Not to make anyone feel old, but I've always thought the 14.4k modem our old Gateway 2000 computer had on it was ancient history. Though to be fair, we were still using Apple II computers during my early elementary school days. But the fact that we had a dozen Apple II computers says something, too.
They had some sweet IR remote keyboards. We used to have an old Commodore 64 packed away in our basement, left over from my sister's childhood. I could never figure out how to use it, and it eventually got thrown away somehow. I saved the Atari, though :D The Sega Genesis was my staple system, though the NES got some heavy play, too.
MBG On Aug 26, 2008, at 10:29 PM, Mike Lusicic wrote:
- I hosted a DOS user group where IBM came in and introduced us to their brand new IBM PC running at a whopping 4.77 mhz CPU speed. I remember waiting for the 8 mhz 286 to come out before I switched out my Apple II for that.I remember doing Compuserve on my apple. I bought the phone / modem combination with a custom wire and connection to a card in the Apple. Back then it was TTY. 103 baud. Lets see, 8 data bits and 1 stop bit..... 9 bits ..... that was a whopping 11 characters per second. You could type faster than it could transmit. Lets see. At that speed, ignoring turnaround, latency and other overhead stuff, it would take 11.5 years to download a DVD. That is about 140 times longer than I have ever seen a Windows machine stay up without crashing, locking up, or otherwise becoming useless.GC-RGS wrote:**************************************** For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes, including unsubscribing from this list, click -----> //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqwI was cleaning out some old papers and I found some receipts when I bought my Commodore Amiga in 1985.http://oldcomputers.net/amiga1000.htmlIt came with 256k (not meg). About 1 year later I bought a memory "box" that was the same dimension as the Amiga and sat on top. It contained 256K (for a total whopping 512k) for $400.When I worked at MDC, our dept, bought the first IBM PC available in 1981. It was an Intel 8086/8088 processor with 2 full height 5 1/4" floppy drives. Once IBM started producing hard drives for their PC's, we bought a 10 meg HD (not gig) for $10,000.How things have changed!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Lusicic To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 8:44 PM Subject: [GeoStL] Re: NGR: Old Purchases- Not too long ago I ran across some old Byte magazines. They were advertising 143 KB floppy drives for more than that. I forget exactly what the price was, but I think it was closer to $500. That was back when the way you wrote to disk with an Apple was to issue a PRINT command that began with Ctrl-D character which meant it was a disk command rather than a real print command.Mike Griffin wrote:**************************************** For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes, including unsubscribing from this list, click -----> //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqw-Looking through some old emails I came across this order.. WOW! I can get a terrabyte drive for cheaper!YOUR ORDER INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING ITEM(S): Shopping cart includes 1 unique item(s) Total Price: $310.00 Item Detail#:1 Description: Refurbished: Hard Drive 18GB IDE Latitude CP/CPi/CPiA Manufacturer: DELL Single Item Cost: $299.00 Quantity: 1 Sub-Total for Item: $299.00 ___________________ Your total order amount is: This includes the following: Subtotal: $299.00 Shipping/Handling: Sales Tax: Mike Griffin The BEST Spam Solution! http://www.spamarrest.com/affl?4001050 Brawny Bear ()__() (='.'=) (")(__)(") (")(___)(") ****************************************For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes, including unsubscribing from this list, click -----> //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqw
