CrazyIvan 0 #26 December 31, 2002 Quote Ahh, c64 nostalgia... If you want nostalgia, try SINCLAIR ZX81, now that's nostalgia __________________________________________ Blue Skies and May the Force be with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Push 0 #27 December 31, 2002 Hey, I used to have one of those! Stupid thing wouldn't accept my tape deck. Learned BASIC on the thing. Me-emories. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyIvan 0 #28 December 31, 2002 QuoteHey, I used to have one of those! Stupid thing wouldn't accept my tape deck. Learned BASIC on the thing. Me-emories. Me too, you have to see all he crap I have in my basement__________________________________________ Blue Skies and May the Force be with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
akaGQ 0 #29 December 31, 2002 I have a Commodore 64 BABY!!!!! oh wait you mean the one that we use now...oh ok I didnt really build mine a friend did but I think this is the stuff it has...that at least I can remember. Athalon XP 1.8 Memorex 48x CDROM HP CD-writer 9100 series GeForce 4 40 GIG of HD space 2 8 meg SCSI cards 1.something gig of DDR RAM Creative Labs Sound card and speakers (the damn thing even came with a remote) cant really remember all the rest of the schtuff!!- GQ ... it was the love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty ... -Charles Lindberg Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
murrays 0 #30 December 31, 2002 Apple iMac 15" Flat panel 800 mhz G4 60 gb 768 Ram Superdrive (DVD-R & CD-RW) OS 10.2.3 jaguar I loves me Mac Happy New Year Everybody!!-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Push 0 #31 December 31, 2002 You should definitely keep it. In 50 years, when everyone have a neural net based quantum computer in their home, the ZXs will be rare antiques. And that's when computer geekery pays off Quote Me too, you have to see all he crap I have in my basement I like to refer to the basement as the computer graveyard. I got a P100 in there, a couple of old monitors. Even a Pentium Pro. We got a 33k modem hanging on the wall at my uni place, right along the old Star Wars movie posters -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
akaGQ 0 #32 December 31, 2002 Macs are good for Target Practice hehehe just kidding- GQ ... it was the love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty ... -Charles Lindberg Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cepheus 0 #33 December 31, 2002 Quotetry SINCLAIR ZX81, now that's nostalgia So nostalgic that... well, no, I never had one... Hey, I was raised in the c64 era. Still a mystery to me as to why they went under... I never did research that. Perhaps I will. PS: To all those c64 freaks out there, check out http://www.lemon64.com/ -- Emulators, reviews, etc. Awesome site, really brought home to me how much influence that little machine had over my brief childhood.-- Skydive -- testing gravity, one jump at a time. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyIvan 0 #34 December 31, 2002 Quote I like to refer to the basement as the computer graveyard. I got a P100 in there, a couple of old monitors. Even a Pentium Pro. We got a 33k modem hanging on the wall at my uni place, right along the old Star Wars movie posters Mine is a graveyard/museum, I have all sorts of things, even APPLES (I have an Apple II, IIe and IIc) some cannibalized systems (286, 286 and 486) some odd shit and more, is like going back in time man Oh, forgot to mention a Sinclair Spectrum with a whopping 48K OF RAM __________________________________________ Blue Skies and May the Force be with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Push 0 #35 December 31, 2002 You should open a museum or something. If I'm ever in your area, I'd pay to tinker with thoseDamn it. There were days when things actually worked. I just got disconnected for the umpteenth time by the $#%@& ICS on the gateway. What OS do you run on your monsters? Edited to add: have you ever seen one of those Apple II fishtanks? Those are hilarious. My favourtie is the iBong. Some teenagers turned an iFruit into a huge bong. I'll try to dig up a link for you. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Push 0 #36 December 31, 2002 Here ya go: The iBong -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skeletor 0 #37 December 31, 2002 Quote Oh, forgot to mention a Sinclair Spectrum with a whopping 48K OF RAM My first computer was a VIC-20, standard memory was 3.5k. It was just like the C64, only crappier. rich Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moodyskydiver 0 #38 December 31, 2002 Mine is an HP pavilion zt1175 laptop....piece of crap! "...just an earthbound misfit, I." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dumpster 0 #39 December 31, 2002 hp7950, and an NEC Multisync LCD 1700M+ monitor - Don't know what's inside, But it's been hot-rodded a bit. Easy Does It Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #40 December 31, 2002 Custom built in '98. P400, 8G HD....paid about $1500 for it then. I could buy two faster ones for that price these days.