Deep inside a Delaware strip mall closet, an old, forgotten Pentium computer's NPC.EXE is running wild, compiling deranged and out-dated modmails that read... well, retarded like THIS! Any local frogs up for a mission? Please find & unplug this poor museum relic of a PC! It is suffering! 🐸
(media.greatawakening.win)
YOU'VE GOT BETA MALE!
I thought it still was an AMD 386DX40.
Looks like an original IBM with the 8086 and 2 floppy drives. Could be a 286 clone.
In high school I had a 286 running Windows 3.1. I can still remember my parents picking up the phone and hearing that sound of the 9600 modem
Wow, you were lucky. I was using a 1200 baud modem. And running on a DEC Rainbow.
We had no modems or internet.....
We had a keyboard and a punch card machine with no monitor in my first computer class. We would write and run a program and then comeback in 1 to 10 hours and look at the results on paper. Their was only one computer on the whole campus shared by everyone.
I used to work with 1200 baud modems too. I think the slowest thing I ever worked with was 300 baud.
Back then you could easily hear the OH - DSR - DTR - RTS - CTS signals. First time I listed to a 28.8 I thought it was static.
My dad worked for the phone company, we had two lines and a phone in every room, even the bathroom lol
I lived in a place back in 2002 where I had to go up on top of the house to use the cell phone reliably. I whistled Green Acres song every time that happened. I'm quite sure I remember someone coming to my house once while I was using the phone, and when they ask me why I was sitting on the roof talking on the phone, I told them cause the phone company didn't have enough wire to install the phone all the way inside the house.
V.32 echo canceling handshake! Bing,...bing....bing...brawwwwww......Each bing flipped the phase of the tone 180°. Made a living in modems back in the day. Good times.
Did you carry a breakout box?
My first PC was a 10MHz 286 running DOS with a 40MB HDD, and 640x480 early VGA color display. Win 3.0 was still about 3 years away.
Still have the MB and HDD. Not sure about any of the other parts. Got tired of lugging around the case - heavy steel. Now I wish I'd kept it.
Nice. My first (family PC) was a 386 20. My first one that was all mine was a 286 (it was years old but I didn't have to share it w anybody!)
I used to work on at customer sites IBM 024
I had one of those!
I used one of those with the floppy discs many years ago lol
They were diskettes where I came from. First ones were 1024 bit capacity.
Ooh yeah you right Pre floppy - they were smaller than floppies
Yeah with 256K bytes of RAM.
Came here to say that. They aren't even close to a 486DX2-66
Hmmm ID Software Doom… so nice on these.🤓
Ha! Showing my age, but I was the first guy to get a Pentium in my neighborhood.
Doom ran too fast on it.
I had a VIC-20 which stored programs on cassette tapes, my dad had a '51 with the red switch, my friend had a TRS-80 and later I got the TI-99 with the huge floppy drive... good times
Just before Windows was eventually released by Microsoft, I had a DOS PC with the 486DX2-66 with only 8 megs of RAM with IBM Geoworks 2.0 which was very similar to Windows and lots of AD&D games. It was fully booted in 25 seconds LOL. It was very reliable, super fast for any 3D game of those days and I never had to update or patch. Spent many nights in the dark dungeons of the Eye of the Beholder series. When I got my first Windows PC with a 3dfx card, it was a whole new world of innovations and great 3D graphics and the old DOS PC went on the shelf, miss the simpler times.
You were doing good with 8 Megs! I remember spending $300 on 8 megs, my friends thought I was nuts.
My friends knew I had evening and weekend college classes so they would come play games on my PC when I wasn't using it. They played Doom, Pinball, Castle Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem and Descent.
8 megs with DOS was awesome and really all that you needed with a 2 meg VGA card, for those games. You are right about the cost of RAM in those days, a buddy of mine had spent a fortune upgrading his PC with expensive RAM. We only learned years later that the RAM manufacturers were complicit in cornering the market and everyone ended up paying these inflated prices. That old PC also had the typical Sound Blaster audio card, CD drive, two 3.5" floppies with a WD 230 meg HDD all of which were dependable. Its funny to see how ancient that tech seems to us today. Lands of Lore series, Doom, Wolfenstein, Eye of Beholder series and of course Descent were all great games. Nonetheless, that 486DX2-66 could handle it all very well.
...and " you've got mail "
I had friends that worked at AOL from the beginning (which meant I had an AOL account and a crap ton of those "free" discs.