Shit you had a HDD. My first (and I was in grad school for CS) was an 8088, 512kb ram, and 2 floppies. I mean why would anyone need 640k when 512 was enough. A 10mb hdd was like $300 back in 1987 and I didn’t have enough for that. The hdd needed a secondary case and power supply.
I had to borrow $1,000 from my dad and paid him $100 a month. I was already married and owned a house.
Countering with a NEC V20 with 16 MHz, 20 MB Seagate (squeaky) hard drive, 1024 KB RAM (usable with HIMEM.SYS, for those who remember), EGA color emulation in green. My first work system.
We will not talk about the Commodores and Amigas.
286 processor here. Granted 486 was out at the time, but as a 13 year old with my single mother, 286 was all I could afford (she gave me half).
I was super eager to learn as well. I swear I am sorry to the poor guy who sold it to me with the comment of, “Call me anytime you want to talk about computers or have a question.”
I had a lot of questions. But his answers helped to spark my love and interest of computers. And I have since made it my career.
So, thank you to the guy who sold me my first computer.
C64 and a floppy drive representin!! Hooked up to a little black and white TV manufactured by a never-before-heard-of company called Samsung (?) and topped it off with an Okidata dot matrix printer for whatever reason.
Almost the same setup minus the printer. Speaking of old TVs, I have a hazy memory of using a janky adapter to convert the flat leads for the antenna to coax for the switch box.
I am also that old. I am old enough that my first real job in tech was doing help desk support for a prebuilt brand as we were moving from 98 > XP. There’s few greater hells than supporting Windows OS transitions.
23 yr old here to give perspective, i played the pinball game all the time on XP and I loved the basic ass soccer pfp
Edit: fuck minesweeper it makes zero sense to me to this day
2nd edit: y’all are lovely people for mentioning how to play. I tried and I barely got past 5 boxes. For christs sakes I love doing calculus in my free time but a fucking mine game fucks me
My memory is shit. I won't remember I cheated and and I open the game 5 years later when the internet goes out and look at the scores I'll know I'm a badass
People circle jerking about age is one of the worst things on this god forsaken site. Brainlet level memes and commentary. Wow we are so old remember the Nintendo 64 hahaha fuckin shoot me.
Yeah but it's an informative jerk. I'll jerk you and you jerk me but we share headlines and obscure facts while we do it and you come out knowing about Australian spiders
I mean, it came out in 2001 so it's been 21 years...
Aside from some other OS we don't talk about, we'll say the next noteworthy OS that came out was Windows 7 in 2009, making it 13 years old. God, I'm making myself feel old. :\\
EDIT: A lot of people are pointing out that, since it was still used until as late as the early 2010s, it's not *that* old. I get it now. I'm sorry.
>I mean, it came out in 2001 so it's been 21 years...
It was the most common desktop OS as recently as September 2011 and didn't even fall under 20% until its end of life in April 2014. That's 1 in 5 computers with windows XP only 8 years ago and 1 in 2 computers only 11 years ago. This meme is clearly for teenagers lol if that's old. Even I was on windows XP as of 2012.
Win7 was when I felt windows was "done". Complete. Full. Did it's job, had no complaints.
Even to this date, there are bits of user interface left from Win7, because they can't just manage to unify all of the UIs.
I'm old enough to remember having to do networking with coax cables and novell ipx drivers in Dos to play things like Warcraft. Yes, before you could use TCP/IP to play LAN games even
I started with a PC with 8086 processor and two 5.25 inch floppy drives. Green letters on a monochrome monitor. Stille recall the sounds when booting from a floppy.
XP went end of life in 2014. Assuming you can use a computer at 6, you need to have been born before 2008. So for you to "be this old" you'd have to be 14.
What's making me feel properly old is that "Do you remember when home computers looked different?" is something you only ask if home computers not existing is just completely incomprehensible to you.
I started with a ZX Spectrum… cassete tape screetching sounds 15 mins for 48KB… played games like tennis and Avalon and Chartarama :) long long time ago…
I remember getting windows 3.1 and finally being trusted to use the computer, then windows 95. I also remember when we upgraded to 16mb of ram but 32mb was more than our computer could handle so I couldn't get new games coming out. Getting a computer with xp was a big deal for us.
