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who here still has any hardware that is older than commodore 64? I still have one of those as well as a VIC 20 (I think I must have been about 4 years old when I used to play on those machines). I think there may even be an old style tape drive in my garage somewhere, and when I say old style, I mean the kind that used audio tapes to record data as noise 
-Zorak
Ah I thought u were saying you were 40 or something. Anyway, I have owned every type of computer since the 8088s. Started selling computers when I was 8. Sold my first computer, which was a 486 with windows 3.1 on it. It has 16mb of ram and a sound blaster 16 card. The week after I sold it, (to a friends dad), it got the first peice of spyware that i remember. It turned all the title bars into Porn advertising... NO JOKE. It wasnt that funny then, but sure funny now. I sold it for enough money to buy a brand new pentium 100 computer with a 800mb hdd. And sold that one for enough money to buy a newer computer.
So that 486 has payed for my current computer 
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Note: oldest hardware I still have would be the old 320kb floppy drives, MS-DOS/ PC-DOS, and I thnk I still have a z80 chip somewhere. All from the same era as the c64.
BTW: I keep all the old stuff because I am always fixing pplz old computers. They will never upgrade lol.
AHAHHA. Long time ago. but they actualy kept the OS on floppy untill windows 2000/xp. I still have windows 98 disks on floppy. (40 of them I think).
Anyway, the earliest computer I remember using was the 8088 which is earlier then then C64. It had that old cassette drive attached, and a screen as well. I dont remember what OS it was running, but im gessing PC-DOS. (not microsoft, IBM).
| Quote : Dear GOD! Im only 22 and my computer storage house (aka garage) is filled with computers much older then yours, you panzies. |
I got ride of alot of my older computers, I got tired of moving them around the country with me...
Unless someone left said disk on the daskboard of their car in the heat of a Carribean summer... 8O 
| Quote : who here still has any hardware that is older than commodore 64? I still have one of those as well as a VIC 20 (I think I must have been about 4 years old when I used to play on those machines). I think there may even be an old style tape drive in my garage somewhere, and when I say old style, I mean the kind that used audio tapes to record data as noise |
I still have my original ATARI game station and games..... 
I think I still have an old Tandy Keyboard computer that used a casette tape for storage laying around somewhere.
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Now I have both a Livedrive and a Tungsten C that both have Wifi and the C has a 500Mhz Intle Xscale processor, more than the 266 my P2 has and the Lifedrive has a 4GB hard drive, which is more than what my Pentium Pro came with.
The Orignal Palm.....
Atleast it ain't a Newton
I'm with ya brother.........
Physics was my favorite..
| Quote : Physics was great, where else can you charge up a layden jar (capacitor) and give the entire class a 100,000+ Volt shock!
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Ahhh, The good old days... then you have to grow up and become responsible..
| Quote : Physics was great, where else can you charge up a layden jar (capacitor) and give the entire class a 100,000+ Volt shock!
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Ahhh, The good old days... then you have to grow up and become responsible..
Or a physics teacher.
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