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lonypny — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:20:43 -0000

Sorry I typed it wrong! my nick is lonypny and the email is lonypny@yahoo.com
Please send mandy to me!

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hebe — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:19:27 -0000

Hebe, I remember Mandy porn B/W video also!
Do you still have it? I was searching for it soo long. email me at lonpny@yahoo.com

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kng863 — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 03:13:28 -0000

I remember...

-Forced to play Carmen Sandiego on the Apple Mac at elementary school. I liked Oregon Trail better.
-Printer cartridges that used tape and printer paper with those perforated track holes on the margins.
-Winter Olympics, Spy VS Spy, Mario Bros on the Commodore/IBM
-386 was the hottest thing
-Windows 3.1\MS-Dos
-14.4k and 56k Modems and the sounds they made
-Prodigy,CompuServe
-Doom, Duke Nukem, Lemmings, Quake, Jane's USAF using joystick, ChessMaster 8000 (forgot how high it got)
-Bringing my desktop over to my cousins to network first generation PC games. Dune, C&C, X-Wing VS Tie Fighter (how so many hours was spent on this), Need for Speed, Warcraft 1, Star Wars Dark Forces.
-Figuring out what all those networking things IPX, COM Ports, Baud Rates, Not really understanding what we did, but we eventually got it to work.
-Original gaming companies - Microprose (X-Com is #1 all time), Bull-Frog, Info-games, Sierra, Original EA, Lucas Arts. There are probably older ones, but I don't recall or not in my generation.
-Small software shops where u had to go to the store and get software/peripherals - Egghead software, Electronics Boutique (store dedicated to PC games only and shelf real-estate was abundant. Now u go to EB, and u see is 1 rack of PC games all compacted)
-High end VGA games on 8 floppy disks! Expensive power strips.
-When pc subwoofers came out.
-Taking forever to figure out Leisure Larry Lounge Lizards with all those typing commands. Scumm games.
-CorelDraw
-10/100 Network Cards, Co-Axial Cables with those metal terminators

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z00z0 — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:04:13 -0000

I remember going to the school library searching for the meaning of the word "emulator".
I remember sys 64738 and LOAD"*",8,1.
I remember using a screwdriver to change the position of the tape's head in a C64 tape player and using 64KLOADER.
I remember the first time i saw a small Mac icon with "x" at his eye on a Mac Plus.
I remember trying to make a wheel of fortune game in Excel (maybe in 4.0).
I remember trying the same in HyperCard, but created only a shooter where my teacher's face could melt to bits.
I remember using ducttape to fix my QuickShot 2.
I remember buying a 20 GB hard drive and everyone was laughing: what will you use that big place for?
I also remember my first 20 MB external hard drive which was bigger than a scanner, and I tried to fill it up from SyQuest discs.
I remember watching Operation Wolf, and saying: whoa, this is sooo lifelike.

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Elaine — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:53:03 -0000

I remember:

Intellivision
the FIRST TRS80 Model 1 with keyboard, monochrome screen and cassette deck.
The TRS80 Model II and III
Zork and Star Trek
Writing stupid repeater text in BASIC
the TRS80 PORTABLE!
Kings Quest
D-Base
EcoNet BBS
Printers with Daisy Wheels and Ribbons!
Thermal paper fax machines
"Heavy Duty" copy machines that took up entire rooms (and all they did was staple and duplex)
Rotary Dial Phones
When MTV played music
When I first got CABLE TV
The first time I saw "Netscape" when it was brand new!
Transitioning from DOS to Windows!
When WordPerfect could do TABLES!!
When making a word bold in a word processor required a CODE like HTML.
Using waxing machines, tape lines and an Xacto knife to layout a newspaper
Using Ventura
When VOICEMAIL started at work!

Gee...imagine how many things I've forgotten!

