Nostalgia thread: /g/ editionPic very related.
Hitler's personal doctor
>>25114666I-is that d-doctor Watson?
>>25114666
>>25114666Someone pulled a prank on me and associated every file with Dr. Watson.It was like the Aryan Brotherhood invaded my computer.
my family's first pcI remember reading those books when I was like five or six
All dat RAM.
I swim in nostalgia everyday.
Another [neo]nostalgia thread>>25114562And here is, the one and only machine such cool as Amiga, unfortunately not so widely known. Shame on you, Acorn marketing board.
You've got mail! :D
>>25114772I remember that... my grandpa had onehe sat me and my brother down when I was in preschool and told us that computers were the way of the future and we should learn all we could about themthen he told us to never join the army because war fucking sucks
>>25114843Are you the dude who got that box full of old PC hardware? Lucky bastard.
>>25114848i've used an acorn before, but never an amiga
>>25114869People still remember that thread? Yeah, that's me.
>>25114848acorns were the shit. I tried to get my folks to get one but my dad thought they were undersupported
>mosaic
Used this in school, 7th grade i think, macs with the voice when you clicked on an icon
>>25114883I remember Patrick's badass purple theme from 5 years ago, I don't forget threads about interesting shit like that. What did you end up doing with it? Anything interesting?
>>25114848That is 1995 desktop, but is not far away of its original 1989 incarnation - comparable to win95, but faster and generally more comfortable IMHO.>>25114820You miss Compuserve or OS/2? :-) The latter is another big loss.
>>25114843Have some.
>>25114986i don't remember the fonts looking that good in RiscOS..
Wish I still had my copy.
>>25114986OS/2 Netscape Navigator and the Incredible Machine stick out in my head.
>>25114986I don't miss all this stuff, but I still get nostalgic over it..
>>25114986OS/2 isn't dead, it just changed name and owner, eComStation 2.2 is getting released in two months.>>25114992And gopher is still alive and well, too.<self_advertisement>gopher.su</self_advertisement>
>>25115031>>25115000Oh, I remember this thread. Some guy (your's?) boss brought in a bunch of old computers and displayed them.
My first computer. ;_;
this is my favorite thread out of all the years I've wasted on 4chan.
HI CRAZIES!!!!EYE HAVE A 486DX@33MHZ wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
>>25115037Motherfucker, I learnt graphic design on that program.I can't remember its name though... 1997...
>>25115073Yeap. I've discovered that the laptop posted >>25115051 is a 386 computer. With some luck it still might run Gentoo.
Here is the amiga 600. I heard those were expensive as fuck in their time.
Had this ~1994. What a hunk of shit.
>>25115127It's called Creative Writer.There was also a painting program of the same line called Fine Artist.
this thread lacks in...
>>25115127>that program>learnedreconsider what you think graphic design means
I can remember having a amstrad cpc
>>25115257Have some Sinclair ZX81.
>>25115256Microsoft sure loves that ribbon interface.
>>25115285I was just 9...
>>25115321Wrong pic. That was a clone. This one is the real thing.
>>25115346Holy shit! You're right!
>>25115346Its actually based on Microsoft Bob's interface.The original cancer.
That fucking keyboard...
>>25115320Fuck I loved that game to death.
>>25115386Can't compare with >>25115358. It is so bad they added some BASIC keybinds to facilitate typing.
>>25115394It's still my favorite C64 game. Dat playability.
>>25115405It does look pretty awful.
My personal top-three 8-bit platform list:1) Acorn Master2) Apple IIe/IIc3) Amstrad CPC 6128
>>25115385..speaking of which..
I had one of these in higschool, got it off of ebay for fairly cheap.
I love threads like this, because they're direct evidence most of 4chan is a hell of a lot older than 18-22.
>>25115497>implying it's not that we're just super poor and only stopped using this stuff a couple years ago
This thread needs moar voodoo
>>25115497>mostNope. Though it's nice it's not a 100% facebook child fest.
