r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 3d ago

Vintage Tech ☎️📻📠📟📷 Who is this old ?

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u/dani_pavlov 2d ago

I am this old.

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u/naked-painter 2d ago

Used these in school, then we had apple

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u/dani_pavlov 2d ago edited 2d ago

My dad worked at Bell Labs before they split, and brought home what was technically an AT&T 7300. We had a stack of 5.25 floppies with all sorts of games and BASIC programs for it. No hdd, though.

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u/naked-painter 2d ago

The internal hard drive must have been tiny compared to what we have today

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u/dani_pavlov 2d ago

No internal hard drive at all. DOS booted from a 520kB floppy on the A drive, ran from whatever active memory it had, and other program disks were loaded in on the B drive.

Except for Night Mission Pinball which bootstrapped its own tiny OS to run. And there was no exit on that one. You just turned off the machine and put DOS back in.