Your first ever development machine at work
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>>My God, I can't believe I remember all this! I think that's the curse of being bright. You emasse an absolute head full of ridiculous technical details like this. Sometimes I'd like to be able to toss some of what's in my brain into the recycle bin :) For example: How to jumper a Lantastic Network card to extend the segement length to 300m, from 185. How to hand make a centronics printer cable for an Epson FX-80 printer. How exactly to punch a second whole on a 180K floppy disk so you can flip it over and record on the opposite side. all the command line parameters for himem.sys and emm386.exe The specific drivers required for a Kaypro luggable computer to work properly with IBM's version of PC-DOS The combination to my locker in highschool. Every phone number my family ever had. Ug. My head hurts.
Ug. My head hurts. :-D ------- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. (Francis Bacon) Nature, to be apprehended, must be obeyed. (Ayn Rand)
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Hi, I remember my very first development machine at work was, Pentium 233 MMX, 32 MB RAM, 3.2 GB HDD, 1 MB VGA card, 14" SVGA monitor. [BTW: it was a very good configuration at that time ;P ] VC4.0 used to fly on that machine and it really rocked when my employer doubled the RAM :) What was yours? Farhan Noor Qureshi :)
Well if you define 'work' as making money rather than strictly as a full-time job .... then it would be: A VIC20 (along with a Toshiba 14" TV) - 5K of RAM (however only 4k was available at any one time) - .9MHZ (yes the number does start with the decimal point, its not a typo) I wrote video games back then. They were about a sophisticated as 'Pong', but back then 'Pong' rocked :)
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Hi, I remember my very first development machine at work was, Pentium 233 MMX, 32 MB RAM, 3.2 GB HDD, 1 MB VGA card, 14" SVGA monitor. [BTW: it was a very good configuration at that time ;P ] VC4.0 used to fly on that machine and it really rocked when my employer doubled the RAM :) What was yours? Farhan Noor Qureshi :)
A 1 MHz 6809 machine, which was kind of a rough clone of one of Motorola's 6809 development systems named Excorciser. This machine hat 48KB RAM and two 8 inch floppy drives with about 400KB capacity. We had two different OS versions running on this pretty slick piece of hardware, something named MDOS (I presume that's what Motorola used) and TSC FLEX 09. Software development then was done in pure Assembler on a text terminal. Ours were made in Canada by a company named Cybernex, model MDL110. This was in the late 80s, so even back then this hardware was slightly outdated. I was a pure beginner then, and I had to write 6809 assembly code, so nobody thought of giving me one of the brand new 286-10 machines. I have to admit that my current machine (pIII-600 / 256MB with a SGI 1600sw display) is somewhat more advanced ...
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Hi, I remember my very first development machine at work was, Pentium 233 MMX, 32 MB RAM, 3.2 GB HDD, 1 MB VGA card, 14" SVGA monitor. [BTW: it was a very good configuration at that time ;P ] VC4.0 used to fly on that machine and it really rocked when my employer doubled the RAM :) What was yours? Farhan Noor Qureshi :)
It was a rocket: 486-33 Mhz with 32 megs or RAM and 500 megs of disk (SCSI). Back then (1992) 4 megs of RAM was the norm and Windows 3.1 actually ran OK with it. So 32 Megs of RAM was impressive. 500 MB or disk? "I'll never fill that", I thought. Then Windows NT 3.1 came out and the machine just didn't seem so impressive any more.