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Mine could play all kind of games but most of them were so fucking bad. The few good ones were a lot of fun though. They were expensive as fuck as well. And besides the drawing on the box and maybe a screenshot on the back you had no way to know what kind of game it was.

first in the house - TRS-80
first that was mine - 386 DX40. Think it had 16 mb of ram and a 40 mb hard. Just enough to run autocad and windows 3.1

I counted from 0 to 1 on my mothers boobs from quite early on.

As for my first experience with computers it was in the early 70's at my dads work.

I used them at work in the 80's and finally bought a Tandy Color Computer 2 in the late 80's.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...VIC_20_box.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20

Dude, same thing! What a coincidence..remember NEO GEO emulators? :pimp

RyuLion, I remember. Cool! We had the same PC...

I'm surprised... I just wanna say thank you guys for answering this topic.

When the subject is something related to our first days with something, the discussion is always cool, and very nostalgic.

There are some computers that I never heard about...

GFY is a nice community with cool people, we're just tired of so many dumb topics with repetitive questions.

Hell, I think I'm gonna cry.

I just remembered a few things...

I had a TRS-80 Model 1 and then later a Model 3. I connected each to a modem and to their own separate telephone lines, both running a BBS that I wrote myself (called Datamate). Each computer could handle only 1 user at a time, but the users could chat with each other because I had hooked up the Cassette ports to each other. My friend Rick wrote a protocol that would let them send and receive to each other, and voila! Chat!

i just used it for missle command and star raiders ...so i didnt use the keyboard very much.

totally forgot. When I had my IBM XT's and TRS-80's I also had some of this hardware:

Epson FX 80 Printer.
http://www.ixbt.com/printer/history/his/images/04.jpg


Hayes Smartmodem:
http://weblog.sitepros.net/stuff/hayes.jpg

Radioshack DUMb Modem (no auto dial, no auto answer, 300 Baud
http://www.trs-80.com/adver/ad-direc...2]-(rs)-PO.png

Expansion Interface (held 48k Ram, Floopy Disk Controller, Parallel Printer Port, optional Serial Port
http://www.vintage-computer.com/imag..._mod1_sys2.jpg


Serial Modem expansion board (for TRS-80 Expansion Interface above). This is NOT a modem - just the expansion board necessary to add a modem. Yikes.
http://www.trs-80.com/adver/ad-rs-23...5]-(rs)-PO.png

And of course, the TRs-80 Cassette Recorder:
http://archive.computerhistory.org/r...2689994.lg.jpg

This was used to load and save programs to cassette tape. Yes, Cassette tape. The TRS-80 could read and write to the cassette tape at a whopping 62.5 Bytes Per second. Thats BYTES PER SECOND, not KILObytes or MEGAbytes or GIGAbytes, you spoiled youngin's....

Ah the good old days.

Btw: If your vintage computers still work, why not connect them to the Internet? I found a resource site that shows you how. http://www.8bit-micro.com/coverstory.htm

i used a fucking abacus in 1926 fools

i remember Prince of Persia well, hate him for not jumping as good as Lara Croft

Comodore +4

z80 in 1980

It was an IBM ps/2 286 with a 30 meg HDD and 1M of ram and it had a 2400 modem too.

Mac Plus in 1986 or 87. Upgraded to 2MB of RAM.... Woohoo!!






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Atari 400... got it in the summer of 1982.

My first was a
Intel 386
I remember the case had a "boost" button that would push it to 25Mhz. Woot! Dialup was at 2800bps. I played Carmen Sandiego on that beast so much. Made my own ms DOS menus, too. Fun times.

The first computers I had were Wang point of sale, retail use.

Mine was a BBC B (as seen on the classic super girl film).

first computer
 

First computer was a borrows atari of some type with a tape drive and an awesome choose your own adventure game. First owned system, commdore 64, on which I built my first web site!