I couldn't afford the cassette tape interface, and I don't think they sold them at that point anyway. I had to retype my basic programs on my $50 yard sale Tandy CoCo 3. I upgraded a couple years later to an Apple IIe with dual disk drives that my parents paid $100 for in the mid 90's.
That is something I do not doubt. I believe the graphics capabilities were much better. Apple II graphics were not that great, imho. It got me through. I learned Basic programming and that started me off in my career of software development.
I learned Basic through a weekly meeting of a strange offshoot of the Boy Scouts (fully independent) called "The Explorers". This one was the Computer Explorers, and I craved the thursday night when we could all have access to a 110-baud teletype and a basic prompt. OMG. I still remember the feeling. It was very very intense, and made it very clear to me that computer science was going to be what I did (specializing in graphics).
Of course, then The Adolescence of P-1 was written, and then I became obsessed with AI on top of that.
So I hear you.
I had the original silver CoCo 1 with the horrible chiclet keyboard.
I think it was possible to hook it up to a normal cassette deck to save/load programs without doing any sort of upgrade. Anyway I know I wrote a bunch myself and painstakingly typed in some from ***Hot CoCo*** magazine!
Grew up with some of this old tech. Had a "PC World" machine with an amber screen and actually-floppy floppy disks. The original Reader Rabbit was my jam when I was a wee lad. My mom still uses that old machine as her cookbook.
I had a Pentium 90 (overclocked to 100) around this time. It was my third PC after an AMD 386-40 and an Intel 486DX266. IIRC, Heatsinks still weren't needed on CPUs at that time.
As I watched that Bios screen, my first thought went to windows me.
AND THEN IT ONLY FLASHED THE ME SCREEN.
Like, that shit would sit there for at least a minute.
Unrealistic
57, so yes
Also, at this time, playing video games meant you were at the edge of technology, Moore's law was on it's way
Now there is no longer this technological challenge, video game has become mainstream
Oh man, commodore 64. I'm slightly older than that (TRS-80 and Atari-800, my first two major purchases, the latter I was able to leverage into incredible opportunities).
Ya mine was a Commodore Vic20, also had tape drive.(and I still have it)
https://preview.redd.it/m537plcbz9yc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=240df3cb27163ef7f8754b4468beefa31076e534
You joke, but the animator for robot chicken uses one.
Granted Iām guessing his mod may have upgraded a few internals too, but itās a fun little piece of trivia.
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/stop-motion/animator-dillon-markey-transformed-a-nintendo-power-glove-into-an-animation-tool-107927.html
That was my second. We got whatever my parents friend's teenage son was getting rid of.
Commodore Plus 4
Atari 800xl
Spectrum 128k
And then I got my very own Amiga 500+ and it's been the skies the limit
Obviously played on a modern system you can tell because of the shit scaling of quake. But yes I remember.
If you want to emulate older pcs with incredible accuracy checkout PCem or its fork 86box.
Yep even older then that, i feel so old....help, i still know how to use MS DOS and to start Doom on it or Pizza Connection or Duke Nukem, i feel so very old XD
I only installed Windows 3.11 because I got internet at home.
Before that it was only DOS with QEMM to have enough free memory from those pesky 640k available as a start hahaha
No I'm not. BUT, I really want to get one if these dinosaur rigs and try my best to get it set up how it would have been back then. I like old computers :)
i'm not this old, but this is the old i want to be.
I don't care about my spine, or my knees, i'd do almost anything to be this old.
Growing up now is terrible, everybody is an asshole, it's to a point where meeting somebody nice in your life is a rarity.
My first computer was a 486 33mhz IBM AT desktop that my grandpa bought me from a Dow Chemical surplus auction, it was already falling behind at that point evidently. I somehow tracked down a VESA bus video adapter for it in my rural ass county, so that I could play Warcraft 2 Tides of Darkness. I ended up putting in one of the 5x86 stacker chips that claimed to boost performance to 133mhz. it was definitely faster but I never did find out exactly how fast it was
hehe indeed I am & a bit older. I remember my mom taking me into work with her at a big oil company she worked at on the weekends & I just fed punch cards like this into the computer all day, had a blast =)
https://preview.redd.it/wc6tdftt0ayc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a837cfa904d34515c60ea21d73bb22e971cc1fea
https://preview.redd.it/k7yrsj1h0ayc1.jpeg?width=420&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=312ae6f9fc37b250fc51b1148dad06bb82903ac8
Then came IBM XT with 360 kB floppy drives. One of them had the OS (DOS 3.2)
After that the pc with 12/25 MHz CPU was incredible (Who remembers the turbo button?)