>calling the Sierra game help 900 number for tips because I was too stupid to complete this on my own
My Apple ][ Plus is revision 0. You have a revision 1. You are a n00b.
>>25115522I've used the same Voodoo 3 3500 for 3 years. I still have the board although I'm not sure if the board is working perfectly.It is in the original box. Those 3dfx voodoo boxes could really stand out. I remember people displaying them at the stores side by side.
>>25115568>uses an Apple>calls others noobslol
>>25115580You are new here (and by here I mean planet Earth).
>>25115109
" Popular Science once did a prizewinning story on how the space program has contributed to life on Earth. Now, in a small way, perhaps the Activision video game "Space Shuttle" has returned the favor."The real shuttle uses its large engines to de-orbit and its smaller ones for minor adjustments," Steve Kitchen, Space Shuttle's designer, told me. "Our game works the same way, but during the two years of game development and testing, someone accidentally landed using just the small engines.""Kitchen thought it was an error in his programming, so he asked NASA to simulate the same event on their computers to see what the real results should be. "We were astonished," said Kitchen. "It did it on their computer, too." While Kitchen claims no credit for changes in NASA's plans, he says an emergency procedure on how to land using just the small engines in now part of the real shuttle's instruction manual. "
>>25115639Isn't the DX2 the first version with an integrated FPU?
>>25115655It's like the llano of its time.
My first computer had one of these in it
>>25115681>first computer had a 3D accelleratoryou're making me feel old, stop it
>>25115697Haha, sorry.It had a pentium 2 and some other bits thrown in too. I built my next system myself with an AMD K6 and some other things
>>25115639I remember installing that. babby's first cpu upgrade
>>25115522
best version
>>25115697what I meant was, my first computer that I owned myself, my family had an old pentium 1 before that, back in the dark days of AOL.
>>25115763Back in the day, I used to think this was the greatest thing ever.
>>25115763i used it as long as i used XP (up to 2008)
>>25115786It was!
>>25115553Nostalgia fap is always the best. I remember jacking off to this so long ago...
>>25115788(and started on a 468DX2/66)
>>25115553Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1987 - remade in 1991 and being remade again for a 2012 release)Holy fuck
I miss the days when GUIs were truly intuitive to use, when buttons actually looked like buttons and not the stupid pieces of text that you're somehow supposed to find out are clickable.
>OH OH 10 YEARS AGO WAS A LONG TIME AGO.
>>25115844for most of us, it was half our lives ago
>>25115844since im 12, thats almost half my lifeYOLO
When I say "I still have it" I mean "I still have it".I'm not touching my 3500 but here are some pictures of my Voodoo 3 2000 PCI.
>>25115681Those jacquard loom made textile... Nostalgia...>>25115650It's interesting for me, because I'm interested in retrocomputing as in spaceflight history. It is A2600 game I think? Where I can read the full story?Here , Apollo Guidance Computer. 2 MHz, 4 KB of RAM, 72 KB of ROM and guides spacecraft to the moon. What do you do with yours 3 GHz machines /g/?
>>25115817This was the first photo image I displayed on a computer
Sorry for the shitty smartphone quality.
>>25115862> 10 is almost 6
>>25115884dat anorexia
>>25115855I'm 19 too but I really don't feel 90s is that far.
Looks like it's in the trees, Jim.
>>25115837>>Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1987 - remade in 1991 and being remade again for a 2012 release)Fuck remakes. Go to http://sarien.net on your iPad and play the real thing for free.
unf
>>25115930i'm 22
>>25115935fuck yes. I loved this game.
>>25115839I know what you mean. For some reason, I've always loved the style of Windows 95 icons... Limited palette, limited dimension... and these were still more understandable than some of the stuff we have now.
>>25115968this
>>25115968>nostalgia>implying that isn't my current screensaver
>>25115959>on your iPadWell shucks.
>>25115977Oh shit man, somebody does unterstand me! Also, a computer used to feel like science device, not a consumer appliance.