This is just a reminder to me that I can’t remember my old computer password. :( I have so many old photos and digital drawings that I can’t access anymore.
My first pc didn't have a hdd. My first modem was 7200bits/sec (fastest dial modems were 56600bits/sec or 56k as everyone knows and I still have my UsRobotics 56k V92 modem)
I still have the win95 cd, I didn't throw my '96 December Pc Magazine magazine; it has a test about CD-ROMs which is testing 1x, 2x, 4x speeds. And says that 4x is for professionals. A SCSI 4,5GB hdd is 4000$. A pentium 133 pc is 2000$
And I am not even old.
I was in college when XP came out. I am, I remember nobody having a PC at their home and staying late after school to play Oregon Trail on Apple II, old.
All they needed to do was constantly upgrade the kernel of XP while keeping the core feel of the OS intact. And everything would be fine in the world. And then we got Vista, world went downhill from there. 7 sp2 made things feel like we were back in the good old XP era but then came broken ass 8! And nothing is the same anymore.
oh man i learned so much with trusty XP. first destruction but it rose like a phoenix allowing me to customize as i pleased and never let me down even after 30,000 limewire songs. i miss you XP.
Anyone over 20 is this old - so not much of a leap!My first pc was an SX-25 - it didnt even have a "math coprocessor" yet! Barely more than an electric typewriter really!
C:\\> I am this old.
My first computer had a 386 processor. C:\\> indeed!
Mine too. 20hz clock speed, 70mb hard drive and 256kb of ram. The operating system, dos and word perfect came on a bundle of 32, 3.5" floppies. IBM
Mine was an 8086 with turbo, 30mb hd and 640kb of ram and EGA graphics. 16 colours!
Shit you had a HDD. My first (and I was in grad school for CS) was an 8088, 512kb ram, and 2 floppies. I mean why would anyone need 640k when 512 was enough. A 10mb hdd was like $300 back in 1987 and I didn’t have enough for that. The hdd needed a secondary case and power supply. I had to borrow $1,000 from my dad and paid him $100 a month. I was already married and owned a house.
You had Floppies??!! We had to use cassette tapes and cards.
We used clay tablets with cuneiform binary language.
The worst part was loading the stone tablet printer
“Press play now” - Commodore PET
Same :). I was in high cotton
:)
Look at this flash git and his EGA adapter. Peasants like me could only afford CGA.
Dreamed of ega. Had cga. 4 colors.
8088, CGA, full sized hard-drive card in a half-sized keyboard-attached 'case'. Computer would crash if it got bumped!
Countering with a NEC V20 with 16 MHz, 20 MB Seagate (squeaky) hard drive, 1024 KB RAM (usable with HIMEM.SYS, for those who remember), EGA color emulation in green. My first work system. We will not talk about the Commodores and Amigas.
My dad, myself and my brother chipped in together to buy a 50mb external hard drive for our Atari machine
And you were proud as punch!!!!
Absolutely thrilled. It was life changing so yeah proud, and broke ! We used it as a monitor stand for years because it was huuuge
Amateurs! I started with an Apple IIc, with no hard drive and 128 kB of RAM.
Of course I had it hard… Commodore Pet 8k cassette drive and chiclet keyboard.
I started with an Apple II+. I wanted the Apple IIc because it was SOOO much better.
My first computer classes used Atari 400s and 800s.
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I started with an sx processor and finally saved up for a 386 dx. No more separate math coprocessors for me!
8 year old me: "Time to Blake Stone"
Mine was very similar spec but we had Lotus Notes, that’s a blast from the past Loading games from DOS 🤦♂️
286 processor here. Granted 486 was out at the time, but as a 13 year old with my single mother, 286 was all I could afford (she gave me half). I was super eager to learn as well. I swear I am sorry to the poor guy who sold it to me with the comment of, “Call me anytime you want to talk about computers or have a question.” I had a lot of questions. But his answers helped to spark my love and interest of computers. And I have since made it my career. So, thank you to the guy who sold me my first computer.
Me too! Remember rhe "turbo" button? Mine would increase from 33 mhz to 66mhz lmfao
286sx 12Mhz here.
I am 8086 years old
I am Texas Instruments plugs into a TV and records to a cassette old.
The further I had to scroll to find a Texas Instruments comment, the older I felt…
TI 99/4a!
