Stuff that really bugs me

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by OTB

...with an IBM 8088 processor running at 4.77 mhz and 16K of RAM and 2- 5.25 inch floppies...no hard drive. You loaded the boot floppy into A, fired it up, and proceeded to swap floppies till the OS was loaded.

The OS floppies you kept in your OS box....then you went to your APPS box and proceeded to get the 8-10 floppies so you could load LOTUS 1-2-3......or Word.........it usually took about 15 minutes to get your computer so you could use it......kinda like Vista today

I had a V20 chip, not a 8086 or 8088. Dual 360K, double-sided FDDs. Big 256K of memory. Eventually managed to buy a 30 Meg RLL hard drive for $650.00 (dealer cost). Big-time performance, buddy

[OTB]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

I had a V20 chip, not a 8086 or 8088. Dual 360K, double-sided FDDs. Big 256K of memory. Eventually managed to buy a 30 Meg RLL hard drive for $650.00 (dealer cost). Big-time performance, buddy

You had double-sided FDD's? Spoiled rich bastard!!!!!! Speed Freak!!!

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by OTB

You had double-sided FDD's? Spoiled rich bastard!!!!!! Speed Freak!!!

It was the accounting system for the comp manufacturer I worked for, at the time. I got it cheap, as in slightly less than $1K.

[AquaPython]

funny you mention a gripe with this word. I was watching a bad mid 90's movie just two nights ago, and there was a whole scene dedicated to this word, in it's other use. group of friends show up at friend's bar. bar owner proceeds to tell them they now have "apps". they stare blankly, he repeats, silence, "you know appetizers..".
The scene continues and free apps are brought up a few more times.

i said to the wife, this scene would be pretty different if the movie was filmed today.

i remember killer app being thrown around since the macintosh days

[Trip]

We used the word app and prog for the games we played on my old Tandy that ran an old version of DOS. I can't remember the specs I was really young, but it was pre x86 days, it had a 5.25" drive and played some really crappy games. It was like OTB said, it took 10 discs run anything. It was hilarious. My dad used it for Lotus 1-2-3 as well.

[pauldun170]

Originally Posted by Particle Man

Annoyed? There's an app for that.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by OTB

...with an IBM 8088 processor running at 4.77 mhz and 16K of RAM and 2- 5.25 inch floppies...no hard drive. You loaded the boot floppy into A, fired it up, and proceeded to swap floppies till the OS was loaded.

The OS floppies you kept in your OS box....then you went to your APPS box and proceeded to get the 8-10 floppies so you could load LOTUS 1-2-3......or Word.........it usually took about 15 minutes to get your computer so you could use it......kinda like Vista today

I remember doing that in our Mac 128k. You could either have a "system disk" with software on it that had very little room for save files (if it fit) or you could put the OS on one disk, boot up, then put the software disk in.

Then we got a second drive. I thought it was cool watching it access one drive, then go to the other, then back as it needed it

[Amber Lamps]

When I took comp prog in HS, 1979. We had a Tandy that had MAYBE 16 meg of ram, used a cassette player for program back up and had to be linked to a server via a cradle modem to do much of anything. I remember writing a casino program (in basic-btw) that took up almost a ream of paper. We had to back up the computer onto paper, took forever. I thought fortran was invented by God himself!!! The first time I saw a floppy, I may have gotten a boner!

[Dave]

I had a (among other things) ti99-4/a with cassette tape drive

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Dave

I had a (among other things) ti99-4/a with cassette tape drive

My first "PC" was a TS1000 with a dictation tape recorder attatched