Author Topic: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023 (Read 242237 times)

Idiot · « **Reply #1102 on:** February 21, 2023, 09:16:27 am »

Quote from: Kamaji on February 21, 2023, 07:37:15 am

I remember spending days if not weeks trying to send something over the phone line from my computer to a friends. I was so proud when it finally worked.

Kamaji · « **Reply #1103 on:** February 21, 2023, 09:22:10 am »

Quote from: mrpotatohead on February 21, 2023, 09:16:27 am

I remember spending days if not weeks trying to send something over the phone line from my computer to a friends. I was so proud when it finally worked.

300 baud, baby!

Idiot · « **Reply #1104 on:** February 21, 2023, 09:28:13 am »

Quote from: Kamaji on February 21, 2023, 09:22:10 am

300 baud, baby!

We pirated computer games in college by copying the 10" floppy disks. Seems we had to add errors to the disks in different places to get it to work. Crap...that was over 40 years ago.... Our computer lab used punch cards.

Kamaji · « **Reply #1105 on:** February 21, 2023, 09:31:24 am »

Kamaji · « **Reply #1106 on:** February 21, 2023, 09:32:06 am »

Quote from: mrpotatohead on February 21, 2023, 09:28:13 am

We pirated computer games in college by copying the 10" floppy disks. Seems we had to add errors to the disks in different places to get it to work. Crap...that was over 40 years ago.... Our computer lab used punch cards.

I hung with some guys who would jailbreak atari games and put them onto 5-1/4" floppies.

roamer_1 · « **Reply #1107 on:** February 21, 2023, 09:36:59 am »

Quote from: mrpotatohead on February 21, 2023, 09:28:13 am

We pirated computer games in college by copying the 10" floppy disks. Seems we had to add errors to the disks in different places to get it to work. Crap...that was over 40 years ago.... Our computer lab used punch cards.

I came around for 14400, and installing Windows 3.11 WFWG.from something close to 10 floppies...

Kamaji · « **Reply #1108 on:** February 21, 2023, 09:39:31 am »

DB · « **Reply #1109 on:** February 21, 2023, 09:46:58 am »

Quote from: mrpotatohead on February 21, 2023, 09:28:13 am

We pirated computer games in college by copying the 10" floppy disks. Seems we had to add errors to the disks in different places to get it to work. Crap...that was over 40 years ago.... Our computer lab used punch cards.

One of the early Doom or Quake versions had hard defects in the media so the disc couldn't be copied easily.

catfish1957 · « **Reply #1110 on:** February 21, 2023, 09:57:14 am »

Quote from: roamer_1 on February 21, 2023, 09:36:59 am

I came around for 14400, and installing Windows 3.11 WFWG.from something close to 10 floppies...

I think my entry point was in 1986, with my XT Clone, 30 Mg HD, DOS 2.0, one 5 1/4" floppy, and I think we were at 300 baud modem level at the time. And I was the pride of the neighborhood with my CGA monitor.

Whole get up, at the time set me back $2300..... which was a ton of cash in 1986.

roamer_1 · « **Reply #1111 on:** February 21, 2023, 10:05:39 am »

Quote from: catfish1957 on February 21, 2023, 09:57:14 am

I think my entry point was in 1986, with my XT Clone, 30 Mg HD, DOS 2.0, one 5 1/4" floppy, and I think we were at 300 baud modem level at the time. And I was the pride of the neighborhood with my CGA monitor.

Whole get up, at the time set me back $2300..... which was a ton of cash in 1986.

I never paid a dime for mine, even back then.

My first was a 386SX, Tandy I believe... That the folks that wound up being my inlaws broke. They gave it to me broken. That's the first one I fixed. and the one I learned DOS on. Turns out there was a pie recipe in AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS, can't remember which, but I rewrote the files to approximate proper and it fired right up.

Been fixing em ever since.

DB · « **Reply #1112 on:** February 21, 2023, 11:03:26 am »

IBM 5150 PC 1, the first version of the IBM PC is what I had in the early 80's... A 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 with 64 kB of base memory expanded to 640 kB which cost a small fortune then. The expansion memory card had a real time clock (RTC) on it with battery backup so you didn't have to enter the date and time each time you powered it up. Started using it with Cassette BASIC... Added an 8087 math coprocessor to it to increase the math computational speed by about a factor of 7. Wrote the programs to use it in assembly.

Kamaji · « **Reply #1113 on:** February 21, 2023, 11:36:58 am »

Quote from: DB on February 21, 2023, 11:03:26 am

IBM 5150 PC 1, the first version of the IBM PC is what I had in the early 80's... A 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 with 64 kB of base memory expanded to 640 kB which cost a small fortune then. The expansion memory card had a real time clock (RTC) on it with battery backup so you didn't have to enter the date and time each time you powered it up. Started using it with Cassette BASIC... Added an 8087 math coprocessor to it to increase the math computational speed by about a factor of 7. Wrote the programs to use it in assembly.

My first system was an IBM 5155 "portable" with the orange screen and two 5-1/4" floppies, and 640K of memory:

That cost a pretty penny back then, even after the university discount.

Kamaji · « **Reply #1114 on:** February 21, 2023, 12:37:30 pm »

Kamaji · « **Reply #1115 on:** February 21, 2023, 12:38:26 pm »

Kamaji · « **Reply #1116 on:** February 21, 2023, 12:38:40 pm »

Kamaji · « **Reply #1117 on:** February 21, 2023, 01:31:20 pm »

Kamaji · « **Reply #1118 on:** February 21, 2023, 01:32:55 pm »

Kamaji · « **Reply #1119 on:** February 21, 2023, 01:33:45 pm »

DB · « **Reply #1120 on:** February 21, 2023, 04:00:04 pm »

Quote from: Kamaji on February 21, 2023, 11:36:58 am

My first system was an IBM 5155 "portable" with the orange screen and two 5-1/4" floppies, and 640K of memory:

That cost a pretty penny back then, even after the university discount.

Pretty cool. The monochrome display adapter font was very nice too. And I still prefer an IBM style clacky key keyboard... Anyone remember Mouse Systems optical mice from somewhere around that time? A must have at the time.

Kamaji · « **Reply #1121 on:** February 21, 2023, 04:03:45 pm »

Kamaji · « **Reply #1122 on:** February 21, 2023, 04:04:12 pm »

Quote from: DB on February 21, 2023, 04:00:04 pm

Pretty cool. The monochrome display adapter font was very nice too. And I still prefer an IBM style clacky key keyboard... Anyone remember Mouse Systems optical mice from somewhere around that time? A must have at the time.

The keyboard was nice. I don't know what ever happened to that thing; it would be fun to find it and take a trip down memory lane.

Kamaji · « **Reply #1123 on:** February 21, 2023, 04:05:12 pm »

DB · « **Reply #1124 on:** February 21, 2023, 04:06:35 pm »

Quote from: Kamaji on February 21, 2023, 04:04:12 pm

The keyboard was nice. I don't know what ever happened to that thing; it would be fun to find it and take a trip down memory lane.

I finally got rid of mine about 5 years ago when I moved to a smaller home with less storage.