Life was so much simpler back then. 10MB of storage was considered a lot. Programs had simple...

Life was so much simpler back then. 10MB of storage was considered a lot. Programs had simple, clear interfaces and just did the job and nothing else. Internet didn't exist so nothing could steal your productivity. Grab some books on Pascal and Basic and you're all set. Truly a golden age of computing.

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I too miss the day of hunting and foraging everyday just so you can keep on living.

Apart from the pascal part... I'm actually inclined to agree

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My dad's Navy buddies gave him a bunch of UCSD Pascal stuff for the Apple 2 when they found how how into computers I was. Did a bunch of cheesy little programs. I wrote a character editor for Ultima IV and distributed it as postcardware on some network our public libraries in California were connected to. Got postcards from around 20 countries. Told my computer teacher about it and got a crapload of extra credit, though I already had an A in the class.

*sips*
ahhh yeah, those were the days

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>Internet didn't exist so nothing could steal your productivity.
This is an actual issue. 24/7 internet access has really fucked with productivity and concentration.

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Things would be the same if it weren't for the ignorant masses.

He is not wrong though, it was simpler and cleaner.

This is how zoomers feel about computers from 2007

>dialup handshake sounds
>shitposting on BBS
>simple UIs
>the fresh smell of brand new software and reading through 200+ page manuals
I want to go back

*crack*
*sips*
Amen to that.

WE HAVE TO GO BACK

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Life was great before all this incessant viral Monster shilling

The top selling computers in the 80s were the Commadore 64 and PC clones, both of which ran a very rudimentary version of CP/M commandline OS. There were much better GUI computers coming out, the Amiga, the Atari ST, but people just kept using the old commandline OS. It wasnt simpler, it was just dumbed down from what people should have been using.

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I feel like the meme is that milennials grew up liking Monster, and when they get old like boomers are now, instead of sitting around and drinking beer they'll all be cracking open the Monster

Nice try, MNST

10mb? come on now, those are more like Gen X or actual boomer standards.

Are you a little baby who can't control himself?

I can assure you when 10MB were considered a lot, procrastinating in internet was already a thing. Only back then, you would download entire content of BBS for day into most of those 10MB, turn off your dial-up connection and browse the shit offline.

>computers were garbage toys
>truly a golden age of computers!
just get a 10MB HDD if you miss it so much

The way people use the internet now is very, very different from downloading and reading BBS messages, or even the dialup internet era.

>wanted to put together a retro build
>oldest working CPU is P4 Celeron 2.4Ghz
fuck

there are specs for full intel 8086 clones out there, you can get PC-DOS running on those

takes me back to my old 486dx2-66. 8mb of ram. my best friend had a dx33 with 4mb. my pc was literally twice as good as his but i didn't know what to do with it other than optimize my autoexec.bat and config.sys files and play doom. it came with a free copy of return to zork.

>return to zork
literally the worst in the series, not worth what you didn't pay for it

yes

>be me
>scavenging out of some old public building
>IBM 2121 between a pile of crap
>I can use it to build something useful inside (implying it was dead)
>power up it at home bc Yes
>shit boots with no problem
what can I do with this?

literally nothing useful

How dy’all even get interested in programming without a reason to program? I used to play games etc as a kid but I didn’t get into programming until work told me I needed to become an hero and learn to program.

this desu
sometimes I feel like the only one on Jow Forums who wasn't coding at 12

>life was better because you were a lot more limited in what you could do with a computer
t. dumb pseudo minimalist

There are two very different versions of the PS/1, the first is almost completely proprietary and the second is basically like any other pc of that time

>i didn't know what to do with it other than optimize my autoexec.bat and config.sys files and play doom
Implying this wasn't everyone's primary occupation at the time

1. install a free operating system 2. unplug your computer from the network 3. BOOM you are there!

you're just a fucking old fart

Seal it in a garbage bag and leave it in the sun for a few days. That will kill anything hiding inside and won't adversely affect the hardware. I once accidentally introduced cockroaches into my apartment because I scavenged some old 68k Macs, didn't even occur to me that they were coming from the computers until I opened one of them up and the little fuckers all scattered. By the time I killed them inside the computers it was already too late, and it became an 11-month battle to defeat them in my apartment using a combination of traps, diatomaceous earth and spiders that I collected from my parents' house. I can't even imagine what sort of a disaster I would have had if I had brought in bedbugs instead of cockroaches.

>sometimes I feel like the only one on Jow Forums who wasn't coding at 12

Worse than not being an early flower is feeling then how important this was gonna turn out, but still slacking off and getting stuck in analysis paralysis and never producing any of worth.

To this fucking day.

just install openbsd and you can have simplicity again

Nice bulshitting when ram and cpu speed doubled every year. At least now I don't have to upgrade every few months.

fuck that just build something great user. I beelive in you

>basic
considered harmful. In fact a lot of things were considered harmful by the 80s.

Also internet was around in the 70s, it's believed it've already turned to shit by then though

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unironically probably felt like a better life living outside foraging and hunting animals, even if it was far likelier of you to die. earth to earth so what does it matter in life besides feeling fulfilled.and if my feeling of fulfilmenet is scratching my ass and leaving no berry bush unmolested, so be it. install caveman

>want to learn something
>read 200-400 page book looking for an answer
>book might not contain the answer
>information seeking tedious as fuck

unless you specifically enjoy being dumb, which I suppose you do, judging by your post, you would realise the past fucking sucked. I guess you never lived back then and you've just looked at boomer pictures Jow Forums. this entry level digital world fucking sucked, you had the golden days of analog just before that and a 20+ year build up from that.

