The totally off-topic thread

[anat0l]

I would advise against watching how your luggage is handled coming off a 737.

Seen it too many times. I pack with that knowledge in mind.

It also explains why Fragile stickers are about as useless as a chocolate teapot whilst adding unnecessary time burden on the passenger.

 

[JohnK]

sell it on ebay, unless you are a collector - its worth cash

I am not a collector. Didn't realise it would be worth anything.

 

[Cossie]

I think my first mobile was a Nokia 2110. At the start of Vodafone in AU.

My first email address was [email protected] because I joined their OS/2 bulletin board service. Wish I had kept that one - still looks cool.

OS/2 was a very good operating system.

 

[JessicaTam]

OS/2 was a very good operating system.

It certainly was. Windows took about 5 or 6 years to catch up to it.

For those who are unfamiliar, it was a fully object orientated, multi tasking o/s in the Windows 3.1 days.

 

[anat0l]

It certainly was. Windows took about 5 or 6 years to catch up to it.

For those who are unfamiliar, it was a fully object orientated, multi tasking o/s in the Windows 3.1 days.

Indeed, but it was also a pretty clunky interface. That said, I didn't have the technical ability then that I do now.

One company in Brisbane who sold computers sold a CD that had both PC DOS and OS/2 Warp 3 on it. You could install both OSes and have a dual boot system between them. Since bootable CDs were not the norm in those days, you needed 2 floppy disks to install OS/2 with a compatible CD drive. Alternatively, you could create a complete disk set to install OS/2, but you needed something like 30 diskettes.

I was using PC DOS 7 for a long time with Windows 3.1 before I migrated to Windows 95.

 

[OATEK]

OS/2 was a very good operating system.

It sure had potential, and I know some people who bet their houses on it - but they lost!

 

[Pushka]

I remember we paid over $3000 for a desktop machine back around 2000. We had the apple2E which was a fabulous Apple machine in the 1990's. Then Apple "enhanced" it, and the machine was rubbish and moved us on to Windows. And i think that machine almost sent Apple broke too. Hmmm, this sounds really familiar.

 

[erkpod]

One of the first computers I used at school was a Microbee. My local Super K Mart had a Commodore 64 that people could play with in store with a game on a cassette. I remember playing Ghostbusters.

 

[serfty]

I remember we paid over $3000 for a desktop machine back around 2000. We had the apple2E which was a fabulous Apple machine in the 1990's. Then Apple "enhanced" it, and the machine was rubbish and moved us on to Windows. And i think that machine almost sent Apple broke too. Hmmm, this sounds really familiar.

In the early 80's a client of the company I worked for purchased an IBM PC with as many of the bells and whistles of that era that I have seen.

It had a 60Mbyte (IIRC) QIC tape drive, a 10 Mbyte Hard drive and 2 x 5½" floppy drives - these fill up the four front 'slots'.

Retail was ~$40k.

 

[Pushka]

In the early 80's a client of the company I worked for purchased an IBM PC with as many of the bells and whistles of that era that I have seen.

It had a 60Mbyte (IIRC) QIC tape drive, a 10 Mbyte Hard drive and 2 x 5½" floppy drives - these fill up the four front 'slots'.

Retail was ~$40k.

Wow.

The storage is interesting. Up until a few years ago latops used to have 5gigs of storage. Considered more than adequate. Now we won't even look at a telephone with less than 16gb. And a flash drive costing just $10 has around 80gb or similar.

 

[anat0l]

Wow.

The storage is interesting. Up until a few years ago latops used to have 5gigs of storage. Considered more than adequate. Now we won't even look at a telephone with less than 16gb. And a flash drive costing just $10 has around 80gb or similar.

I'm old enough to remember the 5.25" floppies... double density ones were falling out of fashion in preference to high density. The 3.5" floppies weren't quite commonplace until I got to middle primary.

HDDs in my early years had something in the range of 40MB. Of course it was dedicated I/O controller (not even IDE), so all the HDD parameters needed to be manually specified in the CMOS.

First "very large" HDD we got needed to load a driver at boot....quite annoying. Also was the age of whole drive compression. ...with associated headaches.

 

[OATEK]

I'm old enough to remember the 5.25" floppies... double density ones were falling out of fashion in preference to high density. The 3.5" floppies weren't quite commonplace until I got to middle primary.

HDDs in my early years had something in the range of 40MB. Of course it was dedicated I/O controller (not even IDE), so all the HDD parameters needed to be manually specified in the CMOS.

First "very large" HDD we got needed to load a driver at boot....quite annoying. Also was the age of whole drive compression. ...with associated headaches.

My first PC was dual 8.5" floppy drives - no hard disk. One floppy for the OS and application (A and one for the data (B. Ran CPM86 (for 8086 chip).

First Hard disk was 10MB internal.

 

[TheEmu]

I hope this thread goes back to speaking English soon...

 

[erkpod]

I hope this thread goes back to speaking English soon...

How about Engrish?

 

[rogerkambah]

Does anyone else remember when, in order to book a domestic flight you walked into the airline office of your choice (that's TAA or Ansett) and asked for a seat (in first or economy), paid the fare (fixed price) by cash or cheque and were issued a paper ticket. If you wanted to travel more than 1 sector the CSO rang the office where the next sector originated and asked the about seat availability. No SCs, FF points, lounges or schemes. Ah, the good old days (not).

I have felt so much more liberated with the advent of the mobile phone, the laptop and the internet.

 

[JohnK]

I hope this thread goes back to speaking English soon...

I am more amazed that people can remember the detailed specs of their computers.

I have been working with computers all my life and couldn't care less. Ready to buy another low spec machine as it would already have been out of date before it was delivered.

 

[serfty]

I normally purchase second hand then add memory, both HDD and RAM.

 

[jukebox333]

I remember we paid over $3000 for a desktop machine back around 2000. We had the apple2E which was a fabulous Apple machine in the 1990's. Then Apple "enhanced" it, and the machine was rubbish and moved us on to Windows. And i think that machine almost sent Apple broke too. Hmmm, this sounds really familiar.

In a similar vein, I remember my brother getting a CD player for his 21st in 1984. Marantz CD-73, draw loading, no remote, 15 tracks could be programmed (on buttons 1-16 on the front). Cost $1,400 1984 dollars - and that was a hell of alot back then!

 

[Pushka]

In a similar vein, I remember my brother getting a CD player for his 21st in 1984. Marantz CD-73, draw loading, no remote, 15 tracks could be programmed (on buttons 1-16 on the front). Cost $1,400 1984 dollars - and that was a hell of alot back then!

Oh yeah. Video tape players cost a bomb. In the late '70's in order to hire a movie you had to buy one for something like $80 (a lot of money back then) and then swap it for a different movie.

We also had a game console called Intellivision.

 

[Shelf]

Does anyone else remember when, in order to book a domestic flight you walked into the airline office of your choice (that's TAA or Ansett) and asked for a seat (in first or economy), paid the fare (fixed price) by cash or cheque and were issued a paper ticket. If you wanted to travel more than 1 sector the CSO rang the office where the next sector originated and asked the about seat availability. No SCs, FF points, lounges or schemes. Ah, the good old days (not).

I have felt so much more liberated with the advent of the mobile phone, the laptop and the internet.

I remember being issued carbon(?) paper tickets as a child.