Humor for computer nerds.....

[delatlanta1281]

KING'S QUEST FTW!!!!! Wizardry was my fave as well. and flight sim.

[george graves]

My old computers. The last one was PIMP back in the day. It even had a early Microsoft OS - the last programming that Bill Gates worked on coding.

[Dave]

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Yeah I had a Tandy, back when Radio Shack was an actually decent store.

I remember spending hours and hours trying to fit a copy of Kings Quest or Space Quest off of a friends computer onto a million low density floppies as later on I got left behind when he got a 386 with a high density 3 1/2 drive.

My first really awsome comuter though was a dual Pentium II 400 with a gig of Ram.

We had a Tandy when I was in High School. It was an 8088 machine - no hard drive for the first year we had it, then my dad scored a 10MB hard drive. He paid WAY extra to have 384k of RAM. It had dual floppies - which was good for running some programs as you could have the program disk in on 5-1/4, and a save disk in the other.

King's Quest! And we also had Hitchiker's Guide.

After that, when I went away to school, I used the computers in the lab - no idea what those were. Law School, I had at first a Windows 2.0 386 machine, followed by a 486 with 3.1 on it - paid like 3500 for that thing with a black and white HP inkjet printer.

First year out of law school ,my dad got us a CD-Rom - we were amazed with it.

After that, a series of no name machines i built with varying Intel and AMD processors. then in 2001 I quit building them and started buying Dells - they work fine for me. Stil have the 1.4 machine we bought in 01 for my kids.

[arsevader]

My old computers. The last one was PIMP back in the day. It even had a early Microsoft OS - the last programming that Bill Gates worked on coding.

Boo yeah. The sinclair, with the squishy keys.

It had dual floppies - which was good for running some programs as you could have the program disk in on 5-1/4, and a save disk in the other.

Yeah and having dual floppies made copying disks sooo much easier

And we also had Hitchiker's Guide.

I still have Hitchiker's around here somewhere with the green guy on the cover.

> Go North
> You see an airlock

[Eric Giles]

My old computers. The last one was PIMP back in the day. It even had a early Microsoft OS - the last programming that Bill Gates worked on coding.

An Atari 800! I had an Atari 400, then when the 800XL came out in '83 I upgraded to it. As a matter of fact, since my original 800XL died in '86 or so, for nostalgia sake I recently bought a working 800XL off of ebay for $35. Nothing like playing Defender, Centipede, Missle Command, etc.!

And on what Ryan was originally talking about re: expensive Thinkpads-I had an obsession about the time I graduated college and started working at the bank that I had to have the latest and greatest IBM Thinkpad every year. I paid RIDICULOUS amounts of money for them-around $5200 for a 760ED back in '97, and then in '98 I got the 770ED (the first laptop with a DVD-ROM drive built-in) for $5700. I bought the updated 770ED in '99 for a closeout price of $2600 and thought I had scored the deal of the century.

Back then, if you wanted the best, you had to really pay for it. And at the time, nothing could come close to the IBM Thinkpads. It wasn't long after that I realized the bank I work for would buy me a laptop, so since then I let them pick up the bill. However, the Thinkpads I get now are MUCH cheaper.

I just wish I had been into BMW's during that time when I had money to blow...

[hamann318is]

I was raised on those dual-floppy machines as a kid. My dad was an IBM guy in the day, and I have many stories about the beginning. He was blown away with a 14.4 modem... he didn't know what he was going to do with all of it.

My friend has one of the first PCs, and it was impressive with a 25MB HD. We used to play some roller coaster game and this air plane game. They were AMAZING.

[george graves]

That "laptop" that I posted (trs-80 "MODEL 100") had a built in 300 BAUD moden. That's right. 300 BAUD. So - if you thought "56k" was slow, this was "0.3k" - you could actually read the words as they came over the modem. Oh, and no such things as the "interweb" - oh no, we has BBS or butiten board systems...
...Actually, a lot less idiots online back then...hmmmm(present company excluded)

[hamann318is]

That "laptop" that I posted (trs-80 "MODEL 100") had a built in 300 BAUD moden. That's right. 300 BAUD. So - if you thought "56k" was slow, this was "0.3k" - you could actually read the words as they came over the modem. Oh, and no such things as the "interweb" - oh no, we has BBS or butiten board systems...
...Actually, a lot less idiots online back then...hmmmm(present company excluded)

I've got some old ass laptop in the attic that I'm tempted to bring out and take pictures of for y'all. It weighs about 25lbs and you have to assemble it before use. Haha.

[arsevader]

Oh, and no such things as the "interweb" - oh no, we has BBS or butiten board systems...
...Actually, a lot less idiots online back then...hmmmm(present company excluded)

No I think we were all idiots that's why it seemed like less. There wasn't as much contrast between people. :)

Anybody remember 'Lynx'?

[1991 318is]

and...

Want to see Intel's underwear?

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/..._41_ghz_cores/


I have nephew that has an aquarium with an ice maker in it for a water cooler. Guess what his room looks like?

[Ryan Stewart]

fuck you guys are nerds. Old nerds.

[arsevader]

fuck you guys are nerds. Old nerds.

I think the term is Uber Nerds.

Nerds don't die they just reboot.... :)