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Some old backups, resumes, games and blanks. There’s a 6 disc install set in there for Amazon Trail.
Some CDs and floppies that probably came with the first 386 PC I bought. I had Apple computers before that.
Mario is Missing!
We’ll find that SOB.
Ok, here’s some stuff from some of my ECE classes (electrical & computer engineering). I think ECE331 was a semiconductor / circuits class and ECE251 was an 8086 assembly language class.
Yes, those are MSDOS 6 boot discs in 5.25” and 3.5” format.
One of my trusty TI calculators. I worked for TI as an engineering technician years before I got my BSEE. I still have one or two TI programmer’s calculators around that convert between decimal, binary, hexadecimal, and octal. Believe it or not I used to program machine code instructions in octal.
Slim!
I think this was a power supply board I made for doing projects.
Just a mess of wires, test leads and stuff.
My alma mater.
EricPisch
I’m glad I lived to see all that crap replaced by fibre to home and steam :)
foxnbox
The San Diego Zoo presents... what?? What does it present???
JustOneShake
My dude I can smell all of that stuff. (All those old disks and computer parts had a distinct smell) memory and smell are so tightly coupled
AtsaMattaForMe
GretaMcKitty
OH Jezus! DOS lol. Altho I did get a copy of that Enigma Pinball game from Blockbuster in some sort of promo BS.
dudechaos
That's how I got it. Enigma was my favorite out of all of them
MyleKeville
So the Podcast ‘how did this get played’ did an ep on that Mario game. Sounded horrible.
MyleKeville
Not the Podcast, they sounded great, the game was terrible.
IMissZach
I honestly don’t remember ever trying it. A lot of that free software was worth just what you paid. I wonder if I have the disks somewhere.
outtaleftfield
LoneBoot
Game maps and booklets are a lost art. Used to study those as a kid, looking for things I'd missed, searching for clues, & admiring sketches
AvsFreak
run DOOM.EXE
IMissZach
I’m thinking that may be the most valuable thing here.
razorgirl1066
I would stare at the map of Skara Brae for ages while my dad played Bard's Tale.
LoneBoot
Mine were Betrayal at Krondor, Lords of the Realm, and Warcraft 2
DarthBrooks64
I remember how amazing it was to go from the 5 1/2 inch disks to the 3 1/2, then to zip drives.
IMissZach
Yeah, I know I have a Zip drive and Zip disks somewhere. Those were amazing at the time.
GoombaLord
There was something satisfying about using old removable media drives(floppy, zip, etc) that I haven't been able to replicate on a modern pc
dudechaos
Nintendo switch game cartridges scratch that itch for me
lightfoot2
Ah you programmed pdp11's.
IMissZach
Never worked on a PDP11. A buddy had a HealthKit H8 micro that took octal instructions. I did boot TI minis by manually entering 1/2
IMissZach
addresses and data on 16 toggle switches and hitting the exe button, one instruction at a time to make it load a program from PROM.
lightfoot2
Oh ok. The H8 was an 8080 wasn't it? I figured you were a bit young for a pdp8, although it could be a 10.
IMissZach
I think it was an 8080. Young? Thanks. That was 44 years ago! Never worked on a DEC.