# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Bacon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bacon/32/7230_2.png) [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 5:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/61 "2009-11-21T05:14:19Z")
VGA Graphics. 320x240 yeeeehaawwww My first HDD at 40MB. Fuck swapping disks. DOS 5.0 2-Player LAN games via serial cable Mechwarrior 2, fucking 3-D o\_o Warcraft 2 sucking away my life. C&C for DOS Shell applications for Doom to manage wads Preceeding games losing sync during a serial match@%#&$%&$%#&$ AOL Kali Carmageddon Transisition from DOS to Windows so I could play Interstate 76 My first 3-D Card Rendition Verite 1000 4MB Thinking 16MB of RAM was absurd and never possibly needing it. Total Annilhation making me realize I need more than 16MB of RAM 10/100BaseT networks becoming easily affordable. Still have most of the original discs and CDs as well to these. Mechwarrior2 for DOS being near useless since the advent of Win95. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ILC](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ilc/32/5337_2.png) [@ILC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILC)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 9:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/62 "2009-11-21T09:40:54Z")
> [@psychopjv](#): > > wow LORD. i think my brother still dabbles in that every now and then. still can’t believe nobody said Wolfenstein. LOL DUAL WIELDING HITLER!!! and the white guys you would get the tommy guns from! I still remember going around every single wall and pressing the space bar to find the secrets lol haha and I remember when games like first person shooters had “Scores” like anyone actually gave a shit what score they got. Beating doom, and doom 2 for the first time was a blast. Heretic sucked dick. Quake was one of my all time favorites, unfortunately I can absolutely cruise through it (not old school, but still an amazing game) number munchers, oregon trail, solitaire with 5.25" floppy disks, when the screen was like a orange and black. we got a computer in 1989, and we’d make our own games up with fucking the MS word (it was called something else at the time) 9600 modem ☹ a “Pentium” Caring about MMX technology being excited when the first 1000mhz processor came out by AMD 3 button mice MS-DOS, Win 3.1, with ski free running away from the monster as long as possible, the klotski game, air hockey game. VGA!!! (editted thanks to devin) picking your fucking sound card, IRQ conflicts, installs for games use to be a bitch! million dollar code on sim city… billion dollar code on sim city 2000 thats all i can think of right now ---
**Author:** ![klug](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/klug/32/5222_2.png) [@klug](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/klug)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 10:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/63 "2009-11-21T10:41:09Z")
I’m a little younger I started out with a hewlett packard. I dont remember the OS but there was some stupid clown that would dance around the screen when it started up. Does any one remember a cat and mouse game where you were the mouse and you had to push blocks around to isolate the cats? they would turn to cheese lol I cant remember the name of it. ---
**Author:** ![ILC](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ilc/32/5337_2.png) [@ILC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILC)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 11:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/64 "2009-11-21T11:30:18Z")
yep I remember that game too… it was on windows 95. maybe 3.1 but I remember it on 95 ---
**Author:** ![Spam16v](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/spam16v/32/5287_2.png) [@Spam16v](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Spam16v)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 12:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/65 "2009-11-21T12:01:44Z")
LOGO writer before the turtle, it was just a green triangle, 3rd or 4th grade? '86? ---
**Author:** ![Jam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jam/32/7235_2.png) [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 1:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/66 "2009-11-21T13:32:42Z")
iddqd idkfa idspispopd ---
**Author:** ![Spam16v](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/spam16v/32/5287_2.png) [@Spam16v](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Spam16v)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/67 "2009-11-21T14:28:09Z")
oyzy uqau r12s smia ---
**Author:** ![Tjsz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Tjsz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tjsz)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 3:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/68 "2009-11-21T15:02:09Z")
first computer i ever used was a comodore 128 and loved playing secret weapons of the luftwanfe sp? that shit was insane. First computer i actually had was a 386 ran at like 2mhz and had 768K mem with 8 of the small ram sticks anyone remember those lol, and had a whopping 30mb hdd and a monochrome monitor haha. ran dos like its job. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/69 "2009-11-21T15:27:10Z")
![http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/models/Sample%20Models/Games/Frogger.png](http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/models/Sample%20Models/Games/Frogger.png) Frogger. ---
**Author:** ![Tjsz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Tjsz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tjsz)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162/70 "2009-11-21T15:31:55Z")
also just remembered a story haha. I had a 486 dx2 66 and begged my dad to buy me the amd 100. He finnally did and I put it in made my voltage bus and speed modifications with the jumpers lol and ran it for 1min. Next thing I know it shut down and started smoking. I realized that the processor had craked and was really upset. Then i saw a message under the specs that was actually the only readable part. Heatsink and fan required. My dad was sooooo pissed. Other things i remember however - When the memory standard changed to simm - When the memory stardard changed to dimm - was pissed cause i was like I cant use my old shit no more damn. -Memory changed from sdram to ddr ram same raction as above lol. - First 1GB hardrive was like 800 bones and was like what is anyone going to do with all that space lol. - Getting my first windows 98 computer my dad bought from some guy I think it was cirus 233mhz cpu with 32mb ram ad 3gb hdd I was in my glory I was able too play worms. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/old-school-computer-technology-while-growing-up/76162.md?page=3)