Christmas Forum

[Risteard]

It's a pity that they stopped producing OS/2 - it was a decent Operating System.

 

[jdmjrmdam]

It's a pity that they stopped producing OS/2 - it was a decent Operating System.

There's a blast from the past. Just recently binned my OS2 2.11 install floppies. All 20 of them. Those were the days when a big hard drive was 250MB and 16MB was loads of RAM.

 

[Lurch]

There's a blast from the past. Just recently binned my OS2 2.11 install floppies. All 20 of them. Those were the days when a big hard drive was 250MB and 16MB was loads of RAM.

Kids of today, my first decently specced PC had an 80MB drive with 4MB RAM.

 

[kme]

16KB mem, and 256KB HDD

Now THAT was infantile.................

 

[Lurch]

Sure someone will be along to tell us about PDP\VAX, there's an oldie everywhere usually, unless they're all dieing out now.....

 

[exbdc]

There's a blast from the past. Just recently binned my OS2 2.11 install floppies. All 20 of them. Those were the days when a big hard drive was 250MB and 16MB was loads of RAM.

My first PC ran Win98 on 8meg of RAM & had a 1gb hard drive which I never managed to fill. Got rid of it when internet came along as it couldn't cope.

 

[Zeespark]

IBM Aptiva - 4MB RAM 250MB Hard drive.

AndyGuinness

 

[Evans Electric]

Eh !!!

 

[Andy™]

Eh !!!

i know they are very high spec for you Deke. the IBM Aptiva - 4MB RAM 250MB Hard drive Zeespark has will be available in your area in few years....

 

[Evans Electric]

I'll look forward to that then, Andy. Will it be driven by elastictrickery ? At the moment I use an old Space Invaders set linked with an elastic band to an original Sinclair steam driven calculator which EXBDC sold me , said it was the latest thing. I pick up the sound with a 5 valve Decca radiogram , its only mono but you can play all your 78,s on it .

IT Wizard

 

[Andy™]

yes, it uses that little known thing called electrikery. once thats installed you can also have some artificial sun from it (but its not recommended to use it for growing plants of a certain variety)

 

[kme]

Maybe, but Sandra can dry her nails under it.................

 

[Badger]

Maybe, but Sandra can dry her laundry under it.................

KME this isnt the alladdin panto here you do realise ROTFWL :^O

youll be telling us all now that sandra is in fact the wishey washey character and they are in fact related to alladdin

'oh no it isnt a panto'

 

[Evans Electric]

Wishy Washy character indeed !!! Its Principle Boy or nothing, the one who,s a girl playing a boy , or is it a boy playing a girl but dresses like a boy but still looks like a girl ? The one with the nice legs anyway , who wears the high heels and does all the thigh slapping , thats the important bit.

 

[exbdc]

I'll look forward to that then, Andy. Will it be driven by elastictrickery ? At the moment I use an old Space Invaders set linked with an elastic band to an original Sinclair steam driven calculator which EXBDC sold me , said it was the latest thing. I pick up the sound with a 5 valve Decca radiogram , its only mono but you can play all your 78,s on it .IT Wizard

Do you still want the Donkey Kong, Mickey the Brickey & space Invader games for your ZX?

 

[Evans Electric]

Ooooo .. are they the latest fads, EXy ?? Whats a ZX ? Is that the latest gizmo too ?