Computer Nostalgia: Do you remember......

Last night, while trying to go back to sleep, my mind wandered back to the days before Windows ruled the PC world. I began to think about all of the technology that was cutting edge at the time, now forgotten. My first love was the original IBM 5150 PC, purchased by my employer and entrusted to my eager, trembling hands.



With a 4.77 MHz 8088 processor, 64k RAM, 80 character x 24 line green monochrome display
2x 160k 5-1/4 Floppy drives (hard drives were not available) and ROM BASICA

Oh, the hours I spent programming that wonder to do all sorts of amazing things. I still have that set of instructional binders, including the original disks.

So please, share with us your memories of those days long gone.

well I was about -20 years old back then =p
my first computer was a macintosh of some description, my dad gave it to me when I was like 5.. it was broken and I never got it working that well.. but I was hooked instantly.

first pc I used was built by me not so long later, it had windows 3.1x and the rest of the specs have been destroyed by lots and lots of beer..

Tandy 1000SX - Card drive, 640k, DeskMate II
Identical to this image.


Edit to add a 'memory' - I had a vending route at the time, where the software was productive. Customized invoice system with spreadsheets etc. If you went over 9999 records in the database though, the software crapped itself.

Had a Point of Sale computer in 1988, with 8088 processor, 20Mb HDD & 5 1/4 floppy for back up. All of it worked OK.

At that time I think Word Perfect was the No.1 word processor, & Lotus 123 was the No.1 spreadsheet.

Later about 1992 I moved to Windows 3.1, Access 1.0, Excel, & MS Word. MS brought out Office after that & later added Office Pro which incorporated Access. Also at that time faxes were the rage so most used Winfax. Later on emailing replaced most faxing.

I also had a beta version of Windows 95 about 6 months before it was released. 95 was a big improvement on 3.1 & there was a worldwide launch as well, all from midnight in each time zone.

My first was an IBM 5150 PC like the one in the OP's picture except that I splurged on a CGA card and color monitor. That combo produced 4 of the ugliest colors ever. I bought it in 1984 and even with my IBM employee discount, it cost me $2,500.

The first one we played with was an Amstrad, I think it was the 464, it had a cassette player for the games, the kids loved Jet Set Willy and another couple of them, one to do with a school and one to do with in a mine, can't remember the name.

Did try a couple of simple programming with it, wasn't much good though.

My first "almost" computer was an Atari 2600 game console we got for the kids. No monitor, it had an A/B switch and attached to the TV. Pitfall and Frogger were popular games at the time.

I'm to young to remember these days xD lol.

My first windows i experianced was 98 lol. I was like 5 years old.