The World Wide Web was officially introduced to the world on August 6, 1991

[Agee]

Mine was a Packard Bell... from Circuit City.

Deja-vu

 

[jazz lady]

Mine was a Packard Bell... from Circuit City.

Sorry for your luck.

My package came with a DM printer also. They are hideous. I also remember moving up to my Canon bubblejet; one-quarter the size and 100x the print quality.

I remember eventually replacing my dot-matrix with an HP LaserJet 4L and thinking it was the bomb.

 

[chernmax]

LOL, been working on computers since the 80's, however my first home computer was a Crapard Bell also.

An amazing 133MHZ with 16 MB Ram, 1MB Video Ram (upgradable to 2MB ) and a monster 1.2 GB HD...

Today 3.2GB P4 Processor, 3GB Ram, 256 MB DDR Video Ram, (3 HD's) totaling 270GB Storage. Plus a sh!t load more, oh times have changed...






Do we actually have to tell kids today the sound like a broken MP3 player???

 

[itsbob]

My first computer was a Tandy.. 286/20 I think.. 512k of memory but you could upgrade by buying individual 128 k memory circuits at like $100 a piece.. and there was a huge board you had to attach each memory circuit to. I had a 20 Meg HD, and I think at the time DOS could only control a 40 MEG at the most.

The hard drive was used mostly for saving files as DOS and most programs still ran from the floppy drive.

Wait.. there was a COmmodore 64 and a Commodore 128 before that..

 

[MMDad]

I worked in the Seagate 10 MB hard drive clean room, installing discs and heads. When we were being trained, they tried to explain how much 10 MB was. We were told that it was inconceivable that anyone could ever fill a 10 MB drive.

 

[chernmax]

I worked in the Seagate 10 MB hard drive clean room, installing discs and heads. When we were being trained, they tried to explain how much 10 MB was. We were told that it was inconceivable that anyone could ever fill a 10 MB drive.

Hello 1 song size...

 

[jazz lady]

I worked in the Seagate 10 MB hard drive clean room, installing discs and heads. When we were being trained, they tried to explain how much 10 MB was. We were told that it was inconceivable that anyone could ever fill a 10 MB drive.

Obviously none of them ever worked for Microbloat.

 

[itsbob]

Hello 1 song size...

True, but back then the PC was still considered a work machine.. they were looking at saving WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 files on HD instead of floppies. There were no pictures yet, no music files no games to speak of unless they could run off of a floppy disk..

 

[chernmax]

True, but back then the PC was still considered a work machine.. they were looking at saving WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 files on HD instead of floppies. There were no pictures yet, no music files no games to speak of unless they could run off of a floppy disk..

I understand, I'm just referring to the irony of how far we have come in such a short time, especially when you consider small things like 2GB memory sticks, 300GB iPods, 500GB HD, etc. etc.

That's one of the reasons I like the movie Weird Science, because it highlights some of the older computer technology... (plus the movies funny and the babes are HOT!!!)

 

[hvp05]

That's one of the reasons I like the movie Weird Science, because it highlights some of the older computer technology...

:wargames:

The single oldest computer memory I have is playing with my uncle's computer, probably around '84. I don't know any of the specs, but to say it ran off 5.25" floppies. And it kicked azz!

I had to back up my [old] computer once... ~100 Mb diced up and crammed onto so many 1.44 Mb diskettes.

 

[willie]

Monster CPU of the '60's
16 KILOBYTES with exra storage.