Post by @azonenberg@ioc.exchange

2026-02-17 16:08 UTC

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems @M0KHR@mastodon.radio @datenwolf@chaos.social i learned C on a 33 MHz amd386 with 4 MB of SIMM RAM and i think a 128 MB HDD running dos 5 and win 3.1. This was circa 1999, so w9x was out, but we kept this box until around 2001 when we got an 800ish MHz pentium 3 running windows mistake edition (very shortly upgraded to XP).

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@petrillic@hachyderm.io 2026-02-17 16:17

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems @M0KHR@mastodon.radio @datenwolf@chaos.social thank you all for making me feel insanely old. I'm pretty sure I threw a hip out thinking about how my first PC was... literally a 5150 PC. Cassette port and all. Eventually with an expansion chassis and a couple 10MB HD. Now to go back to figuring out where that 256GB of RAM disappeared to.

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@tom_verbeure@mastodon.social 2026-02-17 16:21

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems @M0KHR@mastodon.radio @datenwolf@chaos.social The nineties were such an exciting time if you were into computing. Every time a computer magazine dropped in your mailbox, clock speeds had gone up again. (I learned C on an x86 with 640k RAM and a 30MB HD.)

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