Old Tech I Missed the Most

Naaalala ko pa yang nasa pic. na yan. Di ba vhs rewinder yan?

yeah! the vhs rewinder. uso dati yung narerent ng betamax or vhs. naalala ko tuloy yung dragon ball z na lagi namin rent na by volume tapos 3 episodes lang per volume!

hahahaha meron pa kami nyan d2 sa bahay.. alam ko natago ko to.. hehehe VHS rewinder to.. same color and same model woooohoooooo

Speak & Spell – my first tablet XD

Internet TV – my friend used to have one that looks like a small VCR that plugs into the phone line. Cons of this is graphics quality, availability of the prepaid cards, and the browser is quite outdated and doesn’t seem to be upgradeable by the end user.

Digital Personal Diaries – usually powered by small batteries, these are used for storing contact informations, schedules, important dates, etc.

Brick Game – tetris clone and variant on a hand-held unit, competed with the early Gameboy releases and the much maligned Gamegear

Super UFO – made a boom during the latter days of famicom, and Super Famicom/SNES releases, these attach to the cartridge port and lets you copy games into 1.44 FDD floppy disks and play them as a backup with a 1-2 minute loading time

DOS boot disks – recalls the time when computer rentals usually doesn’t have a HDD, you often have to bring your own customized bootdisk else be using the shop’s virus infested bootdisk. Comes in either 5.25 or 3.5 floppy disks

Windows 95 installation floppy disk – my god installing this route was painful

DOS/V – for playing japanese games, you need a custom boot disk to be able to render the japanese fonts

King Of Games 1,2,3,etc – usual label for those compiled pirated games sold in Virramall.

This is off topic..

the one that really catch my eye is “kat.ph” though I download from kickasstorrent but it’s quite add when they use *.ph it’s like an endorsement from ph.

Missed Tech’s… Hmm…
I missed playing Family Computer (NES) with my childhood friends, cheating lives in Contra…
Playing Jeopardy and Home Alone in VGA Monitor, Adlid/Soundblaster sound card and the 5MB hard drive…
Adapting myself to the GUI environment of Windows 3.11 and then Windows 95…
Listening dialing tones of a dial-up modem, with annoying disconnections during rainy season…
Having a monochromatic and monophonic Nokia phone…

analog cellphones na superbigat at bago makatawag eh you have to dial tons of numbers before you can reach the other party, very tedious and if nasa emergency ka siguro patay ka na before you can leave a dying message…….on top of that ang mahal pa ng load/ minimum 300 per card, me pumasok na mas matipid 100 but the consequence eh call barring………….. miss those days!!!!

We still have electric typewriter at home but we no longer use it.

ang daming gadgets na nakaligtaan ko na. before vhs meron nang betamax, mga phonograph naman sa music bago naging cassette tapes at cds, ngayon mp3. yung computer e ms dos ang uso at family computer. lumabas na rin ang analogue phones in the 90’s. smart ang naunang network that time. di ko na maalala yung iba a

Hahahaha I rememeber those betamax/VHS rentals…

bawat dulo ngg mga movies na hiniram mo, you’ll fastforward it, you’ll be lucky enough na may X rated film in the end! HAHAHAHAHA

I remember my high school days when I was the first student sa school namin to have a GSM celfone. It was an expensive Motorola Startac na dinala ng father ko galing Taiwan. It had a yellow back light with black texts. Hindi po ito yung common black and red edition. It was way back 1999. During that time, mga analog pa lang celfon at kung may gsm man cguro 5110 na nokia or older. As in sa sobrang high tech mo pinag kakaguluhan ka ng mga classmates mo at feeling sikat ka hahaha. Those were the days!!

I remember back then when my mom had a beeper, which I think is an equivalent to SMS nowadays.. But instead of tapping the phone keypad, you dictate to the operator the message you want to send. :))

I still remember my mom’s beeper number due to my constant “beeping” back then.. 1500-360-300 HAHAHA!

i remember pushing my 386dx/40mhz 2mbmemory 120mbhdd using config.sys and autoexec.bat

config.sys:
device=himem.sys
dos=high, umb
devicehigh=any device drivers

autoexec.bat:
loadhigh = all other drivers

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syempre betamax and vhs w/ 3movies per vhstape na padala from saudiboys hehehe.
microfdd 1.44″disk was called harddisk;
dos 3.3 hinahack yung command.com replacing
dir, cls, & other internal commands w/ something else.

Hi, I remember mostly our dependable Jeep with only R, 1st, 2nd and 3rd gears and…

1. Family computer (Super Mario, F1 Race, etc.)
2. PC with 5 1/2 and 3 1/2″ floppies and DOS
3. Black and white TV with no RC, UHF and Cable TV.
4. Betamax and the more advanced VHS by that time.
5. Cassette tapes.
6. Installing pc apps and games using 50 floppies.

Learning programming on my XT, that was the biggest breakthrough.

It shows that we can’t stop change. http://daniojr.blogspot.com/2010/04/education-goes-with-life-it-co-exist.html

brick game
Contra arcade game
atari console
nes
sega saturn
vhs
ms dos
windows 3.11
floppy and micro-floppy disks
Doom shareware
my first phone – mitsubishi trium

and i know some you now still remember playing classic games from the likes of super contra rambo and super mario 1-2-3. and i still miss them until now with a nintendo family computer..

“I’ll just remember the time when we used to watch a B/W television set that’s hooked up to a car battery since our little island doesn’t have any electricity yet.” — I’ve experienced this! when the power goes extremely low, the images actually shrink hehehe…

i had a blast when i discovered that i can change the c:> (c prompt) to any set of characters i want, such as my name =)

mas nakakaamis yong pag-nagiikot ka ng antenna para lang makakuha ng channel, tapos may sumisigaw pa sa loob kung meron na :D haha

naalala ko nun sa province, kami lang may rewinder, madalas magparewind samin mga kapitbahay haha

I remember my uncle then told us that there were plans to incorporate the beeper into the cellphones. I wondered then “why bother have a beeper when you already have a cellphone.” Yun pala he was referring to SMS.

Also, a HS friend of mine wished to have a camera built-in in her cellphone. That was like 1999. We laughed at her kasi “besides it was funny it was ridiculous” (thiking of the film) tapos in just 3 years or so, meron na ngang camera ang mga cellphone. :)

Thought-provoking blog post you have here. I hadn’t given due consideration such.