Hi all,needed to keep the login valid, however......I finally got around to buying some extra memory (Up from 768MB to 1GB matched) when it struck me just how much prices have changed in computing over the years.When I finally got a 486DX266 PC in the early 1990's (after along association with a Sinclair Spectrum (48kb) and an Atari ST (512kb)) it came supplied with 4mb of memory. It soon became obvious that the memory would have to be upgraded to a whopping 8mb !! After a search the best deal was ..... wait for it .....

"needed to keep the login valid"instead of posting a message here to keep your login valid... with all those topics inhere,helping eachother out, replying to existing threads..makes imho more sense don't you think??...AMD64 3200 - MSI K8N Neo Platinum NForce3 - ASUS RADEON 9800XT - SB AUDIGY 2 - 1GB CORSAIR XMS - XP PRO EXCL. SP2

you have gotto be kidding me !!! with some of the c**p messages that come up in the forums, you say that !!I can really understand why some people don't bother or are frightened of posting here. If I was flaming someone, pinching they're software, commiting some crime against humanity perhaps I might understand it , BUT ....!Well, IMHO, no it doesn't make more senseFredC-by the way, I've edited/censored this message a dozen times !!

Hi Fred; Maybe this was Vuelo`s way of keeping his login valid:-xxrotflmao .and yes I do agree with you,it does make a person not want to post on here sometimes even to help someone out!but the world keeps spinning....brent

Hi Brent,thanks for that - complete sense of humour failure overidden.Big smiles and giggles againCheersFredC

Fred C,I for one have no probs with your posting.However, I have problems with the realization that such systems you descibe I have also had! In that order! So, I am getting to senior stage with many senior moments!So sad for one so young!

I can remember the dx2-66, but I can also remember when the 286 went from 8 mhz to 12 mgz and what a screaming machine that was, hehe. And then the wonder of all wonders, the 386 that allowed you--with much tinkering of the config.sys--to address more than 640k of memory. :-)

yeah ok i did not read past the rest of your post...but seeing that title just ticked me off.. seeing the times that other posts started the same way (NOT your post in this case) .. my bad, not my day, my appologies..i just really hate it when people create just a post to keep themselves valid makes me loose track of the posts..that matter..AMD64 3200 - MSI K8N Neo Platinum NForce3 - ASUS RADEON 9800XT - SB AUDIGY 2 - 1GB CORSAIR XMS - XP PRO EXCL. SP2

Set the Wayback Machine for 1970, Sherman, and we'll visit the first machines I did real work on...There were 2 of them, a Univac 490 and a Control Data Corporation 3300. Each of them would fill a couple of house trailers. The power and AC bill was about 30 thousand 1970 dollars a year for each of them. Each of these behemoths sported 32K of memory, 30-bit on the Univac and 24-bit on the CDC, as I recall. The CDC machine had a FORTRAN compiler. Our Univac only spoke assembler, which, as I recall, was a language they called SPURT. We talked to the Univac through a teletype machine. The CDC had an electric typewriter for a console, complete with a ribbon.And yes, we coded both of them from punch cards. I think the Univac also read paper tape...

"They just don't make nostalgia like that anymore..."One of my favorite quotes...I still laugh...Thanks for posting!Best,sg

Hi all,warm fuzzy feeling returns once again, thanks guys.Vuelo, apology gratefully accepted - I s'pose we're all guilty of off the handle remarks once in a while - actually one of my pet hates is 'BUMP' messages, although even they have the're uses !!Nostalgia wise - way back in the '70's (sorry guys, I was just finishing school) we had one of a few modem links with Imperial College, London to our teletype machine. We played a lunar lander simulation, funnily enough a BIG subject then, which provided just a line of data - height, forward and vertical speed, etc. at each go followed by an input of engine burn time and lander angle. My first introduction to 'flight' simulation ..... I was, and still am, hooked and mesmerised by it all !!!Brings back the memories (can it get any sadder !!)soak it up !!FredC

I'm a Univac trained and certified field engineer (FE) on the Univac 1050-II. Similar stats to the system you listed. The memory you spoke of was true "core" memory. You could pull one of the 8K modules out of the memory cabinet (yes it had a cabinet for memory) and look in and see the actual magnets and wires. Module weighed about 15 pounds. We had drum storage, card readers and punches, manual mounted tape drive and a whole room of other "stuff"The console was switches and lights only. You had to read in a program card deck and actually load it into a specific memory address then execute the program. The one program was all it could run at a time. No multi-tasking there buddy! I think of back then and if you would have described my current day laptop to me, I'd of said you were smoke'n something.And the "terminals" in the field were indeed TTY machines.Ya, those were the days!!!Dave

Just to steer this thread back to the Flight Sim world; I realize that the impetus for every one of my computer upgrades for the last 15 years has been for flight sim. My list of 'puters in order are:1 - Commodore Vic-20 (with tape drive! woo hoo!)- Lunar Lander2 - Coleco ADAM - God only knows!3 - 8088 - Flight Sim 2.04 - 286/16 - Flight Sim 4.05 - 386 - Flight Sim 4.06 - 486 DX2 /66 - Flight Sim 4.0, Sublogic ATP7 - 486 DX2 /100 - Sublogic ATP, gave up on Flight Sim8 - Pentium 70, 90, 133 - Sublogic ATP 9 - Pentium 2 (a whole lot of em!) - Flightsim 5.0 / 5.110 - Pentium 3 (just about every speed)- MSFS 98, MSFS 2000, FLY! v111 - Pentium 4 (1.7, 1.8, 2.8) - Flight Sim 200212 - AMD64 FX-53 - FS9 / FS9.1The funny thing is that every time I've upgraded, MSFS goes on to the next version and the performance puts me behind the curve again. I think that this is the 1st time I've ever been at the top of the peformance curve! :-lolAs ironic as it sounds, I discovered the MSFS series when my girlfriend (at the time) had a copy on floppy disk that came free with her 'puter. She gave it to me and it was love at first sight. Well, thanks to her, with the money I've spent on 'puters and simmin, I could probably have put my son through college...too bad, now he'll have to join the army, go to community college, or get a job bussing tables at a restaurant...but it was worth it!!!! WOOO HOOO!CYA,Mike T.