 banditws6Shrinking Time and DistancePremium
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Frisco, TX
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Re: Changing Times I had that exact same TI-99/4A, with the brushed metal finish. Did you guys have the Speech Synthesis module? Sounded creepy.
Hunt the Wumpus was my favorite game back then.
The first machine I had with a hard drive was an IBM XT with a 20 MB.
Edit: Wow, after all this time I just realized I put 20 GB instead of MB. |
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join:2007-02-09
Jackson, MI
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| Not sure what all we had. I do know we had a tape drive, couple joy sticks and some game cartridges. Space Invaders, some tank game, and a few others I can't recall at the moment. I'd have to go out and unpack it to see what we had.
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said by dMarks:After the Texas Instruments computer we had, we went to a Commodore 64. I loved that computer. We upgraded to a 128 and I think I still have that one too. Can't remember the next computer we got, but was an IBM something. Ahhhhh....memories. I started with a C64 then went right to Windows 3.0 and soon to 3.1... all on 1.44mB FLOPPY DISKS! I remember that the C64 took half a page of code just to make the thing beep. I think like 7 pages to get it to play "Jingle Bells" with monotone system beeps.
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Kitchener, ON | said by jimbo2150:I remember that the C64 took half a page of code just to make the thing beep. I think like 7 pages to get it to play "Jingle Bells" with monotone system beeps. The truly sad part was that when you did it without any tape drives or floppy's  |
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join:2004-01-21
Gurnee, IL | reply to jimbo2150
said by jimbo2150:said by dMarks:After the Texas Instruments computer we had, we went to a Commodore 64. I loved that computer. We upgraded to a 128 and I think I still have that one too. Can't remember the next computer we got, but was an IBM something. Ahhhhh....memories. I started with a C64 then went right to Windows 3.0 and soon to 3.1... all on 1.44mB FLOPPY DISKS! I remember that the C64 took half a page of code just to make the thing beep. I think like 7 pages to get it to play "Jingle Bells" with monotone system beeps. »video.adultswim.com/tim-and-eric···zer.html
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3GB lol I got 3TB on my computer and going to expand to 11TB soon. |
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Greenwich, CT
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yeah.. I never brought this up before because I figured no one cared but I think with broadband that's when demo's got so big.. hell I remember back in 1998 we had maybe 190MB demo at the most.
My first hard drive I brought was a maxtor 5.6GB drive back in late 1997.. I still have it around here someplace and it still works...
but not the smallest drive I had.. it's been so long (1996) I forget what the size was in the computer lol |
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