Maybe someone on base can use the coolant........

 

It's identical to Dex Cool... Even a Chevy could use it... Surprised your Dodge can't.

Between ME and Vista was XP...

Players Steve - Easier to build an awesome gaming machine on a desktop than to buy a gaming laptop. Of course when the ability of your video card is no longer good enough you can actually change it out on a desktop!

It went Windows, Windows 286, Windows 386, Windows 3, Windows 3.11 for workgroups, WIndows 98, 98SE in the beginning.

Don't get me started on the various DOS revisions I went thru...

 

I've had 3.1, 95, 98, XP, Vista, 7, and now 8/8.1. XP and 7 were by far the best.

 

Dak, we're dating ourselves by remembering by remembering all the various versions of software we used in the past

When PC clones first started out I would buy all the parts and build machines to sell. In the beginning I would buy blank boards and solder all the components in for a machine. Had some good deals going with board suppliers as I had a PROM burner that would do the required chips. The days of a dual floppy/monochrome display system.

Scanned these pics from old slides the other week as I go thru the purge.

 

Morning guys !
Steve, thanks for sharing your pics. I remember those days as well, just not as a builder.

 

On the subject of Cummins coolant, I would guess they are still using a Fleetguard branded product ??

 

Good morning guys! Great pic of the kids around the campfire, Monty. I love it.

Glad to hear the Cummins is treating Steve right. My BIL seems to like his.

 

Good morning guys.

Seeing the pics of the PC's brings back memories. I have assembled a few desktops myself due to the inability to find what I needed for processing A/V without spending 1,000's of dollars. It is funny to think about the evolution of the home computers. I started learning Basic on a TRS-80 and a Commodore Vic 20. My first home computer was a 386 with 25 kb RAM, a HUGE 90 mb hard drive, a 3 1/2" floppy and a 5 1/4" floppy. That machine didn't even come with a CD ROM or sound card and have to be added later, as well as a floating pin co=processor to run AutoCAD. I had a pretty fancy 24 pin dot matrix, tractor feed printer as well. I couldn't afford to upgrade to SVGA, so I had VGA. Now, when your ink cartridge runs out, you recycle or toss out the printer and buy new, and when the computer dies, you replace it because the OS costs as much to buy separately as the entire computer. Boy, those were the days!

Have a great day gents. Time to get back to organizing and tossing out clutter from around the house.

 

I have built every desktop computer I have ever owned, but never a laptop. My first computer was also a Vic 20...man those WERE the days. Packard Bell was the shizzle in college...

 

When I was in college I had a typewriter that had a 52 character window, I would type a paper into it and hit print and the typewriter would spit it out.

Had a commodore that would dial up to Prodigy when I went to grad school.

Had a 32 bit processor in my first Mac desktop and I would write/arrange music on it! Those early Macs were ahead of their time for graphic and sound work. Software called Finale is still the industry standard. I remember being angry that AOL only had 1 dial up number in Memphis area early 90's

 

When Roy went to school he used a couple of rocks and chipped out his homework.

 

The daisy wheel printers...man those were the days. I still have a mechanical IBM keyboard from an IBM PC at my mom's in Arizona. It was my Dad's first keyboard and we always kept it. I should grab that next time I'm there.

 

How about in the 70's.......machine language on mainframes.......

...and then, there is........"who gives a Chit"..
..........

 

......NOT True.........I had slate and chalk..........

Manual typewriters were not invented yet........

 

Good morning, folks! Yup......had a Commodor Vic 20! Just about didnt see any reason to EVER own a computer, of any kind, after that brief experience!
Lolol.......how far we have come! Now I sit here on this little thing called an ipad air. 32g!!!!! Internet just about wherever I go!