Commodore's back!

[Shea]

Oh hellz yeah...64 bytes are all you'll ever need.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/04/ben-heck-goes-b.html

I can hear Questron calling me.

[Devaclis]

If he can do that with an ADAM computer and the dual tape drives I would buy it!!

[puckstr]

I miss my Amiga

[Bueller]

Vic-20 FTW

I was a cheap bastad even back then.

[puckstr]

With dot matrix printer she cost me $1300 in 1989.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/commodore_amiga-500.jpg


Crazy price. Now I am going shopping for a new laptop for under $550.

[Shea]

Crazy what we paid for computer gear "back in the day". Think I paid $1700 for a 386SX16 with no hard drive way back when. And $300 for 4Mb of 30pin memory.

Now my free phone has more memory and computing power...hehe

[sugarrey]

I remember I ran a bulletin board called the "Silicon Solution", which I was the sysop (remember that title)?

All the other kick ass boards were running 20 meg LT KERNAL's which was the absolute shit storage system.....Before this I was running my board with I think they were 1541 drivers and IEEE SFD 1 meg drives.....When I bought the LT KERNAL is was $1300.....FOR 20 MEG!!!!!! and its footprint was about 18"wide by about 3" high.........Now that drive space would cost me about $.50 and would be as big as a stick of gum.

Ahhhh....those days!!!!

[puckstr]

Crazy what we paid for computer gear "back in the day". Think I paid $1700 for a 386SX16 with no hard drive way back when. And $300 for 4Mb of 30pin memory.

Now my free phone has more memory and computing power...hehe


Shit my buddy ....back in the day traded a 386 motherboard for a used
S&W .44 Magnum:hump:
I was so jealous

[puckstr]

The same friend has a 10mb HDD that has the same foot print of a normal sized microwave. Platters are like 12" (top is opened for display purposes).

[Shea]

Shit my buddy ....back in the day traded a 386 motherboard for a used
S&W .44 Magnum:hump:
I was so jealous

Shit, I've got a couple 486 boards somewhere. Trade ya :)

[puckstr]

Shit, I've got a couple 486 boards somewhere. Trade ya :)


Don't ya wish they were worth that much now

[MetaLord 9]

Dude, we took a 386sx Packard Bell Comp & beefed that puppy up to a 486dx mother trucker and even added on this sweetass new thing called a CD-ROM drive that went at 2x!!! Damn, I remember the days of being master of the boot disk b/c, even with all that, my comp still sucked. :(

[Kim-n-Dean]

1990: Apple II Si was $10,000 and 32 megs of ram for my 486 was $1,500!! But hey, they both had color monitors!!

[rforsythe]

Shit my buddy ....back in the day traded a 386 motherboard for a used
S&W .44 Magnum:hump:
I was so jealous

I actually have a couple 386 motherboards in a box in my basement somewhere. Wanna trade? :eyebrows:

[dirkterrell]

Vic-20 FTW

I was a cheap bastad even back then.

Me too. Picked up a VIC-20 for $90 as I recall at K-Mart in 1983. My tour de force was a Donkey Kong clone that ran on the unexpanded VIC, 5K of RAM. I think after I squeezed everything into RAM, I had 4 or 5 bytes left over. I'll tell you what, it taught me how to write efficient code. About 10 years later I wrote a hydrodynamics code that people thought couldn't be done on a PC of the time. I did it by compressing stuff in memory and various other tricks I learned by coding on the VIC.

Dirk

[MetaLord 9]

Me too. Picked up a VIC-20 for $90 as I recall at K-Mart in 1983. My tour de force was a Donkey Kong clone that ran on the unexpanded VIC, 5K of RAM. I think after I squeezed everything into RAM, I had 4 or 5 bytes left over. I'll tell you what, it taught me how to write efficient code. About 10 years later I wrote a hydrodynamics code that people thought couldn't be done on a PC of the time. I did it by compressing stuff in memory and various other tricks I learned by coding on the VIC.

Dirk
Dirk Terrell - Bring'n Nerdy back.

[Devaclis]

I am running a 286 on a token ring with 2 other 386SX machines as a linux cluster for serving MP3's. I actually had to LEARN new shit to get it to work. Funny how that goes.

[Matty]

i miss my green screened Apple 2c.

[Devaclis]

iic

[MetaLord 9]

101z

[puckstr]

I actually have a couple 386 motherboards in a box in my basement somewhere. Wanna trade? :eyebrows:


Shea ninj'a ya. Besides the trade was the other way around.

Wow $449 and i have a NEW Laptop....kickass