Believe it or not I used to work with an American guy (I’m in the UK) who’s name was Jim Kirk (we used to write SS Enterprise on the side of his car in the dust with our fingers and of course he was known as the Captain)
His mother used to work on the Apollo program, I seem to remember him mentioning their AGC computer had 4KB of Ram.
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Not to mention, could you even fit all of that in a car, or would you have needed an 18-wheeler? That’s kind of a wow! discovery right there…
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When you think about it, it’s truly amazing. I’m typing right now on a handheld device that is exponentially more powerful than what was used for the entire Apollo program.
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You mean the same one that comes to mind when teachers would ask us if we were planning to carry calculators around with us everywhere we went after we asked why we weren’t allowed to use them for the tests?
Yeah, let’s use one of those on the latest moon mission ship, if they could do what they did back in the day with a device with 1,000,000x LESS capacity, surely a measly smart phone will do now?
Kev
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Psion ZX. Mine too. Was pretty good. About 4 frames a second i think. Had invisible hills, but the lakes and runways were okay
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Well the disks were about 1mm thick so if you piled them on top of each other they’d be about 1.9Km high getting on for a about 1.2 miles
8008135. Looked better on a calculator. 😂
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ZX spectrum flight simulator as reviewed by somebody who knows very little about flight. Marvel at the graphics. Even has a live map. MSFS 2020 eat your heart out…
Never again will I complain about the graphics in 2020! 
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Yup! Even my FS4 copy came on 5.25" real floppy disk!
Still got the same files, diligently copied over 30 years from medium to medium…
Still works with DosBox too!
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Yes, this stuff shows our age.
I used to run my FS on this machine with this disk:
And that RS Model IV still boots.
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Those were the times…
HIMEM.SYS
EMM386.EXE RAM Auto
DOS=HIGH, UMB
FILES=70
BUFFERS=20
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Oh boy, don’t remind me!
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… And the much better QEMM386.EXE.
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Antialiasing is better than SU5 
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Man, that rings a bell. 
and we thought it was amazing.
ah yes, the upgrade with actual instruments on the screen 
by the way thanks for confirming we are getting old 
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I remember buying new PCs for our company. 20MB hard disk. 1986.
We will never fill it we thought. But then a large ‘word’ document was at most 4KB.
Yup. like many in this thread, been there, done that, bought the T-shirt, seen the movie.
happy days.
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The IBM computer with Dos written by Bill Gates was the thing.
It reminds me that in 1988 I found myself in Moscow at an exhibition where they proudly displayed their version and believe it or not
they had named it IBMSKI. I swear. It was so blatant.
A complete copy of this IBM.
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I remember buying the 1st pc’s for my unit. The company said ‘They have to be compliant’ with the 8088 they were using all IBM and Compaq, told my boss about the difference in the price and he said hell go with the comptatible. We got 3 extra machines for the unit.
I fired up the old 3270 emulator, and the screen was 1/2 screen, went to IT to ask a question about what I can do to fix it, between there rounds of D and D said theres nothing you can do. I went on to Genie, found a driver installed it and all the machines worked great LOL!
So just remember, just because someone works in IT, there’s no guarantee that they actually know anything… ;p
Wunce eye wanted to bee an injunear…now I are won!
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I was talking to my lovely lady about this thread last night, MS-DOS based systems and she says to me do you know how to use DOS based systems? I’m like “I grew up in dos based systems, of course I do” it’s still to this day almost like second nature. So she’s a change management consultant for a govt department and she say to me that there is huge amounts of money to be made for people who know dos based systems, a lot of govt systems are still dos based and it’s almost impossible to find people with that kind of knowledge. She says that the kind of money they pay would shame her wage, I’m not trying to brag here but she earns quite a large amount of money for her job. Maybe this is worth looking into. Who knows could be a career change for some of us old ■■■■■.
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