Back in High School, we had 16k pet computers in our computer lab.

[frye666]

One megabyte is 1000k. These mothers had 16k memory. If you wrote an essay with more than 6 paragraphs the computer would run out of memory. Plus they used a cassette recorder to save and load your projects. You would pop your cassette in, press play, wait 10 minutes or so, then 50% of the time it would not work so you had to start over, and THEN your three paragraphs were loaded. Of course, there was no windows so to even start you had to type in a bunch of basic code just to get the loading started.

Being born before the internet and living through it's rise has been pretty fucking wild. It is almost like those apocalypse movies where there are the old guys that remember "before" the end of the world.

 

[TankvsNelmark]

Hahahaha ya fuck I went to school in the 80s and 90s I remember the computer "labs" fuck

 

[ralphc1]

One megabyte is 1000k. These mothers had 16k memory. If you wrote an essay with more than 6 paragraphs the computer would run out of memory. Plus they used a cassette recorder to save and load your projects. You would pop your cassette in, press play, wait 10 minutes or so, then 50% of the time it would not work so you had to start over, and THEN your three paragraphs were loaded. Of course, there was no windows so to even start you had to type in a bunch of basic code just to get the loading started.

Being born before the internet and living through it's rise has been pretty fucking wild. It is almost like those apocalypse movies where there are the old guys that remember "before" the end of the world.

Kids in this thread. When I was in college we had to put programs on punch cards.

 

[Superbad]

And this game was the shit at school!

 

[Winter-John]

I remember when me and my buddy would spend hours typing in the code for games that magazines used to give out. They always sounded amazing but usually turned out to be a couple of pixels that you could move round the screen

 

[SCTwins]

And this game was the shit at school!


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That and Number Munchers

I also remember playing some fish game where you would eat other fish to become bigger and bigger but I forget the name.

 

[MaureenCretis]

My first computer (Sinclair zx-81) had 1kb memory. You could draw the entire memory map in a 91 x 91 grid of graph paper.

 

[Broken arrow]

Commodor 64 crew checking in

 

[punky brewster]

Commodor 64 crew checking in

 

[Kona Bear]

It’s a privilege that many are denied.

 

[Swing]

As someone who remembers floppy disks, the cassette thing is blowing my mind.

 

[Lawless People]

One megabyte is 1000k. These mothers had 16k memory. If you wrote an essay with more than 6 paragraphs the computer would run out of memory. Plus they used a cassette recorder to save and load your projects. You would pop your cassette in, press play, wait 10 minutes or so, then 50% of the time it would not work so you had to start over, and THEN your three paragraphs were loaded. Of course, there was no windows so to even start you had to type in a bunch of basic code just to get the loading started.

Being born before the internet and living through it's rise has been pretty fucking wild. It is almost like those apocalypse movies where there are the old guys that remember "before" the end of the world.

you don't need more than 1k memory - bill gates

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

That and Number Munchers

I also remember playing some fish game where you would eat other fish to become bigger and bigger but I forget the name.

Number Munchers on the Apple II was my shit back in the day.

 

[Fedorgasm]

And this game was the shit at school!


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Yup I remember playing that, and that artillery game where you enter the trajectory of your shots. And Carmen San Diego. That bitch. Could never catch her before class was over.

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

floppy disks

 

[Victor Maitland]

I remember signing up for this course called "computer studies" .
Spent two years in the classroom writing ascii code and only used a computer a handful of times..
some older model apple .

 

[shinobimusashi]

I remember the old school computers like that in Kindergarden maybe 1st grade, by 5th grade the teacher had Windows 95 in the classroom and by 8th grade I was watching ECW New Jack balcony dive videos on the internet in the computer lab, you could barely see anything because they were so grainy/digitized and it took forever to load even though they were only 15 seconds long(sometimes it would just crash the whole computer).

Shit got real fast. I can't imagine being a kid in school now with social media/phones the way they are. It must suck.

 

[west42]

Odell lake

That and Number Munchers

I also remember playing some fish game where you would eat other fish to become bigger and bigger but I forget the name.

 

[Strychnine]

As someone who remembers floppy disks, the cassette thing is blowing my mind.

And if you jostled it in ANY way, the cassette would error out and you'd have to start it all over again.

 

[SCTwins]

Odell lake

Yes.

Holy shit the memories lol