Rodent's Revenge anyone ?
>>25115887> Neuromancer> Count Zero> Tux plushieMah nigga.
>>25116029>mlp figureI condemn you to the fullest extent.
>>25115879>It's interesting for me, because I'm interested in retrocomputing as in spaceflight history. It is A2600 game I think? Where I can read the full story?I found it here:http://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/cvg/shuttle.htmlI was looking for it because I remember it from back in the day. It was an Activision game so it was on a lot of platforms, I played it on the C64
I used to play Duke Nukem 2 and Jazz Jack Rabbit on this bad boy.Too bad it came with a shitty compaq proprietary connector, I know the pinning, but I don't want to dissect this old buddy...And it's not even mechanical.
>>25114863...fonts. damn it. that variety and different spacings outside arial/helve/myriad..and colors on every stuff. fuck.
>>25115091http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx
>>25116071>You better get the hang of this. One day you might be up here for real.This is causing strong feelings to surface in me for some reason, but I'm not sure it's entirely nostalgia.
>>25116071Remember when Activision was good?
>>25116006There is something about old computers that is hard to describe.While inferior in any way to current hardware, old systems had this 'bare bone' philosophy that, if it had been followed up to today would result in completely different systems. Probably a lot less useable for general users, but highly optimized for professionals.The farer back you go, the stronger this gets.
>>25116069Do as you wish.
Summer Games, twitchers
Even in Windows 7, there is still elements of nostalgia. moricons.dll for example.
>>25116188Explain.
>>25116082Holy shit, now I want a keyboard with built-in speakers.Also, I remember spending fucking days messing around with clip-art to make shitty print-outs as a kid. I felt like such an artist.
>>25116123That's pretty awesome.>>25116125Time to watch Space Camp, bro.
>>25116123>use it as a home theater system!>IO directly on the back of the keyboard
>>25116200>built-in speakersMan. That was a fucking built-in Beeper.BEEP motherfucker, BEEP !And it had a ps2 mouse port.Forgive the shitty picture...
>>25116255The RaspberryPi is much more the spiritual successor of the C64 than the 64x.
>>25116071Thanks
>>25116150>we wanted the casual audience
>>25116133>Remember when Activision was good?Chopper Command?and...
>>25116150>Probably a lot less useable for general users, but highly optimized for professionals.>The farer back you go, the stronger this gets.then along came Apple
>>25116150Then computers as we know them would not exist. It would still be something for a very small minority.
>>25116200>Also, I remember spending fucking days messing around with clip-art to make shitty print-outs as a kidMaking my own greeting cards when this bad boy came out
>>25116150Hopefully, the mass market will abandon the PC for the so called "smart phones" and tablets, leaving the PC to... well... us.
>>25116406UNEXPECTED NOSTALGIA BOMBHaven't though about Print Shop in years. Used to use it with my C64 and Okidata "Okimate" printer to make banners and greeting cards.
>>25116343No, this was entirely IBM's fault, they failed attemp at conquering the market allowed producers of cheap IBM compatibles and Microsoft to idiotise (or, as they say, introduce to wider audience) the home computing.
>>25116406I had a continuous feed dot matrix and I made some motherfucking 6' banners and shit on print shoptaught my mom how to make stationary and cards and shit, so much fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebUiW65TDGk>WELCOME TO TURRICAN>SHOOT OR DIE
>>25116440>No, this was entirely IBM's fault, they failed attemp at conquering the market allowed producers of cheap IBM compatibles and Microsoft to idiotise (or, as they say, introduce to wider audience) the home computing.I'd say they share in the responsibility. Do you remember before the IBM-PC when every computer had it's own operating system, Commodore, Atari, Apple, Sinclair, etc,? That was kind of fucked up.
strangely, not mentioned yet
>>25116532Why own an ST when you can have an Amiga?
