My New Desk Top Computer

[buckeyefarmer]

Dell is still a good computer. I have a bunch of computers in the house, and everyone uses my I7 Dell cause it rocks.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

I spent years at Intel; I tend to stick with their processors and boards.

Robert,

I worked at Intel in Oregon, and out in sales in sourthern California from 1991 to 2002.

I still have a grunch of shares from the employee stock plan that are STILL under water from those days...

Be well sir,
David

 

[MossflowerWoods]

So in rambling on, here I think I have owned and used some of the oldest "iron" on here.

James K0UA

James,
Ya beat me!

In 1983 or 84 (I was in the Navy) I bought a Commodore 64, with a 5.25" FLOPPY and a printer. Mostly for Jumpman.

But I also wrote my case for Navy Legal to justify my keeping custody of my 5 week old twin sons vs. letting my cheating wife (soon to be ex) keep them on the crappy word processor and dot matrix printer.

After I got out in 1986 I got my hands on an old early Compaq luggable (the suitcase sized one) that had a 10 meg HDD! and a 5.25 floppy (I used the punch so I could format and write to BOTH SIDES!). When the gree screen internal to the unit died, I managed to rig up a connection to an external amber 12' monitor, but it no longer lugged... I used an early form of word perfect...

After that it was a 386/dx25! then I homebuilt a system with a free 487 Intel gave one to each employee (so this was 91/92 ish) then fuggedabowit, I've had so many systems it just does not matter.

I believe there are 4-5 laptops (they all will still boot) and at least 3-4 desktops somewhere in the house... That is just mine, not counting the one work gives me.

Be well,
David

 

[JDgreen227]

Robert,

I worked at Intel in Oregon, and out in sales in sourthern California from 1991 to 2002.

I still have a grunch of shares from the employee stock plan that are STILL under water from those days...

Be well sir,
David

"GRUNCH of shares"...was that an intentional typo....:laughing:

 

[g0rd0]

my first comuter,,,a radio shack" rainbowII "? It was so long ago that I am not sure if that is the actual name of it. It did not have a floppy only a tape (casset) drive. My brother in law then gave me a coleco machine, had it for years, playing donky kong, lady bug and all sorts of other mindless games:laughing:.
Then I went to a hp preserio desktop with xp in it LOVED it. 7 years latter it finnally died . I now have an Acer on the desk and a hp laptop both with windows 7, 3 cores and more memory than either of us will use.

 

[Bird]

A lot of you guys know how to build/maintain/program/repair computer and I only know how to use'em.:laughing:

And all this talk about older computers always reminds of when the City of Dallas got 2 IBM 360s and thought that would be all the computer the City would ever need in any of our lifetimes.

 

[Gizmo2]

A lot of you guys know how to build/maintain/program/repair computer and I only know how to use'em.:laughing:

And all this talk about older computers always reminds of when the City of Dallas got 2 IBM 360s and thought that would be all the computer the City would ever need in any of our lifetimes.

Yeah, I know and have done all that stuff but I don't want to do it any more. All I want to do is use them. I keep telling myself "this is the last computer I will ever buy". Just like I keep saying "that was the last attachment I will ever buy for the tractor", 2008 we bought a new tractor:confused2:

 

[k0ua]

James,
Ya beat me!

In 1983 or 84 (I was in the Navy) I bought a Commodore 64, with a 5.25" FLOPPY and a printer. Mostly for Jumpman.

But I also wrote my case for Navy Legal to justify my keeping custody of my 5 week old twin sons vs. letting my cheating wife (soon to be ex) keep them on the crappy word processor and dot matrix printer.

After I got out in 1986 I got my hands on an old early Compaq luggable (the suitcase sized one) that had a 10 meg HDD! and a 5.25 floppy (I used the punch so I could format and write to BOTH SIDES!). When the gree screen internal to the unit died, I managed to rig up a connection to an external amber 12' monitor, but it no longer lugged... I used an early form of word perfect...

After that it was a 386/dx25! then I homebuilt a system with a free 487 Intel gave one to each employee (so this was 91/92 ish) then fuggedabowit, I've had so many systems it just does not matter.

I believe there are 4-5 laptops (they all will still boot) and at least 3-4 desktops somewhere in the house... That is just mine, not counting the one work gives me.

Be well,
David

My first IBM machine I paid 2500 for Used!. The stupid thing sold new for about 5000 bucks or so. It had 256K of RAM and 2 360K floppys, No HD. I expanded it with an AST Sixpack card to 640K (one row of chips at a time) you bought the chips and plugged them in yourself as you could afford them. I also put in an 8087 math co-processor and it really made my satellite prediction program fly. Later I scrimped and saved and purchased a used 20Meg hard drive, and put all the programs and data I owned at the time on it, and had room left over:laughing:. I finally sold it and purchased a 386 DX 40 motherboard, and built up a computer that was 10 times faster than the old 8088 IBM machine. At the time I could not imagine anything faster. The my bubble was burst when the 486 machines came out..and it did not take long:laughing: Of course I remember the old luggables and how coveted they were at the time. before the DOS machines they run on CPM and used word processing programs like WordStar. CPM (Control Program for Microcomputers) was a dos-like forerunner, that I think was developed by DEC. The old Model 15 Teletype system I referenced earlier was used for decades in newsrooms and later the ones I got were surplus from the Frisco Railroad. I used them to communicate over Radio by building up a simple Phase Locked Loop radio modem that takes audio from the radio and decodes the two tones (mark and space) and drive the old mechanical selector magnets on the Teletype machine. The Teletype machines had thousands of parts driven by a large camshaft from a synch. motor. It was a mechanical marvel from another era. Grandpa, may not have had many electronic computers, but our ancestors sure could make some intricate machines.

James K0UA

 

[JDgreen227]

Lets see now....

I have a pair of TI-99/4's...but no monitors

Gateway 386/SX

Gateway 486--uses Windows 98

Dell 2400--XP

Dell 4700--heavily modded--XP

Dell 530--heavily modded--Vista

Toshiba M35X--15.4 laptop--XP

Toshiba M115-S3094--14.1 laptop--XP

Toshiba L305-S5921--15.6 laptop--Vista

Toshiba L-355-S7901--17.3 laptop--Vista

5 each 19 to 23.6 inch LCD monitors

1 Kodak, 1 HP, and 4 Canon MFP's.

For TWO OF US...and everything works but the TI-99's--don't ask why I have those...:laughing:

 

[JDgreen227]

A lot of you guys know how to build/maintain/program/repair computer and I only know how to use'em.:laughing:

And all this talk about older computers always reminds of when the City of Dallas got 2 IBM 360s and thought that would be all the computer the City would ever need in any of our lifetimes.

Bird, I have a paperbound, large format book titled "Digital Retro" by Gordon Laing. Subtitled "The evolution and design of the personal computer". Lavishly illustrated and quite detailed. It labels the early video games like the Atari 2600 and Coelco Vision consoles as computers, although I never would have thought of them as such.