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

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

 

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

 

Was that the IBM Mulatto?

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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!

 

my hard drive was really small back then

 

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

 

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

 

I really appreciated the move from floppy disks to hard.

 

Nothing like going from 5.5 to 3.25 eh?

 

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???

 

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

 

I miss the IT...

 

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.

 

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!

 

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

 

Yeah, and torturing dolemite with it.