It was a magical time, hearing the scrambling sound of your phone line connecting you to the Internet. Launching Netscape and staring at the throbber animation while...
  • schizoEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    CGA? EGA? Well look at you, Mr. Fancy Rich Guy Computer user.

    I lived the MDA life until waaaaaaaaaaaaay into the SVGA era lol.

    • frunch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Damn, lol! We always laughed about “Hercules”, i now see even that was superior to MDA! TIL we had it “good” with CGA as kids 😅

      • schizoEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        Hercules was MDA if MDA wasn’t garbage (thanks IBM!).

        But yeah went from a XT with MDA to a Pentium system.

        Real caveman-discovers-fire moment.