So you like to be called pretty do you?

Yup, yup. Me too. Back in the dark ages of computer communication. Started with my 25 mhz computer with 2 megs of RAM, and a 2400 baud modem. No fancy graphics either, only ASCII and ANSI. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

As opposed to "ruggedly handsome". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Wow, sounds like a supercomputer! My first home computer was really home made, it was a Heathkit H8. It had a 1 mhz 8080 CPU and 8 Kb of ram, which I later expanded to 64 Kb. You can do a lot with 64 Kb if you write in assembler.

Yeah, I used that one too. I started with computers in 1985 at the age of 5. The one I mentioned was the 1st one that we bought in 1992 that I used in my BBS days.

mmmmmm 20mb hard drives. I remember when I came home with a new computer running a 486 DX2 at 50mhz with 400mb of harddrive and a 14400 model. My dad thought I was the schnizzle.

Our first home computer was a 486 Dx2 33Mhz with a massive 170mb hard drive. That was a middle of the road model when we bought it.



Bors

And you could still probably play X-wing fighter.

Prior to hard drives we used 8-inch floppys for mass storage. The 5.25 inchers did not hold enough to be considered "mass" storage. The first hard drive I ever had held 5, count them 5 megabytes. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. As I recall they were called Winchester drives, but I don't know if that was the brand or where else that name came from.

I hated that ours didn't have enough RAM to play Doom. But at least Wolf 3D worked with it, which came on a big 5.25" floppy disk. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />