r/nostalgiai • u/MoonSoul379 • 11h ago

Vintage Tech ☎️📻📠📟📷 I am :)

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u/Responsible-Exam-911 10h ago

I'm this old:

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u/OriginalEmploy5485 7h ago

Yeah, these posts crack me up. "Are you ancient like Windows XP?" "Kid, my first computer was an 8088."

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u/mjmvideos 6h ago

The first computer I used was a PDP-11. The first computer I owned was a 6502.

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u/Master-Steve-38 6h ago

My first computer was Z 80

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u/DapperMacaron2872 4h ago

8086 here

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u/OriginalEmploy5485 4h ago

Look at you and your fancy 16 bits. 🤣

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u/DapperMacaron2872 4h ago

My kid just reminded me I was using a IBM, not sure of series but had 2 5 1/4 drives..one for operating system the other for work… 512KB?

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u/sheiciebai 16m ago

I can’t remember what it was, but my mom had a “portable” computer that was bulky, had like a 4” black and green screen and played a program off a floppy disk that was just a bumblebee going around in circles on the screen playing flight of the bumblebees lol

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u/fireduck 1h ago

I had a hardware card in my 8088 that did compression to allow more stuff to be saved on that 30mb hard drive. It was hot.

Then later everyone was running doublespace.