winnyjstew
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Just wanna say thank you all for being awesome. this is one of the few groups/forums ive been apart of were people are actually seeking to help others and not resort to bashing. i love it!!!!
Thank you ALL
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erik.calco
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PHoganDive
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Remember the old bulletin board systems (BBS) via dialup? 
Connected using my new upgraded 14400 bps modem. Upgraded from a 2400 it was like Lightning! Ah the good ol days.Remember the old bulletin board systems (BBS) via dialup?
Hours spent learning Dos 3.0, Xtree Pro and Xtree Gold! All of this on my 8088 with a 40mb hard drive and 640k of ram. It was a new world. Usenet newsgroups, BBS’ a full listing in the back of the weekly Computer Edge magazine.
I worked for HP at the time and was able acquire a PaintJet tractor feed printer. That was something. One of the first color printers.
Good times.. And yes, I’m old!
Don.
PHoganDive
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And the phone book thickness Computer Shopper magazine every month.
SCClockDr
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I went into hock for a 10meg Bernoulli box back in the day.
erik.calco
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Real men only need 300 baud.
Yeah, I was a noob with my 2400 baud.
erik.calco
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Did anyone use one of those modems where you placed your phone into two cups?
erik.calco
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And here is the nostalgic question of all time...
How many times did you have to explain what a computer was?
How many times did you have to explain what a computer was?
Wow,,,yes mostly for faxing.
Ulmo
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That's how I started, and 300 baud was plenty. It had lower latency than 2400bps and many 1200bps modems.Real men only need 300 baud.
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My first computer had an external hard drive the size of a toaster-20 MB. If I wanted to use Excel, I had to uninstall word, then install excel. It was only $2,500.
erik.calco
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LOL RIGHT! My first "external" was 10 MB and weighed 10 lbs!!! And external meant it had a ribbon cable (like parallel) that went into the back of the 40 lb "portable" and plugged into the motherboard. Also, with that attached, you could no longer carry the "portable" by its handle. You had to carry in front of you with both hands and try to not bump into anything as you balanced 50 lbs. I was a skinny teen at the time.
IIRC this was an 8088 with IBM DOS.
EDIT: Had to remember who made this computer. It wasn't Compaq, though that came out in this era, too. This was my 2nd portable after the 30 lb Osborne 1...
Heath 161 portable computer (I think)
And that was it. It was a Heath, which according to Internet, is made by Zenith. The display was an orange monochrome. But I did have a green monochrome Zenith monitor I plugged into it with an RCA video jack IIRC that was probably 12".
You an see the handle I was referring to propping it up in this photo.
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Who could forget Prodigy. That WAS the internet back then.
If you didn’t have q-link, you were just playing around... pshhh... aol... Newfangled geek...
eddie1261
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Remember the old bulletin board systems (BBS) via dialup?
With my 300 baud manual dial modem that you had to switch over to data when you hit a carrier!
I started with a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. Moved on up to a Commodore 64. Then made the jump to an IBM Big Blue that I paid, get ready for it, $4000 dollars for!! It was state of the art THEN but now it'd be a boat anchor. 4 megs of ram, floppy discs only..... and rather than expand it I lived with the limitations while I saved money to buy a real nice tower form factor with a 286 processor. But to be honest this is spanning 40 years, and progress is what progress is. Now, geeze. 6 computers, etc.....
erik.calco
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Upgrading from 16k to 48k RAM is better than a 4th wife! What did you have in the TI-99/4A?
EDIT: 16k! lol What my TRS-80 Model 1 started with:
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