Ok kiddies, this is before your time, but for the rest of us...do you remember?

Question

When there WAS no internet, but there were bulletin boards?
When flight sims had wire graphics?
When all your computer had was a floppy drive, but you thought THAT was sooo cool?
When 64 kilobytes of ram was really cookin?

Oh yes, and dos...can't leave THAT out.
You almost had to be a programmer just to copy a file.

Answer 1

Man, those were the days!

At home we started off with the Texas Instrument TI99, that was some of the top gear AND we could get color by plugging it into the TV. My dad, brother and I used to spend whole week-ends taking turns at typing in lines and de-bugging BASIC programs we found in magazines so we could play the awesome game depicted on the cover page. And the awesome step forward when 3.75" disks with 1.4 Megs came along to replace the 5.25" floppies, I think the impact was megatons compared to the waves that the USB keys caused when they came along.

I'm also a huge flight sim fan and I remember thinking the realism of MS Flight Simulator's WW I quick-game, on the black and white McIntosh was breathtaking!

Good times!

Answer 2

LOL...yeah I remember the good ol' days...that really wasn't that long ago though. I was in Junior high when the technological movement really sped up. I remember when the Commodore 64 was a bad *** machine, and that the Apple IIe was the choice over an IBM system running DOS (at least as a student). When Word Perfect for DOS was the best word processor around, and you had to know all of the shortcut key strokes to do anything in it. Yep those days are long gone.

Answer 3

No I'm to young to remember those days but when i was in 1-5 grade my school had theese really old computers that accualy had the floppy disks and everything was just a bunch of green lines, and there was no mouse. Yeah those were some ot he ghetto old macs.

Answer 4

I remember using a computer with NO hard drive, only 2 floppy drives - one for the program and one to save what you were working on!

Answer 5

I remember all the way back to Vic 20's and Commodore 64's :)
My parents had one of each.

I very clearly remember the external modem, dialing a BBS, and having to race to plug the phone in to the back of the modem before you lost the connection!

I even remember some of the old programming stuff....like:

10 Print "Hi"
20 Run
Run

Answer 6

I remember all of those.. My first puter was a tandy model 100, I had 8k of ram, no hd, no mouse, no windows!!!!, no floppy drive, (had to buy that separately,) wrote my own programs, went on Compu$erve and every free bbs I could find.. with my 300 bps built in modem.
Was, and still am, a command line commando.

Answer 7

I have an old Apple g2 in my closet
No hard drive
No Windows
All the programs are on 5 1/2 inch floppys
Talk about pre historic.........

Answer 8

i remember...lame times...
U had to look on a bunch of bulletin boards before finding somethig cool..
All the graphics were weak..
Putting simulation in a game title was just a sales plan.

Answer 9

Do you remember when we had no computers and played outside all summer long and at night sat around campfires and had a roaring good time with friends?

Answer 10

How about my first computer a timex-sinclair 1000 1 MHz 1k ram up graded! no hard drive (cassette tape serial storage) BLACK and WHITE MONITOR! Spent days programing it.