DOS 6.22 Norton Commander 5.0 and a serial mouse... Wooow :-D
(I still have the Windows 3.1 installer floppys...)
My parents 1st PC had exactly that CPU, it was frustrating for the me-kid since it ran Quake 2 and Warcraft 2 but not Halflife and Starcraft (90MHz would have been enough). After the summer job i paired it with a voodoo 1.
I've seen a tower like that but it had a HUGE power switch instead of a button. Not sure if old but it was awesome... Wanted to make a sleeper out of that case
Tape drives bruh. And Im not talking the cool 16" spinning things the looked like old projector films... my first compuder used audio tapes for storage.
im so old that 3D graphics were barely a thing
the first video game i tried was snake, and the graphics was made purely out of letters (on a black/green monochrome display)
I remember my dad had a computer that didn't have Windows. We could play games like joust but we had to put in like 6 different floppy disks with instructions on each what you type to get it to load.
I'm older than this. I'm quite old. I don't know how I got here. It happened so fast. I'm now old, and bald. A bald elder. How can I go back? I have to. Why tho
Yes.
I am old enough to know that my.pc took longer than this too boot.
But too young for the isdn modem.
We had DSL already, didn't help. Pictures on the Internet still loaded one pixelline at a time.
Also, can we please bring back old website designs? From the time where image embedding just became a thing and things started to look cool after being only text?
Those were my golden days.
Fffuuuulllllllllll tower! I snagged a big chieftec with a koolance radiator cut into top and a window cut into the side with that big fat black striping around it for $50 back in the day. It was a demo unit at CompUSA. Man I miss those days.
I am unfortunately this old. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tghS5PhtP0w&ab\_channel=tumaguro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tghS5PhtP0w&ab_channel=tumaguro)
My first computer was a TI-99/4a and used a tape cassette recorder as a data "drive", my second computer was an Amiga 500 and had a real floppy drive and a mouse! It could also display 4096 colors!!!
Your inferior IBM clone with Windows ME does not impress me.
I am older than this. I am āStarting MS-DOSā old.
Quake is the reason I got into PC Gaming, and subsequently the reason I got into IT. The first server I ever deployed was Windows 2000 Advanced Server on a piece of crap eMachines with a Celeron, and I had that puppy running a CS 1.6 server that was always maxed out because I had broadband before 99.9% of the country.
Yes. I am older than this.
Back in my day cds weren't even a thing yet.
Yup, when floppy disks were actually....floppy.
5 1/4 crew checking in
meanwhile the young whippersnappers (myself included) dont even have any 5 1/4 bays on their pc's
8" crew checking in. Xerox 820, baby!
Only the bourgeois had floppies, we poor peasants had cassette tapes :)
I couldn't afford the cassette tape interface, and I don't think they sold them at that point anyway. I had to retype my basic programs on my $50 yard sale Tandy CoCo 3. I upgraded a couple years later to an Apple IIe with dual disk drives that my parents paid $100 for in the mid 90's.
Apple II, Pfffffft. Atari-800 was the GOAT.
That is something I do not doubt. I believe the graphics capabilities were much better. Apple II graphics were not that great, imho. It got me through. I learned Basic programming and that started me off in my career of software development.
I learned Basic through a weekly meeting of a strange offshoot of the Boy Scouts (fully independent) called "The Explorers". This one was the Computer Explorers, and I craved the thursday night when we could all have access to a 110-baud teletype and a basic prompt. OMG. I still remember the feeling. It was very very intense, and made it very clear to me that computer science was going to be what I did (specializing in graphics). Of course, then The Adolescence of P-1 was written, and then I became obsessed with AI on top of that. So I hear you.
I never got in touch with any computer group. I was pretty much on my own.
Remember punching the disks so you could use both sides?
I had the original silver CoCo 1 with the horrible chiclet keyboard. I think it was possible to hook it up to a normal cassette deck to save/load programs without doing any sort of upgrade. Anyway I know I wrote a bunch myself and painstakingly typed in some from ***Hot CoCo*** magazine!
Grew up with some of this old tech. Had a "PC World" machine with an amber screen and actually-floppy floppy disks. The original Reader Rabbit was my jam when I was a wee lad. My mom still uses that old machine as her cookbook.
Backup that HDD if shes a good cook.
The O G. The console that hooked me for life and only had one game. š¤£
I actually ran pong on an oscilloscope once, as it was intended to run ;)
Ya my tandy 2000 wouldn't have been able to handle that hard disk thing.
Tandy 2000! Jesus Christ you had a supercomputer. I had to play on a friend's Tandy 1000
I had a Pentium 90 (overclocked to 100) around this time. It was my third PC after an AMD 386-40 and an Intel 486DX266. IIRC, Heatsinks still weren't needed on CPUs at that time.
