At school, we first used Apple IIes for the longest time. From grade 2 up til grade 6 or so. The first home computer was a Compaq Presario 386. 4 MB of RAM and half a gig hard drive if even that. Good old Windows 3.1.
Commodore 64 in 1983, then Amiga 500 around 1987. Then my dad dropped around $4000 on an IBM Aptiva machine around 1992.
Always wanted the Sinclair (it was in the Consumer's Distributing catalogs) because it was so small. Some friends had the ADAM and it was useless. Cousins in Sask had the Tandy TRS 80...absolute junk compared to my Commodore, but in rural Sask, Radio Shack was the mecca of retail stores...whether it be crappy computers with cartridges or car horns wired in to their junkers.
Of course, in elementry and junior high school, computer class consisted of Apple IIe for typing test and LOGO programming.
Amazing paying $4000 in 80's-90's dollars for a computer. Definitely a luxury item back then.
Our first was a 486 which I thought was 25MHz, but maybe that doesn't make sense? I thought it was something like 8 with the turbo off and 25 with it on, but maybe 25 was the non-turbo. 4mb of RAM, ~125Mb of HDD. I remember being super excited to put in my first sound card.... damn IRQ conflicts!
My stupid 80 megabyte harddrive still works after 20 years when my 2 year old 500 gigabyte Seagate that had all my family photos and stuff backed up onto it kicks the bucket.
Played this really weird Monkey Gym game where you ran away from monkeys - for no real reason.
There is a picture of me "coding" a program that flashed the screen a bunch of quick colors and then beeped. I think I was about 5 at the time. Best Christmas ever.
Played this really weird Monkey Gym game where you ran away from monkeys - for no real reason.
There is a picture of me "coding" a program that flashed the screen a bunch of quick colors and then beeped. I think I was about 5 at the time. Best Christmas ever.
We bought a few magazines that were filled with games. I remember hours and hours of punching in code only to spend twice as long going through it to try and find the missing % or $.
We did have a few games on tape and cartridge though. I remember a mickey mouse game, a math game where you jumped around on a pogo stick until you landed on the right answer and our favorite: Pooyan. Available as a flash game here.
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Not at all, as I've said, I would rather start with LA over any of the other WC playoff teams. Bunch of underachievers who look good on paper but don't even deserve to be in the playoffs.
My family was pretty late to the computer game. My mother is a teacher and she would bring home a computer similar looking to the one HOOT posted every summer. But the first computer we actually bought was a Compaq Presario Pentium II with Windows 95. It's probably still sitting in my mothers basement.
A 286 my parents bought in the mid '80s. IIRC, it had a 25 MB hard drive and 640KB of RAM.
I actually still had the thing kicking around in the basement until a few years ago and every single thing on it worked flawlessly after 20 years. The technology sure was primitive, but you can't say it wasn't built well.
I believe we had a commodore 128, but I was a little too young to really use it much, I really started learning the computer on a original macintosh. My dad also bought a memory upgrade for the thing so it had a full meg of RAM.
