Party like it's 1990!

[EliteRetard]

ISA slots, caddy CD drive and zip disks.
Old beige case one piece body/lid.
New enough for ATX PSU though...

A mummified mouse in there too.
That actually may be worth the pic.
I'll try, my phone barely works.

Does anybody remember these?

 

[Printer Bandit]

i thought this was hot shit at the time.

 

[Jeff7]

Bad memories....
ISA cars.
IRQs.
PCI cars that were "capable" of sharing IRQs, but which would crash the PC if they attempted to do it.
Plug'n'Play, and the fits of laughter that followed usage of the term, followed by unnatural quiet and forlorn expressions.
Illegal error.

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i thought this was hot shit at the time.

LS-120, dammit!!!
Floppy-disk compatible, and 32MB floppy disks. Good stuff.
But iomega was first to market. :\


click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click

 

[EliteRetard]

I barely managed to snag a pic before my phone lost power and had to recharge.
Managed to get 3, but no way to get them off my phone. Sorry. Data cable does not charge and and phone doesn't have enough battery life to transfer.

 

[EliteRetard]

i thought this was hot shit at the time.

This ones internal.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I never owned a zip drive, but they sounded like a cool idea for backups, but then I heard of the click of death so I did not want to buy one.

At some point I built a server with a bunch of removable drives, but the funny thing with IDE is that it was not hot swap, so I had to turn off the server every time I changed the drives. :biggrin:

 

[el-Capitan]

My first CD-ROM connected to the Soundblaster. Lol.

 

[EliteRetard]

I never owned a zip drive, but they sounded like a cool idea for backups, but then I heard of the click of death so I did not want to buy one.

At some point I built a server with a bunch of removable drives, but the funny thing with IDE is that it was not hot swap, so I had to turn off the server every time I changed the drives. :biggrin:

I wanna say there was a way to hot-swap old drives, it involved a custom cable with power switch and a way to park the HDD. Then you flipped the cable switch before yanking the drive.

 

[IronWing]

Bernoulli Box > Zip Drive

 

[IronWing]

i thought this was hot shit at the time.

That didn't exist in 1990.

 

[BUTCH1]

Wrong forum...

 

[norseamd]

my dad used to make ls 120. remember when 3m spun off to imation

 

[AViking]

PC's sucked in 1990. On an epic level. I used a Mac until almost 2000. I had a zip drive but I'm pretty sure that wasn't until 1997 or 1998.

 

[Train]

LS-120, dammit!!!
Floppy-disk compatible, and 32MB floppy disks. Good stuff.
But iomega was first to market. :\


click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click

I had a Zip 100, people were like holeeee shit 100 MB on a disk?!?!? I was a badass.

Then I got "the click of death", arghh. After 2 hours on the phone with IOMega, they agreed to replace it.

Then a week later HDD space got huge and I was living on a T1, so the Zip drive became useless, sold it on ebay for like $20.

Crazy how fast PC tech was moving late 90's. I went from a 400 MHZ P2 to a 700 MHZ P3 in what, a year?

 

[Printer Bandit]

i wonder what kids growing up nowadays will reflect back on in 20 -30 years ?

my laptop was too slow?

my iphone was too small?

 

[UglyCasanova]

i wonder what kids growing up nowadays will reflect back on in 20 -30 years ?

my laptop was too slow?

my iphone was too small?

Storage space and bandwidth were still an issue.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Remember them? I used them all!

 

[AViking]

Storage space and bandwidth were still an issue.

How? And to who? Pixar?

Who here is running gigabit with a $200 4TB drives and going "Oh no this sucks!"

 

[Sho'Nuff]

I had a Zip 100, people were like holeeee shit 100 MB on a disk?!?!? I was a badass.

Then I got "the click of death", arghh. After 2 hours on the phone with IOMega, they agreed to replace it.

Then a week later HDD space got huge and I was living on a T1, so the Zip drive became useless, sold it on ebay for like $20.

Crazy how fast PC tech was moving late 90's. I went from a 400 MHZ P2 to a 700 MHZ P3 in what, a year?

PC tech is still moving fast. The effect just isn't as noticeable because a lot of current tech provides an adequate user experience. Heck, two GTX 780TI' in SLI could render toy story in real time now, when to took 30-45 minutes for 300 CPU's to collectively render each frame of that movie back in 1995 (based on theoretical maximum compute of 7.15 TFLOPs needed to produce the movie and 5 TFLOPS of single precision compute power for a single GXT 780TI)

 

[UglyCasanova]

How? And to who? Pixar?

Who here is running gigabit with a $200 4TB drives and going "Oh no this sucks!"

Tablet/phone storage space is still lacking. Tablet/phone wireless bandwidth sucks, and there are still large portions of the country with slow wired connection speeds. And it's far too expensive.

 

[ISAslot]

is this a call out thread? :hmm:

 

[AViking]

Tablet/phone storage space is still lacking. Tablet/phone wireless bandwidth sucks, and there are still large portions of the country with slow wired connection speeds. And it's far too expensive.

Yeah I got too focused on PC's. Phones blow. I still can't get one phone that has LTE in both Europe and the US.

 

[brianmanahan]

port 220, irq 7, dma 1

works every time!

 

[mmntech]

i thought this was hot shit at the time.

I'll one up you. Anybody ever use one of these bad boys?

SyQuest drives in the early 90s were like Zip Drives on steroids. An entire hard disk platter in a plastic caddy. My parents had them for backing up their two business computers. They had both the 135MB and 270MB models. They've still got a stack of those disks lying around too. CDRW really killed all these off though. Those cartridges weren't cheap.

For most of the 90s, I used Macs. My parents had them for their business, and that's also what the schools had. I had a friend who's dad built custom systems at the time. Though they always seemed like a curiosity to me. Going into the command line to fire up a DOS game seemed like a big step back from Apple's neat GUI. At the time though, Apple didn't have a clue how to design computers much less sell them. Was rough being a Mac fan for awhile there.

 

[destrekor]

Bad memories....
ISA cars.
IRQs.
PCI cars that were "capable" of sharing IRQs, but which would crash the PC if they attempted to do it.
Plug'n'Play, and the fits of laughter that followed usage of the term, followed by unnatural quiet and forlorn expressions.
Illegal error.




LS-120, dammit!!!
Floppy-disk compatible, and 32MB floppy disks. Good stuff.
But iomega was first to market. :\


click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click

Argh, IRQs.
The bane of A+ material for my generation, mostly because most of us rarely ever truly had to dive into IRQs.
That said, I do remember the joy of working out IRQ conflicts on, thankfully, rare occasions.
Comically enough, I think I had to work on those before I ever truly learned about them in a more formal setting. I'm pretty sure I never touched IRQs in the 2000s.