I just got Real old!

[nutcase]

I was looking at some antique computer stuff and remembered I actually built one of these Altair 8800's :yikes::yikes:

came out in 1975 :hide:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800

[Just Learnin']

8 inch floppy disk system :scratch::lol:

[Dave3d]

:scratch::lol:


Man, that is old.

It DIDNT have dual-8 inch floppies.

:lol:

[Snafu]

:lol:

I was just reading some computer history.

Did you know that IBM's prediction (sales forecast) for computers was only 5 for the entire world?

[Just Learnin']

It DIDNT have dual-8 inch floppies.

:lol:

In RAID0. :suspect:

[nutcase]

you guys having fun? :suspect::irk::lol::lol:

I could not afford a floppy drive for the one. so we used the paper tape reader on the ASR-33 teletype :yikes:

[Just Learnin']

How did you overclock it?

[nutcase]

How did you overclock it?

that was WAY before people overclocked computers :D

[NINaudio]

I remember all that stuff too nutcase. My dad worked for IBM, so as a child, we had all kinds of stuff in the house. The old 8 inch and 12 inch floppys, a 300 baud modem that you would put the phone receiver into for it to work, punch cards, etc etc.

Just recently my sister and I were cleaning out the attic and I found a 30 MEG hard drive, that would easily fill two 5 1/2" bays...

[bball4ever39]

Just to make you feel REALLY old...

That was 13 years before I was even born ;)

[BeeHay]

Oh man, I was hoping to NEVER see one of those again!

They had 4 working ones at the college I went to, just to learn to the old programming aspect of it. :bonk:

So nutcase, you starting to look like your avatar now? :P