Post your "old school" stuff! :)

[digi]

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/DESQview

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

Remember ACiD?

[paicrai]

**** MY POST, THE OLDEST THINGS HERE ARE THE FORKS I USED AS A CAP PULLER I WILL STOP EDITING IT NOW

[Photekq]

Not really oldschool, but.. The first program I downloaded on a PC when I was like 8.. Illegally downloaded so much music.

[Frenir]

*windows 95 bait*

[i3oilermaker]

This is my technology graveyard

[i3oilermaker]

derp - geekhack hickup - doublepost

[smknjoe]

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

[HoffmanMyster]

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.

[digi]

This is my technology graveyard

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That Pentium MMX CPU was beast.

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.

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 :)

[paicrai]

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  )

[Tarzan]

This is my technology graveyard

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Yeah, I've got a pile of obsolete crap as well... 


This is actually my slightly-less-than-crap pile, as my DX4-100 system is in the storage unit.

[hashbaz]

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.

[smknjoe]

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.

[keymaster]

elementary school gaming

[smknjoe]

^Oregon Trail on Apple II!

[osi]

This is my technology graveyard

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Dat slot processor

[pichu23]

Anyone remember this ? 

[SpAmRaY]

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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

[pichu23]

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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. :(

[smknjoe]

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Anyone remember this ?  ;D

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

[pichu23]

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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

[digi]

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.

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Dude, Descent, that was a good one. Totally forgot about that!

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

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...

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

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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...

[smknjoe]

Here's one we got from a BBS:

[metalliqaz]

First game I can remember playing to death was zaxxon on an IBM PCjr (famous for worst keyboard ever)


When I had my own computer, one of the earliest was Duke Nukem


But my favorite game of the DOS era was Tyrian


Of course, I was using one of these, before I knew it was cool 

[digi]

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 

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Zaxxon! Think I played that on a TI99, lol.

[foxer]

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.

[Tarzan]

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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.

[CPTBadAss]

I grew up with tapes and I'm still buying them

[baldgye]

idkfa
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[hashbaz]

idkfa
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Welcome to the mod team!

[baldgye]

idkfa
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Welcome to the mod team!

This GH game be ez B-)

[noisyturtle]

So should I just post pictures of my apartment which is full of old toys and video games from the '80s and '90s?

[digi]

So should I just post pictures of my apartment which is full of old toys and video games from the '80s and '90s?

Yes

[Binge]

Might get a bit more exposure here,

[rowdy]

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

[nubbinator]

This is my technology graveyard

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Needs more Jaz disks and 5.25" floppys.

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

[nubbinator]

R r r reboot.

[rowdy]

This is my technology graveyard

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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 :(

[HoffmanMyster]

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.



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.   

[dustinhxc]

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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

[baldgye]

Alright if everyone is posting there turn tables... here is my Beogram 1700;

[Photekq]

Oh this thread is for vintage audio equipment now? Old pic.. My Monitor Audio R252s + NAD 3130

[digi]

Might get a bit more exposure here,

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