When you did I.T. for the 1st time

[Turd_Ferguson]

I didn't have enough RAM to run my 5.5 floppy...:pop:

[StoopTroup]

I did I.T. with a Black and White screen my first time.

[Turd_Ferguson]

I did I.T. with a Black and White screen my first time.Was that the IBM Mulatto?

[Soonerson1975]

I had a floppy disk, it took me about 5 minutes to upgrade to a hard drive.

[StoopTroup]

Was that the IBM Mulatto?

The Raytheon Geiger Counter Model: Radiation Death 5000 I think....:hot:

[Partial Qualifier]

Was that the IBM Mulatto?

:D

I couldn't get dos to mount my 3 1/2" floppy. :(

[yermom]

i had to downgrade my DOS back to 5.0 to get my first CDROM to work, then i could upgrade back to 6.22 and everything was fine

i spent hours on the phone with Creative and returned the thing to Bestbuy once in the process


good times, good times...

[Turd_Ferguson]

i had to downgrade my DOS back to 5.0 to get my first CDROM to work, then i could upgrade back to 6.22 and everything was fine

i spent hours on the phone with Creative and returned the thing to Bestbuy once in the process


good times, good times...Don't highjack my thread nerd!


:D:D

[yermom]

my hard drive was really small back then :(

[CrimsonKel]

I'm just glad my first I.T. did not involve Broadcom.

[TheHumanAlphabet]

I thought a 10 meg optional hard drive was way too much space, but I went for it anyway...

[OUmillenium]

I really appreciated the move from floppy disks to hard.

[Turd_Ferguson]

I really appreciated the move from floppy disks to hard.Nothing like going from 5.5 to 3.25 eh?:D

[TheHumanAlphabet]

I wonder if the young'uns on here could even manage to fathom that you once had to swap out 5.5" disks while booting up your computer and then insert other disks to run a program???

[sooner_born_1960]

It was 5 1/4" and 3 1/2", actually.

[NormanPride]

I miss the IT...

[Mississippi Sooner]

Sometime in 1981. Floppy drive? Oh, no. You used a regular old cassette tape, played in a standard cassette player hooked to the computer for memory. Good old TRS-80. Couldn't understand what practical use the thing would ever have. :rolleyes:

[OhU1]

Way back in the very old days I had to use a lot of vacuum tubes but I was HUGE and generated a lot of heat!

[TheHumanAlphabet]

It was 5 1/4" and 3 1/2", actually.

You're right, it has been so long and I forget...

[49r]

I miss the IT...

Yeah, and torturing dolemite with it. :D

[oudavid1]

My first time was with windows me. That tells you how old i am. (old).

[thenotman]

I was using a guy I knew's disk drive and kept plugging my hard disk in it over and over and he never figured it out. He even dialed in on a land line while I was installing some ram one night and didn't know I was there.

[nighttrain12]

It was 5 1/4" and 3 1/2", actually.

You measured it that closely? :O

[GrapevineSooner]

On a Commodore 64, I tried to troubleshoot a floppy drive that I had broken...at age 10.

Mom wasn't happy that I broke the floppy drive.

[jkjsooner]

Mine was a colored girl - Tandy style.

She was like an old lady - not too pretty, slow, and had no long term memory but each time I turned her on it was like she had never done I.T. before.

[1890MilesToNorman]

DOS 3.1 I believe was my first experience, that's when I started losing my hair too. Koinkydink, I think not!

[Whet]

IBM 1130

Personal computer: Vic 20, with cassette storage!!