Are you keeping up?

[cody93]

Man, I remember when those were cutting edge, yes I was envolved with computers back then and the Compaq DeskPro 386 was the shizzle! Well, then they had something like the DP 386se I think it was called.

As you can imagine it's been quite some time, but does that one use Extended/Expanded memory manager? Wow, i'm getting a headache just remembering all that stuff.

oh god, ems, only used it for certain picky dos games, but i moved up to xms, now its dual booting windows 98 so i dont have to wory about ems or xms

the one i got has the 33 mhz 386, wich made it the fastest pc at one time
http://www.aresluna.org/attached/co...rnational/compaq/pics/compaqdeskpro-byte8907d
i got the big one in the middle, its far from stock these days, only thing still original is the powersuply, mother board,cpu, memory board and floppy drives
well, if yal realy want to know current specs, well here they are
386 @ 33mhz
16mb RAM(maximum capacity)
3.5, 5.25 inch floppy along with a cd-rw
68 pin 9gb scsi drive(looking for some dual 18,36,72gb scsi drives to stick in)
ethernet,56k modem, soundblaster 64, 2mb video card, pcmcia card adapter and all in a pc built in 1989

 

[COPPERHEAD85]

I can't believe no one has mentioned how the pool deck magically turns into green shag carpet...

No Photoshop back then either....interesting...

Or the fact that the Roger Moore look a like is jacking with the computer with the 2 chicks in the background checking him out.

 

[Scotty J.]

if yal realy want to know current specs, well here they are
386 @ 33mhz
16mb RAM(maximum capacity)
3.5, 5.25 inch floppy along with a cd-rw
68 pin 9gb scsi drive(looking for some dual 18,36,72gb scsi drives to stick in)
ethernet,56k modem, soundblaster 64, 2mb video card, pcmcia card adapter and all in a pc built in 1989

And all that shit is 100% proprietary Compaq!

Well, probably not the SoundBlaster, Video Card and pcmcia adapter.

16mg, wow most people have no idea what that means with computers running at minimum 1gig RAM.

Speaking of, you DO realize that there was this revolutionary thing called the Pentium Processor right? You know the 5th Generation Intel Processor, and we're on what, the 4th gen Pentium proc now?

 

[stegomon]

Iphone eat your heart out. This is the real deal!

 

[cody93]

And all that shit is 100% proprietary Compaq!

Well, probably not the SoundBlaster, Video Card and pcmcia adapter.

16mg, wow most people have no idea what that means with computers running at minimum 1gig RAM.

Speaking of, you DO realize that there was this revolutionary thing called the Pentium Processor right? You know the 5th Generation Intel Processor, and we're on what, the 4th gen Pentium proc now?

pentiums make good paper weights, i got a box of them ranging from 60mhz to god knows what

i work in a pc repair shop on the weekends, get alot of free stuff, i got probly 20 running desktop and laptops lying around with years as old as 1984. i just use the compaq cause it was the first pc i ever owned(first got it in 2005, way behind the times then) and i never had a reason to stop using it, if anything it will outlive my intel quadcore.

 

[88_Eddie]

that game is amazing! Lol... You probably never played house painter.... Yeah, the game was painting houses! Lol

sounds familiar, but i dont remember it. all we had at my elementary school was

oregon trail, btw, am i the only person that hunted the entire time? i may have beaten it once or twice

odell lake (i think, it was some game where you were a fish or an otter or some kind of wildlife living in odell lake and you swam around and ate shit....it was almost as fun as oregon trail)

where in the world is carmen san diego (which i never had the patients to beat)

what about hard hat mac? anyone ever heard of/played that? it was on one of the first computers my dad bought, an old IBM with DOS.....hard hat mac was kind of like donkey kong, but you were a construction worker.
http://retromedia.ign.com/retro/image/article/897/897759/hard-hat-mack-20080808051404970_640w.jpg

 

[erocka1982]

anyone ever play "pipes" for the commadore? you had to put pipes down and connect the houses to the water board. that game was sweet!......back in 1985..,....

 

[Scotty J.]

i just use the compaq cause it was the first pc i ever owned(first got it in 2005, way behind the times then) and i never had a reason to stop using it, if anything it will outlive my intel quadcore.

Don't get me wrong... I salute you 100% for using the old compaq! I do know that you can still get parts for it too, put I bet it's a bitch to locate since compaq used two part numbers for each part, the order part number, then the replacement part number.

Oh, and why hasn't anyone brought up "Leisure Suit Larry"?? I know you guys had to have that one mastered LOL!

 

[cody93]

the only oddball compaq parts i had to find were the 2mb memory modules, compaqs came with 2mb on the mem board built in along with 7 upgrade slots to add up to 14 more mbs, i found mine with 6 mb later bought 5 more off of ebay for like 70$ part names didn't match but i'll still worked, everything else is just generic ISA slots expansion boards

i remeber leisure suit larry, hehe, never played it tho, always was playing doom

 

[Scotty J.]

the only oddball compaq parts i had to find were the 2mb memory modules, compaqs came with 2mb on the mem board built in along with 7 upgrade slots to add up to 14 more mbs, i found mine with 6 mb later bought 5 more off of ebay for like 70$ part names didn't match but i'll still worked, everything else is just generic ISA slots expansion boards

i remeber leisure suit larry, hehe, never played it tho, always was playing doom

Wow, it's nice to see some old school stuff out there, Compaq was cutting edge stuff, putting IBM to the curb because of IBMs proprietary Micro Channel Architecture. I forget when Compaq introduced the EISA 32 bit expansion slots that still worked with 16 bit cards. They really hammered IBM with that. Once IBM payed in full for the knowledge, Compaq made the information public domain LOL!