Reminds me of the time we an old telephone circuit board, removed the memory chips and soldered them onto a 256k Ram Disk thus doubling it's capacity to 512k. Imagine a Commodore 64/128 with a 1/2 meg ram drive. That was sweet.
Joe
Oh dear, I feel a Yorkshire man sketch coming on.
However, scariest upgrade of my life was upgrading my Mum's Amstrad PC from 512kb to 640kb. The upgrade came on, I think 16 pieces of silicon, which had 8 legs each. Break one of the legs and you had to junk the lot. Bending back one of the legs I bent was truly scary.
And the reason for the upgrade was that I had pestered my mother because Bard's Tale (Maybe 2?) needed 640kb to run. God only knows how much it cost.
Aye, young people with their DIMMS...
Nick
-----Original Message----- From: Keith Sirmons [mailto:ksirmons@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 22 June 2006 16:01 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program
Ok, so I'm not as much of a computer historian as some of you, but my first computer was an old 486 Packard Bell we bought from Sams Club.
I remember typing in dir at the dos prompt and commenting on how fast it listed. Then you push the turbo button and it lists even faster... way cool
I talked my mother into buying more ram. $200 for a 4MB 36 pin SIMM. I'm glad Moore's Law is still in effect.
Keith
Keith Sirmons
College of Veterinary Medicine
>>> joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx 6/22/2006 9:34:38 AM >>> Same here... Then I moved on to the Commodore 128 a few years later... I can still hear my parents yelling for me to get off the phone. They didn't understand that you can only move so much data at 1200 baud.
Joe
On 6/22/06, Turman, David C. <david_turman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I had a TI 99-4A. My first computer. With a cassette drive! > > -----Original Message----- > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of steve.quinnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:49 AM > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program > > > TI99-4A in the early 80's - I think they sold about 4 of them in the UK! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Bruce Jarrett-Norton > Sent: 22 June 2006 14:35 > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program > > Compaq Portable with 1 5 1/4" floppy drive. 81/82 for me also > > Bruce Jarrett-Norton > > -----Original Message----- > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Braebaum, Neil > Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 9:26 AM > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program > > > Sinclair ZX81 for me, in, um 1981 ;-) > > Neil > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matthew Shrewsbury > > Sent: 22 June 2006 13:58 > > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program > > > > Atari 130XE, however it was the 90s... > > > > Matthew Shrewsbury, MCSE+Internet MCSE 2000 CCA Server+ Network > > Manager -----Original Message----- > > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Philip Walley > > Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:56 AM > > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program > > > > Awesome. Thanks for making me feel a whole lot younger today. > > I didn't' > > get my first computer until 87 (i think, it may have been 88) and it > > was > > > > a commodore 64c. I remember they had an online community that I was > > always messing around in. > > > > Jim Kenzig http://ThinHelp.com wrote: > > > > > > Lol... I got you by 10 years...now I really DO feel OLD! > > > I was working at NASA helping to launch rockets in 86. DId you > > > guys know I started some of the original newsgroups on usenet? > > > That was when there was no internet only Darpanet. > > > Yeah they should just give it to a bunch of us and > > grandfather us > > > in. I'll call Bill. ; ) > > > Jim > > > *From:* Douglas A. Brown > > > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 21, 2006 12:34 PM > > > *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > *Subject:* RE: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect > > Program > > > Hey man, I'm old... I'm 35 almost 36 now.... 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