# Back in my day... **URL:** \ **Category:** Unrelated Discussion\ **Created:** [September 20, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/back-in-my-day/30056 "2011-09-20T16:43:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LongShot](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/longshot/32/938_2.png) [@LongShot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/LongShot)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/back-in-my-day/30056/1 "2011-09-20T16:43:08Z")
[http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6155/6166769658\_a8b253950e\_b.jpg](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6155/6166769658_a8b253950e_b.jpg) and to get it we walked uphill… both ways… with no shoes… in 3 feet of snow…and we liked it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jhb8426](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jhb8426/32/631_2.png) [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/back-in-my-day/30056/2 "2011-09-20T16:55:17Z")
Wow you lucky…, you started with an 80306!!! My first was an 8086 with 256 kb RAM. Before that we used these w/a 110 baud dial up modem & paper tape… ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/7/4/6/7463da9a392ddbbf3300b9ec19c0b23a214a5a33.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Trace](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/trace/32/620097_2.png) [@Trace](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Trace)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/back-in-my-day/30056/3 "2011-09-20T19:34:54Z")
Man now I feel really young my first computer came with 256mb of RAM I guessing… It was sick I could put jigsaw puzzles together without even having to clean up! ---
**Author:** ![stephosh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/stephosh/32/770_2.png) [@stephosh](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/stephosh)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/back-in-my-day/30056/4 "2011-09-21T19:44:25Z")
I started on a Commodore Vic-20 in 1983. It had only 5 KB of RAM and a cassette drive. I still have it too! I still don’t know anything about computers. ---
**Author:** ![hyperyo000](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/hyperyo000/32/301_2.png) [@hyperyo000](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/hyperyo000)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/back-in-my-day/30056/5 "2011-09-21T19:46:31Z")
8500$… ---
**Author:** ![bonesraphs](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/bonesraphs/32/43_2.png) [@bonesraphs](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/bonesraphs)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/back-in-my-day/30056/6 "2011-09-21T21:19:33Z")
Back when I was a young whipper snapper we only had Iphone 3G’s. ---
**Author:** ![Jake\_Elliott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@Jake\_Elliott](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Jake_Elliott)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/back-in-my-day/30056/7 "2011-09-21T22:06:36Z")
My Rolladex has more RAM than that thing does. So does my yoyo. ---
**Author:** ![frodoslair](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/frodoslair/32/833_2.png) [@frodoslair](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/frodoslair)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 5:05am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/back-in-my-day/30056/8 "2011-09-22T05:05:53Z")
Had a Commodore 64 when I was a young kid. Then got an XT, with a lovely neon green screen. Finally, when I was about 14 we got a Pentium. For a couple weeks I was THE kid on the block, no one else had a machine with over 1 gig harddrive (ours was 1.3gb), and it had 8 megs of RAM. Those were the days - everything ran on that machine. I remember copying games that took 12 or more stiffy disks. Something always seemed to go wrong when copying disk 9 or 10, and you’d have to start from disk 1 again. Crazy thing is, I’m not that old. Computers have just progressed so quickly… ---
**Author:** ![zerrubabbel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/zerrubabbel/32/592_2.png) [@zerrubabbel](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/zerrubabbel)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 6:00am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/back-in-my-day/30056/9 "2011-09-23T06:00:07Z")
> [@frodoslair](#): > > Crazy thing is, I’m not that old. Computers have just progressed so quickly… i know what you mean… right now im running on a 1.6 ghz intel atom dual core processor with 1 gig of ram and 160 gb hard drive, i was one of the first to have a net book (which has some performence issues), a few years later (today) im looking at a macbook pro with 2.2 ghz quad core i7 processor, 256 mb dedicated graphics 128 gb solid state hard drive, and 8 gigs of ram… my first computer waaay back in the y2k era had 6 gig hdd with 64 megs ram and who knows what processor and ran windows 98