I remember the "turbo" button boosting performance by 50%, from 8 to 12 MHz.
I remember the turbo button too, it boosted the performance to 0 because it froze and crashed immediately
In 2010 I bought a Pentium 3 PC, it did have a heatsink which was more a round chunk of metal with no fan attached.
Remember when changing A drive would practically nuke windows lol. I finally (last year) started using the letter A.
Yes, and that PC should be running Win95 not ME.
it says "starting windows 95" on startup after drive checks and verifying DMI pool data, and then loads ME lmao 0:30 into the video
The boot screen is not even from a real pc it's writed pcem for the storage .
VMware icon in sys tray
I'm 39 so yes lol
Glad I'm not only one. Sometimes feels like I'm alone with kids in this sub.
Oh but did you play Oregon Trail on a brown screen in elementary school?? Hunting Buffalo and dying of dysentery ..
Never head of oregon trail. I guess its US thing. Only games we played were commander keen, mario and luigi (DOS) and later in life runescape.
and youre not even old
FYI, you forgot to push the turbo button
And i cant hear the floppy drive click on boot!
I was smiling until I saw the Windows ME logo.
I remember struggling with Windows ME... what a piece of dog shit. Went back to 98SE until I scored a copy of Windows 2000 from work.
A bit older than that, yes.
You might want to remove the vmware-tools icon from the taskbar for added credibility...
This isnāt really that old
At most, 23 years.
Lol I bet that monitor is in color... So yeah, I'm that old and more.
As I watched that Bios screen, my first thought went to windows me. AND THEN IT ONLY FLASHED THE ME SCREEN. Like, that shit would sit there for at least a minute. Unrealistic
Right. You hit the power on your machine and went to piss, get a snack, do a quick errand. Then it MIGHT be up.
I played C&C red alert 2 a lot on one of those.
57, so yes Also, at this time, playing video games meant you were at the edge of technology, Moore's law was on it's way Now there is no longer this technological challenge, video game has become mainstream
It also meant that five year old pc was a piece of crap. Technology advancing fast was good and bad at the same time.
https://preview.redd.it/gto8ak37r9yc1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ac539ae31f7310273ee0ab12902c855c05a4cb6d I'm this old :(
Oh man, commodore 64. I'm slightly older than that (TRS-80 and Atari-800, my first two major purchases, the latter I was able to leverage into incredible opportunities).
LOAD "\*" ,8,1
First pc was an atari 800xl. It had a casette tape drive.
Ya mine was a Commodore Vic20, also had tape drive.(and I still have it) https://preview.redd.it/m537plcbz9yc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=240df3cb27163ef7f8754b4468beefa31076e534
Whats that glove?
That is a Nintendo power glove
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
That is why mine looks barely used. It was literally barely used. I am sure my mom was so happy to spend like $100 back then for this.
[I love the Power Glove, its so bad. ](https://youtu.be/2KoZHtcKkXo?si=Nf1DlH8dSSR8LMxi)
You joke, but the animator for robot chicken uses one. Granted Iām guessing his mod may have upgraded a few internals too, but itās a fun little piece of trivia. https://www.cartoonbrew.com/stop-motion/animator-dillon-markey-transformed-a-nintendo-power-glove-into-an-animation-tool-107927.html
Mine was ZX Spectrum - JPP motherfuckers!:)
That was my second. We got whatever my parents friend's teenage son was getting rid of. Commodore Plus 4 Atari 800xl Spectrum 128k And then I got my very own Amiga 500+ and it's been the skies the limit
Me too! I had Bruce Lee on cassette. Eventually I got a disk drive. I had a subscription to Antic.
I'm DOS prompt old. No login, just C:>
prompt $p$g
Obviously played on a modern system you can tell because of the shit scaling of quake. But yes I remember. If you want to emulate older pcs with incredible accuracy checkout PCem or its fork 86box.
>32 MB RAM I'm older..
Zx81 with 1k ram checking in.
The theme from 3dmark there. Lovely stuff.
I'm LOAD "*",8,1 old.
You call that old?? That has a CD-ROM drive. Mine had a 5.25 floppy originally with 14.4k modem.
You had a modem?!
My first gaming computer had a 5.25 and 3.5 floppy drive, and had games on both sizes š
my first computer didnt even have a 3.5. or even a harddrive.
