cool site chronicling and commemorating the early days of personal computing: computercloset.org
i had a Commodore64 and a Macintosh 128 growing up. My Mac only had 8MHz CPU and 128K of memory.. 0_o That’s less than what my CELL PHONE has!
I still remember in 1993, my dad got a DEC computer with a 1 Gig hard drive. He was quite confident that there would never be any way we would come close to using all that space. Two years later, to my father’s disbelief, I whined that 1 gig wasn’t enough. Five years after that, I was looking at 40 gig hard drives. And today, I want a second 80 gig hard drive so i can set up RAID (not for storage, mind you, just for faster access), and a DVD burner to back up my files.
It’s so quaint, then, to look at an o.g. Commodore64 box. (scroll down) =) =) =) But oh! the nostalgia and warm fuzzies of the good ol’ days. :)
I hope you mean a RAID1, not a RAID0.
Repeats mantra: “RAID is not a backup.” “RAID is for fault tolerance.”
Wow, you had a C64? Some relatives and friends did, but I didn’t… we didn’t start til the 8086 over here… didn’t get big into computers until the Mac 512KB!
haha, ah yes, that mac was slow, but i think i’ve got you beat. my first computer was a portable commodore 64. that’s right, portable. here’s a link: http://oldcomputers.net/sx64.html it was a whopping 1mhz. haha, i also found this: http://sx64.opsys.net/ i guy totally upgraded the c64 portable to a 1.2ghz p3 system. its pretty cool.
TI 99/4A aka Texas Instruments Home Computer. There were some weird games on that system. I remember playing a game where you had to defend a town, and the bad guys you shot turned into catuses.