Re: OT: Complete the following statement, "My first computer was a..."
 

Apple II+ w/48K of RAM. Initially used a tape player for storage, then graduated to 120K floppy drive. Finally upgraded it to 64K of RAM.

My favorite games on it were Wizardry 1 and 2, and Might and Magic 1. (Yes, I was big into RPGs then. Of course, I still am http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif )

MM9 coming soon! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

Re: OT: Complete the following statement, "My first computer was a..."
 

First "computer" I ever programmed was myself, writing up D&D-like adventures for my brother and me to play in, complete with triggers, i/o, subroutines, calls to random number generators, etc.

First electronic "computer" I ever programmed was a programmable calculator (Texas Instruments). You could save something like 40 keystrokes, then replay them. Good for crunching lab data.

First real computer I ever programmed: some mainframe, used punch cards, in Fortran.

First "portable" computer I ever programmed: a PDP-11, you programmed it in assembly using switches, and the answers were delivered in octal using LEDs. That was old even then, but it sure did teach me how computers actually worked.

First computer I actually owned: 66 MHz 486 clone. I'm too cheap to be a trend-setter.

And yes, I too had Pong. Actually, Super Pong!

Re: OT: Complete the following statement, "My first computer was a..."
 

The foul stench of youth...

The horrifying odor of Old People...

Bah! To heck with you all!

Re: OT: Complete the following statement, "My first computer was a..."
 

1980, Atari 800, 32KB Ram, Tape Deck for "mass storage", LOL!!!

I had to save for 3 YEARS to buy that baby! And, more difficult, convince the dear wife what a wonderful effect it would have on our child's education, as well as she being able to keep her reciepies and our check book balanced on there. Oh yeah, we could use it as a CALCULATOR too.
Sadly, she never really took the time to put it to such use. So, not wanting it to go to waste, I used it for entertainment.

Wanted an Apple IIC but couldn't get the joint that sold them to come down in price. Atari was the new kid on the block and after pestering the guy that owned the shop that sold these for about a year, he finally sold me the 800 for $800. Mainly to get rid of me, I think. He even threw in two games!!! Awesome!! Star Raiders and some space ship fleet battle game!!! I've been screwed ever since, a sucker for just about any space strategy game.

I had a friend who had a Commador Pet computer. When i told him I had 32 KB of RAM he exclaimed: "32 Kilobytes!!! What the hell for?! You can do anything ya want with 8K!"

Those were da days!

Re: OT: Complete the following statement, "My first computer was a..."
 

81 or 82, a Vic-20. That fried in a few years (lightning) and I didn't have another computer of my own until 1995 when I got my first PC.

In the mean time I used the schools Apple's, my friend and my grandfathers, TI99/4A, the schools IBM compat's, some college macs, and then graduated to Unix workstations...

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Tenryu:
1980, Atari 800, 32KB Ram, Tape Deck for "mass storage", LOL!!!

I had to save for 3 YEARS to buy that baby! And, more difficult, convince the dear wife what a wonderful effect it would have on our child's education, as well as she being able to keep her reciepies and our check book balanced on there. Oh yeah, we could use it as a CALCULATOR too.
Sadly, she never really took the time to put it to such use. So, not wanting it to go to waste, I used it for entertainment.

Wanted an Apple IIC but couldn't get the joint that sold them to come down in price. Atari was the new kid on the block and after pestering the guy that owned the shop that sold these for about a year, he finally sold me the 800 for $800. Mainly to get rid of me, I think. He even threw in two games!!! Awesome!! Star Raiders and some space ship fleet battle game!!! I've been screwed ever since, a sucker for just about any space strategy game.

I had a friend who had a Commador Pet computer. When i told him I had 32 KB of RAM he exclaimed: "32 Kilobytes!!! What the hell for?! You can do anything ya want with 8K!"

Those were da days!<hr></blockquote>

Re: OT: Complete the following statement, "My first computer was a..."
 

atari 2600 with the programming pack.

Then a trs-80 ( I still have both, and workable.)

Never had a floppy drive for the trs-80 just the tape player.

I remember when Some guy across town got a floppy drive, 1982 i think. ( First guy in my school)

If anyone is looking for mame stuff join the exchange The catalog for the mame 32 ver 5.0 is sitting at 7 cd's and counting.

Also you can get the games for all the old systems,,, vic-20, c64, trs-80, colleco,, etc....

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I was surprised to see no one had mentioned the Vic 20 until Richard piped up. Of course, my parents figured I would learn to program, become a computer genius, start my own games company and be famous. I always thought it was parental hype, but now I have Richard to prove me wrong! If I had just spent a bit more time on BASIC…

Anyway you can remember all the cool games you want, but Gorf was the King! And now you know what I was doing instead of learning programing.

Re: OT: Complete the following statement, "My first computer was a..."
 

a toshiba laptop T-1000
It was a cool 4.77mhz 512kb XT powered by M$ dos 2.11

It had a cool 3.5" drive, which was cutting-edge tech back there in the 80's http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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I'm surprised that I'm the first in this thread who started with an Amiga 500. I still have it, but it doesn't work, because I had to scavenge a couple replacement parts from it for my second A500, which is just about on its Last legs, too. I still play the original Sid Meier's Civilization (on 4 DD floppies!) on it when this Gateway PC is doing long downloads or defrags.

Re: OT: Complete the following statement, "My first computer was a..."
 

Actually the Amiga was by far my favorite PC. I'm just waiting for my roomate to move out so I can set her back up again!