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Saturday Night Fever
I'm just sitting here at my machine, browsing AO, and thinking what am I doing and why am I doing it. Saturday night , even an old guy like me should have something better to do. I have been diagnosed as an addict. I remember my first fix, "It's a computer, it's called a Spectrum -try it , you'l like it" It made me sick at first , but I then got usedf to it , pumped my self full of Basic, but it drained me , I thought I'll have to get off this stuff, and after a struggle , kicked the habit. Many years later, someone asked if I knew anything about computers, they had a problem, said I would have a look. That was the relapse. 386's, 486's, DOS etc, . I have never recovered and feel that this disease will live with me forever. Suggestions on how to overcome this disease not required. On a more serious note , what is your earliest recollection of computer's, seeing one or using one ?
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I am only 20, so my experience with computer does'nt go back too far. The first computer we got was a "wang"(i have a cheap ass for a dad)/lol, we got it around 8 years ago. We used to play "pit", does anyone else remember pit? That game was fun as hell. That's about as far back as i go. :D
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Im 20 too, so I haven't seen many old computers in my life.
the oldest one I remember is an Apple my aunt used to have and I remember playing a city-building game (probably simcity -1) and actually enjoying it.
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Apple IIc . . .and charlie browns ABC's.
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I'm 25 and I remember an apple pc we used in grade school.We use to play number and word crunchers with it.
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I'm 21.. but I've seen quite a few older machines in my day.....
My first comp was a Tandy 1000... man that was old.. with it's 10MB of HDD space.... I can remember the old apples at school.. the IBM PS/2 386 and in Gr 6.. it was a classic.. We had Icons.... Those were the greatest computers, 1 big unit, a track ball right next to the keyboard...I've always wanted to find one to put in my room.
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Well looks like i got you guys that have posted so far beat. My first computer was a commodore 64. It had no hard drive only 5.25 floppy or tapedrive. Anybody else out there remember the good old {load "*" ,8,1 }? oh yea and we had the c64sx as well. it was one of the first portables with its big bad 4 inch b/w monitor god that was great unless of course you were trying to edit text. :)
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I had a sinclair zx81 as my first ,if i remember right it came with a mind blowing 2k expandable to 16k .You can still buy them for ~100$ a really overpriced calculator basically.
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I forget what year it was, but my mom's boss got a Apple II at work. He showed me "Zork" or at least that is what I think it was called. For those who don't remember it was a text based game...maybe a little like D&D. Anyway, I remember thinking how cool it was. Here was this guy having a conversation with the computer. I was blown away.
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I'm 18 but the oldest compuer I have every seen was a 186. Not sure of the brand but thats the earlist comptuer I remember messing around with.
I don't think it had a hard drive because to get the computer to work you had to put in a 5.25 floppy.
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cheyenne are you sure you dont mean an 8086? I dont remeber a 186. I thought it went from 8086 to 286 as far as production models were concerned. I could be wrong. It wouldnt be the first time and wont be the last ;)
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I think Cheyenne means a 8086 processor, cause the 186 from Intel is a processor solution for embedded systems not for pc's. see http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/prodbref/272222.htm
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Hrmmmm am 18, 8 months/32 weeks/224 days/322560 mins./19353600 secs. 'till my birthday Heeheh. Ok the oldest computer I have owned was an IBM back in 1991 (with 20-50 MHz) and I still have it, with it's 5in sreen and it's 10 LBs keybored :).
Cya
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lol yes zombieman i remember the commodore 64 that was my first until my ex sold it on me
and i still got my old ibm with the dip switches on the motherbroad and with the old monochrome crt. And it still works.:D
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jm459, yes it's weird, AO is realy an addiction.
The oldest boxes I have seen? That have to be the IBM terminals (display consoles) and the /3081 ? system at my dad's work when I was a little child. Or does mainframe stuff does not count? Almost 20 years later I worked there too and had to move (read: throw away) some of these obsolete terminals, damm those things are heavy. You can kill someone easily with the keyboard alone ;)
The first box I 'worked' with was a TI99/4A with audio tapes for storage. I typed my name before I could write it, lol.
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Yes the old ibm are heavy you get a nice work out on just lifting them thats why it will stay up on my third floor.
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Quote:
Originally posted here by VictorKaum
jm459, yes it's weird, AO is realy an addiction.
Yes, VictorKaum, not only AO but computers in general. I dont, know if the following is familiar to any AO members
Weekend's going round local markets and car boot sales :-
Her-"What are you doing", Me -"Just looking"----Her"You are NOT bringing that home, what the hell is it anyway?-------Me"Well it's uhm, what a bargain! , i've been looking for this for ages , but could'nt afford to buy a new one----Her"And what about all those computer books and magazines you promised you would clear out-------Me"I want them to go to someone who could really use them, they're educational, I'd hate to just throw them away.-----Her" You'll never get that, whatsitcalled a server in the car------Me"Yes I will my dear, believe me"
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