Ketlane Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 One of these - teletype and punched paper tape.....PDP8e
jinnantonnixx Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 When I first started supporting sims it was a dos prorgam using Dbase, with numerous floppy disks sent through from capita for each upgrade That's right. Though I think it was Foxpro, not dBase - the compound indexes had a different structure to dBase.
round2it Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 ?&D22=station number think thats what it was great for taking over the bbc mcro b password ripoff was good too created a dos program that looked exactly like the login screen on a bbc the user came along and typed username and password the strings were saved to a text file saved in my area on the econet system then rebooted the machine
Sirbendy Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 Ha, yes..the old RM Nimbus...I'd blanked those out. 286/6,8, 12 and 20Mhz..being allowed to borrow a PC from school for the Holidays, and the sheer terror of transporting it..yet now I just chuck them around. IBM PS/2 Model 55SX anyone? What a crock of...... Floppy disk to configure the EISA Bus (or was it VLB on those?) Mentioning the loading games from tape - did anyone else make up a patch to run from the old twin-decks of the time, and try loading the games in "Hi-Speed Dubbing" mode? That used to work brilliantly on Commodores!
Garacesh Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 God you guys are making me feel young.. At 21 the most I remember from my computer-childhood is 3 1/2" floppies (I still have my old drive, just in case!), "It is now safe to turn off your computer" as mentioned earlier, and the horrific, ear-splitting ERRRRRRRRRR ER ERR ERR ERR... ERRRRRRRRREEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR of dial-up modems. Oh, and UT99 xD Final thought: Grim Fandango anybody?
jinnantonnixx Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 (edited) Ha, yes..the old RM Nimbus...I'd blanked those out. 286/6,8, 12 and 20Mhz..being allowed to borrow a PC from school for the Holidays, and the sheer terror of transporting it..yet now I just chuck them around. IBM PS/2 Model 55SX anyone? What a crock of...... Floppy disk to configure the EISA Bus (or was it VLB on those?) MCA bus. Configured with reference disks. As techies, we used to add the reference files for each model to a single disk, so with one disk we could configure anything. DXMAID to configure networking was sheer purgatory courtesy of IBM, trying to get 'X' on PS/2s to talk to unix RS/6000 over 16/4 token ring. ***Shudder*** Edited March 13, 2012 by jinnantonnixx
Sirbendy Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 Hell yes. I still have Blood 1 - my all time favourite game, aside from Carmageddon (which I also still have). MDK? And 3.5inch disks..heh..anyone remember the 3 inch Amstrad ones? Awkward. Hardware now, I wouldn't give you tuppence for it. Give me an IBM 5150, they'd take a nuclear hit and keep on running.
Sirbendy Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 MCA bus. Configured with reference disks. DXMAID to configure networking was sheer purgatory courtesy of IBM. HOW could I have forgotten that...MCA, the white elephant..
jinnantonnixx Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 HOW could I have forgotten that...MCA, the white elephant.. White elephant? Hmmm not sure. It was a LOT easier than cracking open the cases to change jumpers, and by and large most things worked on MCA. It was a good idea, on balance.
sparkeh Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 Final thought: Grim Fandango anybody? Yep, still got it, still awesome.
gshaw Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 Primary school - playing a game on the BBC Micro (black and orange keys ftw) with some cartoon dog running along a beach Later primary school - getting an afternoon on the Acorn Archimedes to do a WWII project on Pendown (remember that?) and saving the files in the system folder so no-one would find em! Secondary school - when getting information online meant passing around (read fighting) for the Encarta 95 CD which scratched to hell, amazed it worked 6th form - paying 25 quid for a 64MB USB stick and thinking the future had arrived when mass storage previously meant carrying around a box of floppy disks Nothing beats RISC OS even to this day If anyone has one of these in a cupboard me want lol... http://www.retro-computing.org/exhibit-photos/243/lg__MG_5394.jpg
sted Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 Nothing beats RISC OS even to this day http://www.retro-computing.org/exhibit-photos/243/lg__MG_5394.jpg cant agree more it wasnt the prettiest os but it did what it was supposed to and just worked (aparantly risc os is being ported to raspberry pi In computer suites full of crt's "charging up" your finger and zapping someone else with the static
jinnantonnixx Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 The Archis were years ahead of their time - YEARS ahead. And we threw loads out, so that'll cheer up @gshaw.