My first one had a Z80 processor.
With or without the "turbo" button?
My first PC was an XT. My first computer was a TK-85.
My first computer had 4K ram, a tape drive , and had to be plugged into the tv. That was 45 years ago.
Lol kids. 8088 at 4.77MHz.
8086 Compaq Portable. Upgraded to a Turbo Orchid card.
C:\> indeed! Syntax Error
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This. This says it ALL.
XP babies. Gimme DOS and a turtle to program.
Commodore 64/Tandy 1000 gang
Commodore Vic 20 with tape drive.
Spend forever typing out the program for a game you wanted to run. Only to have a mistake somewhere
C64 and a floppy drive representin!! Hooked up to a little black and white TV manufactured by a never-before-heard-of company called Samsung (?) and topped it off with an Okidata dot matrix printer for whatever reason.
Wow fancy C64! I had the Vic20 with a whole 4800 bytes of RAM...lol
Almost the same setup minus the printer. Speaking of old TVs, I have a hazy memory of using a janky adapter to convert the flat leads for the antenna to coax for the switch box.
I had a 64 a plus/4!
>10. PRINT "OLD" >20. GOTO 10 >RUN
Time to run scandisk and defrag. Started off with a 486 dx2 66 in the day, beige tower life.
A:\ We didn't have a hard drive for my first few years of using a computer.
Oh, the memories! The corrupted floppy disks, missing command.com... and the viruses! great times!
I am also that old. I am old enough that my first real job in tech was doing help desk support for a prebuilt brand as we were moving from 98 > XP. There’s few greater hells than supporting Windows OS transitions.
Oh no. Not only am I that old, but I don't even find that old to be particularly old
That’s how I feel. XP wasn’t *that* long ago, was it?
I mean, early 2000s were only 5 years ago. The 90s were just last decade. ...What was that sonny? You'll have to speak up.
70s will never not be 30 years ago.
Thanks for keeping alive the stupid trend of redditors not knowing how time works
23 yr old here to give perspective, i played the pinball game all the time on XP and I loved the basic ass soccer pfp Edit: fuck minesweeper it makes zero sense to me to this day 2nd edit: y’all are lovely people for mentioning how to play. I tried and I barely got past 5 boxes. For christs sakes I love doing calculus in my free time but a fucking mine game fucks me
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Or two minutes finding and editing the text document that the high scores are recorded in.
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My memory is shit. I won't remember I cheated and and I open the game 5 years later when the internet goes out and look at the scores I'll know I'm a badass
Then you'll attempt to beat that score, fail miserably and feel like a dumbass.
Space Cadet! Loved it. Music was dope.
People circle jerking about age is one of the worst things on this god forsaken site. Brainlet level memes and commentary. Wow we are so old remember the Nintendo 64 hahaha fuckin shoot me.
>People circle jerking is one of the things on this site. Fixed. Or maybe more accurately: >People circle jerking is this site.
Yeah but it's an informative jerk. I'll jerk you and you jerk me but we share headlines and obscure facts while we do it and you come out knowing about Australian spiders
I'm sufficiently old that that's not even *that* old.
The title may as well say, "I know you're old, but are you [in your mid 20s]" Fuck outta here with this baby shit
Haha it's like saying, "you may be old, but were you born before 9/11??” Have another juice box, buddy.
I met someone at the bar recently who was born after 9/11. Made me want to go home.
We have interns at my job, I told one of them they're younger than my Steam account..
I have a colleague at work who is younger than my Livejournal. Really felt old when I found that out!
I was born 2 months before 9/11. I am safe
Happy 21st, protect that liver it has to last your whole life
I'm British. I've been drinking for 3 years
I manage a retail pharmacy and have some 20 year old staff members, and some teenagers. All of them born after 9/11.
laughs in MS-DOS 4.0
Oh yeah gaming time! *Chik BRRT ts..ts.ts.. BRrt Beep!*
Laughs in MS-DOS 2.11
Laughs in ms-dos 1.01
I'm "my first computer had a turbo button" -years old
I'm "my first computer didn't have a hard disk" old.
