petroman2012 168 Posted June 1, 2013 You kids....I got me a TI-99-4A souped up with a data-5.25 disk drive single sided, video is a sweet 10" RGB commodore monitor, TI-99-4A runnin 16k on brd mem with a 5meg hard drive, now you all know I am smok'in now...OOOHHHweee >>> Cant touch dis..... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skarekrow 1,842 Posted June 1, 2013 Wow, Petro.... that takes me back to 1992, was it? I had a Nice Commodore 128! No hard drive, though... was all done off floppy discs! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mopar691 281 Posted June 1, 2013 I had a TI-99, think it is still in the basement somewhere 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skarekrow 1,842 Posted June 1, 2013 I sold mine and bought a PC... Windows 3 point something was on it. WOWEEEEE! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skarekrow 1,842 Posted June 1, 2013 I remember keeping those Icons lined up so straight... cause I didn't DO ANYTHING on it... hahaha (til I got Adobe Photo Deluxe... Then my whole world changed!) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
petroman2012 168 Posted June 1, 2013 Ok..Ok...My first was in 1981.... Timex Sinclair...Had it 2 days ..Made that ball bounce around doing basic script(programing) and took it back to Albertson"s and went to computer store in Jacksonville lookin for something better.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skarekrow 1,842 Posted June 1, 2013 My wife still kids me about typing code for 2 hours just to watch 10 seconds of pixelated fireworks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mopar691 281 Posted June 1, 2013 I SO REMEMBER THAT!! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MadHatterGraphix 1,258 Posted June 1, 2013 A TI -99 wow that's was my families first computer, we had one for homework typing and one to play games.I remember the cheap voice but that was the cooliest if you had that. Baseball voice command and terry the turtle. I think we still have one somewhere too not sure though. I still have the original NES does that count lol. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skarekrow 1,842 Posted June 1, 2013 Daaag, I'm feelin' old... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
petroman2012 168 Posted June 1, 2013 Old? There are 10yr olds who smoke me on PC's these days....I buy barebone units from Tiger Direct and put the dam thing together as I know what I want in Mem and Graphic, run 3 separate 2-tb external hd on primary sys because of 3D option programing with Bryce and Poser, gave up on AutoCAD and Maya as they keep jacking the price when up grades come around... The 2 units in garage(for 2 vinyl cutters) are 8-giger units with simple but high end graphics since I rely on Adobe and Illustrator for vinyl cutting and design capabilities...Games went out with Atari and so on... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MadHatterGraphix 1,258 Posted June 1, 2013 I want 32 gigs but just can't see spending the money whiny pc runs of old. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mopar691 281 Posted June 1, 2013 I really only see diff from 16 to 32 when I have huge or multiple PS files open. Ripping taxes my processor, really not ram. Otherwise it is kinda overkill but works flawlessly. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MadHatterGraphix 1,258 Posted June 1, 2013 I'm surprised that taxes your CPU ripping only uses half of each cell and that's not all at once. Even video authoring it barley uses it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mopar691 281 Posted June 1, 2013 Ripping a large file will peg all cores for a good 15 minutes Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mopar691 281 Posted June 1, 2013 Pretty much hogs all resources if the file is big enough. Pandora will stop and everything will crawl while it is ripping a file such as a wrap anything big if it is detailed and not just created within flexi. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dakotagrafx 7,297 Posted June 1, 2013 I use a separate computer for the printer so the design software never uses any resourses when ripping 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mopar691 281 Posted June 1, 2013 Ya I got a few here in the shop for that purpose also Share this post Link to post Share on other sites