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

Texfire · #1 March 29th, 2002, 08:53 PM

My first computer was an Atari 800 with the optional tape drive and Basic cartridge. My computer programmer father was the only one who wrote programs for it. An attempt to get me interested in programming I think, all for naught.

Us children played with the Atari 2600 he also bought us. Anybody remember having to use rubber bands to keep the switches from resetting when the springs wore out?

It came with one cartridge, Battle I think was the name, and I was a goner.

My next real computer was a 386 with 4 megs of memory! The was for paper writing in college and ran DOS and Windows 3.0, the first program run on it was Wing Commander. Remember tweaking your config.sys and autoexec.bat to get enough free high memory?

Texfire

Sylvius · #2 March 29th, 2002, 08:59 PM

Sinclair (from Xerox?). 1 KB of memory.

I tried to get it to play tic-tac-toe, but it ran out of memory after drawing the board on the screen.

Captain Kwok · #3 March 30th, 2002, 04:41 PM

My first computer was a Tandy TRS-80 Colour computer (4 colours?). I think it had 128k of memory. I remember using programs like CocoMax III and some stupid word processor that would allow you to type just 500 words and then run out of memory and you'd have to restart. It was fun, but it was sad because it was in the ninties...

PvK · #4 March 30th, 2002, 09:07 PM

quote:
Originally posted by LemmyM:
i've been looking through my old atari games and i found it, it's called Star Battles
...

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

PvK

Urendi Maleldil · #5 March 30th, 2002, 09:40 PM

1st was a Coleco ADAM

Dracus · #6 March 30th, 2002, 10:10 PM

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.

Lemmy · #7 March 31st, 2002, 11:42 AM

quote:
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

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

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