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[Danjen]

You kids with your new toys! Texas Instruments put out a build your own computer but things really got started with the apple. 16K upgrade cost me $50 if my memory is correct (that is a leap of faith). There was no disk drive or hard drive and we used a tape recorder which required a meter to adjust the volume so it would load correctly. The floppy drive was a god sent. The first hard drive I can remember was a corvis (spelling?) 5meg but it had to be in segments of the apple floppy disks. I asked the salesman if he had anything bigger and I got the eternal "you will never need more than 5 megs"! The cost for that hard drive was $3000.00 (look it up but don't hold me to it). Then the Redstone clones of the Apple really helped lower the price. We also started our link to the world with a 300 baud modem. The IBM PC came with two 5.25 360k floppies and an 8088 with the upgrade math co 8087. The XT had a huge 10meg hard drive. Did mention the video was TTL and came in green or orange. Ok, I will stop here but there sure was more.

[Haplose]

Jet_Truebow wrote...

they do. they have pictures of actual cards in both their websites.

Original NVIDIA tends to be more flashy with their casings in their graphic cards than the submanufacturers.
(latest models atleast)

here are samples of original NVIDIA cards

http://www.amazon.co...976398&sr=1-113

http://www.amazon.co...9976370&sr=1-97

I see. Thanks for proving me wrong Jet

As for the old computers, my first PC was quite a bit more modern then yours, DNO (Pentium 60), but prior to this I had some pretty interesting stuff as well. Atari 800 with a 5.25 floppy drive. And a Commodore 64 with one of those tape drives Danjen mentioned. It was always a joy adjusting the head regulations with a screwdriver in order to load anything....

Modifié par Haplose, 25 juillet 2010 - 07:37 .

[CrustyCat]

Ah the old days. My first official PC (IBM Clone) had a NEC V_20 processor, 8088 clone. Monochrome monitor. Then came:

CGA

EGA

VGA

SVGA



Then, nobody cares about those nomenclatures anymore.



Guess we're getting off topic here.



I got a GTX 470, works good for NWN2.

[Belanos]

You folks, some of you anyway, you don't realize how far, how fast computing has come in such a short time. My first computer was not the first available by any stretch, but it was one of the earlier home PCs you could just buy and not have to build yourself. That was in June of 1987.
 

I certainly do. My first computer was a Timex-Sinclair, which died shortly after my brother gave it to me. I then got his old Vic 20. Neither of those even had a floppy drive, all the data was on cassette tapes. Soon after I came across a good deal on a Commodore 64 with a proper 5.25 floppy drive, that refused to stay aligned, and spent many hours playing games like Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Axure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades. I must have played all those titles through at least half a dozen times, from beginning to end. Could never get into Pool of Darkness though, it just didn't seem as good as the others. Then there was the Dragonlance series which I particulary enjoyed. Then I was awestruck when I first saw the graphics for Baldur's gate, thinking about how far they had come. Of course there was also the Eye of the Beholder games, the last of which unfortunately never made it to the Amiga platform. Now here I am with Neverwinter 2. Yes, indeed we have come a long way.