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.
Yep, I had that also. Fortran 77 on punch cards which we'd drop off at some counter for someone to run at some point and then you'd come back to find the output. Sometimes, the output would indicate one of the cards had an error so all that time was wasted as your program didn't run and produce any output. You had to fix the card and resubmit your deck.
Wait 12 hours to find out you missed a comma and it's due in two hours.
Math is hard....
Fortran 77? Luxury! We used Fortran IV at UNIVERSITY in 1970. We waited till next day to get the print-out that said:
SYNTAX ERROR AT LINE 0001
We had pencil and paper
You were rich then.
Some at the time didn't even have that.
Yeah, I knew Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm when they were scratching in the dirt with a stick.
My mother did not have electricity or indoor plumbing until she was about 10, and my mom was from a relatively well to do family. And my dad no indoor plumbing when a kid, but always had electricity even when there was no electricity in the town. His dad ran a chicken hatchery so they had a couple Kohler generators running all the time.
I even remember people in the neighborhood that still had old outhouses still in yard even though by then they had indoor plumbing.
Yeah at my first base I was on a mainframe that still used both punch cards and paper tape. It had the disk platters that looked like a big cake with a handle on top.
One time I had to hit the emergency power off button when a new guy dumped a mop bucket full of water by the CPU. The noise of all of the disk platters crashing sounded like someone was torturing a cat. When I left that base they made a plaque for me made out of one of those disk platters. Oh - I got a medal for saving the mainframe from either burning up or shorting out when I killed the power. They saved a platter for me.
I remember those.
I use to work on systems with racks of drives that when you powered them up it sounded like a cross between a jet and choo choo train talking off. Whistling, humming and click-a-tee click.
I was fortunate to be in a trade school in the early 1970's where the Board of Ed had an IT satellite office, with their computer! When their 2 programmers weren't using the computer, we got to run our stacks of cards (programs) through, and had them as our mentors. Was set up to function as their office, so we learned it all, keypunch, sorter, interpreter, printer. Also, since they didn't want us banging the keys, we got to learn typing on the IBM selectrics instead of the manual typewriters. Yes, I'm old....
My dad only had radio but he did work with the first computers in his anti- aircraft unit.
He had to de- bug, actuality clean the bugs off the tubes
I miss that old sound of a 557 interpreter ca chunk ca chunk ca chunk, and the sorter I think was the 082. They had to wiring boards. And I worked on keypunches 024, 026, 029, 129 and 059 verifier.
Still got a tube of silver wires that go into wire contact relays. Sometimes when I would go to a call, the girls would bring me their jewelry chains that had broken, and I would fix them with my contact wires.
Good memories!
Who had to wire boards?
80 places baby
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.
Yep - I had a 300 bps modem with my Tandy 1000 SL with a 10MB hard card and 256kb of RAM I had to install on the motherboard. It replaced my vic20.
Ah, memories! Compuserve at 300 baud.
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?
Or a cap'n crunch whistle?
Yup. Green for +V and red for -V. My Tektronix 834 had one built in. We had 1914s on the benches to do repair work. They were too heavy to carry around.
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
No a diskette was larger (8 1/2 in.) than Floppy (5 1/4 in.) Floppy was what the PC world called their removable media product. IBM called it a diskette.
Yeah I still have a box of 8 1/2" disks with DOS and some 5/14 disks with Office 1. I never used them - a friend gave them to me, but I did use the 8 1/2 " disks on mainframes.
Nothing has a floppy drive now-a-days anyway.
Got old CD's, VHS tapes and Penis and noting to put any of them in.
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
you ever stick the cassette tapes into a tape player? I miss that sound (and modems too).
Agree! Haha, it was a weird sound. You know that scene in Contact (1997) where Elly's blind friend is listening, "I hear structure. We have structure, here."
Lol yep!!! I hear that sound in my head just thinking about it 😂
And the Hitler speech, KEK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVsY9PVIKsQ
Nice!
My Commodore 64 had the cassette storage also. I was soooo excited to upgrade to the 5-1/4" single sided disk peripheral.
My dad and his coworkers used to trade "cracked" / bootleg games & programs almost weekly.
Made it much easier to do book reports than use my grandmothers mechanical typewriter.
I had a friend who had an AMIGA and I was SOOO jealous of its 16-bit colour! Did you ever program with it? Or just play games? I tried programming games
I saved up for the 128 and a dot matrix printer and a 300 baud modem. Was pretty high tech at the time. It ultimately led me to my current career as an IT admin that allows me to be able to work from anywhere there's a reliable internet connection.
The dude that lived in the barracks room beside me at my first base had an Amiga. He kept having to get it fixed because he was using all of the copied games and kept getting viruses all the time.
College dorm friend had an AMIGA. I was shocked how good and fast the graphics were. Made me jealous.
Yes, did lots of programming. Even had a subscription to Compute's Gazette where i would read each line of code to my dad and he'd type it in hoping the checksum would be correct. Was saved by sys 49152 many times when I tried to tweak the games myself.
I was a B & C student in school since I was bored, but in tech class I was showing the teachers stuff. Even in college, the Asian kids were asking me for help in the computer labs.
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.
u/#insomnia
As a former IBM CE I'd consider this keyboard a BIO Hazard.
Every change any fly plates?
And yet, it likely is the father of at least an entire family of children
What year did you start. What division?
1992 Started Rolling Meadows then Butterfield Rd. Got transfered to the TSS IBM/KODAK Left Chicago and TSS IBM as a J Man you could message me on my PT @ J33 K2H Chicago Printer Specialist OnSite RISC support for Walgreens Data General satellite uplinks. Terminal and Keyboard swaps from time to time as it made Dallas think I was being helpful and the easier ThinkPad calls to keep Tennessee happy and I don't miss the hours I waited for Mechanicsburg to hot shot me parts at all...but I still do all my own work on just about anything electronic in my house.
Hired 1978 GSD (General Services Division) Trained in Atlanta on 029 Keypunch and Sys/32, Sys/34, Sys/36, Series1, AS/400 and all the printers and terminals associated with them. Also Trained on RS/6000, 1255 Check Sorter and an worked on lots of other stuff.
CE till 1996 then moved to I/T Specialist working software group till 2003 where the layoff axe finally caught up with me. Did migrations (GIGMIG/SYSMIG) and CRITSIT manager.
My first Adventures in COBOL and UNIX started on a AS400 I was in Marietta for 60 days learning everything Data General and a couple other MFG'S as TSS was contracted to take over their service. After 5yrs I had a enough with being as busy as I was.
Your retired now no doubt. I am trying not to work anymore, but my wife is a slave driver. I'm still working some consulting jobs here and there.
Epson dot matrix printer. Sounded like a swarm of angry bees.
Halp me kek
i do agree with ONE thing, read Revelation to see what is actually happening.
Upvote. Another day, another chapter, ey, frog....
that's the way.
crontab -e and shut it down, the pedes know!
It runs on floppy,thats a guarantee.
I think I met that guy, back in the mid-late 1980s.
Or maybe his doppelganger. I was still wet behind the ears working on a project, and one of the guys I was working with invited me over. We went into his basement, and he sat down at his computer desk, and everything looked a lot like that. He didn't have the glasses though, and I don't recall him being a smoker. Otherwise,
overweight - check
Two dollar haircut - check
1960s paneling - check
very early PC - check
modem - check
corner of the basement - ?
I think we ALL met that guy.
Deep state autist cloning initiative.
I mean... There may be some truth in that, kek
Paneling. Again at my first base I wanted to wallpaper my dorm room but the new female captain wouldn't let me. She said we could only use blu-tack on the walls because that didn't harm anything.
I went downtown to a local store (I was in the UK) and bought several rolls of wallpaper that looked like paneling and paneled my whole room with paper and blu-tack. She was PISSED but the 1st sgt laughed his ass off.
LOL - reminds me of being in college, and a friend did some artwork on my dorm door. We weren't supposed to "deface" the property, but the artwork was so well done, the staff didn't say anything about it.
Let me guess… yournext! Lol!
How many alts does this person have?
I believe it's someone different. This fuckwit registers some version of "DrumpfWillLose45" a half dozen times a day. I have messaged him many times offering him a 24h sticky but he's a chickenshit.
Of course he is. He’s a loser in a coward.
Catsy!! I told you to get rid of that Commodore 64!! What have you done?!?! You let Skynet 1.0 live!! Kek Kek!
It's OK! Skynet is still in beta!
Note that he has the nifty extended keyboard with the number pad built in. So lucky.
Right? And not to mention the side F keys! But what really kills me is the pack of Newports...
In 1985, those were the only menthol cigs sold in the commissary on base lol.
In 1991 in Turkey the commissary sold Lucky Strike Lights for $2 a carton, and they had a $2.50 manufacturer's coupon on the box. We had ration cards that allowed 4 cartons per month so I would get 2 of the Lucky Strike Lights and 2 Marlboro Lights, make a dollar on the 2 crappy ones, and use those for admission to the local club downtown. It was either $5 or 1 pack of American cigs to get in. Each carton ultimately saved me $50.50 each month.
Loved those klackety-clack IBM keyboards! Had a bunch of them, and I would use them until keys quit working. Probably have a couple in my basement that still work. Never threw anything away, so I still have my floppy's and diskettes, but not sure if any of the old computers in the basement will still read them.
looks ibmish possible node with card reader. wifes station in 80s looked like this after they got rid of the hp that took up a room the size of a doublewide.
I wonder how many of us are laughing uncomfortably because we had the same shirt with snaps.
LEL, I still have a couple long collar Arrows with the silver snaps. Mostly for Calgary Stampede times, in case I accidentally find myself at a pancake breakfast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8emVwfUB_M
LOL, this thread is like the old timers club! Fun to read.
Did John Titor ever find his IBM 5100 ??? Maybe this is it! 🤔