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Old 'Un — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:06:53 -0000

PEEK and POKE commands
SET and RESET commends
Typing programs from magazines
Hunt the Wumpus and ASCII Star Trek
Black plastic cassette recorders to save/load data
The Turbo button
How cool daisywheel printers were (and the 'soundproof' boxes you had to keep them in)
Really floppy 8" disks
the DEC Rainbow
the TRS/80
BASIC
COBOL
PASCAL
GANDALF boxes
Green Bar fanfold paper
Turning the keyclick sound on/off
Punch cards
Open reel tape storage
Hard wired circuitry in the mainframe

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OlliHD — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:49:55 -0000

I remember Altavista being the top search engine
I remember when warez groups would post their own BBS numbers on their releases
I remember hearing my first .wav (2unlimited song) 20seconds

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Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:29:46 -0000

I remember:
ADKFA and ADDQD
being uber impressed with windows 95
When computer mice had two wheels instead of a ball underneath (and I know a school that still uses them)

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Egon — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:42:05 -0000

I remember when OS/2 ran Windows 3.1 embedded faster than Windows 3.1 ran native
I remember OS/2 Warp (still have the discs)
I remember when 3.5" floppies became popular
I remember hours playing with FRACTINT
I remember actually looking forward to checking my email and sending them
I remember when spam was either a meat product or a Monty Python sketch
I remember when personal websites were 'home pages', not 'blogs'
I remember Sabre Wulf
I remember being blown away that Elite on the BBC Micro split the screen and used two different graphics modes (hires B/W and low res color) at the same time!

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mozzie — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:56:14 -0000

i remember logo
i remember basic
i remember pascal
i remember apple IIe and apple IIc
i remember the quest series... kings quest, police quest and all the stuff you had to type... get bottle... look in bottle,
i remember my cga monitor and how amazed i was when i got my ega monitor and saw the cheryl tiegs flashing gif. don't even get me started when i got my svga monitor.
i remember stacker
i remember my handheld scanner, and how i had to make multiple passes to scan a single 8.5x11 page
i remember paying hourly for internet

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mercury — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:01:09 -0000

I remember hacking school PCs too - I found lemmings hidden on a Windows 3.1
Monkey Island was pretty cool (once I got Windows), but anybody remember those text games in DOS? I had Guild Of Thieves.
I remember using a little pointy thing they called a 'Turtle' on BBC Microcomputer System to draw shapes.
Pen down, U10, R10, D10, L10, Pen Up and you have a square!
Atari 800XL was my first personal computer - it had an external tape player that I used to load "Captain Sticky's Gold" from if I could be bothered to wait.
I learnt to use BASIC on my Atari and spent hours typing in programs and then looking for the one line I had typed in wrong.
I remember my brother and sister having an argument over the Atari which caused it to have a "boot error" and I was amazed that it could tell they had stepped on it rather than put their hand on it!!

We've come a long way - and people really have taken a lot of the innocent fun out of it all.

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Jez — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:55:30 -0000

I remember:
Veronica
Gopher
Archie
WinCIM and pay-per-minute on CompuServe
a.b.p.e
Saving up for 8Mb of memory
Tweaking XF86Config
Having only a 170Mb HDD
My Psion II Organizer
Getting PKZip to span floppies
ZX81 and the wobbly 16Kb memory pack
Longing for an external floppy drive for my VIC20
Reading news in 1980 that IBM had 'missed' the personal computer market
Osborne 1
OS/2 Warp
PEEK and POKE
CPU speed displays on the front of PCs
Spiders From Mars
Acoustic couplers
Jazz Jack Rabbit
That little stip of paper to remember WordPerfect function keys
Mosaic
Waiting 2.5 hours for a 2Mb file to download
Deciding whether to choose a DX2 or a Pentium I
Modem strings (AT&...)
Programming a pixel to bounce around the screen
BBC Micro
MSCDEX.EXE

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Criminal Minded — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:22:37 -0000

11 POKE V + 21,28
12 POKE 2042,13 : POKE 2043,13 : POKE 2044,13
25 POKE V + 23,12: POKE V + 29,12
48 POKE V + 8,X
58 POKE V + 9,100

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Criminal Minded — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:19:57 -0000

10 PRINT "Main Program"
20 GOSUB 100
30 PRINT "Back To Main"
40 GOSUB 100
50 PRINT "Once again Main"
60 END
100 PRINT "This is the Subroutine"
110 RETURN

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gnomic — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:45:45 -0000

