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« Reply #15 on: October 18, 2010, 05:42:27 PM » |
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TRS80 Color Computer II  When you turned it on, you got this beautiful screen:  |
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« Reply #16 on: October 18, 2010, 06:00:18 PM » |
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My first computer was a Packard Bell Legend 100CD, and I still have it.
We got it in 1994, and it had a Pentium processor and 24-bit color capabilities. Its OS was Windows for Workgroups 3.11 with MS-DOS 6.2. It was my main computer for like five years (although we kept the OS modern, all the way up to Windows 98, the first edition), before I finally got with the times and got a new computer in like 1999, which was also Packard Bell.
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« Reply #17 on: October 18, 2010, 06:02:37 PM » |
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Do I get bonus points for still using the keyboard from my first computer?  |
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« Reply #18 on: October 18, 2010, 06:04:48 PM » |
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My dad gave me his old Apple Powerbook 140 that he used to use for work in 94 or so. I loved that thing! I made a bajillion Hypercard stacks, and taught myself to program in several languages on it. Somehow I managed to squeeze a ton of crap onto it's tiny little 40MB hard. I used that thing until 1999 or so I think. Pretty good run for a laptop.  |
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« Reply #19 on: October 18, 2010, 06:07:33 PM » |
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Do I get bonus points for still using the keyboard from my first computer? 90MHz Pentium 1, Windows 95. That's all I remember. It was an old family computer that got replaced by a newer one. |
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« Reply #20 on: October 18, 2010, 06:13:00 PM » |
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A Macintosh Classic  Me and my brothers managed to break the computer's mouse by constantly playing Shufflepuck Cafe on it  We were only allowed to play Spelunx on it after that...  |
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« Reply #21 on: October 18, 2010, 06:14:31 PM » |
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When I was really young, my father set up a computer running DOS to automatically run a program that made colored letters pop up when you pushed a button. That was for me, of course, to play with.
It was amazing.
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« Reply #22 on: October 18, 2010, 06:16:21 PM » |
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Interesting. For a lot of people, it was their fathers that introduced them to the world of computers/got them interested in programming.
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« Reply #23 on: October 18, 2010, 06:54:04 PM » |
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286 33 Mhz, 5MB RAM, CGA video but monochrome (black and green) CRT, MS DOS 6.22 + Norton Commander. mostly used to program and play King's Bounty
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« Reply #24 on: October 18, 2010, 07:48:51 PM » |
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« Reply #25 on: October 18, 2010, 07:55:46 PM » |
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The family had an old DOS at one point. My dad would make graphs for me.
After that, there was a Windows 95 thinkpad laptop. I remember making monochrome pixel backgrounds in the background tool; guess I got a start in low-fi art pretty early on, though I'm a programmer now.
My first two machines were identical Inspiron 1000s. Pieces of shit; same parts came loose inside both and both died horribly.
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« Reply #26 on: October 18, 2010, 08:02:06 PM » |
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One of those Mac Brick things with the black and white screen and a floppy disk slot and a clicky gray keyboard and MANHOLE.
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« Reply #27 on: October 18, 2010, 09:23:30 PM » |
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Spectrum 48K, sirs...
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« Reply #28 on: October 18, 2010, 09:33:51 PM » |
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I was too young and it was way too ancient even by that time. Green screen with white text, used these:  |
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« Reply #29 on: October 18, 2010, 10:38:20 PM » |
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I don't remember exactly what it was, but it was a dummy terminal (what you typed would be output to the monitor but there was no OS, DOS, or anything of the sort). I was like 4 (maybe 5.
The first computer I had that I could actually do things on had DOS that loaded into one of those file managers. I played the heck out of shareware games. I went through the entire family of Windows OSes (at least starting with 3.1) after that.
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