Your first ever computer?
 

Do you remember how you started out? Contrary to what people might think about my age, I did not start with a stone Dell with counting balls and elastic, though it wasn't too far from that!

Amstrad PC, don't remember the RAM but it wasn't much and no hard drive. CGA (Colour Graphics Array) monitor --- FOUR whole colours! --- and a 5.25 (Five and a quarter) inch floppy drive. You could play a few games on it and use it for word processing, that was about it. I used to dream about buying an EGA (Enhanced Graphic Array) card to see those other 12 colours!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...d_CPC_6128.png
After that I got an IBM 286Mhz with 10 Meg hard disk (not gig, meg) and I think 512 K memory. It was big and clunky and if it fell on you it would seriously injure you. It was all built into one, like some bloody huge XT from the 70s. It had a VGA screen so I thought I had arrived. Man what a pile of **** it was, and expensive! Something like 2000 Irish Pounds, which would be about 1700 Euro.
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Do you remember your first rig?

Seriously don't remember. Probably a Commodore 64.

Think it was an IBM. It had windows 95 and a game where you would ski down a slope avoiding trees and at the end a monster would run out and kill you.

It was chit tbh.

Never had an ever computer.

It was some old IBM piece of sh*t running Windows 3.1. After that we had an Apple Mac.

No idea, but I know it had Windows 95. And mine came with Hover: capture the flags, play bumper cars with the enemy hover cars, and the same three levels over and over again. I loved it.


http://www.hovergame.com/Hoverlevel1.jpg

http://springfiles.com/sites/default...cing/hover.jpg

Oh my god Hover. I haven't seen that sh*t in YEARS. Thanks for dusting off the old childhood bats.

Apparently Microsoft brought it back as a browser game, although they "updated" the graphics, and let you choose different cars. If you type "bambi" at the main screen though it'll let you play level 1 of the retro game. Why they didn't just give you the old game in the first place is beyond me.

Hover!