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I found Ace's computer....

Postby nonstop » Wed Sep 28, 2005 1:32 pm

If you build your own computers this entire video is funny.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... ble%3Atrue
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Postby Yrrek » Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:17 pm

"128 is all you are ever going to need......"

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Postby law.of.averages » Wed Sep 28, 2005 3:37 pm

My Pentium (nothing) 100 Mhz had 128 mb of RAM.

Of course, it was *supposed* to be a Pentium 120Mhz, and the guys at "RAM Technologies" screwed me over with an OC 100... but we all learn sometime...
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Postby Ace » Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:00 pm

Actually, this is more my style (sorry I can't host this, but follow the link, click on the vid, watch the stupid advert and you'll be rewarded...or is that punished):

LINKY


Ahhhh, technology....it's a wonderful thing!
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Postby Hoss » Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:13 pm

Well I hate to divulge my age but - here goes - My first video game I played that got me hooked was Doom. I was astounded by the 3D environment and graphics! Played it with 8mb video but had to "dry boot" to get it to run. Windows 3.1 and a pc speaker. It rocked! LOL!
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Postby law.of.averages » Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:54 am

I think the *first* video game I played on a home computer was called 'nukewar' ...sort of like battleship... played on my Commodore PET model 8032 (80 column screen, 32k RAM)

My first word processor was called papermate came on casette tape

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Postby nonstop » Thu Sep 29, 2005 10:01 am

I was waiting on the bbs, yes before the internet, for the first doom game. It was a heck of a time! : )

First game I think was wolfenstien. Well outside of your solitair and stuff like that.


Hoss wrote:Well I hate to divulge my age but - here goes - My first video game I played that got me hooked was Doom. I was astounded by the 3D environment and graphics! Played it with 8mb video but had to "dry boot" to get it to run. Windows 3.1 and a pc speaker. It rocked! LOL!
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Postby Hoss » Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:20 pm

Yea Wolfenstein was out about same time as Doom. Using the 14k baud modem it took about 20 min to download the 1 mb demo I think. That was when Mosaic was the web browser right?
I think I will embarrass myself even further - I think Doom's controls defaulted to the arrow keys - I played so much - I still use the arrow keys for FPS today - know this - and frag me away!
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Postby Soulja » Thu Sep 29, 2005 4:24 pm

My first computer was a Tandy....and I found an ad for it!!!

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"Son look at all the people linin' up for plastic, wouldnt you like to see them in the national geographic? Squatting bare assed in the dirt eatin' rice from a bowl, with a towel on their head and maybe a bone in their nose?"
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Postby Hoss » Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:25 pm

Daaaauuuuummm!
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Postby nonstop » Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:51 pm

Hoss Wolfenstien came out quite a while before doom and it was not a browser it was dialup straight into a bbs. :)

Hoss wrote:Yea Wolfenstein was out about same time as Doom. Using the 14k baud modem it took about 20 min to download the 1 mb demo I think. That was when Mosaic was the web browser right?
I think I will embarrass myself even further - I think Doom's controls defaulted to the arrow keys - I played so much - I still use the arrow keys for FPS today - know this - and frag me away!
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Postby law.of.averages » Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:33 pm

nonstop wrote:Hoss Wolfenstien came out quite a while before doom and it was not a browser it was dialup straight into a bbs. :)


You're probably too young to remember this Nonstop, but in My day when we wanted a copy of something we had to go all the way over to someones house and get it.
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Postby Yrrek » Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:05 pm

*faints*
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Postby Nytefyre » Sat Oct 01, 2005 1:11 pm

wow, doom on the original LANs (u kno the ones that connected only like 10 square blocks and was NOT internet) was what i remember....

now that was fun!! i could claim to be the best within like a 1/2 mile radius
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