used.. I loved rouge but never got that good at it.
I also remember looking at its guts and playing with jumper switches...
I even somehow got a addon card that was in it to give a extra few hundred K of memory or something... too bad another card i tried to do that to killed that computer 
of course we remember
by kuro.quinn - 11/4/08 9:56 AM In reply to: Does anyone remember when... by tango_fox1Technology advances so fast, those fondly distant memories are no more than a few years away! Heck I'm 24 and *I* remember. So unless you are young (like 18 ou less) you witnessed the spectacular explosion in computers in the late 80's and 90's (until today).
Actually ..
by tango_fox1 - 11/4/08 11:41 AM In reply to: of course we remember by kuro.quinnI'm slightly older than 24, but my introduction to computers was in my late teens when I visited my cousin who had a Commodore 64. Before that I hadn't even touched an MSDOS machine..
So i guess you could say I was a late bloomer.
Memories
by TotalKonfuzion - 11/4/08 1:52 PM In reply to: Actually .. by tango_fox1I have lots of memories of working with technology. I remember getting my AOL account suspended for creating a "restricted" screen name. I remember shotgunning 56k modems. I remember running Unreal for the first time on my SLI Voodoo 2 setup and seeing a "glossy" surface for the first time.
Hmm...I remember file sharing programs during their prime. Napster, CuteMX, Scour, WinMX.
It's amazing to think that all these things happened less than 20 years ago (for the most part). I remember Downloading IE4 on a 28.8 modem and having it hose my Windows install.
none of these are "old"
by cwwees - 11/4/08 4:13 PM In reply to: Memories by TotalKonfuzionThe first computer I personally bought was a Basis 108. It was a big deal to have 64k of memory instead of 4k. I paid $600 for a 1200 bps modem - the fastest speed available at the time. I was on Compuserve before Compuserve connected to the Internet.
Anyone want to comment on Ward Christensen, XModem, and the old BBS systems?
Charlie
Used ZModem and Telex software
by Steven Haninger - 11/4/08 4:41 PM In reply to: none of these are "old" by cwweesI believe that could allow failed downloads to resume. I'm thinking most BBSs used Wildcat. Mostly just download shareware utilities such as PKZip and various shell programs for them. I had a genuine Hayes modem running 2400 baud but eventually went to 9600. With hardware/software compression, the throughput increased to maybe 11000 or so. I've still got a USR Courier "V everything" around here somewhere.
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