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NoGunsNoCats
Ima just film this portrait.
Numb3rThr33
That PC has a really strong battery.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
yup, that hurt a bit to listen to
markm0101
And I thought we were going to see a C : prompt for Dos.
DarkerSavant
I grew up on Dos and win 3.1. Crazy how much it taught me when forced to use a shell operating system like that and no internet. /help -im -old
markm0101
Yes, much closer to the actual source and logic, everything since is “window dressing”. My first forays into computing in the late 70’s were with hex code assembly on a 8088 cpu, amazing what could be achieved with relatively small instruction set.
ThePsychAutist
The first couple of seconds, I was like: "Our fans were never ~that~ loud..."
SoberAndBored
120gb hard drive
jesusisherelookbusy
BellylintCrumbs
IT TURNED OVER!
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
nothingpt
I miss the turbo button
BorkBorkasson
I mean, it's basically the same process--do a check and make sure everything's starting as it should, just machines are a lot faster now and skips showing so much as the info because by the time you get to see it, it's already on to the next step.
desolatorx
Honestly the one fan i had in there that was clogged to the teeth with dust did sound like that when it booted up.
kumagororyu
Lol... I thought that was the actual fan noise. Was like why does it sound like a car trying to turnover? Good one.
youarethesumofyourcontradictions
Now eject the cup holder
ItawtItawaputtytat
Y’all had it easy. Back in my day, we had to set the drives in the bios. Now get off my lawn!
zenoshogun
mypylon
The 'Old' Days
CASchoeps
Oh, the endless fights to squeeze every byte out of HiMem.sys...
SoberAndBored
The first PC I owned didn't have windows, it had a C: prompt. If you didn't know what to do next, you were fucked.
punnypanther
Amber or green text? :)
Boksha
cd games, cd doom, doom, and then you get an error saying there isn't enough free memory to load the lower memory part of DOS/4GW because you forgot to modify your autoexec.bat to remove like, half the stuff loaded by default.
metalrulercid
One of those times when you had to go over the chanticles to the omnissiah so it'd actually turn on properly.
IToldYouSo1
🤣
3Davideo
XP?! I was expecting 98!
taurondir
We honestly had customers that thought the "Turbo Button" was some kind of overclocking for the computer.
LordSerapis
Power supply is a Detroit Diesel, I would guess?
PixelSprite64
FairylandTrashCollector
Booting fast back then was at least 2 minutes. It's basically incomprehensible to wait that long today.
tounushi
boot plus waiting for startup programs to start up plus warmup. 10min is what was healthy to reserve for a computer starting up. Nowadays it really is seconds.
splatking
omg that keyboard sound uunnnnnnnnnff
Toomuchsheep
What do you mean "old days"?
DeltaBladeX
When I still had a full head of hair
JBRPong
Laughs in TRS-80
KHaber
TRS-80 Color Computer 2 was my first
HenryGant
My first computer was a TRS-80. 4k memory.
pippinpoppinforaring
You're supposed to use your toe to turn it on 😜 and that digital number thing on the case is interesting, I've never seen that before
Sunderlion
It showed the current speed of the CPU (In MHz). The purpose was so that you'd know if the "turbo" button was pushed which throttled your PC's clock speed way down. That was needed to run older software that paced itself based on the CPU's speed and nothing else. Like a pinball game that ran normally at 33MHz would just be an ultrafast blur at 200MHz and you couldn't play it. So you press the turbo button to slow it down to "old days" speed.
LonesomeCoder
That's for the number of megahertz your computer was running on! Huge way to flex its power
cnphilli
It wasn't a flex, you used to need a specific clockspeed to run certain applications.
LonesomeCoder
You used to need a specific MINIMAL clockspeed, as you still need today. I was there dude, no need to try and fool me like a gen Z youngling. No app of the Pentium era needed a specific clockspeed.
cnphilli
but the lcd clockspeed indicator was just a hangover from that era. I guess you could flex about 120 mhz
cnphilli
oh wait... I just read what you said. No, you didn't need a minimum clockspeed. Sometimes you had to hit the Turbo button and reduce your clockspeed.
LonesomeCoder
Oh. Never heard of that before. Ok, I'll half-trust you on that one (which is much more than I was just two comments ago)
profknowles1
Was expecting at least Windows 3.1
cavymeister
Windows XP is at least Windows 3.1. 6.1>3.1
profknowles1
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x isnt this older than Xp?
cavymeister
If you need at least windows 7, does windows 10 meet the requirements? Windows XP is Windows 6.1. so 6.1 is at least 3.1
Bonsaipanda
Translation >> "When you said 'old', I thought you had gone back to at least Windows 3.1 (1992)"
cavymeister
theAttendant
Happy days playing solitaire on Windows for Workgroups
Cha0sForever
I loved the convenience of upgrading to Windows95.
thatwoodguy
DOS 3.31 or go home
SmallMarbleDancer
Lol, I miss the games pack that came with that. Used to know so much dos navigation back then. Kinda like knowing html code back during MySpace.
AReptileDisfunction
Old... I'm 36 and... my first computer had 8 MB of ram and a whooping 486 66MHZ DX2 processor...
DeltaBladeX
38, and while not my first PC (I was too young to understand), had one very similar after that. Also had a Soundblaster 16 ISA card. :D
AReptileDisfunction
You were lucky, mine didn't come with an audio card... I vividly remember when my dad brought an ESS audio card at home, put it in the computer and... it stopped working lol it took him some days to fix everything, I was like... 8 years old...
