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Title: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: digi on Wed, 14 May 2014, 15:51:12: A thread dedicated to the "old school"!

Here's mine:

PCBoard, DESQview, dual USR 14.4k modems while tying up the family's precious phone lines. Those were good times!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCBoard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCBoard)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview)

Anyone else ever use or sysop any BBS's back in the day?

Remember ACiD?

(http://a.fsdn.com/con/app/proj/mysticbbs/screenshots/mystic_ansigallery.png)
Title: Re: Post your old school stuff! :)
Post by: paicrai on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:08:13: **** MY POST, THE OLDEST THINGS HERE ARE THE FORKS I USED AS A CAP PULLER I WILL STOP EDITING IT NOW
Title: Re: Post your old school stuff! :)
Post by: Photekq on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:11:26: Not really oldschool, but.. The first program I downloaded on a PC when I was like 8.. Illegally downloaded so much music.

(http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/limewire.jpg)
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Post by: Frenir on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:15:50: (http://www.marcoblijenberg.nl/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/internet_explorer1.png)
*windows 95 bait*
Title: Re: Post your old school stuff! :)
Post by: i3oilermaker on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:20:12: This is my technology graveyard

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3564/3443158975_d4e78a3849_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Post your old school stuff! :)
Post by: i3oilermaker on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:20:34: derp - geekhack hickup - doublepost
Title: Re: Post your old school stuff! :)
Post by: smknjoe on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:28:17: I had a Tandy 1000TL, dual 3.5 inch floppies with no hard drive, with a Hayes 1200 or 2400 baud modem that I used to access many BBSs I don't remember the names of (mostly looking for free games.) I do remember we had a subscription to PC-Link and Compuserve. Do you remember Leisure Suit Larry?

http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/1000TL.html
http://staging.arstechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/m_42377_1.jpg
Title: Re: Post your old school stuff! :)
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:29:52: Damn, I thought this was a thread for posting old school work and notes and stuff. I'll need to dig up some old stuff to add to the thread that is actually relevant.
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: digi on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:33:52: Quote from: i3oilermaker on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:20:12
This is my technology graveyard

Show Image
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3564/3443158975_d4e78a3849_b.jpg)

That Pentium MMX CPU was beast.

Quote from: smknjoe on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:28:17
I had a Tandy 1000TL, dual 3.5 inch floppies with no hard drive, with a Hayes 1200 or 2400 baud modem that I used to access many BBSs I don't remember the names of (mostly looking for free games.) I do remember we had a subscription to PC-Link and Compuserve. Do you remember Leisure Suit Larry?

http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/1000TL.html
http://staging.arstechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/m_42377_1.jpg

Oh yea, Leisure Suit Larry (and all the Sierra games) were so good.

Quote from: HoffmanMyster on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:29:52
Damn, I thought this was a thread for posting old school work and notes and stuff. I'll need to dig up some old stuff to add to the thread that is actually relevant.

Hah! I see what you mean, I added quotes to the OP. Thanks Hoff :)
Title: Re: Post your old school stuff! :)
Post by: paicrai on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:34:49: Quote from: HoffmanMyster on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:29:52
Damn, I thought this was a thread for posting old school work and notes and stuff. I'll need to dig up some old stuff to add to the thread that is actually relevant.
I have some hilarious old school things :))
Title: Re: Post your old school stuff! :)
Post by: Tarzan on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:37:15: Quote from: i3oilermaker on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:20:12
This is my technology graveyard

Show Image
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3564/3443158975_d4e78a3849_b.jpg)

Yeah, I've got a pile of obsolete crap as well...
[attachimg=1]

This is actually my slightly-less-than-crap pile, as my DX4-100 system is in the storage unit.
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: hashbaz on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:42:00: Quote from: digi on Wed, 14 May 2014, 15:51:12
Anyone else ever use or sysop any BBS's back in the day?

Yes! I got into BBSs circa 1994 shortly before getting Internet access. I can remember downloading the shareware version of Descent from a BBS in 2 chunks of 2 megs each. It took so long that I went to dinner and came back and it was still going.

