In my day, the keyboard was the computer!
Time to get a Raspberry Pi 400 to get that feeling back!
Raspberry pi 400 gang?
Sinclair ZX Spectrum +3
128KB RAM, Z80 CPU, floppy disk drive.
… Parallel port …
My age exceeds that of the universe!
glances at MX518 on Max Payne mousepad
Fuck.
Vic20 -> C64 -> Atari 2600 -> Amiga 500 -> 286 … I actually don’t even remember but it has a shitton of cores.
I’m no-keyboard-and-mouse-connector-at-all-because-keyboard-is-built-into-the-computer-and-mice-aren’t-a-thing old.
iPad?
Rude
I feel attacked
Our family’s first computer was an Acer Anyware, 386 with a greyscale display. We had a serial trackball for it.
I am 50 (going on 29) and remember connections other than these in devices like the Commodore 64.
Hey y’all remember when mice had balls in them? turns to dust
You were doing what with mouse balls?! Why would you even have those near your computer? even older dust
Our first mouse plugged into the serial port with a pass-through connector so you could still use the modem. There was a power adapter that plugged in there, too. Then you had to load the driver for the few programs that used it… though I think it also had a mode where it would work on a text screen, since so few program supported it. We didn’t use it much.
This would have been on our IBM PC XT clone in the early 90s with 512k of RAM and a 5.25" floppy drive for storage. I don’t think we used it with the PCjr we had before that, but I don’t remember.
Damn you kids and your newfangled RS232 connectors.
Member when you edited your himem.sys and autoexec.bat to play your game?
Remember when you had to navigate through DOS to start your game?
Remember when you had a quickload cartridge in the expansion slot but not every game would be able to use it? And when you blew the video card pulling the keyboard too hard since they were all hot connections? I still haven’t fixed that.
Proud ex owner of an amiga 500, and amiga 2000…
Blew up quite a few Denise chips, iirc, with parents cables.
The 2000 had 2.5 megabytes, the 500 only 1megabyte, and it was fucking wonderful.
I now have 64gb and I still wonder if it’s enough
So mid 30s = Crypt Keeper
Got it.
Memes like this sometimes gauge how poor a person was growing up instead of their age
Gen Z and yet maximum old apparently