Stern Modifications

NL wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button

My first PC was a 386, later a 486 SX and later a 486 DX

My first one was a second hand Léanord , as this one, with only one 5"1/4 floppy and an amazing 20 Mo hard drive...




At this time, the CAD software was released on 5"1/4 360ko floppies, using that was called "overlays" (.ovl files) and, if you didn't have any hard drive on your computer, you had to remove the floppy and put another one, depending the command you were using... Glorious days...

Common Nik, those PC's are for pussies

Looks like I own(ed) the oldest computer around here. I threw it away some weeks ago

HC-91 baby (born in 1985)



It has Z80 4Mhz processor and 64kb RAM. As you guessed it, not HDD



The monitor was my parents TV(we still use it every day ):



And I used to play games from these:





Here's what it was like



No wonder I started playing online only in late 2010

Ah ah ah !

C'mon, for this kind of computer, H&D2 is for pussies

Just take a look at this

And when we think that lot of calculations for the space conquest, as we can see in a scene of the movie Apollo XIII, were performed with this...



Really, hats off...

It took hours to load that kind of game from my cassette player:



I have to say that the HC-91 is a romanian copy of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
And people say communism is bad

HC comes from Home Computer, of course

Speaking about oldies goldies, here's a Calma CAD/CAM system, it was the first system that i used in professional context, in a company of precision sheet metal. On this system, we used FORTRAN programming language. At the time, such a system was really the state of the art...




And it was not a problem to have cold beer, it was enough to store it in the tape drives air-conditioned room...



Also, here , an history of Calma...