Your first ever computer?

Trollheart · 02-16-2015, 02:06 PM

Okay then: you owe Chula and Ki.

The Batlord · 02-16-2015, 02:25 PM

I believe they bet along with me, as nobody was willing to take your side.

Trollheart · 02-16-2015, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I believe they bet along with me, as nobody was willing to take your side.

So who the **** did you bet against then?

FRED HALE SR. · 02-16-2015, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Engine

My dad brought it home in 1984. Best techie dad ever

Apple IIc external floppy drive and all

Man you had it good. My first was the Apple Mcintosh.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...,d.cGU&cad=rja

128 k of sheer boredom. LOL I got to play Oregon Trails for days. Woo!

simplephysics · 02-16-2015, 04:15 PM

It was a Packard Bell, either a 95 or 98, I really can't remember. My time on it was spent playing Rodent's Revenge and SkiFree.

#young

FRED HALE SR. · 02-16-2015, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by dreadnaught

It was a Packard Bell, either a 95 or 98, I really can't remember. My time on it was spent playing Rodent's Revenge and SkiFree.

#young

That did make me feel slightly old. I'd change nothing though the Apple Mcintosh was state of the art.

bob. · 02-16-2015, 04:28 PM

sooooo....i'm the only poor person here that shopped at Radioshack

i loved Oregon Trails and Castle Wolfenstein!

innerspaceboy · 02-16-2015, 06:46 PM

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Yeah it's externals for me too. ... Sure, but I find cloud storage useless for larger files like videos and some music, as it takes forever to get it uploaded and then of course you have to stay with that provider or you lose all your data (cough) Livedrive (cough) I just keep buying external drives, some of which are just hooked up to put the data on, then removed and stored, never used unless needed. Let me tell ya man, the days of storing on DVDs are over!

To respond to Trollheart - the usefulness of cloud storage is the data redundancy (mirrored across multiple hard disks across multiple servers located in several different countries), the 99.99% recovery rate, versioning, and live accessibility from any web-enabled device.

As for it "taking forever," yes - the initial 2.2TB transferred at a steady 44GB/day for a total of 52 days. But in the end, my data is safe, encrypted using 128-bit Blowfish encryption both up and down, and the company is quite stable (for now.)

Of course, things can change, and for that very reason I maintain an additional locally-stored external mirror as a safeguard. And you're spot-on about never using it for access, just for archiving and the occasional restore.

The total expense is just over $100 a year for truly unlimited storage (I've read the fine print) which is a small price to pay to have instant access to every piece of your data - large or small - from any device.

So don't write off cloud storage as "useless." It has its place.

And to return to the thread topic (remember the thread topic?) it is unbelievable how far we've come from punchcards to monochrome CRTs to the present. For the monthly price of fiber optic, I operate a media server with more content than I could ever consume, and with an unlimited data plan, I'm free to stream endless DVD quality video and lossless audio from my server anywhere with 4G LTE or wifi.

My first computer had an 80MB hard drive and 640k of RAM. Tomorrow, I'm buying a jetpack.

**Janszoon** · 02-16-2015, 07:04 PM

Mine was an Apple IIe. Zork, Karateka, Moon Patrol, Lode Runner, Broderbund Print Shop—good times.

Stephen · 02-17-2015, 04:21 AM

We had a circa 1982 Microbee with about 14" orange screen and cassette drive storage.

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