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

tesco samoa · #1 March 28th, 2002, 03:04 AM

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....

Saxon · #2 March 28th, 2002, 12:25 PM

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.

brainman.9Hells · #3 March 28th, 2002, 06:45 PM

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

capnq · #4 March 28th, 2002, 08:54 PM

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.

Val · #5 March 28th, 2002, 10:12 PM

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!

rdouglass · #6 March 28th, 2002, 10:14 PM

Had to add mine:

Was at school 1974. Data General running CPM and 4K of memory. No video here folks - everything came out on a teletype (paper rolls; not even perforated!!) and all my basic programs on paper tape with holes punched in it....

(I'm really not THAT old....

Lemmy · #7 March 28th, 2002, 10:51 PM

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Originally posted by LemmyM:
Atari 520 ST..not bad for a 19 year old eh

well, technically it was my dad's, but i played the most games on it
one of my Favorites was some space shoot 'm up...can't remember the name...

that thing must be old, i can't remember a time that we didn't have it...

i've been looking through my old atari games and i found it, it's called Star Battles

i also found another one of my Favorites, Super Sprint (also known as Buggy Boy), but it wouldn't run for a while now

then there was Time Bandit...a lot different games in one, very nicely done, oh Major Motion was fun to, sort of like an early Grand Theft Auto, it had a top-down view, the road would only go up, and you would have to try and push as many cars of the road as possible..yeah, Major Motion was a great game...