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06-09-2003, 02:59 AM

The first computer I had for a short time was a Coleco with a cassete drive that was crap then I had a Commodore 64 then a Commodore 128. I used it a 300 baud modem to hit BBS back then.

My family could not afford a IBM Clone Home PC when they came out so I had a huge computer lull until I was able to afford my own. I bought a Pentium 166MhzMMX with Win95 which I got me online. My next system I built myself was a 300mhz and have been building my own ever since.

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06-09-2003, 03:04 AM

um, wow..having to think way back here. I know the first computer my family had was a texas intrument and I remember using it but the first computer that I really spent any quality time with was an old Apple II E that my Dad bought from his company when they were upgrading. That was 4th grade I think so *does math in head* that was 16 years ago, I guess. I played Carmen Sandiego on that so many times I am sure it is still burned into the green screen.

I first used a modem during finals week in 10th grade. I ran up a huge phone bill to AOL using my free hours but then after a good hiding from my parents I became heavily involved in our local BBS scene. Truth be told, I sometimes really miss the bbs world.
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06-09-2003, 03:13 AM

1981 - Commodore VC20

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06-09-2003, 03:33 AM

Originally posted by AKFK
remember when local BBS systems had one or two poorly scanned porn pics in the early 90s? usually pilfered from Rusty & Edie's?

Actually you have it backwards, we used to pilfer the images from the newsgroups via a shell account, brand them with our bbs name and phone number with a hacked copy of photoshop and upload them to Rusty & Edie's. Rusty & Edie's was the equivalent of the Hun in those days.

My first computer was an apple iic , used to get stoned and play load runner for 24 hours at a time

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06-09-2003, 05:19 AM

Started in 72 on a Sperry-Univac 1500 shipboard system..

Then onto the IBM 360/65.. with all the interpreter, sorter toys that wnet along with it.. and let's not forget the amazing 407 accounting machine.. Loved those buss boards..

Played around on the first desktop type system that Wang brought out in about 74-ish..

First personal system was a TI/99A, then stepped way up to the Commy 64.. complete with the lightning fast 300 baud modem.

and on and on..........
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06-09-2003, 05:25 AM

Just over 20 years since I first laid my hands on a ZX Spectrum. '81 or '82 I think.
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06-09-2003, 05:38 AM

Originally posted by AKFK
remember when local BBS systems had one or two poorly scanned porn pics in the early 90s? usually pilfered from Rusty & Edie's?

remember typing in programs from the back of the computer magazine? taking 3 hours to type it in just to play some shitty ASCII ski-ing game (actually, that game was tight). sucked if you couldn't save it...

remember when 1200 baud was fast and Q-link was the cutting edge online service?

I had all the large Sports Illustrated swimsuit scans... those were my top downloads even above Duke Nukem and the first Doom, and the first Wolfenstein... I never had porn on my BBS -- my parents would have found out hehe... besides my little brother was co-sysop
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#58

06-09-2003, 05:42 AM

Any of you ex BBS'ers ever dial into the Temple of the Screaming Electron?

http://www.totse.com

All the files have been transferred to the web.. loads of shit on hacking, phreaking, bomb making, weird religious shit, currency counterfeiting instructions etc.

Alot of the material is now dated, but it was great back in the bbs days.
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06-09-2003, 05:47 AM

Originally posted by mule

hehe, yep, and remember when Ripterm was the coolest thing out because it had graphic buttons?

AHahha Ripterm that was funny. I remember when I saw the first web browser and all I could think was "this is going to suck because it doesn't do vector rendering like ripterm" hehe... I guess we are finally caught up now with Flash...

I bet if you do a search you could still find RIPterm art -- from iCE and ACiD -- last I checked they were still alive... not sure how far back those archives go...
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06-09-2003, 06:04 AM

Originally posted by washiez

Gawd Ripterm Sucked ass. ;)

ANSi was the way to go if you knew how to fuck with it nicely.. who remembers thedraw?

I used to run a bbs back in the day.. used this trustly lil software called T.A.G. .. made it look almost like a Vision/2 bbs.... all through modding the strings...

yep, spent days in TheDraw -- as a kid i got a lot of encouragement from people that liked my ANSI's -- which was my main motivated to get into the art field...

I remember TAG too -- if I remember right it was similar to Telegard, WWIV LOL... Only thing I modded was Telegard... I remember it was a bitch to get the Pascal source to compile. After that I started coding a BBS from scratch in Pascal -- I remember the first time I got COM1 to work using my own code I was hell excited hehe... I was using some of my own text window drawing libraries -- then I coded an ansi algorithm to read the screen buffer and transmit that over the modem using only the changes on the screen using X, Y codes -- instead of always scrolling down like most BBSs... Never finished that project -- I was a senior in highschool at that point so I was interested in other things... then the internet came out -- some of the BBS guys got into ISP...

I really regret those years where I wasn't online much -- around '94-'96 A lot of shit happened in that short time...
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#61

06-09-2003, 06:09 AM

Originally posted by Pornwolf
I've been using computers for 21 years.

Texas Instruments TI-99

I'll admit that any 15 year old hacker probably runs circles around me now though.

That's exactly what I had dude -- see that thing on the right -- that's the speech synthesizer eehhe...
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06-09-2003, 06:16 AM

Originally posted by iroc409

hahahahaha... i used to draw on my dad's old punch card programs he had so damn many of them...

anybody remember the ibm pcjr? i gots a functioning one. hahah, that thing is great

We had them in my highschool... with the infared keyboards... Sneak up behind people and type shit on their screen
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#63

06-09-2003, 06:18 AM

Originally posted by PersianKitty

I'll never forget thos one 'portable' in the early '80s. It was larger than today's computer boxes and the keyboard actually was the bottom of the machine when it was closed up. The screen might have been 5 x 5.

maybe one of the first Compaq computers -- that's how they got started, hence the name...

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#64

06-09-2003, 06:24 AM

Got that in 1982-3?

Really was wild to lean how to code your own little programs. Many hours were spent on that machine connected to old Philco TV that my parents gave me, cause my Atari 2600 caused the color TV lines at the top of the screen when the game/TV switch was on the back.

Anyone have problems with those game/TV switches causing lines on the top quarter of the TV screen????

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06-09-2003, 06:27 AM

This was my first computer:Commodore 64 I tricked this baby out to it's fullest potential back in the early/mid 80's! I still hunt & peck after all these years!

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06-09-2003, 07:24 AM

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06-09-2003, 08:36 AM

Got this for christmas when I was 6 in 1983.

And a book on how to program in basic

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06-09-2003, 09:10 AM

i think i was 11 when i got my 1st computer, apple IIC... so almost 18 years

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