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- 01-17-2006 #1Linux Enthusiast
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And I Thought My System Was Old...
- 01-17-2006 #2Just Joined!
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....yup...computers do get better over time......
- 01-17-2006 #3Linux User
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Haha wow, amazing how much technology has progressed over the last couple years.
- 01-17-2006 #4Linux Newbie
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- May 2005
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The first computer that I owned was a 386 running at 25 Mhz., 64Kbyte RAM,
Don't remember the size of the harddrive....oh it ran on MSDOS 5.0.
- 01-17-2006 #5Just Joined!
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stylish
My first PC didn't even have a color screen O.o
it was... gold n black. LOL. not even black n white.
And the screen was Circular :o
JP lol
- 01-17-2006 #6Linux Enthusiast
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now thats retro!
how much were 486 servers in those days?
like maybe 486DX2, 4mb ram, 300mb hdd, paradise video card, 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 floppy drives?"Time has more than one meaning, and is more than one dimension" - /.unknown
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- 01-17-2006 #7Linux Newbie
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Ah.....that's right, mine is the same. I don't think it even had graphic card ! !
Originally Posted by weeneedhelp
I remember the game I used to play on it.
It's called ......What ever happen to Carman Santiago ? .....I think it's a text base game.
- 01-17-2006 #8Linux Guru
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Reminds me of using a 16 MHz Amstrad - The first machine I ever handled. I wonder if computers will become so powerful that they'll go beyond the needs of the average desktop user?
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
- 01-17-2006 #9Just Joined!
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Well if you think that is old, check out this link. I have seen this before in a magazine, but wow is it funny! This is what scientists at RAND Corporation in 1954 thought a computer would look like in 2004!! I just wonder, what did they plan on using the steering wheel for?!?! You have to read the caption with it!!
http://www.toyarchive.com/Computer1950Future.jpg
- 01-17-2006 #10Linux Enthusiast
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you have no idea how many times i have seen that picture... Originally Posted by Cryptofreak
why does it keep popping up everywhere?"Time has more than one meaning, and is more than one dimension" - /.unknown
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