I remember aged 5 watching my dad install Windows 95 from the floppy disk edition. I think that took like a dozen or so floppies?
I remember not having the internet because “why would that be interesting at home? That’s something you use at work”!
Turning on the tower with your foot…yeah, that unlocks some memories, lol.
Now do you also remember shutting it down with your foot?
“It’s now safe to turn off your computer”
I didn’t shut down the computer that way, I’d go through the menus and such. At that point I’d just have to shut off the monitor. If I had to do a restart 'cuz the damn thing froze then yeah, I’d use my foot.
The standard 5” floppy. The best part was putting down the latch on the drive and that sweet sound it made.
I remember dialing into bulletin board services to leave chat comments and share small files that would take hours to download.
I only know what half of these things are 😅
Random tangent, my dad edited the system file that contained that message to “It’s not safe to turn off your computer” when I was like 5 and it kinda fucked me up for a bit.
It’s not safe to turn off your computer.
There are enemies nearby.
Bahahahaha
My first computer had the following to get a directory listing of a floppy: LOAD”$”,8 That’s how old I am
Ah, shit, I had those speakers.
I brought those speakers and my discman to school in my backpack in high school to bump music during lunch
Mine were always hooked up to our PC. A lot of Age of Empires 2 played through those things.
Ayyy childhood
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…we had the 4016 with an external tape drive: not quite as much geek-cred as the 2001, but still respectable…
Mine was a TI 99/4a. Texas Instruments ‘computer’ of the same generation. Tape drive squealed like a modem. But nobody remembers modems now …
Well if this is a competition for who can find old computer images im im
did you use that as a child? I was posting my first computer
…is that the demo?..
I only just lost those beautiful speakers… Power cord was failing, but they still played good audio and the bass connector was a beast.
I would’ve replaced the cord!
I would have too :( It was purged in a major clean while I had it stored at a familys place.
