Anyone remember?
- Thread starter Mr. Lucky
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I remember in the days before high speed the real difficulty of installing some of the early plug and play modems. Getting Windows 95 and 98 to recognise them was more art than science. And it seemed like a quantum leap forward in science when 28.8k modems replaced 14.4 versions. When the first 56k modems came out I ink they were 300 bucks. The price of a low end laptop now! And does anyone remember the advent of the internet on Navigator 2?
How about in the days of the 486 DX and the first pentium (60) when 16 megs (not gigs) of ram was 700 bucks!! We used to insert memory use command lines in the autoexec or configsys. Someone was making money back then. I think the very early IBM XT PC's were close to $5,000 (?). I think the specs were 5 inch floppy drive, 256k ram and a tiny hard drive of 40 megs.
My first PC was a 286 for $1200 (1991). I was returning to school and as I was not doing an engineering degree I was told I didn't need a 386. Samna was my word processing program.
I thought this was a thread about the last World Cup in South Africa and those annoying vevuzelas.
I remember the old 486 and how expensive computers were. My first computer was $1500!
While I remember the Tandy and Commodore units, my first actual purchase was the Apple //c at an unheard of 3.4 kg (7.5 lb) and, are you ready...128K of built in RAM. Holy cow, amazing stuff. Actually just got rid of it a couple years ago. Still have the power supply somewhere.
and in perspective it is one sixteenth of a meg or one sixteen thousandth of a gig. Progress.
I had a 1200 baud modem in the 90's, wasn't slow since I was using it for a dumb terminal and not downloading anything to my non-existent hard drive. The BBS that I was using limited you to one hour max per connection and no more than a cumulative total of 4 hours per day.
If I remember correctly you could use it with windows 3.0 or 3.1. All this talk of antique computers, I have an 486 windows 3.1 in the basement. I am going to fire it up and take a walk down memory lane.
AOL killed off Netscape Navigator
Netscape Navigator was a proprietary web browser popular in the 1990s. It was the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corporation and for a time was the dominant web browser in terms of usage share, although by 2002 its usage had almost disappeared. This was primarily due to the increased usage of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser software, and partly because the Netscape Corporation (later purchased by AOL) did not sustain Netscape Navigator's technical innovation after the late 1990s.
Netscape Navigator is still around only it's now called SeaMonkey and it works pretty good.
SeaMonkey Screenshots
I liked it better than IE.
Netscape Navigator was a proprietary web browser popular in the 1990s. It was the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corporation and for a time was the dominant web browser in terms of usage share, although by 2002 its usage had almost disappeared. This was primarily due to the increased usage of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser software, and partly because the Netscape Corporation (later purchased by AOL) did not sustain Netscape Navigator's technical innovation after the late 1990s.
Netscape Navigator is still around only it's now called SeaMonkey and it works pretty good.
SeaMonkey Screenshots
Sloooooooow
FAST
YEP,... took longer to load a program,...than write it !!!anyone else ever use a Commodore Datassete?
FAST
I go back to punch cards. A big thick stack of cards with Fortran programming. Almost 30 Years later and I'm fucking around with a stupid 'new generation" spreadsheet program that seems to think my simple request (that I could have done in Fortran all those years ago) is rocket science. Then again, I couldn't highlight everything in every colour in the rainbow back then or have 
