Our first was an IBM Laser XT clone that ran at 4mhz, but if you typed "turbo" you got 8. It had a 20MB HDD and 256kb ram, which we later doubled. CGA Hurcules Video card. 4 colour, I think.
My funniest memory of those old days was the old computer guy who was a friend of my dad's. He would come by and show us neat stuff. Anyway, at some point he must have dropped off a 5.25" disc with what must have been the first computer porn. I found it one day, and man, for the next year I think we had every 10 year old boy in school come over to see it. Some of it were digital photos, others were crude cartoon animations. The most realistic was a couple "making love" that was probably 10 frames animated to make what you would call a gif now. Back then they were all exe's you ran. I think my mom found the disc one day and disposed of it. Sure wish I had it now, just for the historic nature of it.
The other day, I was writing a batch file at work to do a simple job of copying files from one folder to another on a daily schedule...and wondered "how in the hell do I know how to do this?"
I remembered then, how my parents paid a dude who was taking CompSci @ UofC $10/hour to teach me how to use computers back in the day. We mostly spent it playing games but he showed me how to edit the autoexec.bat files for DOS games to ensure they had access to the right configuration and memory settings so that they could start. It graduated to figuring out how Snake worked in Q-Basic and then making a tic-tac-toe game in Turbo Pascal.
I got nostalgic and went on LinkedIn and found out that the guy went on to work for Google and just founded a million dollar mobile app start up.
One of the greatest hockey games ever made was Superstar Ice Hockey. It had a manager feature, I think was one of the first games with a full season and a minor league team that you could send players to. It even had line changes and coaching strategies
This is the PC/64 version
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The first thing I ever did on a computer was probably in elementary school with a rudimentary drawing program on a big floppy disc. The first game I played was either Fisher Price Fire Rescue or Commander Keen...can't remember for sure. We had to load DOS out of Windows 3.1 at that point to play anything.
I remember when my uncle bought a Pentium 133 MHz with Windows 95 and blew our freaking minds. It was such an upgrade from everything else we had ever seen at that point. He would load up Microsoft Golf and we'd be amazed at how realistic looking the Firestone or Banff Springs courses looked.
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Can't vote. You can't compare a 20 year old OS to a current one. What you can ask is which one had the most impact at the time, or which was the biggest improvment. I'd have to say Win 95, Win XP a close second.
Basically as it is you can go up the list and say every newer version is better than the previous one with the exception of ME, Vista and possibly 8/8.1. Though I use 8.1 at work and prefer it to 7 for most things, as long as classic shell is installed.
I had a Commodore 64 growing up, I actually still have it in the box with all the games and what not, I have been meaning to try and fire it up. I don't think it has been started in like 15 years or so, might not even work.
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The junior high I went to had a very active computer centre. Half Apple II's, half Commodore 64s, and everyone fell into one of the two camps. We gloated about how fast our Apple floppy drives were, while they bragged about the smooth graphics available because of sprites.
Somehow, a couple of the students had "connections", and pretty much any new game we'd see advertised in a computer magazine would be available within weeks, cracked and copyable either directly, or with Locksmith, a copying program. I had hundreds of floppys, double-sided via hole punch like Bobblehead, and games galore.
Now, I'm a PC guy instead of an Apple guy, and I have strong attitudes against piracy of software, music, and movies. Funny what you carry/don't carry over from your childhood.
Cracking games was always a huge thing on my Commodore 64, I don't know if I bought too many games, but when I did we pulled out our copy of Locksmith, or gamecopy and punched out a bunch of copies for our friends.
I still remember that the first game that I got for my commodore 64 was Forbidden forest, a monster game that took an hour to load up on my tape drive.
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