I'm so old I Remember when:

[Nomadicus]

Spuds Mckenzie shirts and tight rolled 501's

I had a collectable from Spuds but it's packed away somewhere I'll probably never see it again. The kids my find it one day when they go through my things for the last time.

 

[Nomadicus]

Taco Bells Talking Chihuahuas. Still have some. Batteries dead I'm sure. I liked the one that where he says "I think I'm in Love".

 

[EmmaDonovan]

 

[Debbie292d]

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MS-DOS! I still remember my dad teaching me that, then Windows 3.1 came out, and I was teaching HIM that. How times had changed then even!

 

[notabitail]

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Ooohh. I need to get a 18volt power supply to get a Windows 3.1 Intel 486 laptop working that was given to me.

 

[notabitail]

MS-DOS! I still remember my dad teaching me that, then Windows 3.1 came out, and I was teaching HIM that. How times had changed then even!

And now we have "windows 11". Long gone are the days of DOS. Now we have NT (in home computers since XP.)

 

[Nomadicus]

I remember running my first real computer with a whopping fast 486 DX processor, 16 megabytes of Ram, running OS2 with that huge 340mb hard drive made by Compaq. Built like a tank. Heavy enough to use for a boat anchor too. Had a 17" monitor with a tube. No LCD screens then.

 

[Nomadicus]

I remember how accomplished I felt writing macros to control actions in Lotus 123 spread sheets running on DOS.

 

[notabitail]

I remember running my first real computer with a whopping fast 486 DX processor, 16 megabytes of Ram, running OS2 with that huge 340mb hard drive made by Compaq. Built like a tank. Heavy enough to use for a boat anchor too. Had a 17" monitor with a tube. No LCD screens then.

Oldest I've used is a Macintosh SE with SuperDrive.

 

[Debbie292d]

I remember running my first real computer with a whopping fast 486 DX processor, 16 megabytes of Ram, running OS2 with that huge 340mb hard drive made by Compaq. Built like a tank. Heavy enough to use for a boat anchor too. Had a 17" monitor with a tube. No LCD screens then.

Our first computer was a Commodore 64. Yup, a beast. Then the Commodore 128 came out and we got one of those. After that, I don't remember, just a PC. Then laptops came out that were the price of a new car. When those went down, I bought one and have had a few since then. Now I'm back to a desktop again.