Do you remember your monochrome days?

rpm

rpm

Admin
Staff member
Joined
Jul 22, 2003
Messages
66,805
Reaction score
5,057
Location
Johannesburg
We all hear the battle stories of the classic computer enthusiasts. When I say classic I mean old. The romanticized era when computers ran chips rather than hard drives or when you booted from a floppy every time you turned on the old machine. I have to admit that I have seen hard disks the size [...]

Do you remember your monochrome days?
 
My first computer was a ..... I can't remember. It was a second hand, way back in the eighties. An XT I seem to remember. I knew jack squat about computers from then up till a couple of years ago when I only started to become an enthusiast. The XT fell into disuse a couple of years after we got it and my next computer I only got in 1999. A Pentium 3.
 
First PC was a ZX Speccy - plugged into my portable BW TV.

First "PC" was an XT, 4MB HDD, orange monochrome screen...
 
My first PC was a 286, which was later upgraded to 386 (for free by a friend) because Doom moaned it could only run on a 386 upwards :D
 
I got my first pc and boy was i impressed when i saw it was a pentium 133 :D
 
Yeah, but how far have we really come? I remember my old XT used to have a turbo button, for when you needed that little extra juice.

Spectrum 16K > Commodore 64 > PC XT > AT (woot!) > etc :)
 
chiskop said:
Yeah, but how far have we really come? I remember my old XT used to have a turbo button, for when you needed that little extra juice.
Click to expand...

Lol - I remember pushing that, starting a compile of a Pascal program, and going to enjoy a cup of tea while it did its thing.
 
chiskop said:
Yeah, but how far have we really come? I remember my old XT used to have a turbo button, for when you needed that little extra juice.

Spectrum 16K > Commodore 64 > PC XT > AT (woot!) > etc :)
Click to expand...

My turbo button was linked to the keys Ctrl+Alt+(Numpad+).

Ahhh, the days of Sierra Quests. Those glorious days will never come back.
 
My first was a Sinclair ZX-80 (Before the spectrum) with the additional 16k RAM module (It came standard with 4k). Apps were loaded off of tape, which in general didn't work. So you would right a nice long application, (hours worth), use it, save it to disk and then never be able to re-load it!

Naaaice.
 
Byrd said:
My first was a Sinclair ZX-80 (Before the spectrum) with the additional 16k RAM module (It came standard with 4k). Apps were loaded off of tape, which in general didn't work. So you would right a nice long application, (hours worth), use it, save it to disk and then never be able to re-load it!

Naaaice.
Click to expand...

ZX80 came with 0.5Kb? ZX81 had 1KB.
 
Picard said:
My turbo button was linked to the keys Ctrl+Alt+(Numpad+).

Ahhh, the days of Sierra Quests. Those glorious days will never come back.
Click to expand...

I remember that.

I remember when CD-ROM drives first came out. It was such a novelty.

Me fishes his floppy disk drive out of a box and stares at it. Ah, the good old days.
 
Alchemist said:
I remember that.

I remember when CD-ROM drives first came out. It was such a novelty.

Me fishes his floppy disk drive out of a box and stares at it. Ah, the good old days.
Click to expand...

I will always fondly remember the install of my first CD ROM.
Drivers and executables etc went into a directory called CD.
so c:> CD CD

/small things.
 
My first exposure to a computer was a terminal that my dad would sometimes get to take home from work. He'd dial a number into IBMs main frame - attach the phone to the acoustic coupler and I'd play star trek all night.

No screen, just a dot matrix printer spewing out page after page - talk about monochrome. :D
 
first PC was a ZX Spectrum 48k (when I got it I sat up all night with it, and was amazed to see that it was day already :D )

then a 286-16, monochrome monitor

then a 386 (to run doom and os/2)

then a 486SX

then a Pentium 133

The old games was in a class of their own, and some, extremely difficult, such as Adventure A, Sabre Wulfe, Knight Lore etc... :D
 
My first pc after my zx only had 256KB of memory, had to upgrade as I couldnt play some games as they need 512KB of ram:(
 
Commodore 64 ! ...... with 2 floppy drives and 2 tape drives. Man, I thought it was the shiz, lol. Wish I could remember my fave games on it though :o
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X