bbbb Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 If you could get back any old pc that you had back in the day, which one would it be? (This list to choose from could include any old pc that you have used, ie Commodore64, 386, 286, Mac, Apple II, Pentium 120mhz, etc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_strekge Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Zenith Data Systems 286, using composite c: (an old ansi char conversion dos command, I still use it have it in my MS-DOS71 almost 2gb slice :) I remember games like darkdesI, programs like pctools, ibm storyboard plus, playing games like digger 1983, cabal, sopwith, zaxxon, etcetera. with a 5.25 floppy disk drive and heavy 20 30 mb hard drives. I revived the feeling with a cheap 286 Zenith laptop that I found 5 or 6 years ago, i still miss that thing with borland turbo basic and other tyny apps I put on it, it had the battery charger, a monochomatic blue/black ambar screen (that could make you blind in about half hour) but was nice to have it right next to the night table and making 2 letters dirs and using the pc speaker util talk to make the pc speaker talk or say your name like a cheap synthethizer :P and I also had once two IBM 8088 xt (I still have simm 256kb and 512kb ram for it, and I installed hard disks to them when I had them, now the older pc I had is in a field rest house, it is a pI 200mhz MMX Gateway3000 model, with a 1.3gb hard disk, 64ram and win98 and it connects trought a modem, it has also a legacy sound ISA card. I have crystal sound isa & sound blaster isa 16 cards, 1 Rockwell FM-9618 33.6600kbps and I also had at that time a matricial printer again to do noisy printing :P.Until today I still use my old good "Reveal" Sound Blaster speakers, I prefer them to those cheap toy speakers you may found these days. (I had a Packard Bell once after that, that was the first color PC with win3.1 I had, and I remember once being taked to the principal's office for copying two 3 1/2 floppies, program at 7th grade, at that time regular childs weren't suposed to knew a thing about the diskcopy command and it's sintax and switches :P when the closest thing to an internet browser was telix for dos) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnifex Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 I had a Vic 20.. real keyboard, none of that rubber shit... boss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amnot Borg Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 ah, the old Apple II and IIe bring back some memories. so do the older IBMs. I still have my college games here at home, somewhere. I just can't play the disks without hooking up an old 5 1/4 floppy drive. I never moved them between upgrades. Probably easier to find them online now than change my machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USWhoFan Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 I miss my C64, I ran a BBS on it for 8+ years. Those were the days. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiggy Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 The trusty Spectrum +3.......... http://nvg.org/sinclair/computers/zxspectrum/specplus3.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbb Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 The trusty Spectrum +3.......... http://nvg.org/sinclair/computers/zxspectrum/specplus3.htm That's an interesting looking machine there. How much RAM would it have had back then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rara Avis Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 I still own the original IBM "suitcase". Info here http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/portable.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbb Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 Was it just like the IBM PC? Wow that's a small screen. It must have been monochrome I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rara Avis Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Monochrome yes, Black screen with green type. Can you imagine? LOL It will only handle Windows 3.1 (or DOS of course). Dinosaur indeed. Must be a collectors item by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbb Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 If you run Win 3.1 on it is it really slow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x5315 Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 i know technically it's not legacy, but it's deprecated hardware. i recently got a 12" Powerbook G4. It's really pretty :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 Arrrrh my best ever computer was my trusty and reliable Commodore 64 & my old Commodore Amiga A1200 AGA......was always fun poking fun out of spectrum owners and slagging of there pathetic rubber keyboard, Mono-Chrome graphics and the crap sound lol...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbb Posted February 29, 2008 Author Share Posted February 29, 2008 rubber keyboard? That must have been an odd thing to work on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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