my 1st computer with a keyboard was a acorn lol then i had a c64 where you had to load tapes for like half a hr per level in a game, and 1st game was pong.
I am glad there's someone else here who had one. It was a great little machine. (I had the silver one like that too. My mom later bought another one at a yard sale that was beige... But I liked the silver and black. )
... This is where I draw the line: __________________.
thats what started it out for me, played the hell out of that thing. I still remember my grandfather taking me to some guys house to buy games...pretty sure they were self made. Only time I ever remember getting my games from some dudes house lol was about 9 at the time back in the late 80's
I also started with a TI-994/A. I remember it was such a huge deal when I got the tape deck so I could actually record the BASIC programs I had typed in from magazines, etc. The first time I heard it recording I had no idea what sound to expect, and I thought it was broken with all the honks and squeaks so I turned off the recorder in panic.
How dare you present him with logic! Don't you understand? He fights epic fights, in epic games, with epic toons....eats epic food and takes epic dumps! He has more e..pic..icity...ness in his little finger than you have in your whole unepic body! - ChicagoCub
Although I loathe to admit it, my first computer was a Heathkit H-8. I built it myself in '77. Sigh, excuse me while I go count my wrinkles again, lol.
WOW, that was a year before I was born. I was born in Feb. of '78.
When we get back from where we are going, we will return to where we were. I know people there!
SWTPC MC-6800, 8 bit processor, 4k RAM, Teletype with paper tape for IO and loading programs. VT-52 emulated video terminal with 40 column output onto TV. CAT Bell 103 modem for communicating with a DEC PDP-11 mainframe (not mine of course, those cost millions).
Got it in 1977.
www.ActionMMORPG.com One man, a small pile of money, and the screwball idea of a DIY Indie MMORPG? Yep, that's him. ~sigh~
We had the 64K version that cam out later than this ad. This machine had two 8 bit registers that could be combined into one 16 bit register allowing the processor to treat the entire memory space as zero page memory and giving it access to 16 bit arthimatic operations. Unfortunately, being faster than a scalded cat doesn't mean shit when your machine doesn't support lower case characters and the video hardware is inferior to the Atari 2600.
To twist the knife a little more, we got this one month before the release of the CoCo 3.
Zx spectrum or Hc what ever it was called, the one that you have to plug into a tv using coaxial cables, and they read info from some "audio tapes". That was before the comodore 64 was born.
__________________________________ Remember the good old days when devs made games just for the sake of making a great game? They are forever gone now all they care is about how much they can earn from them, if they can't make millions they won't make that game.
REMEMBER THE OLD DAYS AND REGRET THEY HAVE PASSED.
I started with a hand-me-down Apple ][ in 1979 and then got a IBM 5150 in '81. In the years after I owned all the newer Apples and the Commadore 64. I now own 8K $ Alienware...like most girls, I guess I can't resist bright and shiny new things.
AmazingAveryAge of Conan AdvocateMemberUncommonPosts: 7,188
Originally posted by jinxit
The Atari 800xl It used cartridges on top of the keyboard for classic Atari gaming. It also had a tape deck...which games hardly ever worked on.... It was a piece of crap...but it was my piece of crap .
The first for me was a Pentium 75. I had used other machines before, starting on a friend's Vic 20. I used to drool over centipede. I never had an Atari, but we did have an intelevision with the 2 paddles to play pong.
The P75 was the computer that I could afford, and it was the first in the family, except using Dad's work computer to type out essays for school. I used to play Panzer General on it until the wee hours of the morning. I remember trying to invade the USA, and scrambling to get to towns to upgrade desperately.
I did work on a Hughes HME 5118 (The E is for Memory expanded to 512K) and 1116 Computers. They were fantastic, you could literally follow an instruction through the processor. They were getting a little long in the tooth, installed in 1983 and retired in 2006. We never turned them off except in extreme failures where we had to. Not too shabby for an OS written in Jovial to control aircraft across Canada and the US (including Hawaii and Alaska).
The Atari 800xl It used cartridges on top of the keyboard for classic Atari gaming. It also had a tape deck...which games hardly ever worked on.... It was a piece of crap...but it was my piece of crap .
Same here. Had fun times writing games in BASIC
LOL yeah took me 2 weeks to read the entire BASIC book I got along with it...and took me one week to write a basic program...it was a rocket...it was red..and it went WOOOSH...I felt so uber.....
Vic-20 here as well, followed closely by about 7 different C-64s. The great thing about the C-64s was that the floppy drive cost more than the keyboard/CPU.
They can adjust a game all day, but they can't help the issue between the keyboard and the chair. Played: UO, DAoC, AC, WoW, EVE, TR, WAR, Aion, Rift, SWTOR, GW2, TSW, ESO, Elite:D Play EVE for free for 21 days
After my Vic 20 mom bought me an Apple 2E, because that's what they were using in the schools. I wanted a Commodore 128, but oh no I got the piece of crap apple.
Zx spectrum or Hc what ever it was called, the one that you have to plug into a tv using coaxial cables, and they read info from some "audio tapes". That was before the comodore 64 was born.
Same, first computer was a 48k Sinclair Spectrum... loved that little machine... That what was saw me through Lords of Midnight, those Level 9 text adventures, and, of course, Elite.
Comments
my 1st computer with a keyboard was a acorn lol then i had a c64 where you had to load tapes for like half a hr per level in a game, and 1st game was pong.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3845509852.png
I am glad there's someone else here who had one. It was a great little machine. (I had the silver one like that too. My mom later bought another one at a yard sale that was beige... But I liked the silver and black.