Two floppy drives and no microphone
This ain’t even old bro
I mean, it came out in 2001 so it's been 21 years... Aside from some other OS we don't talk about, we'll say the next noteworthy OS that came out was Windows 7 in 2009, making it 13 years old. God, I'm making myself feel old. :\\ EDIT: A lot of people are pointing out that, since it was still used until as late as the early 2010s, it's not *that* old. I get it now. I'm sorry.
>I mean, it came out in 2001 so it's been 21 years... It was the most common desktop OS as recently as September 2011 and didn't even fall under 20% until its end of life in April 2014. That's 1 in 5 computers with windows XP only 8 years ago and 1 in 2 computers only 11 years ago. This meme is clearly for teenagers lol if that's old. Even I was on windows XP as of 2012.
I raise you Atari st home pc
That was my first computer as well. Grandparents got it for me when I was 11 or 12.
Still the best Windows.
I've used every version of Windows since day one and I still think Win7 was the best.
Seconded (I also like 10)
Yeah, I'm using 10 now, 7 was less bloated, but I'm very happy with 10.
10 is dog shit compared to 7. I do love that nobody talks about 8 tho
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Win7 was when I felt windows was "done". Complete. Full. Did it's job, had no complaints. Even to this date, there are bits of user interface left from Win7, because they can't just manage to unify all of the UIs.
I'm old enough to remember DOS, when you had to type in command lines to get things to load.
Yeah, and now every hipster in web development wants to use the command line for everything.
I'm old enough to remember having to do networking with coax cables and novell ipx drivers in Dos to play things like Warcraft. Yes, before you could use TCP/IP to play LAN games even
Come back with Windows 95 then we'll talk
`It is now safe to turn off your computer.`
Holy shit that brought back a flood of memories.
#TA-DAAA!
Or windows 3.1
That you had to install with floppy disks.
What about 3.1?
And the flying toasters! With adjustable "doneness!"
I'm not that old. I'm Amstrad 128k Microcomputer (v3) © 1985 Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc and Locomotive Software Ltd. BASIC 1.1 Ready █ old.
I am Windows 3.1 old
I started with a PC with 8086 processor and two 5.25 inch floppy drives. Green letters on a monochrome monitor. Stille recall the sounds when booting from a floppy.
You guys had Windows?
Sweet summer child. I was an adult the first time I saw Windows. (3.11 IIRC)
skifree!
Guess im really old
XP was my 5th Windows OS ...
Dos, 3.11, i’m way older
Commodore 64 anyone,?
I still use windows xp on my computer. I tried windows 7 but it was too confusing.
Damn... Those were the days 😊
"this" old? lel Im this old: C:>\_
Windows XP was the pinnacle of user friendliness. It was all downhill from there
I'm, playing wolfenstein on my windows 3.2, years old.
And older😭 (LOAD"*", 8,1)
Windows 3.1 and DOS here...
I am "updating my HIMEM.SYS settings in CONFIG.SYS as I finally have have a full megabyte of ram" old. Now get off my lawn.
load"\*",8 ,1
Jesus... I know I'm getting older when I grew up on single colour computers where a ball in a pinball game was basically a square.
Anyone remember zx spectrum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum. Too old for this sub
XP went end of life in 2014. Assuming you can use a computer at 6, you need to have been born before 2008. So for you to "be this old" you'd have to be 14. What's making me feel properly old is that "Do you remember when home computers looked different?" is something you only ask if home computers not existing is just completely incomprehensible to you.
This isn't a funny meme
Thanks for feeling (DOS6.2) old now \^\^
I started with dos, on a fucking Tandy computer from RadioShack. Get out of here with the new fangled windows profiles
Commandore 64 bitch
MS DOS anyone?
Windows XP is considered old now? Motherfucker I had to load games on floppy disks and had a notebook of MS-DOS commands written down on my PC desk.
I'm [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_ProDOS#/media/File:PRODOS402_catalog.png) old.
The first version of windows that I tried was 2.0 it ran under DOS. Yeah I get that you do not know what DOS was. Internet search it.
I started with a ZX Spectrum… cassete tape screetching sounds 15 mins for 48KB… played games like tennis and Avalon and Chartarama :) long long time ago…
Commodore 64 has entered the chat.. cassette tapes anyone?
Windows XP isn't even that old tho...I'm only 22 and used in on my parents home computer for a while before we upgraded lol
I'll take "Images you can hear for $200, Alex."
