I'm feeling nostalgic for old computer stuff today

One of these, OP?

I miss this!!

My family's first computer. It had a whopping 16K of RAM!

I had dial-up through 2006.

OMG #6- does it make Pop-Tarts, too?

Trolling for dick on gay.com chatrooms and waiting an eternity for the pictures to load

Windows 3.1

Radio Shack Tandy computer desktop with a dot matrix printer......just like living in the future! Mine also had 5 1/4" floppy drive in addition to the smaller floppy drive.....

Computers were somewhat difficult to operate, so once you got on the internet there was a certain level of intelligence and savvy to communicate with... Then they made computers so that any idiot could operate one :(

Remembering this sound makes me feel 800 years old

This feels like a relic from the Mesozoic era.

This photo cracks me up

my 1st job at the airport

[quote]Remembering this sound makes me feel 800 years old

Waiting for it to boot up / reboot felt like 800 years too.

Everyone hated Clippit, but no one ever remembers any of the other office assistants.

Work related:

Adbuilder

Multi Ad Creator

Envoy messaging

Lotus 1-2-3

WordPerfect

P*R*O*D*I*G*Y

Corel Draw! still exists

I remember a Compuserve forum (alt.celebrities.gossip?) that was a proto-Datalounge. Anthony Rapp was our resident celebrity

I remember IRC from the time where you had to be at least a little bit "tech savvy" to be able to use a chat client and everyone I met via IRC chat was interesting and less superficial than people are now. Now that EVERYONE is online it seems like the world is full of the dumbest fucking assholes you could ever possibly meet.

I remember spending about five hours- around the year 2001- trying to get online (I called AOL but each time they put me on hold- then it hung-up on me). I called a friend in desperation and he said to check all the connections. Sure enough, one of the cords in back was detached.

You would be surprised R6. I didn't look too closely at that unit, but I ran a Tandy computer service center for a couple of years in the late 80s, early 90s. We would have businesses like Machine shops, Dry cleaners, Warehouses, etc... That ran their operations on similar computers. All the clients were dumb terminals that were rock solid.

I was on the back end of that era. I only saw them when they came into the shop for maintenance or repair. It would be funny to watch a business shut down for a week and drag all the equipment to be serviced in multiple cars, packed in the back seats and trunks because you really didn't want to ship them. We had to use oscilloscopes to tune the hard drives and replaced basic components on the circuit boards, i

You would be surprised R6. I didn't look too closely at that unit, but I ran a Tandy computer service center for a couple of years in the late 80s, early 90s. We would have businesses like Machine shops, Dry cleaners, Warehouses, etc... That ran their operations on similar computers. All the clients were dumb terminals that were rock solid.

I was on the back end of that era. I only saw them when they came into the shop for maintenance or repair. It would be funny to watch a business shut down for a week and drag all the equipment to be serviced in multiple cars, packed in the back seats and trunks because you really didn't want to ship them. We had to use oscilloscopes to tune the hard drives and replaced basic components on the circuit boards, i

^^Those systems usually retailed in the mid six figure range. That included all the customization and consulting. But it was the gift that kept on giving because the service contracts were almost as expensive as the implementation. Of course, we were still cheaper than IBM.

We just moved...and found--once again--my husband's original Apple computer. Model M0001. I guess it's worth something now, but we're holding onto it for old times' sake.

R25 / R26 yes it was a very reliable machine and we eventually upgraded it to 48K (who would ever need more than that???) but the cassette storage was very hit or miss when it came to saving files. Whenever I worked on a school essay I made sure to print out a hardcopy (on a dot matrix printer, natch) before saving, lest all my hours of work be lost.

I remember when WordStar was new and wonderful. Later I was on CompuServe forums. I consulted a translators forum for help with my German homework.

I blew Charles Babbage.

How could I forget the Trash-80. I can't even remember where I first used one. High school maybe? And I think I knew slightly older, maybe 19 yr old, who had one. He was very unpleasant, inside and out, the least liked and probably oldest person in our group... anyway we peed together outside a few times, I saw his huge uncut dick and.. a few days later I fell in love with his computer. And he knew it too. He wanted me to. Nevermind

The cassette storage worked great with my Atari 2600. But that was a one way flow of data.

Gay.com - the original Grindr. It seems so primitive now. You couldn't even put pictures up on your profile. It was HUGE in the late 90s/early 2000s, those were my twink days when I was horny 24 hours a day and I was always on it.

Here's one that will really take you back: The Blue Screen of Death......

My first computer.