The True Scary Realizations of a Nerd
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A Comm 64 is nothin, remmember when you had to MAKE your own computer? Litterally go out and buy the Dram chips (which where expensive) and soilder the sockets to boards? All based on the VERY advanced IBM 8060 processor that did a WHOOPING 6 MHz.fpd wrote:I used to play Comm 64 at my friends house.x5060 wrote:I had text based games, i also had captain keen. and tank! Lets talk about 8 inch floppies, which i also have.fpd wrote:text based bitch!
old school is great, but I'll take HL2 over anything text based now haha.
He had a working one up until like 3 years ago. Not sure if he still has it or not, I haven't talked to him for a while.
And 5.25" floppies are nothing. The 8" one are what you want, topping the scales at a whole 255 KB (those where the high density ones, low density was 64K)
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today my psu died and took the hsf with it. i had to go pickup a new one and being the poor ass i am i decided to go the cheapest 350 watt psu and cheapest hsf i could find. both have blue leds. now for my revleation:
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Commander keen and the original duke nukem series were the pinnacle of my childhoodOriginal Sin wrote:Commander Keen, the original Duke Nukem (no, not 3d. Duke wasn't nearly as bad ass in the old days.) Wolfenstein 3D was the shit back then, but that all changed when Doom came out and rocked the PC world. Angles that aren't 90 degrees? WHAT DEVILRY IS THIS?!?!?!??!

the commodore 64 is what I grew up on... EPYX's summer games and Pitstop II


In my opinion, the best gaming machine of all time will remain as the commodore 64... I still have mine up and running when I need a break from the real world (and I don't feel like going to play DDR *GASP*)
Speaking of the old 5.25" floppies, that reminds me of an archaic "computer skills" class I took in 6th grade. The teacher the day before requested we brought floppy disks to store something on. A student came in the next day and said: "I couldn't find any floppy disks, all I had were hard disks" (obviously refering to the 3.5" floppy as hard disk

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Re: The True Scary Realizations of a Nerd
Dude, I've used an acoustic coupler!sam wrote:There are people these days on the internet that have not, and will not ever hear a modem speaker dialing & handshaking.
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The man has a point. There's a previous generation of computer nerds before yours that find it scary that nerds today have never done xxx or used yyy. Hate to break it to you, but you people trying to sound old school really aren't. You may be old school to your generation, but there's plenty of other people that go back even further.Ho wrote:Dude, I've used an acoustic coupler!sam wrote:There are people these days on the internet that have not, and will not ever hear a modem speaker dialing & handshaking.
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Yeah, cause all us old fogies have done lots of porn. What can i say, our brains really turn women on.LikeableRodent wrote:There's a previous generation of computer nerds before yours that find it scary that nerds today have never done xxx
I was soooooo exceited when i first discovered the wonders of the TCP/IP Stack.Ho wrote:Dude, I've used an acoustic coupler!sam wrote:There are people these days on the internet that have not, and will not ever hear a modem speaker dialing & handshaking.
P.S. acoustic couplers are fun! I might still have mine. =)
I liked freaking my friends out with it. they told me they had to make a phone call, and id run and put one end on the coupler and start the process. Then hand them the cordless phone (which was a brick at the time) and they would flip out and tell me theres something wrong with my phone. Ah, what it was like to be young.
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