How Many of You Use old Macs?

[yellowsocks93]

Oh yeah are some specs on the Quadra 605:

25 Mhz 68040 Motorolla CPU (68K Mac)

4 Mb built in ram

80 Mb hard disk whick I upgraded to 230.

3.5'' Superdrive so it can read 800k and 1.4 Mb floppies

Now that's fast!

 

[yellowsocks93]

I have normal Windows XP I must say it's a lot better than 98 SE but sometimes it likes to give me trouble. I just like Mac more but as a kid growing up I hated that darn thing.

 

[fishman]

BillyP you sure are correct. I've been running XP pro at home now for two months with ZERO problems, not one. I've used every Windows iteration out there and while 95 was a step back from 3.1 in stability (IMHO), they just keep getting better. Win 2000 is about 95% of XP pro as far as being trouble free.

Again, I second BillyP. XP pro has really impressed me.

I'm not sure how many others remember this, as you have to be a certain age. But when I was in high school, they were just changing over from Apple II+ to IIe. Green monitors and all. We learned to program in Basic which was fun. And when the teachers weren't around, I'd pull out my copy of Castle Wolfenstein which was really cool. Somehow the programmer got the program to speak a few German words out of the internal speaker of the Apple. That was amazing at the time. "Halt!", then you'd whip out your pistol (all three pixels of it) and "blat!", the guard would turn into a little crumpled pile just like that.

Heck, my friends and I were computer nerds, what can I say? /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[yellowsocks93]

I used to use the Apple IIe in grade school playing number munchers. Those were the good old days!

 

[MossRoad]

One of my projects in technical college around 1983 was to write code for an Apple II in machine language to control I/O boards that read input from limit switches, temperature sensors and other input devices and then sent output to relays that controlled whatever we wanted and to stepping motors. That was really high tech stuff back then. Now you can buy a $4.00 calculator that has more computing power than the lunar lander. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[BillyP]

The first computer I saw was when I was in the tenth grade. A few of us got to spend a couple of weeks at a college. They had this computer that was HUGE. It was as big or bigger than a diesel engine in a locamotive. I'm thinking it was back in 68 or 69.

 

[EastTexFrank]

I'm sorry to say that I can remember those days ... programing in FORTRAN and carrying boxes and boxes of cards all over the place ... don't ever drop them because it could take a week to get them all back in order ... having to load up card readers, etc., etc. My Lord, I'm getting old. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif These days it's so much easier on either a PC or Mac. I still use both. Strange though, after all this time, you'd think that I'd be a darn sight better on them than I am.

 

[PineRidge]

I can remember years ago my father owned 16 Phillips 66 service stations. He had a large NCR machine installed in one room of the company office that was used for employee payroll and it just about filled the office wall to wall. Today the computer that is sitting on your desk replaces that monster NCRs computing power and then some. It just keeps getting better and better.