Oh. My. Gosh.

[SwampGas]

I found my old laptop. 8 inch screen. 486sx/50. 8 meg ram. 200 meg drive. Bought brand new for around $3,400 or so.

It has the pascal source code for all my BBS door games I wrote, all my 86asm programs...and my first released program ever....NES to Famicom ROM converter that I released for the emu scene (back before NESticle existed so we had to use Pasofami).

Also found my old modems. Hayes Accura 28.8 and Bocamodem 28.8...can't find my 14.4 or my 56k.

This is just amazing to me. Files are dated 1993. NINETEEN NINETY THREE.

[Maxwell Murder]

> This is just amazing to me. Files are dated 1993. NINETEEN
> NINETY THREE.

Your files are older than Michael Jackson's lovers.

[CEpeep]

> Your files are older than Michael Jackson's lovers.
>

<img src=smilies/laff.gif>

[king killa]

> Your files are older than Michael Jackson's lovers.
>

on a scale from 1 to 10, how old would you say michael's boyfriend is?

[(wraith_)]

> This is just amazing to me. Files are dated 1993. NINETEEN
> NINETY THREE.

You better make that thing Y2K compliant, or the minute you turn it on, it will launch a tactical nuclear strike from Antarctica.

[J_Izzo]

> on a scale from 1 to 10, how old would you say michael's
> boyfriend is?



Wow..
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[IceWolf20]

> Also found my old modems. Hayes Accura 28.8 and Bocamodem
> 28.8...can't find my 14.4 or my 56k.

I have it....Zoom 14.4....lets hear it for 25-pin serial ports...w00t.

Interestingly enough, its sitting in the same drawer as the Cardinal 9600 that's bigger than a toaster oven.

As far as files go...I'd have to go back to the Pentium 90 with the 1.2Gb HD....that has the origional .s3m, .xm, and .it files on it from 1995....too bad that'd never hold up in court <img src=smilies/headshake.gif>

[SwampGas]

> I have it....Zoom 14.4....lets hear it for 25-pin serial
> ports...w00t.

You do?

I bought that 14.4 and this Boca from Mark...the guy who ran stimpy's sandbox.

[IceWolf20]

> You do?
>
> I bought that 14.4 and this Boca from Mark...the guy who ran
> stimpy's sandbox.

Dizzam...old skool. But yeah, when my 28.8 went ape shit after Angel crashed my computer installing the 2.1GB drive, I had the Cardinal 9600 that only worked in DOS that the guys that built the computer gave us. You gave me the 14.4 you had b/c you had just gotten your US Robotics 33.6 and so I'd be able to hit up duke3d in windows in deathmatch.....man, fuckin good times. <img src=smilies/thumb.gif>

[SwampGas]

> I had the Cardinal 9600 that only worked in DOS that the
> guys that built the computer gave us. You gave me the 14.4
> you had b/c you had just gotten your US Robotics 33.6 and so
> I'd be able to hit up duke3d in windows in
> deathmatch.....man, fuckin good times.

I think that was a USR 56k. Couldn't find that one today.

[IceWolf20]

> I think that was a USR 56k. Couldn't find that one today.

That one was later....you eventually had to replace it with another USR 56.6 when the first one got zapped by a power surge in an electrical storm.

[SwampGas]

> That one was later....you eventually had to replace it with
> another USR 56.6 when the first one got zapped by a power
> surge in an electrical storm.

Holy crap I remember that now. I was fucking PISSED. I bought that modem at cyber warehouse.

[JCJones86]

> Holy crap I remember that now. I was fucking PISSED. I
> bought that modem at cyber warehouse.

You guys remember Egghead back when they were still a chain? Ahh, I loved that store.

[soniczip]

> I found my old laptop. 8 inch screen. 486sx/50. 8 meg
> ram. 200 meg drive. Bought brand new for around $3,400 or
> so.


Rai has a Macintosh portable from 1988, bought for around $10,000 when new, 8 inch screen, used for a zoology class, 6 megs ram, 40 meg hard drive, 16 mhz processor, Runs on Mac OS 6 and 9 volt batteries, and can't have a word processor and a file window at the same time. Thats about as old and crappy as it gets.

Work it harder, Make it better, Do it faster, Makes us stronger.
More than ever, hour after, Our work is never over.
------
Daft Punk

P.S. Correct me if i'm wrong, Rai.
P.P.S. Some of his files are from 1990. NINE-TEEN NINE-TY. I was in my mum's womb when those were made. Michael Jackson's lovers weren't as old as I am, and these files are still older<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by soniczip on 06/26/05 04:39 PM.</FONT></P>

[SivakDrac]

1993 eh? Pretty amusing. I didn't start doing much with computers until '94 or so. The old DOS games. My old man had a system that cost like $1200 or so. Windows 3.1 (you had to type "win" in DOS to get to it!)

We got our first normal computer in '97. 166 mhz, I think a 2 gig hard drive, 32 ram, etc.

Still, you paid $3400? Pretty insane stuff back in those days.

[MooglyGuy]

> P.P.S. Some of his files are from 1990. NINE-TEEN NINE-TY. I
> was in my mum's womb when those were made.

Yeah, we kind of gathered by the way you act. <img src=smilies/upeyes.gif>

[RaiBlastoise]

Corrections:
Made in 1990.
$6,500 when new, bought for $4 at a yard sale.
8 megs RAM.
System 7.
Battery is obviously unusable (can't hold a charge), so I have to use a 9-volt (I think the terminal was installed manually by a past user?)
Anyway, the 9-volt terminal broke, so I have to get a 6V hobby battery and some wire to hook it up to the + and - terminals.
Can run Word and Finder at same time, but not Word and anything else.
Old files: on my PC, I have a copy of Hexposure that, apparently, was made in 1980. Unfortunately, that is my main hex editor.