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The first computer I ever used lived in its own special room - it was the cutting-edge pride of my college. Students only had access to a card-punching machine, with which you could type up a program of maybe a thousand cards and have them fed into the computer by the full-time computer expert/assistant. So this pic is very indicative of my experience:-
http://blogs.mtu.edu/biological/file...3/keypunch.jpg About thirty years later, I got something very similar to Ki´s, bought secondhand when the company I worked for went bust:- Quote:
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Not counting the awful Atari 2600 game console, my first computer was
the mighty Amiga 500 +! http://doktorno.vot.pl/files/images/...00.preview.jpg The + meant 2 things: it had some more ram by default and a newer operating system (kickstart 2.0 instead of kickstart 1.3 iirc). This meant that roughly 40% of Amiga 500 games wouldn't run on it and at the same time, all the Amiga 1200 games that ran on that os, wouldn't run as the hardware was too weak. Solution ? I found an ad in a gaming magazine, told my parents about it and on my birthday a man with a soldering iron and a special kickstart 1.3 circuit board came in. He spent 2 or so hours on my beloved Amiga and when he was done, it had an additional switch in the back, it let me choose which OS the computer would boot up with. One of my greatest regrets is selling my Amiga, and for something like 30$ (it was 15 or so years ago, I guess it's worth a bit more now)... I also had an original Commodore 14 inch monitor to go with it, with an almost inch thick "anti radiation screen". Ah Amiga... |
@innerspaceboy: I take all of what you're saying, but what about how slow your computer goes while all this is happening? I found my resources got quite limited, especially if I was downloading or doing any graphic work. It takes so long to upload and then you're in a position where your PC is crawling perhaps. And what happens if that company goes out of business (happens all the time)? What happens to your data then?
I would upload important data, like videos I made that could never be duplicated, but not all files: it would take forever. |
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The 44GB/day 52-day transfer still left me enough bandwidth to surf, though I did have to curb my resouce-intensive tasks just a bit. That aside, it was no big deal and now that I'm over the hump it's smooth sailing. As for the "critical data only" comment, my situation is unique as 37% of the artist/label folders have 50-350 albums each, so it's all critical. (See my Top Archives link below). And the out-of-business scenario is always a possibility, hence the local external. It's all good, baby. :afro: |
I remember when we first got our Gateway. My brother's friend wanted to see it. His friend grew up working with computers in and end up fixing computers for a living. So he knew more about processing speed, and memory than I did at the time. When he saw it, he :bowdown: to it, he was more impress with it than we were.
http://www.juice.ph/cms_images/925/d...oppy-disks.jpg My dad would hunt for records at the Goodwill and sometimes buy things decades after it was first released. One time he found a Pong game in Goodwill store that actually worked. https://www.atari.com/sites/default/files/pong2.jpg He came across this, and bought it for my brother because of the game(s) that came with it. I had an old Algebra book with command line codes in appendix and fooled around with writing commands for lines, curves, and geometric shapes. That was my idea of having fun. I think it had something like 2K memory lol. http://atariage.com/forums/uploads/m...1346126280.jpg |
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http://i.imgur.com/9Fs9ysx.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1EJUe42.jpg And last year I picked up 5 of the 10 cassettes released for the Atari Starpath Supercharger at a local thrift store. The Starpath added 6 KB to the Atari 2600's 128 bytes of RAM (increasing its RAM 49-fold) and ran data tape cassettes. Crazy! http://i.imgur.com/4aHUkpy.jpg https://i.imgur.com/e8a1Rti.jpg |
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