(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2010/04/descent-decent-ish-screen.jpg) (http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2010/04/descent-decent-ish-screen.jpg)
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: smknjoe on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:47:26: I forgot about my first PC...the Commodore Vic 20 that an uncle gave me when I was a wee lad. I spent many hours trying to emulate a Max Headroom - esque experience.
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: keymaster on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:50:01: elementary school gaming

(http://i.imgur.com/STQWE07.jpg)
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Post by: smknjoe on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:52:17: ^Oregon Trail on Apple II!
Title: Re: Post your old school stuff! :)
Post by: osi on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:52:58: Quote from: i3oilermaker on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:20:12
This is my technology graveyard

Show Image
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3564/3443158975_d4e78a3849_b.jpg)

Dat slot processor
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: pichu23 on Wed, 14 May 2014, 17:05:02: (http://epicgamergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Duck-Hunt1.png)

Anyone remember this ? ;D
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: SpAmRaY on Wed, 14 May 2014, 17:07:48: Quote from: pichu23 on Wed, 14 May 2014, 17:05:02
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(http://epicgamergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Duck-Hunt1.png)

Anyone remember this ? ;D

yeah i'm gonna have to buy an old tv to play this again, i've got the nintendo the game and the gun
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: pichu23 on Wed, 14 May 2014, 17:08:34: Quote from: SpAmRaY on Wed, 14 May 2014, 17:07:48
Quote from: pichu23 on Wed, 14 May 2014, 17:05:02
Show Image
(http://epicgamergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Duck-Hunt1.png)

Anyone remember this ? ;D

yeah i'm gonna have to buy an old tv to play this again, i've got the nintendo the game and the gun

I think my dad gave away my console to my cousin or smth. :(
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: smknjoe on Wed, 14 May 2014, 17:11:30: Quote from: pichu23 on Wed, 14 May 2014, 17:05:02
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(http://epicgamergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Duck-Hunt1.png)

Anyone remember this ? ;D

Did yours come with this too? Mine did. I don't think they offered them very long for some reason...
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: pichu23 on Wed, 14 May 2014, 17:15:02: Quote from: smknjoe on Wed, 14 May 2014, 17:11:30
Quote from: pichu23 on Wed, 14 May 2014, 17:05:02
Show Image
(http://epicgamergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Duck-Hunt1.png)

Anyone remember this ? ;D

Did yours come with this too? Mine did. I don't think they offered them very long for some reason...

I don't think so. All I remember was controllers and the gun. Haha :p
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: digi on Wed, 14 May 2014, 17:20:02: Quote from: hashbaz on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:42:00
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Quote from: digi on Wed, 14 May 2014, 15:51:12
Anyone else ever use or sysop any BBS's back in the day?

Yes! I got into BBSs circa 1994 shortly before getting Internet access. I can remember downloading the shareware version of Descent from a BBS in 2 chunks of 2 megs each. It took so long that I went to dinner and came back and it was still going.

(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2010/04/descent-decent-ish-screen.jpg) (http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2010/04/descent-decent-ish-screen.jpg)

Dude, Descent, that was a good one. Totally forgot about that!
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Wed, 14 May 2014, 17:23:54: This thread has MW written all over it!

I'd post some of my antiquated technologies, but I'm too lazy to break out the camera right now... maybe later when I'm absurdly bored...
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Wed, 14 May 2014, 17:26:28: Quote from: pichu23 on Wed, 14 May 2014, 17:05:02
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(http://epicgamergirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Duck-Hunt1.png)

Anyone remember this ? ;D

Used to give me nightmares as a child. Had a dream that the dog jumped through the bathroom window while I was taking a **** and beat me to death with a cast-iron pan. No joke.

Looking back on that now, I realize I was simply predicting Conker's Bad Fur Day...
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Post by: smknjoe on Wed, 14 May 2014, 17:28:13: Here's one we got from a BBS:
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: metalliqaz on Wed, 14 May 2014, 17:47:06: First game I can remember playing to death was zaxxon on an IBM PCjr (famous for worst keyboard ever)
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When I had my own computer, one of the earliest was Duke Nukem
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But my favorite game of the DOS era was Tyrian
[attachimg=3]

Of course, I was using one of these, before I knew it was cool :cool:
(http://i.imgur.com/k2VTrl.jpg)
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: digi on Wed, 14 May 2014, 17:50:08: Quote from: metalliqaz on Wed, 14 May 2014, 17:47:06
First game I can remember playing to death was zaxxon on an IBM PCjr (famous for worst keyboard ever)
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When I had my own computer, one of the earliest was Duke Nukem
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But my favorite game of the DOS era was Tyrian
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Of course, I was using one of these, before I knew it was cool :cool:
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Zaxxon! Think I played that on a TI99, lol.
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: foxer on Wed, 14 May 2014, 18:13:31: (http://i.imgur.com/ba69dxv.jpg)

Nothing super special but I have a lot in my collection. Huge sentimental value. Over £1500 worth of cards and the ones on top are just dupes.
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: Tarzan on Wed, 14 May 2014, 18:20:35: Quote from: foxer on Wed, 14 May 2014, 18:13:31
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Nothing super special but I have a lot in my collection. Huge sentimental value. Over £1500 worth of cards and the ones on top are just dupes.