Hawkeyez Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 Primary school - playing a game on the BBC Micro (black and orange keys ftw) with some cartoon dog running along a beach Later primary school - getting an afternoon on the Acorn Archimedes to do a WWII project on Pendown (remember that?) and saving the files in the system folder so no-one would find em! Secondary school - when getting information online meant passing around (read fighting) for the Encarta 95 CD which scratched to hell, amazed it worked 6th form - paying 25 quid for a 64MB USB stick and thinking the future had arrived when mass storage previously meant carrying around a box of floppy disks Nothing beats RISC OS even to this day If anyone has one of these in a cupboard me want lol... http://www.retro-computing.org/exhibit-photos/243/lg__MG_5394.jpg All my early days were with Archi/Acorn, was on the Committe of The ARM Club for a while, ran my BBS initially off A305 with 4MB upgrade and a 100SCSI Drive (yeah Rock on!) That was moved over to a Spare RiscPC when that got replaced for a StrongArm RPC. Sadly being out of work for a year caused some asset stripping, and they all had to go. :-(
JJonas Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 Learning BASIC on one of these Sinclair ZX80 computer 1
gshaw Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 The Archis were years ahead of their time - YEARS ahead. And we threw loads out, so that'll cheer up @gshaw. You make me cry :'(
JJonas Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 Becoming "Elite". You have to be old enough to understand... On the ZX Spectrum version... As soon as the game loads, and you're given the option to LOAD a new commander, press "Y", then save your position. Go back to the game you are now Elite. Couldnt be any easier than that and totally ruined a competition they were running to mark its launch on the Spectrum.
jinnantonnixx Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 (edited) Learning BASIC on one of these Sinclair ZX80 computer D'you know, even today ZX Basic has the best string handling functions in any language e.g. LET a$="abcdefgh" PRINT a$ (2 TO 5) gives bcde PRINT a$( TO 5) gives abcde PRINT a$(2 TO) gives bcdefgh None of your left, mid and right rubbish. "TO" is all you need. Edited March 13, 2012 by jinnantonnixx
JJonas Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 Playing Monkey Island 2 with the girlfriend and laughing so hard milk came out of our noses.
Mr.Ben Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 At the age of 15 deciding that I need the latest version of Office on the school PC's (Office '97), So installing it when the Tech wasn't paying attention (and he didn't notice!). Setting up the one PC we had in the school to share the Internet connection across the computer room (That was noticed, but only because it was an improvement). Finally a bit earlier the arrival of a 5" Floppy Disk drive for my Commodore, and the excitement of loading games in a few seconds from disk rather than an hour from tape...That was a day to remember!
gshaw Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 (edited) On PCs with Word '97 (original version not a service pack update) - start a new document - type the word "blue" - make it bold & blue - Help > About - hold CTRL+SHIFT and click on the Word icon PINBALL Edited March 13, 2012 by gshaw 1
basicchannel Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 Playing on my friends Amiga 600. His house was like a house of tech, and mine was like a medieval cave. He used to get an Amiga magazine every month which came with a free floppy with game trials on. I just remember playing on Lemmings and Civilization. Also, Worms Armageddon. That soundtrack still makes me cry today.
Andrew_C Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 Impression on the Arch. One April 1st, the caret changed into a carrot. Really made my day that!
jinnantonnixx Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 I immediately scrolled down to 1982/3 and played my favourites: Jetpac, Horace Goes Skiing and Scuba Dive. Go on - you know you want to. ZX SPECTRUM 1
synaesthesia Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 You're a b*****d. There goes an hour and half of my life, and no doubt more to come!
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