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I had all those, then an Amiga. I remember paying about $1,500 for an external 20 megabyte hard drive for the Amiga. Damn I was a baller!
Memories:
Apple 2E: BRUN FID, CHOP LIFTER, Castle Wolfenstein
C64: INFOCOM Text Adventures, Scott Addams Adventures, 300/1200 Baud Modems, BBS', D-Dial, one of the first multi user chatrooms, copying games for your friends, Tape Drives.
Amiga: Awesome games. Slow for everything else.
Apple 2E: BRUN FID, CHOP LIFTER, Castle Wolfenstein
C64: INFOCOM Text Adventures, Scott Addams Adventures, 300/1200 Baud Modems, BBS', D-Dial, one of the first multi user chatrooms, copying games for your friends, Tape Drives.
Amiga: Awesome games. Slow for everything else.
my first computer: Commodore 64
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My first was an i386SX (Intel 80386SX) based machine running DOS, and mind you I was only 11. Damn you people are old!
I spent like a hour last night reading about the Univac (First commercial computer system.) 125 killowatts to run a system that only did 2k instructions per second. On top of that, the primitive ram consisted of mercury reed switches for the data storage...Talk about crazy.
I had a Sinclair ZX81 given to me as my first computer when I was about 9-10 y/o....1kb (!) of ram which you could expand to a whopping 64kb (I didn't have that luxury). See here for all the gory details on it:
ZX81 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I remember saving my pocket money to buy a book full of program scripts for it (basic), and sitting there all afternoon once bashing in all these lines of code to try and make the thing play tic tac toe - after about 4 hours I excitedly ran the program and it tossed out a syntax error and froze. Me and my best friend also spent hours once trying to hook it up to a phone line after watcing Tron or Wargames - hey, we were only 10
Ah, those were the days.
ZX81 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I remember saving my pocket money to buy a book full of program scripts for it (basic), and sitting there all afternoon once bashing in all these lines of code to try and make the thing play tic tac toe - after about 4 hours I excitedly ran the program and it tossed out a syntax error and froze. Me and my best friend also spent hours once trying to hook it up to a phone line after watcing Tron or Wargames - hey, we were only 10
Ah, those were the days.
in comparison, my first computer was a AMD K6 II at 300 Mhz with 32MB ram with a 4gig hard drive ... and I was 11 to
I remember all of those plus more.. apple II with tape drives loading up some motorcycle game jumping over something, also apple bowling. It wasn't till about 10 years ago I threw out the boxes of 5 1/4 diskettes software. How about the Apple III? The whole modem scene was crazy, bbs's, hacking phone companies for free long distance calling to xfer files.. Nothing has really changed except it's become faster and easier.
My first PC was a 120mhz IBM-PC clone (133mhz was the absolute best at the time) with 16mb of ram and a 8x CD rom. Thing FLEW for a year or so, it was interesting having the best PC on the block...We spent like $3k on it.