I am not sure which it was, but it was either a TI 99/4A or a Sinclair ZX81.
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I am not sure which it was, but it was either a TI 99/4A or a Sinclair ZX81.
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I had found one somewhere and it was in 97 I think and it actually had Windows 95 on there. I think it was a 486 or something. But it's been so long ago.
Tandy CoCo 2 with tape drive and two joysticks (I want to say sometime in '83). Yeah, I remember Downland and Dungeons of Daggarath. I beat both (well, Downland just starts over IIRC). DoD took me quite a long time to beat. I remember spending weeks typing out the basic or machine code listings in Rainbow magazine for games. Return to (or from) Alpha mission was pretty memorable. I remember loving to read about tricks to make the CoCo do stuff it normally couldn't (like patches to 'paint' to drain new colors (dithered patterns). That blew me away). I bought a CoCo3 a couple of years after it came out. Then got into the PC line a few years later (286,386,486,etc). My brother had brought home an Amiga (500 or 600 I'm pretty sure) some time in the early 90's. I messed around with some games, but that was it.
Atari XEGS Xmas '87
Didn't do too much 'computer stuff' with it other than trying out some of the BASIC stuff that was in the user manual. Never did get the disk drive for it. Didn't even want the fucking thing in the first place lol. The NES sold out just about everywhere my parents shopped that holiday season so thats what I got stuck with.
386 then a 486. Start of the first real computer bitches :P
C64 and I think a 386 was kicking around for years. The first rig I got for myself was a Pentium III back in 2000.
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Originally Posted by Guntz
My first computer was an Atari 800 with an 810 floppy drive. My dad gave it to me when I was pretty young. It was the only gaming system we had until we got a regular Nintendo in 1990 or so. I still have that exact Atari 800 today! It sits next to my msx2+ as a testament to old computer / gaming consoles.
Our family had a Commodore 64 when i was about 4. I remember waiting something like 15 minutes for the game Joust to load, and I circumvented the boredom of waiting with some Super Mario Bros on the Nes.
My dad had a Trs-80 CoCo with 16k and a tape drive. I remember playing a game called Bug, that was pretty much a slow plodding Pac-man style game with huge levels. My dad later bought a Tandy 1000.
I bought a C-64 in 1985 and borrowed a tape drive from a friend to use during the first year. I later bought the Disk-Drive for $200. A friend and I copied a couple of programs out of Compute!, but I really didn't do much programming beyond using the computer to write small basic programs for my computer class.
I later bought an Amiga 500 in 1989, from a newspaper ad. It came inbox, with a television adaptor and the 512k expansion module. It was my 16-bit gaming system, before I'd bought a Genesis from a friend in 1990.
Commodore 64 for me as well, although it was a hand-me-down of a hand-me-down. The first computer that my family purchased new was a K62 450 Mhz with Windows 98.
Adam Computer
Dad bought one when it was discounted just after the Video Game Industry crash in 83/84
First one was this, can't remember where my mum got it. Never had any game cartridges just tapes.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...deo_SVI318.jpg
Mac 128K
I still have it, but it doesn't work. I have all the games, too. Airborne was the best!
I used to print my homework with its dot matrix printer when i was in elementary school.
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/mac/h/mac1.jpg
Rubber key 48k Spectrum :D
Amiga 600; used to love playing the Shadow of the Beast games.