How old are you guys?
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Just for laughs, what resolution did that tube have?[..........] Heck I even got one with a RGB color monitor. lol
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And the length of the screen diagonal?
GreyWolf
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Well I went all out and got the bigger 13" monitor. The PC had a CGA card so the max resolution was 640x200 but it could also display 320x200 if necessary. I also kicked in a bit extra to get the faster 1200baud modem so I could dial into the BBSes, and I maxed the PC memory out to the full 640k. I couldn't afford a harddrive though so I had to just use the 360k floppies for the first couple years I had it. Was glad to have two floppy drives so I could use one for the program disk and the other for data instead of having to swap disks so much. I was in heaven a couple years later when I got my first HD and I got a 30MB drive instead of a 10 or 20MB which were more common at the time. :cool2:
nuclearrap
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Im 19.. but Im feeling 99992342343234596794 myself..
LOL! LOOOL!
OMG, my man. How the hell did you get anything done on that box?
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GreyWolf
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Well one thing I was able to do was download a shitload of shareware and freeware games and apps from the bbses and save them on those floppies. Then I was able to re-archive and re-upload them with an order form text file people could print, fillout, and mail to me to order more at $5 per shareware packed floppy.LOL! LOOOL!
OMG, my man. How the hell did you get anything done on that box?
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Those specs might seem funny today, but in 1984-86 it was actually a pretty decent computer. Adding the harddrive and upgrading to a 2400baud modem kept it useful for several years after that. I couldn't run windows, but back then who wanted to anyway, DOS was still king!!! lol.
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Alexfrance
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Just like many here, I am still a university student. Yeah, we are a young bunch of wacky internet marketeers. Same as Abstroose; was into IM, then quit cuz of girls, then I wandered back into the world of IM
livecricket
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oxonbeef
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Windows for workgroups changed the world as we knew it.
I'm 50 on Saturday.
One thing that really stuck in my head was buying a 486DX and the guy telling
me it would be the last computer I would ever buy, they will never get faster then that.
I wonder if he's in the same job?
I still call forums bulletin boards.
