'Ye Old Computing Machines

Fukuyama · 24-05-2011 05:27PM #1

Anyone ever have nostalgia for the computers of days gone by?

It seems like yesterday I was listening to my friends dad's old Windows 95 PC click click click as it booted up so we could look at porn for the first time. (Went well - printed off hefty amounts of it to sell on the playground market at school

).

Also, floppy disks. Everytime you go to save a Word document or whatever you have to click on a floppy disk yet I doubt younger people (keep in mind I'm only 19) would have a clue what it is!

And VHS tapes... I remember the excitement of pushing one into the player and the disappointment when you realised you had to rewind it ALL the way back!!

Sometimes I'm watching a movie from the 90s or whenever and I go 'Oh yeah! Remember that!!"

Anyone else ever miss old technology.

Naikon · 24-05-2011 05:32PM

Dial Up.

El Weirdo · 24-05-2011 05:33PM

Sharp MZ700 FTW.

KeithM89_old · 24-05-2011 05:34PM

Wikipedia has nothing on Encarta.

stupidusername · 24-05-2011 05:35PM

Dean0088 wrote: »

I remember the excitement of pushing one into the player and the disappointment

...eh eh? :pac:

You'd appreciate it more if you realise the effort it took to do that on my phone

Atavan-Halen · 24-05-2011 05:36PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

mr kr0nik · 24-05-2011 05:37PM

oric 48k. no more to be said

dvpower · 24-05-2011 05:37PM

KeithM89 wrote: »

Wikipedia has nothing on Encarta.

Yes it does :pac:

melekalikimaka · 24-05-2011 05:37PM

KeithM89 wrote: »

Wikipedia has nothing on Encarta.

Webster man myself

Vicxas · 24-05-2011 05:39PM

I remember when the computer used to tell you it was safe to shut off. ah bless.

Mr. Denton · 24-05-2011 05:41PM

atavan-halen wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

♫ Hey Com-puter nerd, you will be connected in no time. ♫

AnonoBoy · 24-05-2011 05:43PM

I remember when a floppy disk was just that - floppy.

51/4" disks for the Apple II.

And your monitor had one colour - green. That was it.

Yeah!

latenia · 24-05-2011 05:45PM

25 years on I've yet to hear better game music than Robocop on the cpc464

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCDf6p0OAj8

nibtrix · 24-05-2011 05:47PM

pfft, floppy disks... We had to load from a casette tape, it took twenty minutes and every time you died in the game you had to rewind back to the beginning and load all over again. Those were the days...

Mr Benevolent · 24-05-2011 05:49PM

Ah the funny loading screen for the C64.

It was shit.

AnonoBoy · 24-05-2011 05:50PM

nibtrix wrote: »

pfft, floppy disks... We had to load from a casette tape, it took twenty minutes and every time you died in the game you had to rewind back to the beginning and load all over again. Those were the days...

Cassette tape?

You were lucky to have it.

We had to input data using punch cards and we had no monitor only print out from dot matrix printer to let us know we were standing in a clearing, to the north was a river, to the south was a road.

El Weirdo · 24-05-2011 05:51PM

Confab wrote: »

Ah the funny loading screen for the C64.

It was shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GqXXLSfT7g

Krusader · 24-05-2011 05:52PM

Listening to the radio with a blank tape in the cassette with your finger hovering over the record button, waiting for your favourite song at the time to come on, it did, you banged on the REC button and 10 seconds in the DJ would talk over the track, used to fúcking hate that, piracy was a game of chance for the perfect recording

AnonoBoy · 24-05-2011 05:54PM

Crosáidí wrote: »

Listening to the radio with a blank tape in the cassette with your finger hovering over the record button, waiting for your favourite song at the time to come on, it did, you banged on the REC button and 10 seconds in the DJ would talk over the track, used to fúcking hate that, piracy was a game of chance for the perfect recording

Did you ever play a data cassette in your stereo?

I used to love that squeal.

strokemyclover · 24-05-2011 05:54PM

I remember programming games on the Atari 800XL - you'd spend days typing in hundreds of lines of code from a book which meant nothing to an 8 year old only to find the game was a piss poor line representing a snake who'd chase dots on the screen and grow larger each time it ate them .....For that time and effort at that age and time I thought I was creating a new TRON world FFS! :mad:

Disappointing computing at it's best!

syklops · 24-05-2011 05:55PM

I wish we could go back to the days of having to input init strings to set up your modem. It was a kind of initiation test(get it?). If you got it wrong or couldnt figure it out, then you were just too stupid to use the internet. A happier time.

I miss web crawler, it was the search engine I first used. No matter what you search for, you got the dead porn stars website somewhere in the results.

I was watching a video from a conference recently(I think it was Def Con), and a guy mentioned floppy disks. He said "To anyone in the room under the age of 20, a floppy disk is like a USB memory stick only flatter, and you need about 27 of them to install Windows 95."

Back in my day there were no ads on the internet. Only porn and warez.

ejmaztec · 24-05-2011 05:55PM

Whatever happened to Wordstar?

An old boss of mine paid £400 for the program, and the last time I saw it for sale, it was £9.99 full price.

TouchingVirus · 24-05-2011 05:55PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I remember when a floppy disk was just that - floppy.

51/4" disks for the Apple II.

And your monitor had one colour - green. That was it.

Yeah!

We had yellow

Mr. Denton · 24-05-2011 05:57PM

I have a dedicated PC that runs emulators for all the old 8bit , 16bit and arcade machine games. A lot of them are rubbish by todays standards but at least they load instantaneously now

Agricola · 24-05-2011 05:58PM

Learned to use MS Word on a rickety old pc in school in the mid-90's. I remember making sure to carefully save whatever auld claptrap our computing / religion teacher had us typing up. Then we'd all make our way to the big steel cabinet at the end of class to place our precious floppy disks in there for safe keeping untill the following week. It was all so strange and new. Like we were working at NASA for 1 hour a week!

Kids these days with their pendrives the size of postage stamps and their cloud storage, dont know they're born!

seaniemoylan · 24-05-2011 05:59PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6u7PFUi2Ic&feature=related :cool:

Mint Sauce · 24-05-2011 06:03PM

Erm. Dont you still click on the floppy disk to save word documents.

Krusader · 24-05-2011 06:09PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Did you ever play a data cassette in your stereo?

I used to love that squeal.

I had an Amstrad that played big fúcking cartridges, they cost 'bout £15-£20 which was a lot of money at the time. My mates had Commodore 64s the games were cassettes and only cost around £3, always hated that

Krusader · 24-05-2011 06:14PM

Netscape was the browser to use

InTheTrees · 24-05-2011 06:25PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Cassette tape?

You were lucky to have it.

We had to input data using punch cards

Punch cards? You were lucky. We had to prepare sheets of vellum and inscribe our code using exotic inks...

:rolleyes:

InTheTrees · 24-05-2011 06:26PM

Crosáidí wrote: »

Netscape was the browser to use

mosiac ftw

:cool:

'Ye Old Computing Machines

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