I remember:
4 bit CPUs (8008)
10 blinking lingts and 2 switches (Altair)
Writing maching code because I couldn't afford an assembler
hollerith cards (used in my first college class - fortran)
CP/M (and the Z/80)
Booting the apple PC from assembler
P-code for the Apple 6502
$7K for the 10M corvis omnidisk
Backing the Tandy up to a cassette tape
The 110 baud acousic coupler
The 300, 600, 1200 4800 and 9600 bps modems8, 5, and 3.5 inch disks
The 5100 PC with switchable Basic and APL languages
Upgrading the 4.77Mhs 8080 to a Nec to get a 20% speed boost!
The terminator resister pack on the 130K floppy drive
Version 6 Unix and the advent of C
Logic lines on the PC BUS creating a short condition (bad doc!)
The hard drive reef off Boca Raton
When using GOTO was cool
The overbuilt 45lb compaq portable PC clone
100K network cards - then arcnet, ethernet, 10-Net, etc
Novell netware 4.1 - the first time (later it was Advanced netware 4.1)
Hacking BITNET and manually routing using SPOOL RSCS
Running FidoNet using Desqview (Spectrum BBS Columbia MO 1981-1992 RIP)

Most of all I remember programming in zeros because the 1 hadn't been invented yet.

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i/o — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:26:36 -0000

i remember:
"press 1 for CGA
press 2 for EGA
press 3 for hercules
press 4 for tandy"

'QEMM
'WWIV
'Legend of the red dragon
'Barren realms elite
'"elite bbs'es"
'ansi art packs
'.mod files
'scream tracker :)
'modem to modem games... pissing my parents off to no end in the middle of the night :)
'the original pentium FPU bug and subsequent recall

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Joey — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:46:27 -0000

I remember ProCom Plus
I remember being a Sysop
I remember Legend of the Red Dragon
I remember Usurper
I remember Dos 6.0 on 3 and 1/2 in. disks
I remember when Juno first came out.
I remember playing Doom on my old 386 SX and having to get 4 MB of RAM and reduce my screen to practically nothing to play it.
I remember Packard Bell

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Jon — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:43:22 -0000

"It Never Forgets*"

"*until you turn it off."

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Brian — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:17:37 -0000

I remember Connecting to Q-Link with my 300 baud modem using my c64

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Jon B — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:41:39 -0000

I remember LanTastic and their 2MB/s thinnet cards.
I remember Donkey (that game that came with MS DOS 1 or 2).
I remember my friends going out to buy the MS DOS 6.22 upgrade.
I remember Stacker for DOS and the fun/pain it caused.
I remember the IBM EGA card with the daughter card.
I remember when Comdex was cool and innovative.
I remember Copy II PC and the hardware that went with it.
I remember solving Kings Quest on a PC Jr, because the graphics and sound were better than the PC-XT.
I remember Computer Shopper, that four pound magazine full of ads.
I remember TheDraw, ANSI editor, and posting my work to PCBoard 10.0.
I remember dialing TheWell, long distance from Georgia, to get "Hearts of Space" playlists.
I remember using AutoCad 2.6 on a 286 with a 80287 chip installed.

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Max — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:15:27 -0000

Oh and I remember the turbo button!

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Max — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:12:53 -0000

I remember when a 2 5.25 drives is all you needed.
I remember when 300 baud was cool.
I remember creating animated ansi art.
I remember when Prodigy stole my files.
I remember when a 1GB HD took up 2 5.25 bays and cost $3k.
I remember when Max Headroom made fun of reality TV before there was reality TV.

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Ron — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:32:17 -0000

I remember NEC V20 CPUs
I remember Creative Computing magazine

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Ron — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:30:50 -0000

I remember CPM.
I remember 5-1/4" floppies
I remember 10MB hard drives
I remember dot matrix printers
I remember daisy-wheel printers
I remember printer enclosures
I remember wanting an Apple Lisa
I remember "Copy-II-Plus"
I remember X-Tree
I remember "Aldus" Pagemaker
I remember Compuserve and 300 baud modems
I remember making punch card flyswatters

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anom — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:33:02 -0000

I remember CPM
I remember putting the cpm interface card from a basis 108 into an apple ][e and blowing it
I remember 40char screen
I remember paying $189 dollars one month of calls to call BBS
I remember walking into a room at Vassar college full of NEXT computer
I remember our first 3.5 800k external diskette drive for $800
I remember the Hero 1, when the arm broke off while spinning on itself
I remember rise of the triad
I remember blowing the fuse of the external floppy drive when plugging into 220v europe
I remember the useless IIgs
I remember playing sounds on the commodore external drive
I remember visicalc :(
I remember our noisy daisywheel printer
I remember when we were considered 'real' geeks in school