Windows 7 growing fast - ancient computer discussion

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Quote from: dgwebb

Not sure any home user could find a use for 128bits or more than 48k of RAM.

I had more than that in my first computer - a Commodore 64 which had, as you might guess, 64kB ram.  

[#2]

my first desk top a Packard Bell had  a 25 M hard disc

[#3]

My first PC had a whopping 1Mb of RAM and ran windows 3.0, I blew it up because I didn't have a clue what the 110/240 switch did......

[#4]

1st computer was BBC B+ with 64KB RAM and 64KB shadow RAM.

[#5]

Is this going to turn into another thread reminiscing about old computers :D?
I have just been 'upgraded' at work from Vista to W7. Can't say I am particularly impressed. It is slightly faster to boot, but otherwise just looks like a Vista facelift.

[#6]

That's because it is.

[#7]

can anyone beat a still working UK101  http://www.retromadness.com/compukit/uk101.htm

[#8]

Yep, I've got a nice slide rule.
(and some old log tables)

[#9]

Quote from: Denzil

Is this going to turn into another thread reminiscing about old computers :D?

I certainly hope not,i got a thread locked tail end of last year because one of my threads was going off topic so i would appreciate it if this was kept very much on topic,the threads about how well windows 7 is growing and how fast!!

[#10]

Quote from: HPsauce

Yep, I've got a nice slide rule. (and some old log tables)

so have I  mine date from the third quarter of the 50's

[#11]

Since I started the off topic posts I have split them off 

[#12]

My first computer was this.
Type 8-bit Home computer
Release date 23 April 1982
Discontinued 1992[1]
Media Cassette tape
Operating system Sinclair BASIC
CPU Z80 @ 3.5 MHz and equivalent
Memory 16 KB / 48 KB / 128 KB 

[#13]

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81
to http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=274
to http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/2245/Tulip-PC-Compact-2/
Those were the days...
B.

[#14]

We've been here before I sure 
But - yes I too learnt my electrical engineering using log tables with sin, cosine, tan etc etc., and then at some stage a Texas Instruments TI58 programmable calculator http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/texas_insturments_ti_58.html
and then a Nascom 2 - using Z80 assembler and then later added CPM 

[#15]

/Strat considers moving a section of this thread to the Nostalgia forum