OT: Any One Remember

[Kamog]

The first computer I used was a Commodore PET in my school classroom. It had a small, green monochrome monitor and a slow cassette tape drive. We thought it was really amazing and there was one guy in my class who knew how to write simple programs on it in BASIC, and I was totally impressed with his knowledge and skill. There were a few games for it that came on cassette tapes, and it included space invaders, a racing game and a maze game. The graphics were very blocky but I thought it was the greatest thing.

The second type of computer I ever used was a Commodore 64 which one of my friends had. We used to play games on it like Archon, Black Hawk, Temple of Apshai, Rambo, Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, etc. It had a big external 5.25" floppy drive, a color monitor, joystick and a modem (I don't know what speed).

The third type of computer I used was an Apple IIE in high school, on which I learned to program in BASIC in my very first computer science course. The BASIC back then had line numbers and we learned how to write messy spaghetti code that used a lot of GOTO commands. I used to stay late after school to learn and write little programs just for fun.

The fourth computer I used was a Macintosh 512E, which has 512K of RAM, also at school. I was so impressed with the Macintosh's graphical user interface and mouse! I learned to program in Turbo Pascal on those. This was back in 1988 or so.

When I finally had enough money to buy my own computer, I was attending university and my first computer was a Macintosh Powerbook 145. It had 4 MB of RAM, a 40 MB hard drive, and a Motorola 68030 processor running at 25 MHz. I loved that Powerbook and I used it for many years. I later got a Powerbook 170 as well, but both powerbooks were stolen one day when by house got broken into. My next computer was a Pentium 233 with 96 MB RAM and 2 GB hard drive. When I first started playing SEIII, it was on that computer. I was still using that computer when I got SEIV, and the turns processed so slowly.