Jump to content
Please note: You can easily log in to MPN using your Facebook account!

Get yer 486DX on.


Recommended Posts

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.
 

 

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

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. 

  • Like 1

Custom Music, Audio Post Production, Location Audio

www.gmma.biz

https://www.facebook.com/gmmamusic/

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Restore formatting

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...