>>25116437>UNEXPECTED NOSTALGIA BOMB I know, it just came into my head. I think everyone used that back then. It must have been Broderbund's cash cow for at least a few years
>>25116541Was cheaperGood monochrome monitorsCubase, Logic, Calamus
>>25116500>I had a continuous feed dot matrix and I made some motherfucking 6' banners and shit on print shopHeck yeah! Fanfold paper with the holes on the side that tore off. I had a Panasonic dot matrix, making the sweet banners!
>>25116523>Do you remember before the IBM-PC when every computer had it's own operating system, Commodore, Atari, Apple, Sinclair, etc,? That was kind of fucked up.The funny thing is that this kind of little ecosystem of tiny operating systems with similarities and differences really survived in the graphical calculator's market.I started programming by reading my TI-82's manual. I never had any of these old computers, but reading and seeing them at work afterwards, in museums, or on the internet really reminded me of the fun I had using my calculator.
On a related note, Win98SE runs insanely fast on an i7.
>>25116523There was nothing wrong with having specific OS for specific HW, at least your choice had a meaning.Commodore and Atari made grave mistake at trying to conquer console market instead of just churning out affordable home computers and workstations ad infinitum.
>>25116532Another miss
>>25114772>1982>not having 64kb of ram
>>25116636It is surprising that it even runs. What about drivers for SATA disk controllers and such?It is safe to say that the bottleneck is the software. So just virtualize it and you'll have the same results.
>>25116615Yay! I've got a IIc, Printshop and Bannermania too, plus a small pack of fanfold paper with 'dem retro shit sprocket holes. Alas, I gave away my awesome 24 pin color dot matrix. Now, if only I could track down an Apple Imagewriter II. 30 pounds of linear power supply goodness, support by most programs made after '84, and actually *supported* color output! Sadly, they seem to have fallen off the face of the earth.
>>25116615me and my buddy who lived across town used to make cards on print shop and print jokes or insults on them, and then mail them to each other. our parents thought we were weird and they were probably rightmy printer was an epson, parallel port, with an ink ribbon... that thing was built like a tank. my family had it for years, through so many computers. too bad printers these days are so shitty and the cartridges are still a billion dollars
>>25116698>Another missand another
>>25116698OMG the Amiga 520St is my childhood :_; I remember playing nitendo on it
Helios 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee 16Mb 2D/3D with astonishing graphics and full GLIDE support
>>25115386You'd like mine then... That I'm still using today.Rev NC Board, 64k, keyboard from a full travel Coco 2 instead of that stupid chiclet bullshit.YOU HEAR ME APPLE FAGGOTS?!? STUPID CHICLET BULLSHIT!Need a bumper sticker that says "My other ride is a Model M"
>>25116737Worst part about them was the speed and clatter. Oh my. Few things more horrible than a 9-pin printing hi-res graphics, page by page. Took an easy fifteen minutes per page, for what was dismal output, and made such a racket one could hear it from outside the house.Being able to print at night is nice!
>>25114867Your grandpa was a wise man.
>>25114917>'n syncHAHAHAHA
>>25116636Want a real laugh, install Office 97 on Win7... you have to tweak the registry so it doesn't shtup UAC (assuming you didn't just turn that shit off -- in which case who cares) -- it blows every version of Office and OoO/Libre out of the water in terms of functionality and speed. It's enough to make you wonder what the fuck all these newer versions are dicking around doing.... since I'm not rocking a i7 to have it behave like a P90... unless that P90 happens to fire 5.56 Nato.
>>25114765I owned that as a teen. Was a Goldstar, but funny enough, not a bad bit of hardware. It came with no monitor, so I threw in a 256K VGA card and used a standard monitor with it. Those Korean XT clones were flimsy only by comparison to true blue XTs and ATs.
I've an old Pentium VIAO in the closet. This thread made me want to fire it up. FreeDOS or MS-DOS 6.22?
>>25116783Even more rare thing
>>25116932And more
>>25116736I don't even remember color dot matrix, though for the holidays I'd get red colored fan-fold paper.>>25116737Good times. Eventually one of the pins died on my Panasonic. I remember that when the ribbon cartridge was dying you could drip a little WD-40 into it and it would print like a champ for a while longer.
