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deedas · 06-09-05, 04:00 AM

Hmm! Now you got me going PPT.
I wonder if "US Navy Fighters" would work on here. I used to play that for hours on end. How about the original DOOM, hmmm!

People, you gotta remember that the X50V is light years ahead of the first PC's. My first PC was a Timex Sinclair. It came with 2K of RAM. You'll be surprised what you can do with 2K.

My first IBM PC was an XT that ran a 4.77MHz Intel 8086 processor. At enormous expense, I built it up to 640K of RAM. It had two 5 1/4 floppies. One for the OS (DOS 3.0 which fit on a 360K floppy) and the other for your programs. You had to boot from the floppy so you could run your programs. My first hard drive, which cost about $1000, was a 10M drive. Now you could load the OS and then your games without shuffling floppies.

There were many game companies out there like Apogee, Sierra, Id, etc,, The only way those games were available was on a floppy. The first color monitors allowed you to display 4 colors (CGA), then came 16 colors (EGA) and then 256 colors (VGA).

We've come a long way since then.

06-09-05, 04:00 AM	#15 (permalink)
deedas Aximsite Rookie DAP Freshman Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 79 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Hmm! Now you got me going PPT. I wonder if "US Navy Fighters" would work on here. I used to play that for hours on end. How about the original DOOM, hmmm! People, you gotta remember that the X50V is light years ahead of the first PC's. My first PC was a Timex Sinclair. It came with 2K of RAM. You'll be surprised what you can do with 2K. My first IBM PC was an XT that ran a 4.77MHz Intel 8086 processor. At enormous expense, I built it up to 640K of RAM. It had two 5 1/4 floppies. One for the OS (DOS 3.0 which fit on a 360K floppy) and the other for your programs. You had to boot from the floppy so you could run your programs. My first hard drive, which cost about $1000, was a 10M drive. Now you could load the OS and then your games without shuffling floppies. There were many game companies out there like Apogee, Sierra, Id, etc,, The only way those games were available was on a floppy. The first color monitors allowed you to display 4 colors (CGA), then came 16 colors (EGA) and then 256 colors (VGA). We've come a long way since then.