Huh! I remember those. A buddy of mine came back from a gaming convention in San Francisco in 1993, had a couple of long boxes of card packs. One box full of packs he handed around as gifts, the other one he ended up selling unopened for major moolah. Fun times.
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Post by: CPTBadAss on Wed, 14 May 2014, 18:28:16: (http://i.imgur.com/okjMbY7.jpg)

I grew up with tapes and I'm still buying them :D
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: baldgye on Wed, 14 May 2014, 18:31:06: idkfa
iddqd
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: hashbaz on Wed, 14 May 2014, 18:39:56: Quote from: baldgye on Wed, 14 May 2014, 18:31:06
idkfa
iddqd

Welcome to the mod team! :thumb:
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Post by: baldgye on Wed, 14 May 2014, 18:42:14: Quote from: hashbaz on Wed, 14 May 2014, 18:39:56
Quote from: baldgye on Wed, 14 May 2014, 18:31:06
idkfa
iddqd

Welcome to the mod team! :thumb:

This GH game be ez B-)
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: noisyturtle on Wed, 14 May 2014, 18:55:04: So should I just post pictures of my apartment which is full of old toys and video games from the '80s and '90s?
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: digi on Wed, 14 May 2014, 20:19:24: Quote from: noisyturtle on Wed, 14 May 2014, 18:55:04
So should I just post pictures of my apartment which is full of old toys and video games from the '80s and '90s?

Yes
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: Binge on Thu, 15 May 2014, 00:18:10: Might get a bit more exposure here,

(http://i.imgur.com/SxSuzwt.gif)
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Post by: rowdy on Thu, 15 May 2014, 01:03:08: I found a bunch of 5.25" floppy disks while searching for something in the dim, dark recesses at the back of the garden shed recently.

Have to dig them out again for a photo shoot if anyone is interested.

Although really 3.5" floppies are probably a historical novelty now too :p
Title: Re: Post your old school stuff! :)
Post by: nubbinator on Thu, 15 May 2014, 01:05:07: Quote from: i3oilermaker on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:20:12
This is my technology graveyard

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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3564/3443158975_d4e78a3849_b.jpg)

Needs more Jaz disks and 5.25" floppys.

I need to get a pic of my 90MHz IBM i486DX2.
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Post by: nubbinator on Thu, 15 May 2014, 01:05:35: R r r reboot.
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Post by: rowdy on Thu, 15 May 2014, 01:11:19: Quote from: nubbinator on Thu, 15 May 2014, 01:05:07
Quote from: i3oilermaker on Wed, 14 May 2014, 16:20:12
This is my technology graveyard

Show Image
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3564/3443158975_d4e78a3849_b.jpg)

Needs more Jaz disks and 5.25" floppys.

I need to get a pic of my 90MHz IBM i486DX2.

Got those too, and a few Zip disks lying around. I threw the internal and external Zip drives out a while back - click of death :(
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Thu, 15 May 2014, 02:01:31: Quote from: noisyturtle on Wed, 14 May 2014, 18:55:04
So should I just post pictures of my apartment which is full of old toys and video games from the '80s and '90s?

Yeah, I'm basically just going to spam this thread once I move into my new place and unpack my old video games and other gear. Stay tuned, my friends. As a teaser, here's an old setup from a few houses ago. "Old school" audio gear is my jam.

(http://i.imgur.com/Lvnhh6P.jpg)

Note the 8x10 print from a 35mm film camera, hand developed and enlarged. If that's not old school enough for you, then I don't know what to say. :-*
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Post by: dustinhxc on Thu, 15 May 2014, 03:13:32: Quote from: CPTBadAss on Wed, 14 May 2014, 18:28:16
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I grew up with tapes and I'm still buying them :D

FAR BEYOND DRIVEN! I wanted to get the anniversary edition at Best Buy. Fav. CD. :p
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: baldgye on Thu, 15 May 2014, 06:29:36: Alright if everyone is posting there turn tables... here is my Beogram 1700;

(http://i.imgur.com/oIw1lyG.jpg)
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Post by: Photekq on Thu, 15 May 2014, 07:34:25: Oh this thread is for vintage audio equipment now? Old pic.. My Monitor Audio R252s + NAD 3130

(http://i.imgur.com/ywTCofj.jpg)
Title: Re: Post your "old school" stuff! :)
Post by: digi on Thu, 15 May 2014, 10:05:33: Quote from: Binge on Thu, 15 May 2014, 00:18:10
Might get a bit more exposure here,

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(http://i.imgur.com/SxSuzwt.gif)

You just reminded me, I need to get a new tonearm for one my 1200's, those baby's aren't cheap :(