Heartland

stufarq wrote:Oh, hang on. At the rate computer technology is advancing, we'll probably all have 100 exabyte hard drives by next week!

Yeah, it doubles about every 18 months.

I remember when double-density floppies came out, thinking "Wow, how could you fill a whole megabyte?"

Mark, your age is showing

markfiend wrote:

stufarq wrote:Oh, hang on. At the rate computer technology is advancing, we'll probably all have 100 exabyte hard drives by next week!

Yeah, it doubles about every 18 months.

I remember when double-density floppies came out, thinking "Wow, how could you fill a whole megabyte?"

That was the time before digital photography ... not so very long ago.

timsinister wrote:Mark, your age is showing

Fetch my pipe and slippers you young whippersnapper!

Digital photography is one aspect of it, true, but the 5 1/2" floppies I'm talking about (:eek:) were back in the BBC Micro / ZX Spectrum days, when you could get the computer's whole operating system into 16K, and upwards of 20 games onto one floppy.

I even remember a computerised type-setting machine my Dad had at work that used 8" floppies!

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

Anyway, where were we?

too right, mark.
my first computer had a 120mb hard drive!

my dad was always buying/swapping bits and bobs of computery things for me - there was always a steady stream of them coming in and going back out of our house when i was growing up

my first computer was a ZX81

then we had a dragon 32 for about 3 months (that was cr*p), then we briefly got a texas ti99-4/a (snappy name, huh? i quite liked that one and it was built like a tank), then we had a commodore 64 and an atari 800xl (at the same time, for some reason) for a few years, and then we got an amiga 600, then a 1200, and then it started getting serious

i didnt actually get a pc until i went to uni in 1995. it was some crumbly old elonex 486 dx2 66 than ran like a dog... but it was good enough for windows 3.1, word 6, access 2, some c programming environment and a couple of assembly language emulators that we needed for our course






hmmm.

i was always going to be a bit spoddy, wasn't it?

Quiff Boy wrote:my first computer was a ZX81

I also had a ZX81. 8K ROM (holding the entire OS and BASIC programming language) and 1K RAM. Fantastic.

markfiend wrote:

timsinister wrote:Mark, your age is showing

Fetch my pipe and slippers you young whippersnapper!

Digital photography is one aspect of it, true, but the 5 1/2" floppies I'm talking about (:eek:) were back in the BBC Micro / ZX Spectrum days, when you could get the computer's whole operating system into 16K, and upwards of 20 games onto one floppy.

I even remember a computerised type-setting machine my Dad had at work that used 8" floppies!

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

Anyway, where were we?

Good heavens above I remember those days too!

i started from C64 then Amiga 600 and after quite a long time normal PC. i young but old enough to remember that machines

Time for a new thread methinks - this one seems to have gone a bit off topic

I remember punched cards and Beginners Automated Symbolic Instruction Code (may have got BASIC wrong)....

deirfiur wrote:Time for a new thread methinks - this one seems to have gone a bit off topic

yeah

welcome to the zoo that is heartland

that's better

I don't remember what my first was, but it was barely pré pentium. I know because everyone else was upgrading and I couldn't

abridged wrote:I remember punched cards and Beginners Automated Symbolic Instruction Code (may have got BASIC wrong)....

Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code?

Anyone remember the Jupiter Ace, a ZX81 homebuild variant that used FORTH instead of BASIC?

I remember hot metal type and punchtape

Yep. Mark Sorry All Purpose Code. Been a while since school!

James Blast wrote:I remember hot metal type and punchtape

My Dad had a typesetter worked for him who could set fully-justified type (from hot lead) by eye more quickly than you would believe. It was a marvel to watch.

I have a geek related post to make but I'm too upset about it just now, I need to collect my thoughts, otherwise it will just be a stream of bile and hatred directed at the powers that be where I work - I may need to PM the Boss + Fiendy, it's a three pipe problem

You know where I am. And my gmail address if I'm not here.

I dinna ken whaur tae start, but thankee Herr fiendish one

zoiks. waddup?

I'm so upset, lemme say "I'm a peecee, no I'm not. I is Mac, I will allas be Mac, dammit"!

Quiff Boy wrote: i was always going to be a bit spoddy, wasn't it?

yup!


we had a zx81 and commodore 64 as well.