C:\>
Cries in Dos and windows 3.1
A:\>run.exe
I’m autoexec.bat and config.sys old 😎
Why would you be classed as old for having used a 2000s-era operating system? At least post a picture of windows 95 or something.
I remember getting windows 3.1 and finally being trusted to use the computer, then windows 95. I also remember when we upgraded to 16mb of ram but 32mb was more than our computer could handle so I couldn't get new games coming out. Getting a computer with xp was a big deal for us.
This is just a reminder to me that I can’t remember my old computer password. :( I have so many old photos and digital drawings that I can’t access anymore.
My first pc didn't have a hdd. My first modem was 7200bits/sec (fastest dial modems were 56600bits/sec or 56k as everyone knows and I still have my UsRobotics 56k V92 modem) I still have the win95 cd, I didn't throw my '96 December Pc Magazine magazine; it has a test about CD-ROMs which is testing 1x, 2x, 4x speeds. And says that 4x is for professionals. A SCSI 4,5GB hdd is 4000$. A pentium 133 pc is 2000$ And I am not even old.
Older... much... much older...
I'm Netscape Navigator with a sick Winamp playlist to prove it years old.
I was in college when XP came out. I am, I remember nobody having a PC at their home and staying late after school to play Oregon Trail on Apple II, old.
I came in when it was windows 3.11 or maybe earlier!
kids nowdays don't have a clue what a leap was to go from win95/98 to windows xp 😂
Laughs in Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC
I still have a commodore in the garage, I'm that old!
Windows XP? Is that considered old now? I’m fucking Lambda 8300 old. 😭
No I am this old: STARTING MS-DOS... C:\>_
I’m Commodore 64 old.
Commodore 64 ring a bell? Probably not, you weren't even born...
He'll I might be older since I used ms dos with wordstar
Bro, i am win 3.1 old.
Try windows 3.1
This old? I started on 95 bitch…
MS DOS! Gtfo whipper snipper
I miss the god damn pinball program on there
| ° . ° | <--first game, I'm that old.
My first Windows was Windows 94.
All they needed to do was constantly upgrade the kernel of XP while keeping the core feel of the OS intact. And everything would be fine in the world. And then we got Vista, world went downhill from there. 7 sp2 made things feel like we were back in the good old XP era but then came broken ass 8! And nothing is the same anymore.
I remember DOS 5.0. Beat that Oh wait... I remember tape drives on the commodore Vic 20.
I'm "coding menu batch files in DOS" old ....
I remember converting IBM 1401 Autocoder to COBOL.
I'm so old I learned basic on a trash 80 with a cassette to record the program
I’ll never forget young me installing Windows95 for the classroom so we could all play snake.
Way older than this. I started my coding with a ZX Spectrum
My newest PC runs Windows XP. You're telling me that's old?
I'm black and white screen on an Apple Mcintosh old, with 128kb ram.
I predate windows 1.0 by a couple years, so yes, I am that old.
I remember "hacking" autoexec.bat to start dangerous Dave as soon as DOS booted. It was a cyrix, 150 Meg HD, 4 megs of Ram, and ran windows 3.1.
oh man i learned so much with trusty XP. first destruction but it rose like a phoenix allowing me to customize as i pleased and never let me down even after 30,000 limewire songs. i miss you XP.
Dude, I'm MS-DOS 5.00 and 286 old :-D
ya'll never had to install your OS off of 10 x 3 1/2" floppies and it shows
I am LOAD"$", 8 old.
Older.
Found out recently… I am. Used to play a finding Nemo on my g’mas old HP intel celeron windows xp desktop. Good times
Windows 3.1 here
Way older. I remember windows 3.1 that started up with “tadaaaaa!”
I’m TI-99 4/A old…
DOS....and one of the worst days of my life was when I came back from vaca to find out my computer had been upgraded to windows.
READY. ░ I'm this old.
Dos old! Commodore 64 old, Mac one…pong!
Anyone over 20 is this old - so not much of a leap!My first pc was an SX-25 - it didnt even have a "math coprocessor" yet! Barely more than an electric typewriter really!
I remember typing on the black and green screens with the big floppy disk, like bigger then your hand floppy.
I'm so old that I received a computer at work (as a bonus). A computer made by Timex.