>>25116932I don't remember that one. Looks like an old cascio calculator keyboard
>>25116919Shiiiit. I have one of them. P200MMX, 96MB RAM, useless 2MB Rage IIc, and the original monitor mouse and keyboard too. Nice machine. The monitor does 1280x1024 handily and has an integrated 2.1 sound system with microphone too.Now, for OS? Freedos sucks dick. Huge case of why. It's slower than MS-DOS to where it really needs a 386-sx16 baseline, isn't likely to be 100% compatible, and has a memory manager that's flakier than QEMM. DOS 6.22, EMM386 for most games, and QEMM for the worst of ram sluts. Consider throwing in a Voodoo II if you want to game. Titles of teh era will usually be Glide-only - doubly so DOS titles. This'll both boost frame rates markedly and allow you to play 640x480 in some titles. It'll run OS/2 or NT 4 fine too if you boost RAM to 64MB. Windows 95 should do okay too, but 'dem crashes. Yuuuuck. Oh... any old Ethernet card will of course work. Just load MS-DOS packet drivers. I use some shitty old NE2000 clone with cold as ice soldering and crooked components. It works.
>>25116717 Just set it to IDE mode.It's hard to find drivers but the generic ones work most of the time.
>>25117009http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_128>>25116964http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komputer_2086
>>25117042I've an old Nvidia TNT2 and an old TNT Riva.Never had a Voodoo (also didn't know what I was doing at the time)
My last Commodore. 2 CPU's, 8502 and a Z80. Was this one of the first dual-boot home computers? Commodore or CP/M
>That pedostache
So many old machines in this thread.You know, there is something I'm really jelly about. All of you, oldfags, know many of these machines. When one of you is posting a pic, there are chances that several other oldfags actually had these too. At the time, the production was limited, few were the hardware makers crazy enough to build those fancy "Personal Computers".Now, I'm only 20, but I started using Windows 95 on an old Compaq Presario. Back then, the PC wasn't an uncommon thing anymore and the models and brands were legion. The really sad thing about this is that, in 10 years, when I'll be posting a pic of that old pre-built compaq, or my first very own Acer portable, nobody will recognize it, or even give a fuck.
>>25117292I do feel kind of fortunate living through that. It was kind of a computer "age of wonder". Before like 1980 almost no one had a computer, or had even seen one in person. Suddenly all this wonderful tech was unleashed. I had a Vic-20 (later a C64), one of my friends had an Atari 800, another an Apple ][, another a Commodore 64. There was a software store a few miles away we would go to that sold games that were usually a disc and an instruction sheet in a plastic bag. They were weak machines compared to what we have now, but they were the first computers people had so it was pretty awesome.
>>25117292That's all relative.We actually live in a really interesting time technologically. A lot of things are shifting.GPUs and CPUs are converging more and more. This will change how we write programs permanently. And it's still not completely clear how we will do this in the end.At the same time we currently have something like the 80s PC OS explosion on the smartphone sector. Maybe people will wax nostalgic when you show them images of your Nokia N9 in 10 years. Who knows.
Tandy 1000 SX - not exactly stock though it is mint; Got it up to 640k, with 2 megs of EMS. 48 meg RLL hard drive, bi-directional parallel port (built in is output only!), Sound Blaster CT 1320b with the optional CMS/SA-1099 chips, and swapped out the 8088-2 for a NEC V20 and gave ti a 8087-1, which works nicely at the stock 7.16mhz.Still in use today, as evidenced by the game I wrote for DOS last year running on it.
>>25117427The pink ghost is called 'Kinky'..
>>25115256Oh wow. Nostalgia'd hard.
>>25115405Actually the keybinds was a cheap way to save ram and speed up the basic interpeter -- the basic commands and even variables were stored in memory as one byte instead of being typed out completely.It had little to do with actually typing on them -- though it did end up a godsend on devices like the ZX-80, 81 and TS1K with the crappy membrane keyboards.
