Magazine cover from 2000, 1ghz amazing!

Vavrik

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You kids!
IBM pc
8Mhz
512 ram
With an ass kickin' 20mb hard-card dropped into one of my ISA slots.
Monochrome monitor with green text.
I thought I was a GOD flying through Lotus 123 and Word Star.

Good times.
Flashback. ^KS ^KQ

The first graphical game I played was Flight Simulator, using a 512Kb RAM and 2 floppy disks PC, with I think a Hercules monographics card. The monitor did shades of green. It was great.
 
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Talonsbane

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Are you some kind of millionaire?

This man had laptops before they were laptops.
The 1 I had weighed between 35-50 lbs, so you would have to set it up on a sturdy flat surface to use it effectively. Broken legs aren't worth playing Dig-dug on the go.

We didn't call them laptops, they were "portable computers" Except at ~20-25 pounds and up, they were more "luggable" than portable, and that was the name they inherited. Lord that brings back memories.
Yes, it was portable, but it was heavy & you had to treat it gently or it would be effectively toast. The version I had didn't have a hard drive, but used a pair of 5" floppy disks at the same time. God help you if you were holding 1 of them & either went close enough to something magnetic or accidentally built up enough static electricity to give the disk a slight shock.
 
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