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

[geoschmo]

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Originally posted by Grayhorse:
Geo, You get it working, and I will be in your debt forever if you send it to me. Ive looked forever for it, and could never find it.

That game, even as old as it is, will still be a bLast.

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Well, you'll be in S.J.'s debt. I sent it to him to poke aroound with.

I think I have forgotten more about Basic programming then I knew to begin with, if that is possible.

Geoschmo

[Deathstalker]

"I adore my 64!..my Commadore 64!"

Damn I miss Gateway/Temple of Apshai! (Diablo before there was Diablo!)

[rand029]

Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1
4k in the keyboard, 16K expansion module to use the 360k single side 5.25" floppy drive. Black and white screen.

The thing only had capital letters, no sound, graphics consistiong of a 2x3 block, and reset every time someone walked by with a little static on them.

Programmed in basic and assembly into L-DOS ($399) from 80 Micro Magazine.

Ah, the good old days. And everyone thinks silver computers are new.

http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/trs80-m1.html

[ 27 March 2002: Message edited by: rand029 ]

[geoschmo]

quote:

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Originally posted by rand029:
Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1
4k in the keyboard, 16K expansion module to use the 360k single side 5.25" floppy drive. Black and white screen. [ 27 March 2002: Message edited by: rand029 ]

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Oh my! My best friend in grade school had one of those. Well, his dad did anyway. We'd play really cheesy video games on it. His dad used it for his real estate buisness or something.

Single sided floppy disks! Remember how cool it was when you found out you could cut a notch on the other side and format it too? Oh man we were rebels...

Anybody remember the goofy comic books at Radio Shack with the kids using a TRS-80 helping Superman to save the planet. What a hoot!

Geoschmo

[ 27 March 2002: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Alpha Kodiak]

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 )

MM9 coming soon!

[dmm]

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!

[TerranC]

The foul stench of youth...

The horrifying odor of Old People...

Bah! To heck with you all!