You grew up in the 90s if... - Page 2

**Dick Blonov** · 09-27-2006, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Wimpinator

Uh a good amount of that stuff is from the 80's. I was there, trust me.

Anyone remember BBs's? I used to stay up all night tying up the phone line on my 286sx trying new boards at a screaming 2400 baud. Those were the days.

Ahh, my first 20Mb hard drive, 5 1/4 inch floppies, 640K ram.

My Renault 5

*sigh*

DB

**Apophis** · 09-27-2006, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Wimpinator

Uh a good amount of that stuff is from the 80's. I was there, trust me.

Anyone remember BBs's? I used to stay up all night tying up the phone line on my 286sx trying new boards at a screaming 2400 baud. Those were the days.

Damn, that was a fast modem!

My first modem was a Zoom Telephonics Modem IIe. It ran at a whopping 110/300 baud. No, it wasn't an acoustic coupler, but it might as well have been. I remember when I got my Apple Cat modem with 212 card, I was in high-speed modem heaven. Then a friend of mine picked up an authentic Hayes 2400 baud modem for around $1,100 US and made us all jealous.

Here's a trivia question:

http://www.tacticalgamer.com/members...-question.html

**WhiskeySix** · 09-27-2006, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Santa

I only remember half of the 90s

me too - though for different reasons i suspect :/

icky · 09-27-2006, 07:26 PM

LOL@Whiskey

I think we should make an early days of home computers thread to avoid any more massive hijacking.

I got very fit in the late 80's because I used to lift weights while waiting for huge 100k files to download.

**Apophis** · 09-27-2006, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Apophis

Damn, that was a fast modem!

My first modem was a Zoom Telephonics Modem IIe. It ran at a whopping 110/300 baud. No, it wasn't an acoustic coupler, but it might as well have been. I remember when I got my Apple Cat modem with 212 card, I was in high-speed modem heaven. Then a friend of mine picked up an authentic Hayes 2400 baud modem for around $1,100 US and made us all jealous.

Here's a trivia question:

http://www.tacticalgamer.com/members...-question.html

As an FYI. Both Perry and Maus answered the trivia question(s) correctly so close together that they are both going to be awarded the prize of a brandy new retail version of Battlefield 2142, pre-ordered in their name, shipped to their doorstep!

perry · 09-27-2006, 08:11 PM

I got my first 2400 modem with a Prodigy kit from Babbage's! Dialed up on the Commodore Colt (XT clone) with two low density 5 1/4" drives and no harddrive. 486 DX/2-66 after that.. Been downhill ever since..

**WhiskeySix** · 09-27-2006, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by icky

waiting for huge 100k files to download.

as I was installing my 2GB of RAM the other night, I couldn't help but think how friggin cool that is... 2 Gigabytes.... of RAM!

Paperchase · 09-27-2006, 10:26 PM

Heh, Toys 'R' Us.

icky · 09-28-2006, 12:58 AM

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Originally Posted by WhiskeySix

as I was installing my 2GB of RAM the other night, I couldn't help but think how friggin cool that is... 2 Gigabytes.... of RAM!

I have an old tech magazine which I kept around just for one review. I think it is from 84 or so, with a review of an IBM XT machine with a 5 Megabyte Hard Drive! The reviewer goes on at great length about the significance of having that kind of storage available. Enough room to keep over 100 word processor files!

Now you can walk around with 16000 times that storage in your ipod.

**Apophis** · 09-28-2006, 01:03 AM

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Originally Posted by WhiskeySix

as I was installing my 2GB of RAM the other night, I couldn't help but think how friggin cool that is... 2 Gigabytes.... of RAM!

I think I has 128K of memory on my Apple IIe. I thought it was amazing when I moved up to 1MB on my Amiga (I think it was 1MB. Now that I type it i'm not so sure). When I got my first PC, a 486 DX2/66 I went all out and spent over $4,000 on a Compaq Proliant and upgraded it to 8MB of RAM with a 340MB hard drive. Less than a year later I bought an Adaptec AHA-1542 SCSI controller and picked up a full-height 5.25" Micropolis 1.7GB drive. I had more storage than all my friends machines combined. I almost had 2GB! Damn. I was cool.

**WhiskeySix** · 09-28-2006, 02:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Apophis

I think I has 128K of memory on my Apple IIe. I thought it was amazing when I moved up to 1MB on my Amiga (I think it was 1MB. Now that I type it i'm not so sure). When I got my first PC, a 486 DX2/66 I went all out and spent over $4,000 on a Compaq Proliant and upgraded it to 8MB of RAM with a 340MB hard drive. Less than a year later I bought an Adaptec AHA-1542 SCSI controller and picked up a full-height 5.25" Micropolis 1.7GB drive. I had more storage than all my friends machines combined. I almost had 2GB! Damn. I was cool.

And now you've got this sucker running on all cylinders... still pretty cool I'd say!

The other thing that makes me happy to think about is my first monitor (13" 640x480 orange monochrome) compared with the one I'm currently on. (20" 1680x1050, 4 Billion colors).

RocketPunch · 09-28-2006, 02:22 AM

I had a fully functional 1991 Macintosh Classic II that I bought on ebay for $25. That thing is amazing and I can't believe that thing cost $1,900 USD in 1991....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Classic_II

aeroripper · 09-28-2006, 05:27 AM

This is all a trip down memory lane. Rad racer, 4mb of massive ram storage :O.

**Wyzcrak** · 09-28-2006, 11:25 AM

I met my wife on a Mac Classic. I told her it had FOUR MEGS of RAM.

Yeah. She pretty much fell for me right away. What can I say? She responds to power.

icky · 09-28-2006, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by RocketPunch

I had a fully functional 1991 Macintosh Classic II that I bought on ebay for $25. That thing is amazing and I can't believe that thing cost $1,900 USD in 1991....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Classic_II

I remember gathering around a Mac that my friend's father had borrowed from work in about 1985. We were astounded by the resolution on the little screen and the things you could do with MacPaint! You could even save your drawings on a little square floppy disk!

They were portable! You could put your Mac in a soft bag shaped like a cube and bring it wherever you went!

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