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Hotfoot wrote:

MKSheppard wrote:

Darth Wong wrote:Argh!!!! I just tried replacing the CPU in Matthew's computer

Each kid has their own computer? Why, you young whippersnappers!
Back in my day, we had to share a single Tandy 286 with a 20MB
external hard drive amongst the whole family!

A 286? 20MB hard drive? Bah! You kids and your high speed computers with "windows"! Back in my day, we were lucky to get a C64!

Lucky bastard, I had a MSX, operating system was Basic 1.0

CmdrWilkens wrote:You had a hard drive? Pish tosh. I had an Apple II/c that required you loaded every program from the floppy disks each time, and I was THRILLED we had it.

Oh yeah because loading the program meant it was Oregon Trail time baby.[/quote]
Ahh, the memories of Oregon Trail and flipping that damned disk when you got halfway through the game.

CmdrWilkens wrote: Oh yeah because loading the program meant it was Oregon Trail time baby.

I always loaded up with 20,000 rounds of ammo and depopulated the entire
animal population on the way to Oregon.

Matthew is 7 years old; he's not trying to achieve top-flight framerates, and I wasn't interested in spending more money to get them for his machine.

God, and I remember being ecstatic when I got a 486 as a hand-me-down from my dad after he got himself a Pentium 133. Damn spoiled kids these days...

For his next monitor, would you go for the following:

http://www .io2technology.com/

Wong, don't take this the wrong way, but I would hack the entire population of Toronto to death with a chainsaw in order to get my hands on a computer that was half as good as your son's old one.

Uraniun235 wrote:

Matthew is 7 years old; he's not trying to achieve top-flight framerates, and I wasn't interested in spending more money to get them for his machine.

God, and I remember being ecstatic when I got a 486 as a hand-me-down from my dad after he got himself a Pentium 133. Damn spoiled kids these days...

And let me guess. When you were his age you had to walk to school in the snow. Uphill. Both ways.

MKSheppard wrote:

CmdrWilkens wrote: Oh yeah because loading the program meant it was Oregon Trail time baby.

I always loaded up with 20,000 rounds of ammo and depopulated the entire
animal population on the way to Oregon.

I just took the Banker and bought all the spare parts I could think of.

HemlockGrey wrote:Wong, don't take this the wrong way, but I would hack the entire population of Toronto to death with a chainsaw in order to get my hands on a computer that was half as good as your son's old one.

You and me both...

"Upgrading" from a 1.7 GHz? Damn, why don't you just send that "obsolete" CPU down here, huh?

Lame, and your score always sucks if you're a Banker.

His Divine Shadow wrote: Hahahaha! I run Halo on a GF 256, thats a GeForce1

I had a GeForce 256 for the longest time. Finally, when everyone was bragging about their GeForce 4s, I upgraded to a GF3.

The 256 is still cranking, in another computer that is. I think it's a 650 MHz Athlon (the original K7).

phongn wrote:Lame, and your score always sucks if you're a Banker.

Yup but it meant I always made it to the coast...which is mroe than I can say for the many folks whose tombstones I came across.

CmdrWilkens wrote: Yup but it meant I always made it to the coast...which is mroe than I can say for the many folks whose tombstones I came across.

Heheheh that was cool, you know. There's so much about the Oregon Trail
that is classic - it was edutainment at it's finest. Everyone always wanted
to play it.

MKSheppard wrote:

CmdrWilkens wrote: Yup but it meant I always made it to the coast...which is mroe than I can say for the many folks whose tombstones I came across.

Heheheh that was cool, you know. There's so much about the Oregon Trail
that is classic - it was edutainment at it's finest. Everyone always wanted
to play it.

We used to have it in the computer lab in Junior High (I guess they thought it was educational...) and I remember spending just about every lunch break playing it. All about massacring the buffalo and killing off anyone stupid enough to travel with you. Oh, jacking the Indians was fun too!

neoolong wrote:And let me guess. When you were his age you had to walk to school in the snow. Uphill. Both ways.

No, but by gum, I remember the days of yore when, upon deciding you were going to shut off the computer, I was told to park the hard drive heads with a command called 'park'.

And I did have to walk to school in the snow, but this is NW Oregon, where the snow is almost always quite light.

Have you ever tried to imagine a world/reality in which one could walk uphill both ways? Kinda weird.

MKSheppard wrote:

CmdrWilkens wrote: Yup but it meant I always made it to the coast...which is mroe than I can say for the many folks whose tombstones I came across.

Heheheh that was cool, you know. There's so much about the Oregon Trail
that is classic - it was edutainment at it's finest. Everyone always wanted
to play it.

I'm still pissed that I could only carry 50 lbs of meat back to the wagon. I mean hell that's the reason why I have three sons in the game (even if one has cholera, one a broken arm, and the other a snake-bite). Those ungrateful bastards should be carrying back at least 50 lbs themselves.