# Old school computer technology, while growing up. **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [November 15, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162 "2009-11-15T17:36:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/21 "2009-11-16T06:57:04Z")
SEGA CHANNEL on Adelphia. That was the shit. ---
**Author:** ![TrueBlue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/trueblue/32/7245_2.png) [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 7:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/22 "2009-11-16T07:51:39Z")
> [@Geehee](#): > > i remember playing games from cassette tapes off my TI-86. Word. I remember loading Blackjack onto a TRS-80 with a straight-up tape player. Took 15 minutes, you’d play 3 hands, and it’d crash. :gay3: ---
**Author:** ![ultradriver10000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ultradriver10000/32/7397_2.png) [@ultradriver10000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ultradriver10000)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 8:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/23 "2009-11-16T08:06:58Z")
Our first computer was a Packard Bell with windows 95. We had AOL. Does anyone remember “Punting” people offline, printer bombs and such? ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 8:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/24 "2009-11-16T08:11:11Z")
YES They’d get that WAOL…this program has performed an illegal operation and needs to close shit. Just one of the AOL chat room exploits, those were fun ---
**Author:** ![drvnkd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/drvnkd/32/109615_2.png) [@drvnkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/drvnkd)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 8:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/25 "2009-11-16T08:13:19Z")
Computers and the Internet are just a fad, it will never catch on. ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 8:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/26 "2009-11-16T08:23:01Z")
remember when you had to re-format a computer and it invovled isntalling dos, and installing CD-ROM drivers so that you could boot up a Windows 95 disc? Yeah, that sucked. ---
**Author:** ![mike125k](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mike125k/32/7282_2.png) [@mike125k](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mike125k)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 8:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/27 "2009-11-16T08:40:28Z")
> [@boardjnky4](#): > > remember when you had to re-format a computer and it invovled isntalling dos, and installing CD-ROM drivers so that you could boot up a Windows 95 disc? > > Yeah, that sucked. Or having to exit Windows 3.1 back to DOS so you could safely shut off the computer. ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 8:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/28 "2009-11-16T08:41:19Z")
lol I didn’t even know I was supposed to do that for SOOOO long ---
**Author:** ![Zong](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/zong/32/7580_2.png) [@Zong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zong)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 9:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/29 "2009-11-16T09:09:08Z")
The turbo button was the shit. 16 to 33 mhz INSTANTLY MOTHERFUCKER! ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 9:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/30 "2009-11-16T09:14:12Z")
I guess it makes sense that my latest computer is from China because my first computer was from China. Abacus.:redface: ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 9:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/31 "2009-11-16T09:18:56Z")
You know the Chinese company is stealing all of your manufacturing specs off of it, right? WAKE UP PEOPLE ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/32 "2009-11-16T09:38:07Z")
LOL ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/33 "2009-11-16T09:43:41Z")
> [@Joe](#): > > You know the Chinese company is stealing all of your manufacturing specs off of it, right? WAKE UP PEOPLE Juat? I only use my netbook for surfing? ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 9:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/34 "2009-11-16T09:44:18Z")
put it in the microwave just to be safe ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 9:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/35 "2009-11-16T09:46:55Z")
I do shut it off when not using and store it in a lead lockbox.:tinfoilhat: ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/36 "2009-11-16T09:48:08Z")
> [@Blue Eyed Devil](#): > > Juat? I only use my netbook for surfing? wouldn’t the water ruin the electronics? ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 9:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/37 "2009-11-16T09:50:42Z")
It is the the wetbook netbook. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![copperlegend](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/copperlegend/32/7445_2.png) [@copperlegend](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/copperlegend)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 10:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/38 "2009-11-16T10:41:12Z")
I remember back in the day, I’d have arguments with a kid in 4th or 5th grade about which one was better, Prodigy or America Online. My dad had the cnace to buy stock in AOL back then, but didn’t. We went on a family vacation instead. OOPS. I went with my dad to pick up our first computer, a HUGE Packard Bell. We also got a Laser printer, and he’d always yell at me about using too much toner (I liked to print out pictures of the night ski - mostly black). When we got it, the guy had to open it up first and look it over, while wearing one of those anti-static wrist band things. Carmen Sandiego and Oregon Trail were my favorite games, as was Kings Quest. ---
**Author:** ![ImportMuscle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/importmuscle/32/7615_2.png) [@ImportMuscle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ImportMuscle)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 10:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/39 "2009-11-16T10:53:31Z")
I remeber there was a program you could load up called Chrysillus. It basically re-skinned 3.1 so it had a taskbar and shit like 95. I remember upgrading Os’s and computers like once every two years. 3.1 3.11 NT 95 95usb 98 98se. or the good old days of opening programs in DOS. Anyone remember the FIRST two duke nukems? ---
**Author:** ![AKUMA\_TO\_TENSHI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AKUMA\_TO\_TENSHI](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AKUMA_TO_TENSHI)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 10:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/40 "2009-11-16T10:55:54Z")
Rescue Raiders Taipan Colecovision Apple IIe Those were fun days. Back then if you knew how to use a PC people were like wow. DOS is still the best way to compute you have to know the code. CHKDSK -a-h Akuma [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162.md?page=3)