>>25117400That's just amazing, I would have loved that.>>25117407Yeah of course, there are a lot of interesting things going on. But there are much less of these "machines of a generation" things... even if we also have our big things too... the first eeePC, the HP TouchPad, the N900...
if you have never connected your rotary dial phone to a coupler to access a bbs you are a tech babby. go play with your iphone.
>>25117481yup, I'm on 4chan -- picks up on "kinky", but misses the "Pretty in Pink" joke.www.deathshadow.com/pakuPaku
>>25115726Those games were so good.
>>25117407I think it's as much about the relationship of people with the tech as it is with the tech itself. The early PC days could be compared to the early days of cars or radios in that the people who bought them did so at least as much about the thing itself than what could be done with it, and had a more intimate and knowledgeable relationship with it than the majority of people who bought them later when they were a commodity. Most tech that's coming into the public right now is pretty much that commodity stuff. I don't know if phones cut it. I rarely hear people nostalgia about StarTAC's. I guess people will remember the iphone, but I don't think as much as people do about those early computers. Maybe when some new tech comes out that is embraced by techies before most people see the need for it we'll see something similar.
>>25117584Oddly, I never had to do that, but then I had access to REAL modems from DEC (whoo-hoo, go 150 baud) and then later got my "locomodem" for $65 at a computer show.... 300 baud, still had to dial manually, but no coupler.Had a coupler for my model 100, never used it as I had a hayes smartmodem 1200 by then.Only poorfags did acoustic couplers. Hell, I remember taking one apart, wiring in a few resistors, two RJ-45 and a toggle switch. Plug in the phone, plug in the line, dial on the phone, you get the request 'screech' you throw the switch to swap the line over to the modem.Couplers just sucked, cute gimmick, but connection quality was disastrous.
>>25117525>though it did end up a godsend on devices like the ZX-80, 81 and TS1K with the crappy membrane keyboards.My first computer was ALMOST a ZX-80. I pondered long and hard and in the end went with a VIC-20. The deciding factor was the keyboard
>>25117580>I would have loved that.Personal Time Machines. When we get those I'll show you around 1980
>>25117584>mfw I had to fix a rotary phone for one of my classes this week
>>25117677>Couplers just sucked, cute gimmick, but connection quality was disastrousThis was all we got in Germany for a long time, that is if you didn't want to pay horrendous prices.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XHDUOHuzU
>tfw whwn you're 18 and never experienced a lot of the stuff in this thread.I only have nostalgia memories of Windows 98 and Mac OS 9.
More fucking Voodoo.
>>25117584My parents were early-adopters and we got one of those futuristic push-button telephones around 1965. And us Vic-20 babies didn't need acoustic couplers, we had 300BPS of plug-that-jack-in goodness
>>25117729tfw your kids will never experience the transition from pixelated, 4-color graphics to detailed 3D graphics of today.
>>25117677>Couplers just sucked, cute gimmick, but connection quality was disastrous.I had a Vic-20 (see above), so no coupler. But then I saw WarGames and always felt that I was missing something
>>25117292I think the nostalgia 10 years from now will be more around software than hardware. Operating systems in particular.
>>25117677of course they sucked, they only existed so the people making them didn't have to pay for a telepermit
>>25117842I suppose you're right... but I love my hardware too.Well, I'm off.That was a really enjoyable thread.I'll just leave this pic here. I think I'll love my dad eternally for buying me those bad boys...
Most kids today probably wouldn't even know how to handle this object and the ones that could would wonder why the music sounds so weird.
>>25117972tape: SPSHSHTTHTPPHSPTHTPSHPPSSit's.. probably in german
My wife doesn't like my boxes of nostalgia sitting in the garage.
>>25115930Same. For the longest time I still felt like it was 2001 or so, and the 90s weren't that long ago.>>25115884Holy fuck those legs. Mmmmm.>>25117729That feel, I know it well.
