JoJoB3 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Caught this blast from the past not long ago. It might look like pure nightmare fuel to some however. I remember installing the first of the MPU-401 card in the 486SX and DX. Getting yer hands on that now laughable 4MB of additional ram. The blocky clunk of a qwerty keyboard that could last forever, the flakey serial mouse, the cathode heater monitor, etc. We're light years away now but I recall it all being pretty rock solid and musical. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoJoB3 Posted August 21 Author Share Posted August 21 Look at how it changed their lives! REAL GAME CHANGERS. UMRA!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcgoo Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 Aah, takes me back to my old Tandy 8088 processor with 640k Ram. No mouse and no hard drive, but it ran Cakewalk 4.0 for DOS. To this day I credit that experience with how I well I know and use keyboard shortcuts as opposed to editing with a mouse. 1 Quote Custom Music, Audio Post Production, Location Audio www.gmma.biz https://www.facebook.com/gmmamusic/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piktor Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 What is that percussion instrument that we hear in the first 18 seconds of the video? 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokely Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 The first home computer in our house was a Tandy (iirc) with a membrane keyboard and 16k of ram. My dad didn't want to splurge for the 32k model. All programs were loaded from cassette tape. Pretty weird to think back to me and my brother (pretty young) typing in commands to load programs like that! I used to love going through Computer Shopper magazines. I can't even remember the names of the big sellers now, other than Dell and HP (I think they were in there back then). We could never really afford top of the line so we'd get something maybe 3rd tier that used to be 1st tier a couple years earlier. Funny to think that I still do that today with computers, and used to do it with keyboards until my recent Fantom EX purchase. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AROIOS Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 1 hour ago, Piktor said: What is that percussion instrument that we hear in the first 18 seconds of the video? 😁 Castanets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoJoB3 Posted August 23 Author Share Posted August 23 3 hours ago, Piktor said: What is that percussion instrument that we hear in the first 18 seconds of the video? 😁 Sounds like a Roland 707 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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