Fort those who would like to play with an emulation of a Mac computer from 1995, click the link below. My, how technology has changed!! This works best on a desktop or laptop btw...

INFINITE MAC 1995

Wow!

I bought my first desktop in 1994 for $3,000!

Times have changed….

I saw a friend play with his PC.

So I decided to get one.

Got a PC XT clone.

Got home no turned it on.

4 color screen.

All I could see was a flashing C.

Those were DOS days, no Windows.

Called the shop to tell them it is not working.

They laughed and said I have put programs in it.

Computer stores here were selling any software for the price of a floppy.

All copied illegally.

Got a program called WORDSTAR I think, that writes letters.

Now I build my own desktops, because I cannot buy what I need.

I do lots of video processing so need a fast PC.

Just finished one, with Intel’s latest CPU and all the memory the motherboard supports.
An Nvidia graphic card specific for Adobe.

2 4 TB SSDs
6 20 TB hard drives.

It flies!

First 16 bit AT in 1993. By my parents. I past secondary school entrance exams at the first place (best of all), so parents bought me 386 with 2MB RAM and 80 MB HDD. Until this, I used 8 bit computers like Atari, Commodore 64 and we had 8 bit computer network in the elementary school, when I learned Basic and Pascal programming for two years.

First computers I worked with were 8 bit. I hand keyed in pgms. as 1's and 0's. Then I moved up to a 16 bit machine. Started with 8k of core memory. You keyed in the boot strap load pgm. and then loaded the running software from 1" paper tape. All programming was in assembly code, no operating systems. When it was turned off it forgot everything. Talk about the dark ages.
C.G.B.

These replies are great!

I remember (I believe) a 486k Hard drive was the standard in 1994. I decided to go all in with a 1.1 MB

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I bought my first desktop in 1994 for $3,000!

Mine was $3500. Bought it for the family to use. At the law office, once we graduated from the IBM Selectric typewriters, we had a group that did legal paperwork for us using basic word processors. Eventually we all ended up with some sort of computer. We are light years ahead today.
HOWEVER, I remember the days of no computers, no cell phones, no copy machines, no fax machines. . . . . . . Any of you heard of a mimeograph machine?!

I sure do. We have become spoiled with our devices, I think. Even calculators have ruined my ability to do mathematical equations in my head like I used to. I remember when FAX machines came out + I thought I would never use one, but since I am in the sheet metal business + I need to see geometrical designs to build them, that machine soon became indispensable. But, now that is outdated too.

I built my own 4 function calculator over 50 years ago.

Got the design from an electronic magazine.

Was very proud of it, in a large metal box!

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Any of you heard of a mimeograph machine?! rotflmo

Yep. We called it the ditto machine.

I imagine Ann was present when Fred Flinstone was carving wheels for his jalopy

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Originally posted by Use Enough Gun:

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I bought my first desktop in 1994 for $3,000!

Mine was $3500. Bought it for the family to use. At the law office, once we graduated from the IBM Selectric typewriters, we had a group that did legal paperwork for us using basic word processors. Eventually we all ended up with some sort of computer. We are light years ahead today.
HOWEVER, I remember the days of no computers, no cell phones, no copy machines, no fax machines. . . . . . . Any of you heard of a mimeograph machine?!

when i was in school the nerds got to cut class to go crank on the handles of the mimeograph machines in the teachers lounge spitting out the weekly tests. the teachers would fight over who got to use it next. who had to add ink. who left it out of paper etc etc

When the 3.5 floppy drives first came, they used to cost roughly $1000.

Now computer stores give them away for free!

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Now computer stores give them away for free!

We have some old ones and the grandkids have used them like frisbees.

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Originally posted by Aspen Hill Adventures:

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Any of you heard of a mimeograph machine?! rotflmo

Yep. We called it the ditto machine.

YUp. I can smell it now...

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I had to build a fire and throw straw on it to get lots of smoke then cover with tarp and remove tarp.

Don't throw away your old PC's. The young kids are going retro and love them. My youngest got my Commodore 64 and loves playing Alien Invasion. What's interesting is that the early Commodore WP programs had Icons and drop-down menus just like Windows. And that is with 64k RAM!

Just finished building one.

The one I am replacing was built in January 2020.

I am passing it to someone and replacing it with one I just built.

The old one used all the top components.

From CPU to graphic card.

Same with the new one.

Guess what?

The new one processes 4K videos 3.5 times faster!

Unbelievable!

When I used to process VHS videos, an hour used to take all night to finish.

Might take a few seconds now!

Incredible progress!

Impressive!