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First internet access

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Just a question for you all? About you first internet access.

Year: 1994
Computer: Homemade 386 1 meg ram
OS: Windows 3.1 or windows 3.0 (the first color version of windows)
Browser: Netscape 2.0 I think had to buy it. No IE then.
Connection speed: Wow a whole 9600 baud!!!! :shock:

Yes I know I'm a old dos jockey.
Now I'm a spoiled still building my own PC's current ones a AMD X2 overclocked with 2 gigs of ram and 600 gigs of hard drives. Comcast is my isp.

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hahaha damn i don't even recall that well.....i've had computers since i was a lil kid (only 28 now) ......
I know i did the whole AOL thing for awhile on an old POS ACER over phone modem. But that wasn't the first.....i think first must have been calling into some local BBS (is that what they were called) boards and DLing stupid lil DOS progs, can't recall the computer in question tho.
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My first modem connection was running a BBS called NoChange that allowed for crude online gaming. I was surprised that the local small town had as many users out there. It ran on a 9600 and worked fairly well.

My current connection is fixed wireless at about 1.2 meg. I'm so far out in the sticks my only other option would be satellite.

Coffeeshop Frog Hollow is hosted in Vienna, Virginia at a server farm that connects right to the backbone. If I had to pay for it, it would be a costly one.
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Thanks guy's I'm just a crusty ol fart and remember the Commador 64 and bbs quite well. :lol:

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pan4gold49 wrote:Thanks guy's I'm just a crusty ol fart and remember the Commador 64 and bbs quite well. :lol:

Pan
Do you remember the pre PC TI 99/4A? Hot machine for it's time.

I was the computer guy for a local bank for 23 years. First mainframes and then I dragged them into the PC rat race. I retired from there and never looked back. But I fool around a lot with my personal machines.
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pan4gold49 wrote:Thanks guy's I'm just a crusty ol fart and remember the Commador 64 and bbs quite well. :lol:

Pan


^^Yeah, what he said :wink:
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Yes had one too!!! remember the timex zx-81. Next we will be dusting off the paper tape and punch cards. I hate fortran :lol: :lol: and cobol too!!
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Mine was FORTRAN basic programming in college. Very difficult to run without an error. In the late 80's Windows 3.0 for 6 months until I upgraded to 3.1. I used that operating system for yrs! Finally bought Win 98 and ran that until my new Dell with Microsoft XP ver. 2002 just recently. I still know very little compared to many on this forum I suspect. Love Google, Drudge Report, and MSN for portals.
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Bless the old ones, just fired up a fatty to remember and laugh about the old times and the new times to come. :lol:

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pan4gold49 wrote:Thanks guy's I'm just a crusty ol fart and remember the Commador 64 and bbs quite well. :lol:

Pan
Well i`m not an old fart but I remember the commodore 64 very well, my first ever computer, games came on cassette and took ages 2 load.
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I got my PC Nov 05, and i havent got a clue what it does or any of the spec. It works, and thats fine by me. dont even know how many megs of RAM it has....... whatever that is! :D

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My first computer was a kit system also. It was called a Sinclair ZX1. Some of the older folks from the UK may remember it as it was a British company that produced it. I purchased it while stationed in Holy Loch, Soctland in 1982. It ran Basic, with 64kb of memory, had to be connected to a tv set for the display and a cassette tape deck for storage. No monitors or even floppy drives in those days. No prepackaged programs at that time. We had to write everything for ourselves. No Internet either. I think I may still have it in storage somewhere.
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my first was a pIII 350 in 1998 aol internet access.
Had to cancel my am express to get the jerks to quit billing me and am expess to stop letting them. the other Pan and I built the current one it is great.
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Post by Rev »

Remember the Amiga days, I had a A600 with a massive (!) 1/2meg memory upgrade.

First PC was 1997, can't remember the specs but it did have a Voodoo2 graphics card :D

Now I've got a Athlon 3500 2gig ram, 320gig HD and a X800 platinum...except it's broken so I'm on my laptop which is slow as hell in comparison (Pentium M 1.73, 1gig ram, 80gig HD and 256 x600gfx.

56k AOL for about 3 years, now on 10mbit DSL, how times have changed :D
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Post by pansTX420 »

i do not know what the brand was in school but it was amber vision and still ran dos yuck and we ran a crapy database rip off called twin I think that they later got sued by lotus
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