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sonic 0 #41 January 1, 2003 Athlon 1GHz @ 1200 (soon to be 2000+) 640 Mb RAM (stay away from my memory Clay) 40 and 8 GB HDD's Geforce 2mx graphics (soon to be radeon 9000 pro) CDRW DVD slot loader 550 watt psu Alu case with window and light (geek !!) 4 low noise case fans Zalman flower cpu cooler [edit] oh, and 5.1 digital sound through home cinema system 512K cable connection (ping of 20 - yeah baby !!) 100Mb/s ethernet ----------------------------------- It's like something out of that twilighty show about that zone Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #42 January 1, 2003 Quote 640 Mb RAM (stay away from my memory Clay Yeah..I think mine has 64Mb.. I have an extra slot but I think I'm just going to go buy a whole new computer that comes with twice everything and is ready to edit video. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarkF 0 #43 January 1, 2003 Quote Do you have a BRAND NAME computer? what brand? or you are a geek like me and built your own? I probably qualify as a geek after spending 25 years in system admin. At home I have... An OpenVMS cluster consisting of :- 2 VAX Station 3100 systems with 48 and 32 meg RAM. CPU runs at 75 mhZ IIRC. Running OpenVMS VAX 7.2 1 DEC 3000/300 (Alpha) with 96meg running at 175mHz running OpenVMS AXP v7.1-2. Shared among the systems are a dozen 1 gig drives. All disks are mounted on all systems. A Linux box running Slackware on an IWill P55 UW (UW SCSI mother board) Cyrix P120, and 1 gig of ram. Disk is 32 UW SCSI 1 gig spindles configured into 8 2 gig RAID 0+1 sets. Used as a file server / firewall / gateway / database server / whatever else. Yeah I know that it's BAD practice to be running this stuff on a firewall / gateway box but...A winders box (Win 98 ) with a Celeron 466, 1 gig ram, 10 gig disk and a Matrox G400 video card. Mostly used for Photoshop, FlightSim and other games. Oh of course it's the one I use to look at Dropzone.com. An IBM Tuhinkpad of some description running NT4 (+Sp 6a of course ) which along with the OpenVMS stuff is work stuff. Ooroo Mark F... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kris 0 #44 January 1, 2003 Okay, here's my list: Da' Mack Silicon Graphics Octane OS: IRIX 6.5.12m R1000 CPU @ 195 MHz 512MB RAM 72GB of SCSI storage SI 24-48 bit graphics 20" Trinitron monitor Gojira (Godzilla) Custom Chenming case, black. With 420W PSU, window, two blue cold-cathodes, 4 92mm fans, 2 Marvel Wolverine fan covers Athlon XP 2600 EPoX 8RDA+ (nForce2 Chipset) 1GB of Corsair PC3200 C2 RAM ATI Radeon 9700 Pro SB Audigy II DPT Millennium U2W RAID w/ 128MB cache Adaptec AHA-2940U2W SCSI adapter 3COM 10/100 NIC IDE DVD-Drive 32R/20RW SCSI Burner IDE HDD's: 40GB, 60GB, & 80GB Maxtor's SCSI RAID: 5 Seagate Cheetah 10K-RPM 36GB U2W HDD's, RAID-0 180GB Porta-Blop IBM T30 Laptop Intel P4 @ 2GHz 512MB RAM 40MB HDD Dual-Head Radeon 7500 Firewire card 802.11b Wireless built-in Intel embedded 10/100 NIC I also have sitting in my garage: Commodore Vic-20 Commodore 64 Commodore 64C Commodore SX-64 (2) Commodore 128D Commodore Amiga 1000 ATARI 400 ATARI 800 Timex Sinclair TI 99-4/A TRS-80 Model III Tandy CoCo Kris (But you can call me ÜberGeek)Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyIvan 0 #45 January 1, 2003 Quote have you ever seen one of those Apple II fishtanks? That' the only thing that apples are good for __________________________________________ Blue Skies and May the Force be with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ECVZZ 0 #46 January 1, 2003 Quote What kind of computer you have? A white one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattM 0 #47 January 1, 2003 My homemade comp: Intel 850 Motherboard 256mb Rambus Ram 1.8ghz pentium 4 processor nvidia ti500 64mb graphics card 20gig hd, 10gig hd, and a 80gig hd 24x12x24x cd burner Also a laptop from dell, a compaq ipaq handheld, and a dell workstation from work for all those other geeks out there... i just order a server for work with: 4 2.0ghz processors 4 gig ram and 360gig of storage that cost about the same as a new ford truck Matt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DZBone 0 #48 January 1, 2003 Homemade: 64-bit wirewrap bit-slicer hand-woven magnetic core memory 2 32-bit registers (A/B) cathode-ray memory/display front-panel toggle inputs tri-color led outputs (with register select) supervisor/user mode selectable paper tape i/o No sound card, but you can play simple tunes with the core memory. And, of course, it runs Linux. _________________________________________________ If you hadn't read this, would it have made a sound? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Iflyme 0 #49 January 1, 2003 Mine was cool, but now is sucking. P3, 450 mgz (I;m too full of beer to remember the right abbv.) 128ram no dvd no cd burner edit video on Studio 7 (Pinnacle) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WFFC 1 #50 January 1, 2003 Quotemine is a hal 2000. Now a true geek can tell you where HAL came from for the Space Odyssey movies...Anyone???----- ~~~Michael Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
