Nibby: The Early Years

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 03/19/2019 at 09:53 • Filed to: None

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getFuckedHerb > ttyymmnn 03/19/2019 at 09:56

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C64 with the abysmal tape drive, cute!

Aremmes > ttyymmnn 03/19/2019 at 09:59

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Much better equipment than the TRS-80 CoCo 2 I used to have. With a tape drive, even. Luxury!

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > getFuckedHerb 03/19/2019 at 10:00

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“Press play on tape”, those words haunt me.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > ttyymmnn 03/19/2019 at 10:01

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I had C64 with 1mb disk and double density floppy drive. Awww yisss.

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 03/19/2019 at 10:04

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What early years. This looks like last week.  

jimz > getFuckedHerb 03/19/2019 at 10:16

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we were an Atari household. Nothing like listening to 5-10 minutes of this:

only to have something screw up at the end and have to do it over again.

though it was neat that the Atari 800 could self-bootstrap from cassette instead of having to start from BASIC. 

ST80MND > ttyymmnn 03/19/2019 at 10:24

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my fam was poor and could not afford the C64. Instead we got the vic 20!

Tape drives FTW!

BaconSandwich is tasty. > ttyymmnn 03/19/2019 at 10:34

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I grew up with an Apple II. It even had an extra disk drive!

ttyymmnn > BaconSandwich is tasty. 03/19/2019 at 10:47

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Our family never had one in that era. My parents were decidedly non-tech. I used a friend’s Atari ( or something) to do some Basic programming for a college elective in 1986, but didn’t really use a computer in earnest until grad school in 1989.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > ttyymmnn 03/19/2019 at 10:53

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I had that exact setup 

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > ttyymmnn 03/19/2019 at 10:54

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college elective in 1986

Holy shit. lol

ttyymmnn > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/19/2019 at 11:02

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someassemblyrequired > ttyymmnn 03/19/2019 at 11:10

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90s Nibby bragging about his new 586 - it’s INTERNET READY :

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > ttyymmnn 03/19/2019 at 11:15

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I wonder what horrifying things are stored on that tape. 

ttyymmnn > someassemblyrequired 03/19/2019 at 11:23

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16MB of RAM. The first computer I ever owned was Mac G4. I thought I was sitting fat with a 10GB HD. 

shop-teacher > ttyymmnn 03/19/2019 at 11:26

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We had an IBM clone (remember that term) 286, with the yellow only monitor, and the continuous feed printer.  We had that until long past its prime, then one day mom fired it up to do the company books, and it started smoking.

someassemblyrequired > ttyymmnn 03/19/2019 at 14:27

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ha that would have been a few bucks back in the day

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 03/19/2019 at 16:45

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Commodore 64 with 64k of RAM. Then the Commodore 128.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 03/19/2019 at 16:46

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My parents were decidedly non-tech.

Some of them still are.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher 03/19/2019 at 16:47

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Just replace the smoke once it leaks out.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 03/19/2019 at 16:47

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The first computer I bought was a 386/33.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > someassemblyrequired 03/19/2019 at 16:48

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That’s a multimedia computer...

Longtime Lurker > someassemblyrequired 03/20/2019 at 00:05

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That commercial makes me realize how old Futureshop was, and how much I miss Futureshop, and how much I hate Bestbuy.