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1st was a Coleco ADAM

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My first computer was a cheap gen that my parents got for looking at lake lots. it look like a keyboard that pulled into the tv. had not drive storage. So each time you wanted to do something you have to type in all the code for that program.

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by PvK:


Star Battles for the Atari ST? I know the Intellivision cartridge by that name... what's Star Battles for the ST like?

PvK<hr></blockquote>

it looks like it was Star Battle, without the 's'

let's see about a screenshot...
ok, here it is : http://planetlemmy.virtualave.net/starbattle.jpg

try to ignore the pop-ups http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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An old C64, from the days tape decks were hot stuff and you could 'download' new games by tuning in to rogue radio stations that would broadcast them on the short band. All you had to do was put your tape in and record. My first pc was a 286 clocked at 20 mhz ( I think ), with a 40 meg HD, two megs of ram and a black & white monitor.

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First computer was the Atari 400, all tricked out with a membrane keyboard and tape drive! Let me tell you there is nothing like typing on a membrane keyboard especially when you enabled the 'clicking' sounds!

Migrated through several generations after that.
XT (8mhz), 286-16, 386sx-25, 486sx-50, P100, P133, AMD 200, P200, Celeron 466, Celeron 533 oc to 800, P933.

However, I just acquired a C-64 off ebay to play Mail Order Monsters! What a great game!

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Apple II with 16 KB, integer only Basic, Radio-shack tape drive, pixiverter (to connect with channel 3 on the TV), back in 1977 or 78. I believe it was in the low 4 or high 3 digit serial
numbers. I do know that it was before they added the slits on the side for cooling, and we had
trouble with heat buildup.

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Apple ][e that was older than I am

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ZX-81 (Sinclair) with memory expanded from 1K to 16K (!)... and a huge reel-to-reel tape recorder as a storage device...

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An Etcha Sketch

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Mesh 800 hertz athlon

do you get the feeling I am joining the computer revolution late?

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It was an IBM PC-AT, with a whopping 6MHz 80286 processor! Had the math co-processor, a Finnish-made EGA monitor (sold by IBM), a 20MB hard drive, and some sort of IBM graphics card that I could never find the piggy-back card for to increase the memory. I bought this sucker NEW in 1984, and with the fancy dot-matrix printer I picked out, the whole system came to well over $6,000.00. Still, I used the darn thing right up until about 1995 when someone gave me an old 386, which I then upgraded to a 486 DX2-66. Oh, and I bought one of those TI-99 something-or-other programmable calculators when I was in grad school about 1979. My god that case weighed a ton - it was built like they were gonna install it on Army tanks - who knows, maybe they did!

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you know maybe its just me, I had fun playing oregon trail on the Apple ][e, but man, I sure as heck do not want to play it again. Ever. Unlike some of you weirdos here. Sorry, you'll never get me to use a computer without an AGP port man
and what the heck just happened with my computer?
Windows says that I have run out of stack sp's or something. ? Terminating a thread or some stuff. Well, I guess the apple ][e was good for something, then.

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p75 Acer 4x CDROM with a 14" monitor. 4 megs of ram and a 850 meg HD. I paid $1,800 bucks for it and only wanted it so I could play Dark Forces.

Now, 4 computers later, I have AMD 1.4 ghz Atholon, MSI Main, 512 Megs DDR-Ram, 30 Gig HD, Geforce 3 video card, Sony CD-RW, Creative Labs DVD Rom, Creative Sound BLaster Live with MS dirct sound system and a 19" Sylvania monitor. Bunch of extra's too, but who cares.

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My first Computer was a ZX81 with only 1kb Ram. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif It was a nice litle computer (especial if you used a radio near it) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif .