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Reply #76 November 17, 2007 6:09:02 PM
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Can anyone else here remember how to edit the autoexec.bat using the EDLIN command?


Can anyone remember a magazine called DOS World?

My first computer was a hand me down. In 1985 my brother gave me his atari 1200. I think it had 64k of ram.
My first real computer came the next year, a leading edge, monochrome, no windows.
I still have the atari and I still have the first windows os, it is a box full of 5 1/4" disk. Just plain Windows.
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Reply #77 November 17, 2007 6:41:27 PM
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Reply #78 November 17, 2007 7:09:59 PM
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My first game computer was a C64 and my first pc an IBM PS/2 with 1 MB memory (dos=high, 4DOS or DRDOS and so on ) and a 40 MB hardrdrive! Well my first big machine to manage at work was an IBM S38 with 8 MB of intern memory for 30 users. And now my notebook needs 2 GB to work only for me...
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Reply #79 November 17, 2007 7:17:07 PM
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Gets hard to believe when you compare the processing power and memory today to back then.

How times have changed - wonder if we will talk about the computers we have today the same way in 10 years.

I wonder what it is going to be like when there are no keyboards and only our thoughts with true holographic screens? Should be cool for sure!
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Reply #80 November 17, 2007 8:49:21 PM
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Can anyone else here remember how to edit the autoexec.bat using the EDLIN command?


Huh?
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Reply #81 November 17, 2007 9:26:39 PM
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Whoa that's one OLD thread. Mine was 386 SX 33 mhz, 8 mb ram, 250 MB hard drive. ( SX: NO MATH COPROCESSOR!
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Reply #82 November 17, 2007 9:47:36 PM
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My first: a black, heavy as all buggery IBM in a black metal case...don't recall the model right now, but it was a 486 with 32mb RAM and a 12gb HDD.
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Reply #83 November 17, 2007 9:50:26 PM
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THIS is my first PC! I've had it for almost a year now. Got it for free. A friend of my daughter gave it to us. I've been creating things for it for almost as long as I've had it. About 4 months ago I was introduced to this site and...well...here I am!
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Reply #84 November 17, 2007 10:19:36 PM
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My first computer was a Commodore VIC20 which I still have in my closet, just need a power supply for it and I'm good to go! My first computer in the PC class was a 386SX 16 with 16 megs of RAM and a 40MB hard drive. Ran DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1 on there. After that it was a 486DX, then a AMD 5x86 (fake pentium) computer. I had a bunch of custom units after that, and now currently I'm running a Dell Dimension 4500 that I've upgraded considerably. P4 with 1GB of RAM, 250GB & 200GB hard drives, NVidia AGP graphics, & dual booting XP SP2 & Vista Home Premium. It's certianly been a ride!
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Reply #85 November 17, 2007 10:28:35 PM
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my first was a commodore64...nothing beats shoving a cartridge in the keyboard to play a game and how sweet the system looked with its big and i do mean big floppy drive..and how much space it took up and not to mention it cool color...but it is amazing to see how far things have come since then..
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Reply #86 November 17, 2007 11:39:19 PM
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nothing beats shoving a cartridge in the keyboard to play a game and how sweet the system looked with its big and i do mean big floppy drive.


Yeah Baby!
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Reply #87 November 17, 2007 11:39:48 PM
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Reply #88 November 18, 2007 12:18:10 PM
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Gets hard to believe when you compare the processing power and memory today to back then.

How times have changed - wonder if we will talk about the computers we have today the same way in 10 years.


Interestingly, they did all the same types of things.  Appleworks did almost everything I do with Word 2007 today.

I still power-up my Apple ][e and play Flight Sim
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Reply #89 November 18, 2007 12:24:50 PM
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Hey Zubaz - last night after reading through this thread I went and pulled out my old Winbook laptop with Windows 3.1 on it.

It acutally worked - well - I think I ate supper while it booted up but it sure was a walk back in time.

Sometimes it is nice to remember where we came from. Kind of makes you appreciate what we have now even if we do fuss about it sometimes.

I have to admit Apple was ahead of the rest.
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Reply #90 November 18, 2007 7:24:13 PM
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Can anyone remember the first Microsoft Office Suite version 4.3 which came on twenty-two 3 1/2" floppy disks because CD ROM wasn't yet a standard?

And God help you if Disk # 21 was corrupt!  

  
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Reply #91 November 18, 2007 7:58:57 PM
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Can anyone remember the first Microsoft Office Suite version 4.3 which came on twenty-two 3 1/2" floppy disks because CD ROM wasn't yet a standard?

I remember backing up an "image" of my Windows system to install OS/2
It took so long!!
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Reply #92 November 18, 2007 8:13:06 PM
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Thats right I had forgot it was called the Tandy 1000


Well, the Tandy 1000 was my second computer. I had an earlier Tandy, but can't remember what model (remember...they were Radio Shack's brand), but it got stolen, so my insurance paid for the Tandy 1000, since the earlier one was no longer available...now...that really tells you I am WAY OLD! LOL I just remember that that the first computer had no hard drive or memory...all the programs were on those big 5.25 inch floppies!
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Reply #93 November 18, 2007 8:19:44 PM
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The first I used was an 8088, no hard drive, playing sierra adventure games by swapping 5 1/4" floppies. The first I owned was a 286 with an 80 mg hard drive, my friend with the 8088 was so jealous!! Currently hp p4, 2.4ghz.
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Reply #94 November 18, 2007 8:41:54 PM
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Jazzymjr - I didn't know there was anything before the Tandy 1000 - takes you back some though to think of these first computers. Do you know I still have my Tandy 1000 - I found it in the basement last night. I couldn't believe it!
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Reply #95 November 18, 2007 9:08:14 PM
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First PC was a Tandy TRS-80. 4K or RAM and a cassette tape for data and programs. Purchased in 1979,

Then Kaypro 4 (CPM), 64K, and two 120 K single sided 5.25 floppies. 1982

Then kaypro 10, running CPM from a 10 MB hard drive. 1984

Leading Edge Model D, 8088, 640K CGA and MGA. 1985

Then a string of system I built myself starting with a 286-10 in 1988 all the way through the current Ahtlon 64 3400+ that my boys use. I've long since lost track but guessing somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 motherboard CPU upgrades.

My current is an HP laptop with Core 2 Duo, 2GB, two 120 GB HDD, 17" LCD. This is my fifth laptop in the last 12 years.
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Reply #96 November 19, 2007 7:58:52 AM
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Jazzymjr - I didn't know there was anything before the Tandy 1000 - takes you back some though to think of these first computers. Do you know I still have my Tandy 1000 - I found it in the basement last night. I couldn't believe it!


Yea, there was something...but, dang, this old mind is starting to fail me..can't remember s***..  

When I moved on to a better computer, I gave the Tandy 1000 to my son...he used it in high school, then I bought him a Dell when he went off to college...he still has the Dell buried somewhere in his house.

I now build my own computers....have been since 1999. My current one, which is due for upgrading, is a P4-2.0 gHz, 1 gig RAM, nVidea 6600, and I just got a 19 inch wide screen monitor-Samsung 932BW!
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Reply #97 November 19, 2007 8:08:03 AM
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I got into building mine too and overclocking - I still have the first one I built - OC'd the AMD Thunderbird - problem is when I start it up - the house lights dim, the windows rattle and the neighbors run outside to see where the jet is landing...too many fans me thinks!

I love it though - well - what I can remember of it - old here too!
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Reply #98 November 19, 2007 8:44:57 AM
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I got into building mine too and overclocking - I still have the first one I built - OC'd the AMD Thunderbird - problem is when I start it up - the house lights dim, the windows rattle and the neighbors run outside to see where the jet is landing...too many fans me thinks!


Too funny, Ranger!

Now, I gotta get my butt to work     
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Reply #99 November 19, 2007 8:56:29 AM
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My first computer was the Commodore VIC-20, with a HUGE 8k of memory.
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Reply #100 November 19, 2007 9:25:07 AM
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somebody dug up an oldie........
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