Why is it always the C:\ drive, not the A:\ drive?

[Andre]

Those of us with little money used the hole punch method to turn double density floppies into high density. An overclocked floppy as it were

I re-wrote the tape routines on my TRS-80 so they would load everything 3-4 times quicker - passed the original through a program to write the data out faster first time round then used the copy.

First floppy discs I used were 5.25" 180K single-sided, single density. It took two just to run MASM86. Oh what fun!

 

[SourChipmunk]

I remember upgrading the memory in my IBM AT by "piggybacking" the chips... soldering another chip on top of the memory that was on the system board. The cool part of those systems was that you could troubleshoot defective memory down to a single chip by testing individual address spaces, then just pull the little guy out and replace it. For cost reasons, this was necessary back then. Now you can just move a DIMM to a different slot, see if the problem follows the module or the slot, and replace either the module or system board as necessary for dirt cheap.

 

[anjs]

Yes reminds me of adding a Watford DFS to my BBC B just so I could play disc Elite

 

[Infidelus]

Seem to remember spending about £45 to upgrade my graphics card from 1/2 mb to 1mb, and another £80 for 8mb RAM

Not to mention the first 2 speed CD writer I bought ... £320!

 

[wannabedamned]

<3 this thread makes me happy. Nostalgia <3

If i remember correctly, if you only had an A: but typed B: It would use the A drive after confirming there was a disk in there.

Config.sys and autoexec.bat How i remember playing with those too, adding win to the end of autoexec.bat inorder to get the PC to boot straight to window 3.1

I miss learning this stuff.

I was such a noob at one point I was editing the autoexec.bak and couldnt figure out why the changes I was making werent altering anything....

I was very young

 

[Blackjack Davy]

A CD what?

This was back in the days when floppy disks were actually, well floppy!

A floppy what?

I remember when software came on tapes! Ah when I got my first floppy, it cost me both arms and both legs but boy, was it fast compared to a cassette tape.

Yes reminds me of adding a Watford DFS to my BBC B just so I could play disc Elite

+1

 

[chaparral]

A floppy what?

I remember when software came on tapes! Ah when I got my first floppy, it cost me both arms and both legs but boy, was it fast compared to a cassette tape.

Reminds me of my C64 days...

 

[robj20]

I remember playing sink sub and thinking it was amazing. Cyrix 133mhz and 8MB ram if i remember rightly, rapid pc, my next upgrade was a a 266mhz and adding a 32mb ram module, followed by a riva tnt2.

 

[Infidelus]

Those Cyrix chips were awful IIRC. Had no floating point calculations. Worst purchase I ever made

 

[seabiscuit]

I remember when Wing Commander 2 came out. It took 21MB!! That was more than half the entire hard drive!
I think somewhere in my parents loft I still ave Civ on 5.25" floppies. This was at the time when you could go to computer shows and buy things on 5.25" discs dirt cheap as people only wanted 3.5" for their new PC's.
Ah, the good old days.
(no they weren't)

 

[Snograt]

A floppy what?

I remember when software came on tapes! Ah when I got my first floppy, it cost me both arms and both legs but boy, was it fast compared to a cassette tape.



+1

A cassettey what?

I remember when software was loaded via punch tape.

Fun.

 

[TWiNKLeT0Es]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGVnT7u9rOY

I was a Commodore 64 man myself. But before that a MZ700 by Sharp if i remember right or the Vetrex.

 

[Duke]

Those Cyrix chips were awful IIRC. Had no floating point calculations. Worst purchase I ever made

My first PC had Cyrix 100MHz chip in it - it was dire

 

[PhillyDee]

A cassettey what?

I remember when software was loaded via punch tape.

Fun.

Lol, we used paper tape to load programs into machines. The dots were good fun to fill peoples shoes/pockets/bait box with.

 

[MagicBoy]

Those Cyrix chips were awful IIRC. Had no floating point calculations. Worst purchase I ever made

They had a maths co-pro, it was just a bit rubbish. Integer maths was immensely quick - a 150Mhz 6x86 convincingly beat a 200MHz Pentium across the board. Then you stuffed in a shiny new 3dfx card, loaded up a game and wondered why your mates Pentium 133MHz had a better frame rate...

 

[mrk]

cant beat a 3.5" floppy

 

[Thomss]

Oooof I remember those day..

 

[Infidelus]

They had a maths co-pro, it was just a bit rubbish. Integer maths was immensely quick - a 150Mhz 6x86 convincingly beat a 200MHz Pentium across the board. Then you stuffed in a shiny new 3dfx card, loaded up a game and wondered why your mates Pentium 133MHz had a better frame rate...

Bit rubbish ... master of understatement

 

[Phil2008]

I don't think people realise how easy it is today with computers, I wonder how they would cope if they couldn't just Google for an answer for whatever question/problem they might have.

I buggered up my first PC (a 486 from Amstrad) not long after buying it and it was a nightmare getting it fixed and running properly again but I'm so glad it happened as it started me on the road to being the PC geek I am today

Same here I was always buggering my first pc up, the Intel 486 DX66, but thats how you learnt in those days

 

[wannabedamned]

They had a maths co-pro, it was just a bit rubbish. Integer maths was immensely quick - a 150Mhz 6x86 convincingly beat a 200MHz Pentium across the board. Then you stuffed in a shiny new 3dfx card, loaded up a game and wondered why your mates Pentium 133MHz had a better frame rate...

I had exactly this problem

166 cyrix processor, that was the equivalent to a 133 and running Quake 2 on it?? Not a chance. Glad it was on the demo disk I was trying to run