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your first computer ......
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My first computer was a Sinclair ZX 90! You spent hours with it plugged into the tv, typing in endless lines of BASIC (or was it MSdos?!) programming just to get one of the tennis games that went 'ping' 'pong' from side to side of the screen. That's always supposing you managed to get all the programming in without a typo!!
My second was an Olivetti. All in one unit with keyboard, 2 floppy drives and monitor. There was no hardrive so you had to boot up the MSdos from a floppy, then your software, then the disk with your documents on it! Then you could start work. And my printer was a dot matrix - noisy old thing!
Still, I did a lot of work on this machine, wrote a novel, three texbooks and ran a small business as well!
My second was an Olivetti. All in one unit with keyboard, 2 floppy drives and monitor. There was no hardrive so you had to boot up the MSdos from a floppy, then your software, then the disk with your documents on it! Then you could start work. And my printer was a dot matrix - noisy old thing!
Still, I did a lot of work on this machine, wrote a novel, three texbooks and ran a small business as well!
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WalksWithChrist
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST
That thing was sweet. btw, I had an old game on there that I can't find and believe me, I've combed thru some classic game sites. It's one of those game-within-a-game...games. You start off with a menu where you choose which game you want to play be it a Pac Man like game or an adventure game or even a Star Trek looking game! There seemed to be at least a dozen games in the menu. You would play a level in a given game then it would take you back to the menu to choose another game or you could move onto the next level. Anyone know what game this is????? It's the one burning question of my life I haven't answered yet.
Our next one was a Packard Hell...I mean Bell. It had like a 33mHz chip and very little RAM. It ran DOS 6 I think and then we "upgraded" to Windows 3.1 and that was a big deal! And NO optical drive at all. When they came out with "Multimedia" that was a big deal too. I pine for the old Atari 520...it was a much more solid machine than the PC clone was.
That thing was sweet. btw, I had an old game on there that I can't find and believe me, I've combed thru some classic game sites. It's one of those game-within-a-game...games. You start off with a menu where you choose which game you want to play be it a Pac Man like game or an adventure game or even a Star Trek looking game! There seemed to be at least a dozen games in the menu. You would play a level in a given game then it would take you back to the menu to choose another game or you could move onto the next level. Anyone know what game this is????? It's the one burning question of my life I haven't answered yet.
Our next one was a Packard Hell...I mean Bell. It had like a 33mHz chip and very little RAM. It ran DOS 6 I think and then we "upgraded" to Windows 3.1 and that was a big deal! And NO optical drive at all. When they came out with "Multimedia" that was a big deal too. I pine for the old Atari 520...it was a much more solid machine than the PC clone was.
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raphink
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My first computer was a Macintosh LCII : 16 MHz, 16 MB RAM, 40 MB HD, 256 colors screen, floppy driver.
With time, I gathered another LCII, a Mac IIcx (which had a FPU emulation card ) and my prefered one : a Mac IIsi, on which I spent hours hacking (yeah I know it's not allowed on Mac OS) using ResEdit and Resorcerer
Eventually, I had a PowerPC 4400 : 200 MHz, 80 MB RAM (because I had bought 64 more for a very expensive price ), 40 GB HD (not native) and an internal SCSI burner (well it was originally an external one...). A big mess ... on which I ran Mac OS 9.1 and YellowDogLinux.
I used these till 2003...
After that, I bought the PC I have now (AMD Athlon XP 2400+, 1024 RAM, etc.), running Linux distros only, which was a big change in my computer life
With time, I gathered another LCII, a Mac IIcx (which had a FPU emulation card
) and my prefered one : a Mac IIsi, on which I spent hours hacking (yeah I know it's not allowed on Mac OS) using ResEdit and Resorcerer Eventually, I had a PowerPC 4400 : 200 MHz, 80 MB RAM (because I had bought 64 more for a very expensive price
), 40 GB HD (not native) and an internal SCSI burner (well it was originally an external one...). A big mess ... on which I ran Mac OS 9.1 and YellowDogLinux.I used these till 2003...
After that, I bought the PC I have now (AMD Athlon XP 2400+, 1024 RAM, etc.), running Linux distros only, which was a big change in my computer life
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What game is that on the screen? Looks like Track and Field...graysparrow said:My first was an Amstrad 464
I miss how easy was to program it
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Tandy 1000 TL, with the 16 color "TGA", that is, the tandy graphics adapter, which was the same as EGA except completely incompatible.
I spent many hours playing and learning on that machine.
I spent many hours playing and learning on that machine.
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An IMSAI 8080. It had no keyboard, no monitor. The clock speed was 2 MHZ. It used machine language, so you had to toggle in the program by hand via the switches on the front and read the results on the LED's on the front panel.
One memory card was good for 4K, thats 4 kilo bytes not mega bytes and was about the size of a shoebox lid. The year was 1977.
One memory card was good for 4K, thats 4 kilo bytes not mega bytes and was about the size of a shoebox lid. The year was 1977.
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Apple IIc. Monochrome monitor- 5 1/4" floppy. No hard drive. Dot matrix printer. At some point got a 300/1200 baud modem and would log into compuserve for $6 an hour at 300 baud. That was $6 in 1985 money.
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A VZ300 with tape drive, 8 colours and 16Kb of glorious RAM:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=980
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=980
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we had a "Trash"-80 and I think something briefly before that, that was when I was fairly young, I remember playing a "game" one one of the computers we had that was an adventure game, where you were inside a castle and you had to solve a mystery - hehe, no graphics though! just text!!
I also remember some time later a game called "Trap" i used to love it but have never heard of it since....
in my mid teens I had a tandy 1000 which had a modified graphics card that my father built - it gave better graphics and was very cool at the time - and then a tandy 2000 - the good old tandy 1000 certainly lead the way with audio too! you could have three simultaneous sounds (aka beeps) playing!
some time later I got a 286, then a 386, 486 and on from there. However...intersting to note, it was not until last year I finally got to buy a NEW computer LOL - all those years until i got a new one all of my own.
I also remember some time later a game called "Trap" i used to love it but have never heard of it since....
in my mid teens I had a tandy 1000 which had a modified graphics card that my father built - it gave better graphics and was very cool at the time - and then a tandy 2000 - the good old tandy 1000 certainly lead the way with audio too! you could have three simultaneous sounds (aka beeps) playing!
some time later I got a 286, then a 386, 486 and on from there. However...intersting to note, it was not until last year I finally got to buy a NEW computer LOL - all those years until i got a new one all of my own.
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Just Me Garry
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My first computer was a Radio Shack one. It looked like an oversized calculator and it would plug into in an interface that would read programs off of a cassette.
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We had an old Radio Shack rig. I don't remember the model number, but it didn't even have a 5 1/4 floppy drive. It ran off cassette tapes, and you'd have to manually program the executable whenever you wanted to run a program (the code was included in the program manuals).
It was something like this. http://oldcomputers.net/trs80i.html But a little newer, maybe by 3 or 4 years.
The first PC I ever actually got to toy with myself was an old Tandy. I still remember being overjoyed when we got our very first mouse.
[edit] Found it on the same page linked above.
http://oldcomputers.net/mc-10.html
Anyone remember "Downland"? You win at life if you do.
It was something like this. http://oldcomputers.net/trs80i.html But a little newer, maybe by 3 or 4 years.
The first PC I ever actually got to toy with myself was an old Tandy. I still remember being overjoyed when we got our very first mouse.
[edit] Found it on the same page linked above.
http://oldcomputers.net/mc-10.html
Anyone remember "Downland"? You win at life if you do.
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