Feeling really old

[Freefaller]

I'm so tempted to install win 3.11 again

 

[glenimp617]

Windows 95 had a terrible launch IMHO

Many of the large vendors did not have 32bit drivers ready, and considering the Internet was in it's infancy (hardly any UK domains) it was a nightmare even getting them

It took years to get off 16bit legacy platforms

 

[malachi]

Windows 95 had a terrible launch IMHO

Many of the large vendors did not have 32bit drivers ready, and considering the Internet was in it's infancy (hardly any UK domains) it was a nightmare even getting them

It took years to get off 16bit legacy platforms

And people think they have it hard with the Windows 10 launch.

 

[FoxEye]

Our first PC was an Evesham Vale 486sx25 with 4MB RAM, 102MB HDD, DOS6 & Windows 3.1

Snap! Mine was an Ambra Sprinta tho I /think/ it's still in the attic somewhere.

Machine (bought buy parents) was about a grand Then we realised it didn't have a sound card, and bought a Sound Blaster 2 for £200 eek: again). Then a DVD drive for over £100... (I fitted the sound card and DVD myself, was about 12 but nobody else had a clue ).

Sheesh those days were expensive.

Mostly I remember messing with MEMMAKER, DEFRAG, loadhi, devicehi, freeing up that precious 640k conventional memory...

Today you can get the same experience by installing Linux

 

[Cosimo]

I'm so tempted to install win 3.11 again

Make a video and give us all a laugh.

 

[Moley]

Even just the replies in this thread are making me feel old. I cut my teeth on Olivetti PCs running MS-DOS 2.0 and Digital Research GEM. Most of these machines ran an 8086 processor at 3Mhz and had 640k RAM. I've used every version of Windows from 1.0 upwards and several OSes from before Windows (MS-DOS, DR-DOS, CPM, etc).

You bunch of whippersnappers!

 

[Freefaller]

Make a video and give us all a laugh.

I'm sure with a virtual machine it wouldn't be too difficult to do... pointless.. but not too difficult!

I remember upgrading my 8 MHz 286 to 4Mb of RAM - it was ridiculously quick!

 

[Hagar]

I'm sure with a virtual machine it wouldn't be too difficult to do... pointless.. but not too difficult!

I remember upgrading my 8 MHz 286 to 4Mb of RAM - it was ridiculously quick!

Mine went from 1 to 2MB and it cost £70, DOS 6 to windows 3

 

[Freefaller]

Mine went from 1 to 2MB and it cost £70, DOS 6 to windows 3

Crazy isn't it? A 10Mb hard drive was considered significant - and was a good couple of inches thick.

 

[FoxEye]

Even just the replies in this thread are making me feel old. I cut my teeth on Olivetti PCs running MS-DOS 2.0 and Digital Research GEM. Most of these machines ran an 8086 processor at 3Mhz and had 640k RAM. I've used every version of Windows from 1.0 upwards and several OSes from before Windows (MS-DOS, DR-DOS, CPM, etc).

You bunch of whippersnappers!

I'll bet it was hard using a computer and fending off dinosaur attacks at the same time

 

[neodude]

My first PC had an 80MB drive. I remember discovering MS Doublespace which could magically transform it into a 160MB drive. Meant I could have X-Wing, Stunt Island, Tornado AND TFX all installed at the same time!

 

[nst68]

Did anyone have a computer that took the massive floppies? How much did they hold compared to the smaller ones?

That's me, worked on a DEC Rainbow "PC" back in the late 80's

8088 processor using CP/M operating system.

that used these disks

Had to load the the O/S on one of the floppies!

I remember using an early version of Lotus 123 and if you tried to go too far into the spreadsheet (i.e. too many rows or columns), then it you get an out of memory error, the whole sheet was stored in RAM.

I also remember the days of using WordPerfect where all the functions were accessed via hotkeys on the F keys, so you had a template that sat on top of them!

 

[nst68]

and using daisywheel printers, to change the font, you changed the wheel!

 

[Sliver]

When I were lad we ad nowt but an abacus and our father would whip the skin from our backs if we couldn't do basic calculous on it down to 3 decimal places. And for supper we had to lick a piece of coal. You try tellin that to youguns nowadays and they won't believe yer!

 

[Cosimo]

When I were lad we ad nowt but an abacus and our father would whip the skin from our backs if we couldn't do basic calculous on it down to 3 decimal places. And for supper we had to lick a piece of coal. You try tellin that to youguns nowadays and they won't believe yer!

Here down sarf, we had log tables and slide rules.

 

[bazzabear]

Does anyone remember the massive bug issues with Frontier: Elite 2? And that every patch released (and there were a lot of them) you had to wait for a floppy to be posted out to you?

 

[Moley]

I'll bet it was hard using a computer and fending off dinosaur attacks at the same time

Cheeky beggar! It wasn't dinosaurs, it was Cromwells Roundheads...

 

[uber soldat]

TBH the video just highlights how dumb American teens are "is this like the first computer". I know about stuff that happened before I was born, that either makes me a Time Lord or educated.

 

[V F]

TBH the video just highlights how dumb American teens are "is this like the first computer". I know about stuff that happened before I was born, that either makes me a Time Lord or educated.

I really don't understand how so many younger ones to this day don't seem as savvy as teenagers with the handhelds from the late 80s early to mid 90s.

It almost comes across todays teenagers truly are spoon fed, or at least far too many of them as there are some truly smart ones out there. I mean regardless of that video, the way society is nowadays it is very believable. They don't strike me one bit being good at trouble shooting.

Can you imagine the internet going down for them as they have hissy fits... It almost feels like that Google film.

 

[robfosters]

Just remembered another PC make. My neighbour had a PC from a company called Gateway. They bizarrely based their colour scheme and marketing around cows.