Do you remember your first computer?

[Jumpman]

man computers use to suck

[MPTheory]

I remember my first computer... It was a home-build 386 with an amber and black, monochrome monitor.. My favorite programs to play with were corel Draw V3.1 and Sim City.

[CHIZZY]

Commodore 64 here...also had a TI994a at the same time. I used to write games like "zork" in basic for the commodore, and Rambo rocked, as well as summer games and lode runner\'s rescue.

[Paul2]

some of you knows how to write/program/code games back then on computer at such young age?  whoa...

Coding on 8 bit computers was simpler in some ways than it is today.  This was BEFORE Microsoft, and that in itself helped a great deal.

I was a freshman in high school in 1981 when I got the first computer.  My dad paid for that, but it was only $150 if I remember correctly.  I paid for all the Atari hardware and everything after that.

I was like Matthew Broderick in "WarGames" except with a slower modem.  

[Paul2]

heh, so you are in your late 30s now eh?  Cool nonetheless.

[CHIZZY]

10 GET $
20 IF $ = *, THEN GOTO 30
30 PRINT "PAUL2 IS A FAG"
40 PLAY "03,255,98,98"
50 GOTO 30

[Paul2]

Originally posted by CHIZZY
10 GET $
20 IF $ = *, THEN GOTO 30
30 PRINT "PAUL2 IS A FAG"
40 PLAY "03,255,98,98"
50 GOTO 30

Really.  You got money at age 10, and when you turned 20, you immediately age 10 years more?  Then you print my name on it.  At age 40, you play what seem like some sort of color.  And when you turn 50, you print my name again.

I see.  I guess I must have been special to see you.

[CHIZZY]

nah, I think that\'s sort of how you program in BASIC... that might have printed "paul2 is a fag" over and over again, while playing a sound.

Probably not, though. It\'s been 20 years...

100 PRINT "PAUL2 IS A FAG!"
200 GOTO 100

That should do the job just fine.

Man \'coding\' on that C64 was fun times indeed.

Mine was something like this:



Description: 8 MHz, 286 CPU, 640K RAM
CGA Monitor, 720Kb 3.5" Floppy Drives
104 Key Keyboard, Five Expansion Slots


On mine the floppy disk drive part was attached to the back of the keyboard... Harddrives are for losers, heh.

-Dan

[Titan]

Mine was an IBM Aptiva that my family got soon after Win 95 came out. I still use it from time to time. I used it a lot in high school but could only use the word processor and AIM (4.1 I think is the only one that worked) when I had dial up. I could never upgrade Netscape, so the only one I could still use was Netscape Navigator 3.0.