DeltaBladeX
Do you still remember internal PC audio? My previous system had that. :P
AReptileDisfunction
Of course!!! It's how I thought computer had audio for... at least 2 or 3 years lol then a friend of my parents gave me a Disney SoundSource, so... I had the music for like a couple of games!!! Today, I have a portable 486 lost somewhere in the cellar, that helps me with my nostalgia 🤣
SubnetTwelve
You forgot to press the turbo button. That is why it is slow
BorkBorkasson
Fun fact you may or may not know: The turbo button was intended to be on all the time and was called that because it made your computer sound cooler. Its true purpose was a way to artificially slow down your machine so you could run older software that was coded to run as fast as possible and would be unusable or hard to use when running your cpu at full speed.
DreamDancer2018
More fun facts, some of them merely toggled the speed display and did nothing to the actual speed of the computer.
ztygs
Yeah I remember needing to toggle it off as some games would run WAAAAAAAY too fast to be playable without doing so. Lmao. So fucking janky tbh. We've come a long, long way.
SubnetTwelve
Indeed some games weren’t playable that originated on a 8088 when we changed to 80386
BorkBorkasson
Yeah, I remember a viking themed football game (it was the 90s) that went hilariously fast when my roommate upgraded his machine in college. I don't even think turning off the turbo was enough to make it playable.
imreallyjusthereforthecats
Pigskin!?! I almost forgot about that game.
BorkBorkasson
Might've been. I honestly couldn't tell you the name, it's so long ago
Hekatombe
"Old days" *sees Windows XP*. Fuck! I'm old
Leethesuperflea
Bruh try did or Windows 3.11 lol
Melonfish
I thought they were going to put like 95, 98 on there... Damn.
ItsSirUnimpressive
It is now safe to turn off your computer.
BellsTheorem
I started on DOS.
FrozenFor30Years
Win
SmallMarbleDancer
Right, though I was still running XP on on partition up until about 2018-2019. Motherboard died and the new (to me) one didn’t support anything older than 7.
Hekatombe
I stayed on Win2K pro for as long as I could, because it didn't require as much resources as XP, and most XP drivers worked on Win2K (although it was a bit difficult getting drivers before XP came out). But when WinXP SP2 came out, I switched due to the security improvements
lordsupafly
The old days used to be upgrading an intel 286 with DOS 5.1 to a 386 with a turbo button to a 486 to a pentium
lospaturno
fuck I'm much older, I remember rewinding tapes on Commodore 16.
TomahawkJackson
I know! TFW you see it's got a GeForce card in it and go "Psh. It's not THAT old..."
alittlekinkinthenuts
I miss XP
theAttendant
It’s still alive and well running lots of applications in the wild
GlenL
Remember when "multimedia computers" came out? AKA they had a sound card and could play CDs?
thatwoodguy
I remember windows 3.11 for work group
bigfootbound
When I was working in Japan a few years ago, I had to readjust myself to like windows 99, because some of my schools still used that in the staff office, and also the infamous Japanese keyboard xD
markm0101
Remember the days when DOS was just a twinkle in Bill Gates’ eye.
JustUsLeagueUnlimited
I remember the real old days. We were navigators of the netscape then. We didn't have your fancy Grand theft automobiles. We'd ford the rivers in wagons and hunt bears. But these youngsters nowadays with their solid state this and wi-fi that. Whatever happened to the simpler time when you'd get hours of enjoyment from pulling that metal part of a 3 1/2 floppy disk? Those were the days. But I'm rambling, you tend to do that in your autumn years.
Tatsumaru004
Yeah my first PC was a 486 playin games in dos and 3.1.
TorPemBoy
XP - my favourite windoz OS
whistlebuzz
Still the best OS Microsoft ever released
davesaint01930
Xp, the best OS ever created. Fight me.
AgentTasmania
I have a vintage PC made partially from garbage. It's Windows 7 on a Core2 Quad.
ameranthe
My first PC was an Apple IIe. I am so, so old.
davesaint01930
I had a trs 80 color computer from radio shack with cassette storage.
ameranthe
Good old trash 80
davesaint01930
Then ibwent to commodore 64. The bardd tale was so awesome
JustaguyfromNH
same! with dual 5.5" floppies in METAL shells for the hard drive. My Hercules graphics monitor sat on top of the floppy drives.
DeltaBladeX
My original PC was pre Windows, but you know how hard it is to get those old systems through the door of a new place, not worth keeping them
cbale2000
I still remember my dad had one of those old green-screen terminal PCs with the big floppy drives at home when I was a kid. At some point made the big upgrade to a Gateway Windows 95 machine with a whole 512MB of storage (not RAM, HDD)!
RobertTheBruise
Hard to get through the door? My first PC (running DOS without a hard drive) only weighed 12 pounds or so, and had a carrying handle.
ProfessorVanDiggenSagg
Not.. Not WORTH keeping?! cmd /k
RawrLouder
Right! I need my old DOS computer to play Aldo and Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure! (I know you can play them online now)
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
My first Windows was 3.1
ZircZZ
DOS 6.0 for me :)
Hekatombe
Rhinta
Is that Keanu? Johnny Mnemonic? Looks way to recent though. I must know what this is.
Hekatombe
The computer is a Vic-20. And it is a screengrab from the movie John Wick 3
DeltaBladeX
Had one of those as well, until the disk drive died. Mum tossed so much 'old junk'. -_-
BorkBorkasson
I never got the disk drive. Just tape drive hehe.