[split] Old monochrome displays

[Ofnuts]

The "new gen" CRT displays... My first PC had a green-on-black monochrome display.

[steven8]

(12-05-2016, 11:32 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: The "new gen" CRT displays... My first PC had a green-on-black monochrome display.

Got one of those in the basement.  I never owned one when they were new, but I had friends who did.  I found one for 5 bucks at a Village Discount store marked 'as is' ... because it didn't work, or so they thought.  Someone had installed a hardcard at some point, and it was frozen up.  Took it out and voila!  Works like a charm.  Got some real floppy disks and downloaded a copy of dos 3.0 and I was good to go.

[rich2005]

Quote:..Got some real floppy disks and downloaded a copy of dos 3.0 and I was good to go.

Ah...nostalgia. You can get a lot of fun from old gear and applications.

I am a real hoarder and while I have periodic clear-outs, still have a fair collection of old floppy disks.

Including this 5.25" although it is several years since I scrapped the last actual drive.

   

Mid 80's had a Sinclair QL with a greenscreen monitor. Colour monitors were horribly expensive and the QL only had 4 colours anyway. Down to an emulator now. The first IBM compatible I had was an Amstrad and that ran DOS 3.3, 2 floppies, no HDD.

[sallyanne]

Can remember the old computer we first had. Was a commodore. Chunky - they have really got slimline since. The only game it played I think was pacman. I think we could connect Atari to it. Probably better ones out by this time as it was in the 80's. Dont know if I have any floppies anymore. If I look I might find one or two.
I have CD's cluttering up the place now. I should chuck the ones I never use. Trouble is I don't - just incase.

Addendum - check this out
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1887112/th...-25-years/

[Blighty]

(12-05-2016, 11:32 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: The "new gen" CRT displays... My first PC had a green-on-black monochrome display.

Two 360k drives. Programme on one, document on the other. Could only have one document open at a time so could not copy and paste from one document to another.

I didn't own one because it cost as much as car.

[Ofnuts]

(05-27-2017, 07:47 AM)Blighty Wrote:

(12-05-2016, 11:32 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: The "new gen" CRT displays... My first PC had a green-on-black monochrome display.

Two 360k drives. Programme on one, document on the other. Could only have one document open at a time so could not copy and paste from one document to another.

I didn't own one because it cost as much as car.

Actually my first personal PC was a PC-XT, with therefore a 10MB disk drive. But I worked with the original PC. You had one diskette for the compiler and one diskette for your code. And in the middle of the compilation, the compiler would stop and ask you to insert the diskette holding the code of its second pass.