T-thank you, bro. We're all gonna make it.

there's alot of things that computers today can do that they couldn't back then.

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And people used it to build the most fearsome instrument of mass communications in human history. I don't miss the old days one bit.

There is no cockroaches in this part of my country. Yet I checked it inside and has nothing but some dust.

The only bad thing is that the keyboard was REKT and the mice was missing.

How can I know wich one I got?

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BBS is still a thing anonanon

>the one with the PSU/speaker in the monitor
It's the proprietary one alright.

Should I just clean it and save it ? Im chimping in DOS command line bc I don't know what to do, Im used to Windows commands but half didnt exist when this shit was released

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Si vives en Madrid te lo compro.

Una pena, onions de Chile.

söy* Vaya mierda pensé que el filtro estaba limitado a Jow Forums.

Oh well, was worth a shot. It being the 2121 model means you can stick an ISA sound card in it and play some vidya. Being a 386SX you won't be able to do much more than that, since it has no FPU. Try typing in "win" to see if Windows is installed.
Nope, the filter is global, excluding Jow Forums and Jow Forums for obvious reasons.
But yeah, clean it up and keep it, even if it's a proprietary machine it has its charm and runs standard software anyways.

it still is simple
we even have graphics cards named pascal

Ty for help m8.

that's so... international

Lol just found this

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>ywn be one of the few people with internet in the early 1990s and join a usenet group talking about Japanimation and trains then arranging meetups to share memories while synth plays in the background

Shit sucks desu

Apart from the basic part I agree with op. What’s wrong with pascal user?

Nothing is stopping you from reliving those days. Ctrl+Alt+F1 if you're on GNU/Linux, unplug WiFi cable or turn off your wireless and grab a book on whatever you're trying to do.

I guarantee, as soon as you're looking for something specific in the book, you'll wish you had the ability to search through it automatically by pressing / or ^F. Although granted, if you're on GNU/Linux you could at least read manpages which are searchable.

Uncle gave me a book for Easter. It contained cheat codes for games and was written by a duo of guys who ran the at the time largest German cheats site. The appendix had a section on programming basics and basic game programming in BlitzBASIC. I devoured that shit and that's when it all began.

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I like the frame with him looking at me

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Dos sucked
Bad command or file name mate

It got worse with fat 32 file names

not 'simpler', 'primitive' is more accurate

>Monster
I actually hought you were referring to the Steppenwolf album for a moment

>come on
fuck... holy shit... this looks a lot like a game i've been trying to find for decades. I have memories of playing this as a kid on my friends computer.

Each tank had fuel/oil and stuff that it needed and if it ran out then you cant move. is this it?

Idk pal, probably, I dont have a PS/2 mice to play, only a keyboard I found.

Also actually cleaning this thing bc had a massive amount of dust inside, Im worried about the battery too bc it has more than 20 years.

Yup, that was it. I found it on google. I never could think of what it was called other than "tanks" which wasn't very helpful in my search. Thanks for helping me solve an old mystery :)

Enjoy this picture.

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Have fun m8

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PS/1
You have an early model, which means good luck with finding replacement disk drives if yours die

>Im worried about the battery too
It probably uses a Dallas RTC chip with the battery inside of it
Not that difficult to repair if it dies, you only need basic soldering skills

poor stupid people ruin everything

IDE disk actually, the only problem is that can't werk with anything over 512mb storage.
Yes I checked this, looks like the model right before mine had Dallas but mine has the "normal" one.

>someone posted this a week ago, locally
S-Should I contact them? It seems like a trap.

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Ask if its also free as in freedom.

COMPLEX

I agree. Modern electronics and computers have gotten unnecessarily complicated.
Too many gimmicks and features that we don't really need to use not to mention all the distractions that takes away from productivity.

Back then computers were serious tools marketed to competent people. I hope dumb normies get walled off in their little corner of the network on mobileshit and computers can return to that earlier ideal with modern power.

Go for it, John

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The commodore 128 ran cp/m, the c64 didn't.

Just proves that Macs are full of bugs.

Based boomerposter

I always thought the meme was a dig at young adults (25-30) who complain about how “things were so much better back in the day” when the “back in the day” times they’re referring to were only 10-15 years ago, and things weren’t as different as they think.

based and redpilled

Nowadays we have 10 times the resources we had 15 years ago yet we do the exact same stuff with them, except with fancy useless bloated interfaces.
Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

Underrated post. Social media + smartphones have ruined it all.

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Fucking samefag stop forcing this shitty meme

don't you have reddit karma to build up on r/lewronggeneration?

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>10MB storage
woah gramps, you could store like three videos and a bunch of pictures on it!
>simple clear interfaces
I'm getting eye cancer by just looking at that god awful white on blue
>Internet didn't exist
I can sum this up in two words: no porn
>nothing could steal your productivity
except that missing character on line 450 of your BASIC program, good luck writing that shit again

>he thinks we had videos and pictures

>tfw discovered my love for computers on my late 20s

I want to go back and embrace it full force from elementary school.

how I wish I was born in the 80s

Not it wasn't.

As a kid I didn't have internet access and I couldn't learn jack shit about computers.