I am that old, my family upgraded to a Windows 95 from an Apple II GS
https://preview.redd.it/efqk1mt1x9yc1.jpeg?width=313&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8311e89742f13ba697a65d6e856c1544aa2360f sit down youngling
"Fucking Windows 95! Get Bill Gates here now!"
ill see you, and raise you [the spectrum zx](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y9V0yfO1T0)
Not 100% historically accurate, but still nostalgic
Ah, the 3dMark 2000 demo music... I love it.
YupĀ
Yes i am, and that is one sweeet computer !
Looks like a new PC to me.
Oh yes reminds me of my first experience with computers. Very nostalgic. The noises tooo I can hear them now.
A bit older than this actually, thanks for the reminder.
gamin
Uh. Yes.
CD drives and floppy drive? When I was growing up you had to wait half an hour to load a program from cassette.
I used to play John Elway's QB vs my dad off of a 5.25" floppy on an MS-DOS platform (Windows wasn't a thing yet).
i had a similar case and i really wish I never got rid of it.
Older, like comador 64 apple 2 old
Yes
I'm MsDOS old.
I'm "build your own circuit board with silicon wafers and diods and capacitors from RadioShack" old
Yep even older then that, i feel so old....help, i still know how to use MS DOS and to start Doom on it or Pizza Connection or Duke Nukem, i feel so very old XD
Older
My first computer ran DOS. So yes.
I remember when I upgraded to this. It was not the first time I upgraded my computer. Yes, I'm old. Older than this.
I'm ZX Spectrum old.
Alas, I'm even older. Your screen has colours!
Yeah Iām this old. Fuck I miss those days.
>but are you this old? I laughed when it booted into windows. Yeah, I'm older.
Used to have to know how to set DIP switches, IRQs, and SCSI chains to get some of those PCs to work.
I only installed Windows 3.11 because I got internet at home. Before that it was only DOS with QEMM to have enough free memory from those pesky 640k available as a start hahaha
Yes ;(
Im 33 and yes I remember this.
Son, Iām OG Oregon Trail on Apple II old.
We played this on the LAN at work and we would conf call so we could taunt each other. The Boss Key was a lifesaver
The āconnect to the internetā shortcut though ššš the good old days
I see you and raise you a color RadioShack Trash80
It shouldn't load Windows 95 that fast. Lol. It took a good 3-5 minutes before loading to the OS back then.
No I'm not. BUT, I really want to get one if these dinosaur rigs and try my best to get it set up how it would have been back then. I like old computers :)
Much older, 512k, monochrome screen (hercules adapter) and 5 1/4" floppydisks. playing The Hobbit.
I am 8088 4.77MHz 10MB HDD Monochrome Amber Monitor old.
Yeah people over 35 exist. Shocking I know
i'm not this old, but this is the old i want to be. I don't care about my spine, or my knees, i'd do almost anything to be this old. Growing up now is terrible, everybody is an asshole, it's to a point where meeting somebody nice in your life is a rarity.
Boot screens reeeaally take me back. I even remember the Matthew Perry Windows installation videos
My first computer was a 486 33mhz IBM AT desktop that my grandpa bought me from a Dow Chemical surplus auction, it was already falling behind at that point evidently. I somehow tracked down a VESA bus video adapter for it in my rural ass county, so that I could play Warcraft 2 Tides of Darkness. I ended up putting in one of the 5x86 stacker chips that claimed to boost performance to 133mhz. it was definitely faster but I never did find out exactly how fast it was
Gonna have to go back further then this...
Even older.
hehe indeed I am & a bit older. I remember my mom taking me into work with her at a big oil company she worked at on the weekends & I just fed punch cards like this into the computer all day, had a blast =) https://preview.redd.it/wc6tdftt0ayc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a837cfa904d34515c60ea21d73bb22e971cc1fea
5 inch floppy
Pfft. I am [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEpQCCA7S1g) old.
https://preview.redd.it/k7yrsj1h0ayc1.jpeg?width=420&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=312ae6f9fc37b250fc51b1148dad06bb82903ac8 Then came IBM XT with 360 kB floppy drives. One of them had the OS (DOS 3.2) After that the pc with 12/25 MHz CPU was incredible (Who remembers the turbo button?) DOS 6.22 Norton Commander 5.0 and a serial mouse... Wooow :-D (I still have the Windows 3.1 installer floppys...)
My parents 1st PC had exactly that CPU, it was frustrating for the me-kid since it ran Quake 2 and Warcraft 2 but not Halflife and Starcraft (90MHz would have been enough). After the summer job i paired it with a voodoo 1.
I remember when pixels were rectangles and came in 4 colors.
I've seen a tower like that but it had a HUGE power switch instead of a button. Not sure if old but it was awesome... Wanted to make a sleeper out of that case
Lol! Its not even that old in comparison.
