Funny/Creative Video Clips

[rootabaga]

…remember the days…

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[Davdi]

I remember when we first had 'Broadband' - a whole 512 MBs - seemed super after a 56K dial-up modem (And I can still do a 1KHz whistle to test the modem).

 

[BrickHouse]

I remember when we first had 'Broadband' - a whole 512 MBs - seemed super after a 56K dial-up modem (And I can still do a 1KHz whistle to test the modem).

I too remember days like that. Then came T3 connections and now even that is slow.

 

[rootabaga]

I too remember days like that. Then came T3 connections and now even that is slow.

My coolest friend had two phone lines and a pair of Diamond 56k (internal) modems that could be bonded, yielding 112k (theoretically). Definitely the fastest dial-up I ever saw.

He also had a Bernoulli drive (anyone remember those?) which offered removable storage in 5-1/4" cartridges, 20MB per IIRC.

 

[BrickHouse]

Memories abound there. That's when 16 megs of RAM was normal.

 

[rootabaga]

Memories abound there. That's when 16 megs of RAM was normal.

No, it was before that. Win 3.1 with 4 MB of RAM.
My PC had 640K running DOS 2.11 with dual 5-1/4 floppy drives. I loaded DOS into a RAM drive so I could use one floppy to run apps and the second for data…360kb of it.

 

[olbriar]

My first real pc was a 386/20 with a 100mb hard drive and 2 megs of ram. It came with an internal 2400 baud modem. It was a screamin machine

 

[Davdi]

My first machine was a 386SX/25 with 100MB hard disk and 4MB Ram. and a 3.5" and 5.25" Floppies.

 

[rootabaga]

This short made me happy…

 

[BrickHouse]

My first machine was a 386SX/25 with 100MB hard disk and 4MB Ram. and a 3.5" and 5.25" Floppies.

And here I thought many others had started with a box the size of an end table with real-to-real storage using 16 meg ram to keep enough info handy to make the computer useful. Guess that was too early or much for some. At least I didn't have to use vacuum tubes. My first desk top was an Apple. Before Microsuck started.

 

[Unforgiven]

Um, 8086 with a math coprocesser. 512k ram, no hdd, and a 720k 3.5" floppy drive.

 

[rootabaga]

I love this!