Do you remember your first computer?

386DX 33MHz - you could press the turbo button and it would turn to 48! kewliowooio! 4 megs ram, could play Duke Nukem 2 like a breeze. 3.5 inch floppy plus one of those huge ass 5 inch ones with the flippy thing. WOO!

[videoholic]

Man, I remember the Timex Sinclair.  Had a flat keyboard, right?

Originally posted by mm
IBM 5150


go go 4mhz cpu!
hard drive?  who needs a hard drive?
and what\'s this "windows" thing?

sad part is that mm still uses that thing

i do

used to kick blade\'s behind in Q3JB all the time on it

[Paul2]

Originally posted by Jar O Pickles
sad part is that mm still uses that thing

Good one.  :rofl:

I don\'t remember my families first and second computer (more than vaguely)... too young.  But I remember the one that came third.  An Epson Equity II+ with DOS...  I remember that that old Equity came with 2 megs of standard memory, and we had the max of 16 in it, which at the time was crazy.  I could run any game... once I figured out how to load everything into himem.  I also remember how much of a step up EGA was with that computer from the CGA and monochrome ones we had before... those Sierra games that were coming out (the quests), were incredible!  You know.... somewhere in my parents basement there\'s a box full of old 5 1/4 disk games...



Great thing about having cut my teeth on those older computers is that you HAD to learn about hardware AND operating systems to make things work... which means now I\'ve got lots of understanding for fixing today\'s problems.

[Evi]

Good gawd, I don\'t even remember my first computer. All I remember is having to do everything in the the dreadful green DOS text.

Atari 800!!!!  Core - I had one of those!  Cassette tape for storage and that stupid cartridge thing - can\'t remember what it was for... Basic or memory?

I remember... my first comp was a 486 DX2 50mhz monster with 4 MB of onboard Mem and a 4 gig HD.  It played sim city pretty good.

A buddy of mine had the 66mhz DX2 and I was jealous.

[videoholic]

Originally posted by GigaShadow
Atari 800!!!!  Core - I had one of those!  Cassette tape for storage and that stupid cartridge thing - can\'t remember what it was for... Basic or memory?

I had to use tape for my TI also.  I also programmed my own games.  Man, I\'d love to see that again.  I got the C64 mainly because it had a disk drive.  FInally not having to use tape.

Woohoo!!!

Originally posted by GigaShadow
Atari 800!!!!  Core - I had one of those!  Cassette tape for storage and that stupid cartridge thing - can\'t remember what it was for... Basic or memory?

Yeah, the carts were mostly for games, but they also put some applications on them.  I have the Atari BASIC cart, and the Atari Wordprocessor, and a couple of 6502 editor/assembler apps on cartridge.

I still have ALL this stuff.  I never got rid of any of my Atari hardware.  You can build a simple SIO2PC cable to connect your Atari computer to the serial port of a PC, and use the PC as an emulated hard drive.  Pretty much all the software every written for the Atari computers is now available for free, so you can play any game you ever dreamed of playing... on the actual Atari hardware.  Or just get an atari emulator and run it on the PC instead.  It\'s all good.  

[Paul2]

wow...i wonder how old you guys are or did your dad/mom bought this for you when you are kid?

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my parents got my my first pc.. i was like 7 or younger. So it\'s not like i could work for it.  After then Pentium 60, My brother and I have paid of every rig we have upgraded from or built.

[videoholic]

I was 10.  My grandparents bought it for me.  It had 16k of ram in the TI, but I got the 32k expansion pack.  It rocked cause it gave me the ability to program sprites.

I was 15 when I got my Atari 800.  Sadly, that computer is long gone.  I have moved so much I honestly don\'t remember what happened to it, though I believe I sold it.