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« on: May 22, 2007, 02:22:34 AM »
You have to check this out and tell me if you remember this one...


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« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2007, 02:25:30 AM »
and shortly after (about 6 months) I moved over to this one....

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« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2007, 12:46:44 PM »
ZOMG!!!  64K!!!  How could I possibly use that much memory?

Oh...and BTW...the only reason why commodore was always cheaper...is because it uses your existing tv, whereas the others came with monitors.  Nice market ploy, though Cheesy 

I started with the TRS-80...predecessor to the Tandy.  Ahh...the wonderful sounds of the tape recorder loading up games...*sniff*...brings a tear to my eye.  Thank you Eliza....Thank you Cave Adventure...Thank You Crush, Crumble, Chomp.  You made my youth so very special Cheesy
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« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2007, 07:54:56 PM »
I feel so young.  My first computer was an Acer Open 486 with a QUAD-speed cd-rom, 32 mb of ram, and 400 MEGABYTE!!! hard drive.  I could fit so many midi's on that thing...you don't even know.
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« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2007, 08:54:44 PM »
I was the first kid with a Hard Drive in my neighborhood.  Went straight from an atari 2600 to a 286 12mhz 640k 10mb hd that was as big as a toaster and made as much nose as a diesel.

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« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2007, 11:25:51 PM »
You youngsters had no idea how good you had it.....
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« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2007, 12:06:42 AM »
I feel like a youngun, I just have an AT/XT Supercomputer sitting next to me. (It says its super on the cover of the manual!) I'm tempted to hook it up to see if it still works. I remember playing Battle Chess on it, I always hated moving the queen, if you moved her across the board, might as well go watch a movie, it took 20 minutes for her to move, lol. How about Hurkle? anyone remember that one?
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« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2007, 01:14:14 AM »
aww, I don't even remember my first computer. At 4 years old, I was playing with MSDOS, Windows 3.1, and was styling with a 3 button mouse.

Gorillas, Jill of the Jungle, Duke Nukem, Freddy Farkas, how I miss ye.
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« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2007, 01:43:00 AM »
Atari 400 Christmas 1979.
Atari 800 birthday 1980 (co-workers kid died got it on the cheap)
Vic-20 CRAP!
Commodore 64 Christmas 1983
Amiga 500 summer 88
Mac plus 88ish (neighbor gave to me I played Sim City ad nasuem)

then big hiatus til Doom came out then I got a 486
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« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2007, 02:28:01 AM »
Our first computer.. an IBM Aptiva on Windows 95,

Yeah, my parents waited a while...
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« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2007, 01:45:37 PM »
Mine was an 8086 XT. I forgot the version of DOS, but I believe it had 3200 baud  modem or something.
I can remember connecting to local bulletin boards and playing Legend of the Red Dragon, using telnet through the local college to get on IRC. I also used to hide my cigarettes from my parents inside the ENORMOUSE case.
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« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2007, 06:17:08 PM »
Hehe, I had a 300bps modem for my first.

And the BBS's, and boobie pics!!!!!!!!

Not to mention trade wars.
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« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2007, 02:08:45 AM »
I played Trade Wars.
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« Reply #13 on: May 26, 2007, 05:06:34 PM »
lol 24 years go i started with the Amstrad CPC 464 with Color Screen! the RAM it had? not a Clue!?! Tongue still had it's built on tape player though lol
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