Those were the days ...

[Maggi]

Hi Dudes'n'Dudettes !

I thought you might want to share some thoughts to the early days of real home computing ...
http://www.tech-report.com/etc/2000q3/fes/

Has a very deep look back to the AMIGA days.



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Cheers,
Maggi

Despite my nickname causing confusion, I am not female ...

Celeron 566 @ 952MHz
Asus P2B-S @ 112MHz FSB
128MB olden PC100 SDRAM
G400 32MB DH Vanilla @ 150.8/201.0MHz core/mem

[Raptor^]

That Amiga is 16 bit...its nowhere near the dawn of home computing

Hows about a nice 8 bit C64, or Amstrad CPC.

Or even a Dragon 48k (dunno any real details about that, too young to remember it properly:P)

92 and Amiga 1200s, must have been around the time of the 386.

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P3-700E, Abit BF6, G400 MAX, 8.6 gig Seagate, 8.6 gig WD, SBLive 1024, 256Mb PC100... Mouse, Keyb, Stuff

[Maggi]

Well, that's why I called it real home computing ...

But just for the record, I started off with a genuine Commodore C64 which was replaced lateron by a genuine Commodore A1200 (I still have that Commodore sticker at home ... )

[agallag]

My computing life went in the following order, not including machines used at work:

- Pong
- Intellivision II
- Commodore PET
- Commodore 64
- Commodore 64C
- Amiga 500, 1MB ram, 880KB floppy, no HD
- 286-12MHz, 2MB ram, 40MB HD
- 386-33MHz, 4MB ram, 120MB HD
big jump coming up...
- Pentium 100, 16MB ram, 1.2GB HD
- Pentium2 350, 64MB ram, 13GB HD - still using this one
- overdue to upgrade again, but I gots no monies...

Not bad eh?

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Andrew

[Paulr]

Oh how I still remember my first computer.
What a Christmas it was when I opened my:
Sinclair ZX81.
That 1k of memory was more than enough and the 'silver receipt style' printer was amazing!

[The PIT]

What was my first the old commadore vic20 followed by the c64 and then the amiga500 and then 1500 with a pc emulator on it so I could do the college work at home.

[xortam]

Kids, kids, kids. My first computer was foot powered . Actually, I didn't buy a home computer for quite some time and the first one landed up being a Mac Classic (to be used as a multimedia controller). I started programming in 1970 so I've seen my share of early computing. Hell, my father built one of the first computers in '52 (same time as Eniac): An OR gate with a footprint as big as a full sized PCI card, but with a colony of tubes tacked on. Debugging with AM radios ... ah, those were the days.

[Himself]

1. fingers
2. toes
3. crayon
4. pencil
5. Pen
6. calculator
7. Atari 600xl
8. C64
9. C64
10. c128
11. Amiga 1000
12. Amiga 500
13. Amiga 500
14. Amiga 1200
15. Amiga 1200
16. Intel 386
17. Intel 486
18. Intel 486
19. AMD something
20. AMD 233
21. AMD k6-2 266
22. AMD k6-2 300
23. AMD k6-3 400
24. AMD Duron in waiting..


[This message has been edited by Himself (edited 08 September 2000).]

[Guyver]

Hmmmm.... This is always a good one to fall back through...

1st Computer to work on at school... Apple II (not plus, not c, not e, just a plain ol' II)
1st Home computer - TI 99/4A
2nd Home computer - Homebuilt 286-12
3rd Home computer - 386-33
3rd, 2nd Rev - 386-40, Cyrix Math-co
4th Home computer - 486-33, VLB, Promise Controller with 16MB 60ns Cache, 32MB 60ns RAM
4th, 2nd Rev - 486-66DX2
4th, 3rd Rev - AMD DX4100
5th Home computer - Pentium 90, (Millenium)
5th, 2nd Rev - Pentium 120
5th, 3rd Rev - Pentium 133
5th, 4th Rev - AMD K6-200, Millenium-II
5th, 5th Rev - AMD K6-300, Millenium-II, replaced with Mystique G200
6th Computer - AMD K6-350, Mystique G200, M3D
6th, 2nd Rev - AMD K62-400
7th Computer - PIII-450, Abit BX6R2, Mystique G200, 129FSB
8th Computer - PIII-450, Abit BE6, G400Max, 133FSB
8th, 2nd Rev - PIII-650, Abit BE6-II/BE6, G400Max, 133FSB
8th, 3rd Rev - PIII-850, Abit BX133-RAID, 120FSB
9th - TBD

I know there's been some more revs, but I forgot them... ;-)

Guyver

[Jorden]

CKing, how many TV's or monitors do you have with all those working C64's? Gosh, I'd really give an arm and a leg to see them all working at the same time, all with a different demo on

My C64 will soon be moving from my mum's house to my flat, and have it's own place next to the TV... Just don't know yet where to store all 500+ floppies

Jord.

[Jorden]

C.K. : Binary Zone Interactive

Just follow the links page to get to pages full of C64 demos, both tape and disk format

Or just write in on BZDP, and mention my name. I know for sure that Jason (Kenz) McKenzie will give you a couple of freebies if you mention my name

Jord.

[Jorden]

Think Doom, and then think is it possible on a C64? ... It is
In a demo anyway

Even if you run an emulator on your PC, lots of the demo's will work (as long as you have the image files for the emulator of those disks etc.

The best one is still my favorite CCS64

More nudges, C.K.

Jord.

[foft]

Doom style engine on a C64?! Impossible isn't it? They had a slower 6502 than the Atari 400/800 and that could not manage it (IIRC CPU is too slow to clear an 8KB single colour screen in a frame). Well I could not code it anyway - my unfilled vectors were slow enough for my liking

Hmm - time to download some demos! Or maybe try to do a Megablast port, that is the best game ever IMHO. Ahh - nostagia

[xortam]

Those aren't computers, they're just toys. Real computers you had to walk up to with a cart full of disks, stand up at the console and flip dials and switches, load address, control address, 3-card boot, k-thunk, k-thunk, k-thunk, flashing lights ... now thats the real thing!

[Holerith]

xortam!

Those aren't computers, they're just toys. Real computers you had to walk up to with a cart full of disks, stand up at the console and flip dials and switches, load address, control address, 3-card boot, k-thunk, k-thunk, k-thunk, flashing lights ... now thats the real thing!

Got that right! (un)fortunatey I rememebr those.

'scuse me, my card reader just finished ...




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Dean
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PDP-11, Dec-writer & ZD-11 Terminal Unit, RSTS-OS

[This message has been edited by Holerith (edited 30 September 2000).]