The Cost of Computers by TGS

[BerticusPryme]

ok guys first off we gotta stop we are showing our age. 2nd I am glad to see that I am not the only one who mounted a old modem to the back of a picture frame to extend the cord and hung it on the wall so you couldnt see the modem.

[Quakken]

I just barely remember back to the nineties.

I would be in 2nd grade back in 1998, and yes- I remember that it was very, very easy to run out of hard drive space. I also vaguely remember an ipod that my uncle had, 4 gigabytes. My dad said "That thing has as much space as our computer!"

I played computer games then, also. Worms Armageddon baby- that thing was awesome.

[Frenkie]

nuff said.

[TheGreatSatan]

Here' the ad from the back of the 1st issue of Byte magazine (9/75) of the Altair 8800!

[Aznmonky]

I just barely remember back to the nineties.

I would be in 2nd grade back in 1998, and yes- I remember that it was very, very easy to run out of hard drive space. I also vaguely remember an ipod that my uncle had, 4 gigabytes. My dad said "That thing has as much space as our computer!"

I played computer games then, also. Worms Armageddon baby- that thing was awesome.

hate to burst your memory blast kid but ipods didn't come out till 2001 even then it wasn't 4gb and you didn't run out of memory that quick unless you were making water painting all day, games were hosted on the cds not on the hard drives

[SXRguyinMA]

awesome write-up! +rep

[XcOM]

i rem back in the 90's i was running windows 95 rite upto about 99, i had a 2gb HDD for windows and a 12GB drive for everything else, and i was constantly uninstalling stuff to try and save space.

[Bopher]

I remember playing Decent on my dads old Packard Bell. Had the 100MB drive double spaced to 120MB. Then still needed to uninstall different programs to install games I wanted to play. How many people here remember cruising around on local BBS's to pass some time?

[SXRguyinMA]

I remember playing descent on my old compaq! it was the **** when the original pentium came out! lol a whopping 120MB HDD lol

[nevermind1534]

I remember playing DOS games on my grandparents' old compaq with a 486 and a ~700MB, I think hard drive. That drive is still running. Then there's the first family computer, a Dell XPS P120C. It came with 16 MB RAM, upgradable to 128MB (I did upgrade it to that a few years ago), a Pentium 120MHz cpu, a sweet somewhat new (at the time) technology PCI video card(Number Nine, really just an S3 card) and a whole 1GB hard drive. It was purchased on july 14 1995. It came with Win 3.1 for workgroups. My dad had a hell of a time upgrading 95.