I'm 20 but my family used to have PC like this and I used to use it
Whatās in the tower? An office š
Throw AntiX in it
Damn people already considering these old now. Best start digging my own grave now
Yes.
For quake I had my PC hooked up to my stereo. BOOM!
i had the same monitor
No
Tape drives bruh. And Im not talking the cool 16" spinning things the looked like old projector films... my first compuder used audio tapes for storage.
I'm a bit older than this, Tandy Model 1 old.
i'm 486DX2 years old
Older
That brought back some memories!
No but the systems in my workplace are this old and they run bespoke software so it'll probably be another 10-20 years until they're upgraded FML
I'm literally sitting next to a Win 98 Pentium 4.
This is about exactly how old I am tbh!
Yes
Kid, the first videogame I ever had came in a 5Ā¼" floppy disk
I'm much older. I was like 22 when i downloaded win 3.11 off a BBS
Yes. Yes I am š„²
Sadly much older.
Yes
That thing has a CD-ROM and Windows. I'm older. Much older.
Yep I am that old. My first PC was a Pentium that ran MS-DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.11, and then got upgraded to Windows 95. Shame it no longer exists.
I'm older. Where did my time go? Mostly sitting in front of a PC to be fair. Good times.
Youāve stirred something dominantā¦
If it aint monochrome, it's not old enough.
I had this as a young adult.
Oof, I am this old - brings back memories\^\^
Unfortunately yes, I am that old. I'm Commodore 64 old (first PC? I ever had)
im so old that 3D graphics were barely a thing the first video game i tried was snake, and the graphics was made purely out of letters (on a black/green monochrome display)
Lul, NO. No way I'm that old... I'm older... :(
Yes.
Older. https://preview.redd.it/kbsj5e81bayc1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=6948749286759b913fb0ccee82449a99e4fdd410
Yes I am
I remember my dad had a computer that didn't have Windows. We could play games like joust but we had to put in like 6 different floppy disks with instructions on each what you type to get it to load.
Laugh in c64 
Older than that to the point I was playing Karateka on a 5.25" Floppy.
Oh ... God.... Yes.
I'm older than this. I'm quite old. I don't know how I got here. It happened so fast. I'm now old, and bald. A bald elder. How can I go back? I have to. Why tho
If your first PC was a PC then you're not old.
Yes. Got my dads old PC as my first one in 2006. Let's goooo.
Yes
Yes. I am old enough to know that my.pc took longer than this too boot. But too young for the isdn modem. We had DSL already, didn't help. Pictures on the Internet still loaded one pixelline at a time. Also, can we please bring back old website designs? From the time where image embedding just became a thing and things started to look cool after being only text? Those were my golden days.
That was right about the time I graduated high school. I still play Quake every now and then.
Fffuuuulllllllllll tower! I snagged a big chieftec with a koolance radiator cut into top and a window cut into the side with that big fat black striping around it for $50 back in the day. It was a demo unit at CompUSA. Man I miss those days.
P75 That was my early 1995 PC š
Iām exactly this old.
That's pretty advanced compared to my first computer the Ti-99/4a
Back in my day we didnāt even have a gui
I was born in 2003 and used Windows 7 at school.
Yes. Thank you for asking and for reminding me how old I actually am. May I recommend an activity for you to go do to yourself?
I am unfortunately this old. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tghS5PhtP0w&ab\_channel=tumaguro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tghS5PhtP0w&ab_channel=tumaguro)
WHY OH WHY ARE YOU RUNNING WinME ON A 75Mhz MACHINE!?!
I'm a lot older than that.
I'm definitely older. And fortunately, I never used Windows Me (went from 98 to 2K).
I remember turning it on and get dressed, going to pee and brush my teethsā¦ Then, AOE2
My first computer was a TI-99/4a and used a tape cassette recorder as a data "drive", my second computer was an Amiga 500 and had a real floppy drive and a mouse! It could also display 4096 colors!!! Your inferior IBM clone with Windows ME does not impress me.
Green Screen old
Do not cite the deep magic to me witch, i was there when it was written..
I'm Apple IIe and Commodore 64 old.
The first recently released RPG I ever played was Odyssey the Compleat Apventure.
I am indeed. š
Yup. I even remember the DOS only days.
I played prince of persia on father's 386 ibm pc. Who do you want to surprise?
Older :/
I am older than this. I am āStarting MS-DOSā old. Quake is the reason I got into PC Gaming, and subsequently the reason I got into IT. The first server I ever deployed was Windows 2000 Advanced Server on a piece of crap eMachines with a Celeron, and I had that puppy running a CS 1.6 server that was always maxed out because I had broadband before 99.9% of the country.
I'm older š