)
...
This is where I draw the line: __________________.
TRS-80 Model 1 with 16k ram and a cassette player for storage. That alone cost over $1k. I played two games: Telengard and an Asteriods clone.
thats what started it out for me, played the hell out of that thing. I still remember my grandfather taking me to some guys house to buy games...pretty sure they were self made. Only time I ever remember getting my games from some dudes house lol was about 9 at the time back in the late 80's
I also started with a TI-994/A. I remember it was such a huge deal when I got the tape deck so I could actually record the BASIC programs I had typed in from magazines, etc. The first time I heard it recording I had no idea what sound to expect, and I thought it was broken with all the honks and squeaks so I turned off the recorder in panic.
How dare you present him with logic! Don't you understand? He fights epic fights, in epic games, with epic toons....eats epic food and takes epic dumps! He has more e..pic..icity...ness in his little finger than you have in your whole unepic body! - ChicagoCub
Although I loathe to admit it, my first computer was a Heathkit H-8. I built it myself in '77.
Sigh, excuse me while I go count my wrinkles again, lol.
WOW, that was a year before I was born. I was born in Feb. of '78.
When we get back from where we are going, we will return to where we were. I know people there!
SWTPC MC-6800, 8 bit processor, 4k RAM, Teletype with paper tape for IO and loading programs. VT-52 emulated video terminal with 40 column output onto TV. CAT Bell 103 modem for communicating with a DEC PDP-11 mainframe (not mine of course, those cost millions).
Got it in 1977.
www.ActionMMORPG.com
One man, a small pile of money, and the screwball idea of a DIY Indie MMORPG? Yep, that's him. ~sigh~
awww mine was kinda new. amd ks2 500 proc and 64mb memory witt 20gb hd
TRS-80 Color Computer 2
We had the 64K version that cam out later than this ad. This machine had two 8 bit registers that could be combined into one 16 bit register allowing the processor to treat the entire memory space as zero page memory and giving it access to 16 bit arthimatic operations. Unfortunately, being faster than a scalded cat doesn't mean shit when your machine doesn't support lower case characters and the video hardware is inferior to the Atari 2600.
To twist the knife a little more, we got this one month before the release of the CoCo 3.
Zx spectrum or Hc what ever it was called, the one that you have to plug into a tv using coaxial cables, and they read info from some "audio tapes". That was before the comodore 64 was born.
__________________________________
Remember the good old days when devs made games just for the sake of making a great game?
They are forever gone now all they care is about how much they can earn from them, if they can't make millions they won't make that game.
REMEMBER THE OLD DAYS AND REGRET THEY HAVE PASSED.
The Atari 800xl
It used cartridges on top of the keyboard for classic Atari gaming.
It also had a tape deck...which games hardly ever worked on....
It was a piece of crap...but it was my piece of crap .
mine was jus a normal slow comp
Amiga 2000 super-computer.
Bought a Video Toaster/LightWave-1; and discovered I needed an Amiga to go along with it.
Great games on it.
I started with a hand-me-down Apple ][ in 1979 and then got a IBM 5150 in '81. In the years after I owned all the newer Apples and the Commadore 64. I now own 8K $ Alienware...like most girls, I guess I can't resist bright and shiny new things.
Same here. Had fun times writing games in BASIC
The first for me was a Pentium 75. I had used other machines before, starting on a friend's Vic 20. I used to drool over centipede. I never had an Atari, but we did have an intelevision with the 2 paddles to play pong.
The P75 was the computer that I could afford, and it was the first in the family, except using Dad's work computer to type out essays for school. I used to play Panzer General on it until the wee hours of the morning. I remember trying to invade the USA, and scrambling to get to towns to upgrade desperately.
I did work on a Hughes HME 5118 (The E is for Memory expanded to 512K) and 1116 Computers. They were fantastic, you could literally follow an instruction through the processor. They were getting a little long in the tooth, installed in 1983 and retired in 2006. We never turned them off except in extreme failures where we had to. Not too shabby for an OS written in Jovial to control aircraft across Canada and the US (including Hawaii and Alaska).
Cheers!
Same here. Had fun times writing games in BASIC
LOL yeah took me 2 weeks to read the entire BASIC book I got along with it...and took me one week to write a basic program...it was a rocket...it was red..and it went WOOOSH...I felt so uber.....
Vic 20
Vic-20 here as well, followed closely by about 7 different C-64s. The great thing about the C-64s was that the floppy drive cost more than the keyboard/CPU.
They can adjust a game all day, but they can't help the issue between the keyboard and the chair.
Played: UO, DAoC, AC, WoW, EVE, TR, WAR, Aion, Rift, SWTOR, GW2, TSW, ESO, Elite:D
Play EVE for free for 21 days
After my Vic 20 mom bought me an Apple 2E, because that's what they were using in the schools. I wanted a Commodore 128, but oh no I got the piece of crap apple.
windows 95, i remember my dad getting it the first day...i was so excited for my first PC
March on! - Lets Invade Pekopon
First was a 386, followed by a 486, then we hit the big time with a 166MHz monster.
DOS was my first O/S.
Anyone else remember the "Turbo" button?
Same, first computer was a 48k Sinclair Spectrum... loved that little machine... That what was saw me through Lords of Midnight, those Level 9 text adventures, and, of course, Elite.
/wipes away a tear for lost summers.
Mine wasnt as early as most others here...
Got it from Fingerhut in 98/99 - 188MHZ P1 - 20G HDD - 32MB RAM - 1MB Onboard Video..